The Brentwood Country Mart is a rustic, red-barn-style open-air shopping center in a tony part of West Los Angeles. It sits on the border of Brentwood and Santa Monica, on the corner of San Vicente Boulevard and 26th Street, and it’s the kind of place where you cannot buy a scented candle for less than $175.
When I first moved to Los Angeles, it wasn’t quite so luxe. Back then, it was popular with people on opposite ends of life’s journey: toddlers and their moms (or more often, their nannies) on the front end and very, very old people on the back end.
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