Flanked by fabric shops and stores displaying elaborate quinceañera dresses, a frenzy buzzed at the downtown Los Angeles store where the ticket to a $1-billion Powerball jackpot was sold.
Flanked by fabric shops and stores displaying elaborate quinceañera dresses, a tiendita on the humble corner of 12th and Wall streets was engulfed by a joyous — and curious — frenzy Thursday morning.
“It’s unbelievable,” said Rosemary Guerra, 21, who works at a nearby ice cream shop. “It’s shocking that it could be someone who was working one day and … hustling trying to make it work in life, and then this happens.”TV news cameras surrounded Las Palmitas Mini Market as manager Nabor Herrera arrived for work. He didn’t immediately understand what was happening.sold the Powerball ticket that won a $1.
The sidewalks outside Las Palmitas are lined with mannequins and street vendors hawking bottles of water, flavored ice and candy. A few blocks away from the tiendita, or little shop, where someone scored a $1-billion payday lie the homeless encampments of Skid Row. After the family immigrated to California from El Salvador several years ago, Angelica Menjivar explained to her mother that if they wanted to succeed, they would need to open a business.
The bonus money is likely to be put away in a savings account to make sure that Maria Leticia Menjivar’s grandchildren can go to college, the family said.Powerball jackpot winner Edwin Castro dropped $25.5 million on a Hollywood Hills home shortly after winning the $2-billion lottery.
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