Ready for a motorcycle shop that features...

Ready for a motorcycle shop that features a cappuccino and pastry bar?

Hermosa Beach is hesitant.

“It would be a real upscale place,” insists co-owner Maiko Saravia.

But some of his neighbors feel that the store would be a real noisy place, possibly visited by unsavory characters.

Saravia maintains that the choppers-and-croissants setting would enable customers to pass the time enjoyably while perusing catalogues in search of such items as a nice set of hog handlebars.

However, Hermosa Beach’s Planning Commission deadlocked the first time it voted on whether to give the store a conditional use permit to hawk cycles. The commission will vote again Aug. 21.

Saravia and co-owner William Campbell want to call their nouveau shoppe South Bay Cycles, which sounds too mundane to us.

Might we suggest: C’est la Cycle.

A rental housing ad in the Hollywood Reporter boasts that the lucky occupant would be able to “walk to Spago.”

Pan Am magazine may have the scoop of the summer. In a pro football roundup, the publication refers to Al Davis’ roving gridders as “the Oakland Raiders.” So much for the rumor that they’ll seek asylum in London.

Talk about truth-in-advertising: The sign on a West L.A. shop says the place specializes in “rot iron.”

You can find some colorful column titles in the Star News, a monthly publication detailing the doings of the county Sheriff’s Department.

“Club Med” covers the Pitchess Honor Rancho jail, “Forced Busing” deals with the Transportation Bureau (including prisoners’ buses), and “Desert Dirt” concerns Antelope Valley deputies.

Our favorite, though, is the column covering Malibu-area deputies. It’s called:

“To Protect & to Surf.”

Santa Fe Springs would seem to be a bit far north to merit an appearance by the Border Patrol. Nevertheless, the BP will be in Heritage Park Friday. Actually, that’s the name of a Latino soft rock group. Concert’s free too.

The Biltmore Hotel on Saturday will offer a one-day seminar “designed for children” on “manners used in museums, theaters and other cultural venues.”

Why just for children?

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Bolstered by bequests of 700 pounds of material from a Hawaiian woman and 400 pounds from a Tennessee woman, the Glendale Public Library is believed to house the nation’s largest collection of books, periodicals, paintings, photos, music and postcards dealing with cats.