Helping Hand Thrift Store

2008 | Best Men's Hat Store That Isn't Really a Men's Hat Store

Fairfax Avenue's tiny Ethiopian District gets a lot of press for its cafés and the very fact of its continuing survival just south of Mid-Wilshire's ever-expanding luxury housing, museums and eateries. Easy to miss in this tattered shopping district is one quirky store -- part junk shop, part treasure hunt -- that offers some of the best men's hat shopping in town. That's right, hats.The Helping Hands Thrift Store sells a weird mix of air guns, menorahs, Judaic jewelry,... More »