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The Point, located beside the route of the Expo Line in the artsy and techy Hayden Tract section of Culver City, closed on Friday. Mark Peel, the owner of Campanile and Tar Pit, got a nice publicity bump from John Rabe at KPCC's Off-Ramp at the start, but business never picked up apparently.
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