A man jogs past Centerfold International Newsstand on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. With several out-of-state newspapers and more than 400 magazines to choose from, including four about wristwatches, Centerfold has managed to survive in a city full of shuttered newsstands. (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)
A man fills out his lottery numbers as he purchases a copy of the Los Angeles Times at Centerfold International Newsstand. (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)
A man walks past Centerfold International Newsstand. When Manuel Portillo bought the place in 2006, it carried dozens of dailies from overseas. Now its foreign offerings have dwindled to weekly versions of the Guardian and Le Monde and a Russian-language paper printed in New York. (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)
René Portillo, left, one of the store’s three employees, pulls old magazines from the shelves. If business doesn’t turn around soon, he says, Centerfold will probably go the way of other closed newsstands in town. (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)
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Hundreds of magazines cover the shelves and racks at Centerfold International Newsstand. “If this didn’t exist, I would feel incomplete,” said one customer. “I really feel like I see the world in 30 minutes.” (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)
René Portillo, left, removes old magazines. “People have the Internet for anything,” he says. “Now only old people come in -- like me. I don’t like the Internet.” (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)
