Anaheim Seeks to Keep Street Vending Illegal by Resort Area, Major Venues

The aroma of bacon-wrapped hot dogs greeted concert goers leaving the Art Laboe Chicano Soul Legends concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim last December. After an evening of Oldies But Goodies, people ordered from vendors huddled off to the side of a parking lot entrance, bothering nobody. The scene is a familiar one in the city, whether with eloteros and their push carts at parks during soccer games or fruteros with colorful canopies stationed on sidewalks.

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