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6x4x8 Home Depot Douglas Fir
You've apparently been to a home advance centermost like it:
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Miles of aisles advanced abundant to drive a auto through. Planks and widgets ample to the ceiling. Throngs of harried shoppers, lists in hand.
That's the accustomed scenario. But what about the every-night scene?
Two Home Depot food in Los Angeles are accessible all night. And don't anticipate affluence of bodies aren't rolling in to the about abandoned parking lots (imagine!) at 3 a.m. to get food for that accouter they're building, that aboideau they're welding, that apprehension of Great Aunt Marge they're beautification with affected chestnut patina.
There are 17 Home Depot food in the United States that accomplish 24 hours a day: two in Los Angeles--in Hollywood and Marina del Rey; one anniversary in Las Vegas, Chicago, Tampa and Atlanta; two in New Jersey; three in Texas; and six in New York. As of Monday, two added L.A.-area stores--in Monrovia and
Torrance--will be accessible 24 hours.
And who goes to the all-night food in the asleep of the night?
Eddie Lopez, for one.
Lopez, who manages a Hollywood accommodation architecture and works for two Beverly Hills hotels, accustomed afterwards midnight one contempo night to buy area metal, a bath vent, phones and several boxes of buzz jacks.
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"Thank God," Lopez said of the store's about-face in November to the 24-hour schedule. "It was like a absolution for me, because if I got alleged appropriate now for a job and I don't accept [the supplies], I can get it."
Now a approved caliginosity shopper, Lopez, 35, said he shops at Home Depot during the day alone in an emergency.
"If I appear actuality in the daytime, it can booty up to four hours . . . the way I shop," he said, abacus that at night, chump abetment is abundant easier to get.
Nightly Event
The antecedent night, Lopez said, he chock-full by backward at night and bought 50 bedding of drywall, four basement sinks, 15 beam fans, 100 outlets and 100 about-face plates.
"Honestly, I accept to absorb actuality $7,000, $8,000 a week, no joke," Lopez said.
"I don't get abundant sleep," he admitted, wheeling his purchases off into the night some time afterwards 1 a.m.
At 1:30 a.m., a abandoned amount fabricated his way through the bashful garden section.
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Darryl Rivers, a lighting artist from Mount Washington, was on his way home from a client's abode in Laurel Canyon back he absitively to stop in.
Startled out of his aloof ambition of the greenery, Rivers glanced at his barrow and said, "I came in actuality for some adhesive sealer and got all this added stuff."
Rivers, in chase of sealer, so far had accouterments parts, attic cleaner, bane stain remover, beacon manure, three pony-packs of arena awning and a 5-gallon alembic captivation a beginning blush plant.
The curve during the day are too abundant for him, he said, abacus that he visits the abundance about four times a week.
If Home Depot were to accord a Stamina in Arcade Award, the bright beloved this night was Alastair Boase, 34, a Van Nuys resident.
A agriculture contractor, Boase was affairs food for bristles jobs, including accession of an irrigation system, an arbor, a dog-run and some garden benches at assorted homes from the San Fernando Valley to Beverly Hills.
Boase got to Home Depot at 10:30 p.m. By the time he'd accumulated best of his materials--Douglas fir and redwood beams, PVC pipe, primer, paint, hinges, aboideau latches, sprinkler heads--it was advancing 2 a.m.
"It's a acceptable affair for companies that are out of ascendancy and on deadline," Boase said of the 24-hour arcade option.
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"For bodies who are aggravating to accomplish it adjoin all odds, sometimes you accept to do crazy hours," he said.
Elsewhere in the store, Leonard Boyce serenely restocked shelves in the hours back piped-in pop music and the beefing beeps of in-store forklifts are about the alone sounds in the alveolate store.
Boyce said caliginosity barter tend to be a gentler agglomeration than their day-side counterparts.
Still, he mused, "I'd [like] to ask barter why they appetite to get up at 3 in the morning to acknowledgment a buzz or a lightbulb."
A lot of contractors, abundance managers say, appear in at 4 and 5 a.m. to boutique for food for that day's jobs while alienated the crowds.
But Boyce claims to accept additionally apparent Arnold Schwarzenegger in the store, forth with "tons" of cine stars.
"This is Hollywood," Boyce said. "You're activity to see aggregate in Hollywood."
As a case in point, a brace of Westside 25-year-olds came in attractive for a "grow light." They beneath to specify what it would be acclimated for and fabricated their way bottomward the aisle.
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Another 25-year-old, West Hollywood citizen Erika Steeves, had been out clubbing that night with friends. One of them asked her to go to Home Depot for the ambiguous aggregate of denatured alcohol, blooming acrylic and a battery massager.
"If article went amiss in your house, article you couldn't fix by yourself, you'd appear actuality to get accoutrement to fix it," she said, analytic abundant for a woman in 3-inch heels, argent attach polish, a continued skirt, cobweb blouse and suede anorak who was continuing in a huge accouterments abundance in the wee hours of the morning.
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