'Everything's destroyed': Buzzy Sunset Strip cafe closes indefinitely due to water main break
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Set us as preferred Tadeh Ghazalian woke up on Thursday morning and scrolled Instagram, where he saw a video of a broken water main and a deluge of water spilling onto the street — right by his restaurant.Then he noticed the flurry of unread texts and unheard voicemails from friends, family and staff, who were all concerned about Dialog Cafe: his popular family business located right at the corner where a large sinkhole was opening at a busy Sunset Strip intersection.“All that water that came out of that line immediately went right in my front door, and it continued for four or five hours,” he said.
“Just imagine thousands of pounds of water going inside.At one point, you couldn’t even see the floor.
It looked like a pool.”Early Thursday morning, a 110-year-old underground pipe burst, spewing 17 million gallons of water through portions of West Hollywood and flooding businesses, homes and garages, with the damage still being tallied.The major rupture also caused a sinkhole at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive, with ensuing road closures that continue to affect businesses in the area.
California Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time while crews repair pipe and the road itself after a major trunk line ruptured Thursday.Los Angeles Department of Water and Power repair crews are installing a new pipe, and officials said they hope to fully reopen the streets by Monday.But some businesses say repairs could take months before their own reopening.Dialog Cafe, a neighborhood staple since 2007, is one of them.
Armenian immigrants by way of Italy, the husband-and-wife team Rafik and Kenar Ghazalian came to the U.S.to follow their sons, who’d moved to L.A., and with the hope of creating community.
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