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    Quite the pier pressure: At the Santa Monica Pier, performers hope a lottery wins them a lucky space

    by Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times Sep 23, 2019 5 minutes

    Corey Hart sat in the shade of the Santa Monica Pier's carousel building on a hot summer Friday, a clear 5-gallon plastic tub at his side.

    The tub was filled with perhaps 50 blue slips of paper, each with a name. A crowd gathered, keeping a respectful distance as the lottery commenced.

    Hart swirled the contents of the tub with a showy vigor, then thumped it back down on the weathered boards by his seat. He reached in, grabbed a slip and barked out a name.

    A fresh-faced young man who went by the name "Kiev" pushed forward. A violinist, he was given the privilege of picking a prized spot - and the right to earn a buck - as a licensed street vendor in one of the nation's busiest beachfront tourist meccas.

    To be a street performer on the Santa Monica Pier,

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