Me: Oh hey, West Philly. I live just a few blocks from you.
Patron: Oh yeah? By the Sunshine Food Market?
Me: Yeah I pass it almost every day!
Patron: Sucks what happened to it.
Me: wait
Me: what?
Patron: You didn’t hear? It burned down a few weeks ago!
Me: No way!
Patron: Yep. We all had to evacuate our houses because of the smoke.
Me: How do I always miss this stuff?! I looked at it yesterday and I just thought it was closed for the evening.
Patron: Naw, it’s closed-closed.
Me: I gotta google this.
Google: I got nothin fam
Me: I gotta go there and investigate this…
So after work, I bike past the Sunshine Food Market. It looks like this:
I took this photo around… 7:30? 7:45? in the evening last night- they used to close at 8 or 9 on weeknights. Apparently the fire was a few weeks ago, but it’s news to me. I still haven’t found anything, but it’s a real shame. I liked this place.