This is what happens when you have an obsession.

No matter what city or town you travel to, you’re always reminded of your obsession (and tend to seek it out).

That’s what happened to me this weekend while I was in LA on business. I was staying in a downtown hotel, and I got lost on the way there.

Cursing myself for refusing the GPS the rental agency offered me, I began driving almost in circles around the entire area. One of the streets I ended up on was Main, and my first thought wasn’t to pull over and find on the map where Main was in proportion to the street my hotel was on, it was to locate 7th so I could see where the video for “Streets” was filmed.

But I was running late, so I refrained…until today, when I had some time to kill at lunch.

I drove to 9th where the parking was safer and left my rental, then walked down to the not-so-nice intersection of 7th and Main. And just as U2 faqs.com reports, the Republic Liquor Store is now a Mexican restaurant.

The photo below is what it looks like now.

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