trash and vaudeville

I am trying to describe the store "Trash and Vaudeville" in New York on St. Marks to someone in L.A. I don't know L.A. well enough to compare it to something there. I am telling this person that I used to get all my shoes there, that I could always rely on them for funky shoes. We are looking in stores in L.A. and none of them compare. In one store I recognize the cashier - a boy I knew in NYC - we worked together in a show there. He says he moved out to LA a while ago and was doing okay - had a guest role on some show recently. I am trying to write something down but it's dark and I am writing on burlap.