aka "Wilmas" -- A city suburb of
Los Angeles, CA located
literally just a drunken crawl north of the Port of
Los Angeles. Known for nothing, by no one, ever. (Well that's not true, actually; it has the original Wienerschnitzel.) Seriously, did you ever get directions from someone on how to get from San Pedro to Long Beach, and they tell you to get on the freeway, and you're on there and you find you're driving over all this stuff that has no name that you can remember and that you've never really paid any heed to and you continue not doing so because, Oh Shit, you have to get to Long Beach, but suddenly you have a mysterious craving for a burrito? Tell you what--the person who gave you the directions likely forgot what all that stuff was called, too.
If you're ever cruising around the
LA South Bay area, perhaps by way of PCH, and you find yourself in a place where:
-everybody speaks Spanish (no exceptions)
-it smells like a carneceria outside
-no matter where you look, you see a $1 Chinese
Food restaraunt, a
check cashing place, a donut shop, a
shady video store, and an even shadier insurance outfit, together on one street corner and in that order from left to right
-the billboards are either all for alcoholic drinks (in Spanish) or are for video games that came out four years ago
-you can get chicharones from your
car at absolutely any
time
...you're in Wilmington, CA: the Hole, er, Heart of the Harbor.
A: "So where are you from?"
B: "I'm local. I just moved to LA about a year ago. How about you?"
A: "Wilmington."
B: "Oh, you're from
Delaware? Are you visiting relatives?"
A: "No, I'm local, too."
B: "Wilmington? Where is that?"
A: "Right between San Pedro and Long Beach."
B: "Oh, I go to San Pedro and Long Beach all the
time. There'
s so much to do out there. But Wilmington, Wilmington... I
don't think I've been there. In fact I don't think I've ever heard of it."
A: "I know."
