The story of how the Canter's Deli food truck got its snazzy look is pretty interesting. AIGA LA drops the story today that a graphic designer named Michael Doret created a font, deliscript, based on the iconic Canter's Deli sign. Bonnie Bloomgarden, the great-granddaughter of Canter’s founder Ben Canter was so impressed with the font, she hired Michael to design, from the ground up, the brand new Canter's Truck. He calls it Life imitating life... imitating art.
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Plus a beautiful shawarma sandwich in Sherman Oaks and a weekend-long celebration of a Chicano brewery in La Puente.
L.A. will also have to reimburse the street vendors for their past fines relating to this controversial sign. However, this does not include any other fines related to equipment restrictions or lack of permits. This also means that while a vendor can’t be cited for vending in areas like the Hollywood Walk of Fame anymore, they can still get cited for other city regulations.
Where to find all the medicated Pop Rocks, coffee, ice cream cones, and St. Ides you desire.
One of the taqueros who organizes the weekly pop-ups used to be homeless himself and broke out of poverty by selling breakfast burritos in front of a courthouse in Van Nuys. Now, he is sober and pays it forward every week. The group uses TikTok to raise funds and donate up to 1,500 tacos and more a week.
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