The L.A. Times' L.A. Now blog marks the five-year anniversary of the Santa Monica Farmers Market tragedy, and prints a remembrance from reader Helen K. Garber. She writes:
We live in Santa Monica and after my husband took an office near the Third Street Promenade, we made a habit of having lunch every Wednesday after shopping through the Farmers' Market. You get to enjoy the freshest ingredients at the local restaurants on a Wednesday afternoon. It is a wonderful part of living in Los Angeles to be able to sit in outdoor cafes all year round. Farmers markets are also wonderful places to shoot photographs, and occasionally, I would shoot while my husband would shop.
I got to his office late on July 16, 2003. My husband was very hungry and and since it was also the day that Whole Foods opened in Santa Monica, he asked to go to lunch directly and for me to shop afterward at the Whole Foods. So instead of being directly in the path of Mr. Russell's car, we heard and watched his car careen through the market from our front-row seats at the patio at Lago on Third and Arizona.
Read more at L.A. Now here. Garber notes that she bought stock in Whole Foods later, as a thank you for opening that fateful day, of all days, keeping her from the market.
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