YOU would never call this part of town chic. But Venice Boulevard in Mar Vista has the essentials: sex, death, food and great jeans.
The stretch roughly between Grand View and Lincoln boulevards is classic commercial L. By car, it all blows past in a blur. On foot, the neighborhood comes alive. A new clothing store called Anonymous lines its mannequins up like soldiers on the sidewalk each day, forcing pedestrians to consider the merchandise. Gallegos Mexican Deli, a venerable family take-out shop, moved here from Santa Monica a few years ago. That never happens. A block away, a gleaming pink coffin, wide open, beckons customers into the California Casket Co.
Freddy and Eddy is a mysterious little storefront that is easy to miss. This is by design. Its brick facade has two front doors and two picture windows. The windows are always curtained, and the doors are always locked. Freddy and Eddy grace the sign, a pair of cartoon people with porcine noses. Freddy, the man, is smiling. Eddy, the woman, looks a little perplexed.
For couples. The proprietors, Ian Denchasy Freddy and his wife, Alicia Eddy , are on a mission to improve the marriages of America. Except for their screaming libidos, the Denchasys are like any other ish working parents of a 6-year-old son. The family lives behind a white picket fence on a quiet, leafy street near their store.
Ian and Alicia love to cook, they love to entertain. And they love to Fear of losing that passion, in fact, is how their business got its start, how the Denchasys ended up leaving their comfortable jobs as computer instructor at a local elementary school him and legal assistant at a local law firm her and became proponents of wild sex for the very married.
