CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 11, 1996 | MAYRAV SAAR, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
To owner George Evans, Country Pickin's produce store is just a three-walled, whitewashed fruit and vegetable stand on the corner of a busy Eagle Rock boulevard. But to several residents and politicians who have spent the last 18 months bickering over the property's future, the fate of the tiny business is a symbol of everything that is wrong with northeastern Los Angeles.