Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week.As the coronavirus continues to wipe out livelihoods, with myriad industries frozen and millions of Californians now estimated to be out of work, some are finding novel ways to pay the bills until the crisis passes, or to repurpose their expertise in the fight against the virus.tells the story of a Redondo Beach family that has found an entrepreneurial niche in street-level mask sales.
Brenda Mendez made shrimp fajitas at a mariscos restaurant until COVID-19 forced it to close. Her 15-year-old son, David, was in school. Now they’re hawking $5 masks — acquired in bulk from an acquaintance who sews them — at an intersection in Hawthorne. “She said, ‘I need to find something to pay the bills, the stress was killing me, I couldn’t just be home doing nothing,’” said Brittny Mejia, who wrote the article. “I don’t think this would have been her first pick. I don’t know that street vending would be at the top of the list.”She lost her job because of coronavirus. Now she and her son sell masks on a street corner”Mejia found the story through photographer Gary Coronado, who came across the mother-son pair last week.
as a consequence of the coronavirus. “It was a clear example of people trying to adapt to that. This is the first story I found where people have found a way to make this work.”Over at the Marina del Rey-based KAA Design, the big 3-D printers are used to produce architectural models in projects for the firm’s clients, which include A-list celebrities. Now they’re busy. Once printed, the masks are outfitted with HEPA filters and straps.
The firm’s president, Grant Kirkpatrick, is on the board of the USC architecture school, which has a volunteer network of some 200 people, with some 200 3-D printers. Said Kirkpatrick: “It just seemed like a no-brainer to switch gears and keep people healthy.” A leader of the volunteer network is Alvin Huang, director of graduate architecture at USC, who said he had already enlisted “an army” of architects in the effort.
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