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Main - 619-284-3663
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- 3015 Juniper St San Diego, CA 92104
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- Coffee & Espresso Restaurants, American Restaurants, Caterers, Coffee & Tea, Coffee Shops, Restaurants
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- South Park, Central San Diego
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Cuisines: Caterers, American, Coffee House, Cafeterias
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It is hard to imagine now, in what seems a peaceful, united, reinvigorated, boutique-shop, old neighborhood, a coffee shop owner would need to keep a gun under the counter. Back in 1993 this was the case. Rebecca Zearing of her eponymous coffee shop says "It was a dangerous neighborhood back then, so we had to." The somewhat quiet and serene woman, who was on her high school rifle team, is no longer a pistol -packing' mama. Zearing is, however, still full of surprises like the time she stood up to a drug dealer threatening to break her shop windows with a baseball bat. Rebecca occupied the "El Camino" space next door back then. The drug dealer was enraged because she was hurting his business. "All I could think about was, "it is going to hurt if he hits me with that." He ended up breaking the TV shop windows next door, the location she eventually moved into and still occupies. Or the time four ex-con's fresh out of prison rolled up with guns (concealed) and tried to rob the coffee sho