LOS ANGELES — Ana Arriaga spent her shift at a Larchmont Village juice shop admiring the return of a small joy she’d learned to live without.
“Finally,” she said, “we get to see people’s smiles.”
It was midday Friday — half a day since L.A. County health officials had lifted the mask mandate for many indoor locations across the region, including shops, gyms and movie theaters — and Arriaga, a manager at Kreation Organic Juicery, couldn’t help but feel that this was a reassuring step toward a state of normalcy she had long been craving.
