One summer afternoon when I was sixteen, I took my usual walk from my house on North Rodeo Drive and made a left angle across the park onto North Beverly to go shopping. Back then Rodeo Drive was nothing but a typical small town street. There was a hardware store, bicycle shop, stationery store, market, toy store and several restaurants. Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dolce and Gabbana and all the other high end shops were to come much later…
