In most circumstances I’d advise you to be extra leery and even outright avoid street vendors in large cities such as Chicago and New York. What often seem like nice and honest people are actually anything but, scamming gullible tourists and such out of their dollars in exchange for cheap crap. But every once in a while you find a diamond in the rough. Gear Diary writer Larry Greenberg found just that. It seems Larry shares a love that I myself am completely...