`EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL' : N. HOLLYWOOD BUSINESSES RECOVERING AFTER SHOOTOUT.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Daily News Staff Writer With Monday's start of a new workweek, commerce replaced chaos throughout a section of North Hollywood paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. by Friday's deadly bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. attempt. ``Everything is back to normal. It's a typical Monday,'' said Tienchai Surinarintr, whose family owns a Baskin Robbins ice cream store across Archwood Street from the Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. branch where two robbers died in a gunbattle with police. Monday may have been normal, but the weekend was anything but typical. Friday's shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. and subsequent investigation closed most businesses within a few blocks. But a wave of curiosity-seekers over the weekend seemed to balance most businesses' ledgers. Surinarintr and his wife, Eim, 40, typically arrive for work at 10:30 a.m. and open the shop at 11 a.m. That's fortunate timing since one of the bullets from the 9:45 a.m. gunbattle punctured a wall facing the bank at waist level, two bullet holes in the ice cream case are chest high and one pierced the interior wall at head level. A bullet also pierced the wall at the rear of the store, ripped through the freezer and gouged two ice cream cakes. Needless to say, Surinarintr, a North Hollywood resident, never opened Friday, losing about $600 in business as police closed off streets in the area to deal with the botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. robbery. ``We were really worried about it on Friday,'' he said. ``But we picked up a lot of business because of the weekend'' crowds which flocked to see the bank branch. Next door, Glendale residents Serge Sahakians, 53, and his partner Patrick Satoorian, 48, co-owners of Mr. Jiffy A fraction of time that has numerous interpretations depending on who uses it. It may refer to one computer clock cycle, one nanosecond, one millisecond or one AC power cycle. There may be others. See nanosecond. 1. Pizza, were busy with Monday's lunch business. ``I lost about $1,000 on Friday,'' Sahakians said, not to mention the damage caused by bullets across his sport utility vehicle. ``Saturday it was business as usual.'' A little bit to the south, right in front of the bank on Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). , was Mokhim Rasooli's hot dog cart. He keeps bankers' hours bank·ers' hours pl.n. A short working day. - typically 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. - and he saw one of the officers get shot and one of the robbers die. Rasooli, 36, of North Hollywood is a native of Kabul, Afghanistan, and lived in that country during its war with the former Soviet Union. ``I saw things like this more than 100 times in Afghanistan,'' he said of the raging gunbattle. He lost about $200 Friday, but worked Sunday to make it up. ``Today is also very good,'' Rasooli said. Business had not returned to normal Monday for Catarino Jimenez, manager of the Mountain View-Goodyear tire store just south of the bank on Laurel Canyon Laurel Canyon can refer to several things:
He's worked at the store three years, and this was his third bank robbery, although the first in which the bad guys had the police outgunned. That kind of notoriety is bringing lots of foot traffic to the area, but not a lot of customers, Jimenez said. ``We're trying to get back on track,'' he said. ``But it will take a while to get the people back.'' Things were also getting back to normal about half a mile away on Victory Boulevard near Ben Avenue, an area spared by the bullets but not the police clampdown clamp·down n. An imposing of restrictions or controls: "Advertisers and broadcasters would raise howls of protest against any strong clampdown" Wall Street Journal. . The shootout was both a blessing and a bane BANE. This word was formerly used to signify a malefactor. Bract. 1. 2, t. 8, c. 1. for Rick Moran, 50, of Burbank, owner of A-1 Home Improvement, whose products include window glass. He lost about $1,000 on Friday but said that business picked up a little Saturday with homeowners and shop owners needing small repairs. On Monday, traffic in the area was heavier than normal. ``Everybody is going over to look at the bank,'' Moran said. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1--Color) Tienchai Surinarintr's damaged ice cream shop stayed closed Friday, but crowds of gawkers made a good weekend. (2--Color) Tienchai Surinarintr and his wife weren't in the store when a bullet tore through the cake freezer at Baskin Robbins. (3) Vendor Mokhim Rasooli, with his son Moein and wife, Saghed, saw fierce gunbattles in Afghanistan. (4) Serge Sahakians, owner of Mr. Jiffy's Pizza, across the street from Bank of America, inspects a bullet hole in his vehicle. Gus Ruelas/Daily News |
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