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Gilroy Businesses | Happy Smog Check

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Happy Smog Check
http://www.happysmogcheck.com
7896 Monterey Hwy, Suite B
GILROY, CA 95020
408-846-1318
Happy Smog Check does regular and TEST ONLY smog checks and they make it painless.
I was dreading having to get my car smogged and, frankly, was anticipating having it be royal pain in the butt, like so many other duties associated with the DMV. I pulled into [...]

Little Neighborhood Stores | La Flor de Jalisco

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La Flor de Jalisco is about a block away from my house, so as you can imagine, I stop in a lot. This is my favorite little store on the planet.
I’ve loved little stores ever since I was a little kid living on El Camino Paraiso in Hollister, CA. in the late 60’s. My parents [...]

Panhandler, CA

I submitted a Red Phone about this topic to the Gilroy Dispatch, but they didn’t publish it. To be fair, it was submitted through a digital medium (their form) so perhaps it was lost in cyberspace and they did not receive it.
But could it be that Gilroy doesn’t want to talk about the rampant pandhandler [...]

Local Businesses | Econo Furniture 95020

The featured business this time is ECONO FURNITURE in the heart of Gilroy’s Downtown on the southeast corner of Sixth and Monterey Streets.

Econo Furniture
7390 Monterey St
Gilroy, CA 95020
(408) 846-8788
Business Hours: M-Sat = 10am to 8pm, Sun=11am to 6pm
Econo Furniture has been the feature of interest on the southeast corner of Monterey and Sixth [...]

Independence Day

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I live in Gilroy, down by where the old cannery used to be.  It’s a an old working class neighborhood with a mixture of nice houses and what appears to be migrant housing with many lots having in-laws quarters.  Driving through the neighborhood you see more than one mailbox on the outside of probably half the houses [...]