Nick's is the liquor store on the opposite side of the side street from my apartment. I'm not sure who Nick is. Mohamed runs the place. He most likely doesn't own it, but he runs it. When the alarm goes off in the middle of the night, he is the one that comes and turns it off.
As far as I can tell, he's been there for a long time, at least 5 to 10 years. Ian and I ended up running into some people up at the Russian River earlier in the year that had lived down the street at one point, many years ago. They asked how "Mo" was doing. He introduces himself as "Mo", most people in the neighborhood, at least the women, call him "Mo Mo".
Anyway, Nick's. "Nick's" is written vertically on the South side of the building in black paint. There are a few signs that protrude off the building on the East side, the entrance side. The top one is white and lights up and reads, "Nick's Liquor". Just beneath that is another white sign that reads, "Liquor" and below that is another light up sign that is yellow and looks like at one point it spun, this one also reads, "Liquor". Most everyone calls the place Nick's, but when we're feeling saucy or asking if someone knows where we live, we mention it as, "Nick's Liquor, liquor, liquor". Seems redundant but at least none of the signs read "Grocery" or "Deli" as a lot of other corner stores in the O-town do; at least it's accurate.
