Montana Avenue

I put an ad in Craigslist and found this amazing girl, Daisy, who's still works.

She worked with me just she's doing launching something for herself but she and I did it and she looked at me and she's like Ellie you need to be doing this and I was like I know so I ended up taking a lease there for as long as the girl would have me and then I um I ultimately then ended up on Montana Avenue like two years later but it was like a progression like I was behind another store and then ultimately ended up across the street from creation which is where I say I had my like coming out where I got the like three years of being behind the scenes and behind stores and hidden as a designer and a store owner to kind of like get my sea legs about me.

And I started really getting into crystals.

I started going to Tucson to the gem show and I started like, I would do my, I would do my jewelry buying.

Good old papa.

Yeah, so I really think that taking these chances and going with the flow and embracing the fact that I was here And then, you know, continuing my stay at the Viceroy and then deciding to finally, I found a place in Santa Monica on Montana and it was great.

I got a roommate.

It was so much fun to experience.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Okay, so what happened? You're on Montana Avenue with your...

I know, with my little beach cruiser,

Oh, but then again, you know, you have to figure out, is he a Brentwood guy or is he a Wilshire guy?

Oh, no, uh, Montana.

Oh, we saw Montana.

Montana or Wilshire.

Are you a Montana girl or are you a Brent- or a Wilshire girl?

Yeah.

Huh?

So we wanted to be on the West Side.

We wanted to be exactly where we met and fell in love, right off of Montana Avenue, hopefully right in that lovely little area in Santa Monica.

Betty Williams, God bless her, and there are lessons I want everyone to dive into that Betty Williams took the two of us around.

We must have gone to 25 different...

Catch the Fifth Street, that's five blocks from the Pacific Ocean.

Mm.

It doesn't get more primo than that, off of the trendy Montana Avenue, where Lee and I, by the way, met.

And we walk into 938 Fifth Street, and the moment we opened the door, that was ours.

R&D Kitchen.

No, no, that's on Montana.

I'm blurring it.

It has two letters.