Whenever my wife sees a business that remains open despite improbable odds, she announces “that’s a drug front.”
You see a neighborhood mom-and-pop store that has somehow weathered the tough economy. She sees a drug front.
By her logic, there is no more obvious drug front than the Spec’s record store across from the University of Miami campus on US 1 in Coral Gables. That store has remained there for decades despite the collapse of every other brick-and-mortar record store in the world. It sits next to the Swensen’s sandwich and ice cream restaurant (itself a monument to perseverance through hard times), occupied by more employees than customers most days. Drug front.
