the old siam: ellis @ mason.

thriving vallejo series: yeah! //stinking rose collective (defunct).

This place maybe was a gas station once. When I moved here, for several years it was the Vallejo Glass Co. They moved out over to a bigger location not too far away, and the Stinking Rose Collective moved in soon afterwards. It was the fifth medical marijuana shop within three blocks of my house that the town government had licensed - economic "growth industry" thinking (or something). It and most all of the others closed after a few months because of some illegal activity or other. There were concurrent raids. This building has been empty for about a year. Now, everybody does crack.

mentally engaged BART riders observed by greedy photographer.