Get to know this Middleman and Gold Point bartender over drinks at a Five Points staple.
, she was born in Mexico City to a fiercely independent single mother who worked just about any job you can imagine to support her precocious only child. “I was two years old when other people had to take care of me,” she tells me over a Twisted Tea as we sit at the 715’s bar. Change became the constant, uprooting when a gig fell through or an opportunity presented itself. “I went to fifteen different schools in my whole life,” she notes.
The whirlwind romance that began south of her new border between her mom and stepdad is starting to crash back to reality, so the moment she can leave, she’s gone. Things deteriorate quickly after that. “My mom had to flee back to Mexico,” Rangel-Ruiz recalls. “I think [my stepdad] has an alcohol problem, and it got to a point where he pulled a gun on her.” She’s alone in a foreign land, bartending at an Elks Lodge that hired her while she was blacked out on her 21st birthday.
Less than a year later, she tried heading north to the infamous Emerald Triangle, back in the days when its primary economy was based around vaguely legal cannabis. “I worked at weed farms, I worked at coffee shops, I worked at the perfume kiosk at the mall. I did it all,” Rangel-Ruiz says. Their first stop after the airport is City, O’ City, as she always travels light. “I was hungry… and needed a drink,” she says with a laugh. Unfortunately, Lena isn't feeling too hot, so Rangel-Ruiz calls a friend from Michigan who is housesitting at a place we can see from the 715 Club. All the liquor stores are closed, so he takes her to Meadowlark, where she immediately clocks the two hot bartenders, Eric and AJ.
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