BIMINI PLACE IS A GREAT PLACE!

When you drive down Bimini Place, you often encounter tow trucks dropping off smashed and broken down cars to the various auto shops, huge trucks delivering goods to the stores that occupy the long strip mall on Vermont Avenue, or street venders plying their trade. But look closer and you’ll also see kids going to and from school, older Korean and Latin folks taking ESL classes at Belmont Learning Center or going to the Mejii Peace Church, ecology activists working the soil in front of Eco Village, and bicycle riders looking for the Bike Kitchen cooperative that recently moved from the street. Look even deeper and you may see the ghosts of the Bimini Baths and the Palomar Ballroom, two largely forgotten but important Los Angeles cultural landmarks that once existed right here on our humble street.