October 8, 2010

Mourning the burrito man

Steve Hendrix (The Washington Post): In the ever-churning universe of a city street corner, Carlos Guardado was that rarest of things: a fixture.

For almost 20 years, he was there, a little guy in a metal cart, selling rice-and-bean burritos at 17th and K streets NW on Farragut Square. He was there in all weather, during uptimes and downturns, a dependable rock in the rapids of life in downtown Washington.

Until suddenly, this week, he wasn't, and a busy neighborhood paused to realize that it was a pretty big man who had been doing that little job.

-eddie

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