The Featured Image is more brooding than it needs to be, but the mood remembers what was—and thankfully—what is gone. From before our October 2007 relocation to San Diego until September 2015, The Crypt—a goth, fetish, sadomasochist, sex shop—occupied the corner retail space at Park Blvd and University Avenue. The place closed for failure to pay rent.
The storefront stayed vacant—cursed, if you ask me—for another almost six years. MJ’s Cyclery is the current tenant; refreshing change, too. As the city removes motorized vehicle parking spaces to make more bike lanes, lifestyle and sales opportunities open up for cycle shops.
Today, I passed MJ’s while on an extended walk from University Heights into Hillcrest. My companion: Leica Q2 Monochrom. Vitals, aperture manually set: f/8, ISO 200, 1/640 sec, 28mm; 1:47 p.m. PDT. I utilized the manual focus, which is activated by turning a ring around the lens barrel.