Those owners were McKim Boyd’s great-uncles, and now Boyd himself runs the family business that his great-grandparents acquired in 1918.
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Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
The Stone House This three-bedroom, two-story guest house dates back to 1911 and is filled with upcycled treasures from the neighboring Black Dog Salvage, an antique warehouse run by the same owners.
In recent years, several tandem-specific bike shops have closed as proprietors retired or struggled with sales.
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Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
1 June 2026
Zabala reopened the restaurant as the sole proprietor in December 2024 after four years of closure, and recently received three Michelin stars, along with Providence, a longstanding seafood destination in Hollywood.
Tasty-morsel entrepreneurship stands in here for a modern kind of Protestant work ethic, but gets sprinkled with the sense that cuteness, like beauty for older women, is a commodity in itself that the possessor can exploit to their own advantage.
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