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For Sara Martin, a cashier at Ralphs supermarket in Studio City, it's the memory of an early October morning last year when, wedged between two robbers, she stared down the barrel of a gun. For Jim Crocker it's the image of a Coca-Cola salesman taking a bullet in the head as Crocker and four other employees were held hostage at gunpoint at a Ralphs in Van Nuys.

For Sara Martin, a cashier at Ralphs supermarket in Studio City, it's the memory of an early October morning last year when, wedged between two robbers, she stared down the barrel of a gun. For Jim Crocker it's the image of a Coca-Cola salesman taking a bullet in the head as Crocker and four other employees were held hostage at gunpoint at a Ralphs in Van Nuys.

For Sara Martin, a cashier at Ralphs supermarket in Studio City, it's the memory of an early October morning last year when, wedged between two robbers, she stared down the barrel of a gun. For Jim Crocker it's the image of a Coca-Cola salesman taking a bullet in the head as Crocker and four other employees were held hostage at gunpoint at a Ralphs in Van Nuys.

For Sara Martin, a cashier at Ralphs supermarket in Studio City, it's the memory of an early October morning last year when, wedged between two robbers, she stared down the barrel of a gun. For Jim Crocker it's the image of a Coca-Cola salesman taking a bullet in the head as Crocker and four other employees were held hostage at gunpoint at a Ralphs in Van Nuys.

When Procter & Gamble of Cincinnati stuffed Max Factor & Co. of Hollywood into its cosmetics case in 1991, company executives were only dimly aware that they were also buying a local institution: the Max Factor Museum of Beauty. The new owner promptly set out to close the quirky little museum, a homage to the art of makeup on the site of Max Factor's original salon to the stars.