Hojalateria Silva sits behind a narrow, unassuming storefront, identified by the stack of tin buckets and hand-cut watering cans usually spilling onto the sidewalk. Inside, the walls hold hundreds of custom steel molds used to shape everything from antique lamp fixtures to intricate cake pans. For three generations, the Silva family has hammered metal sheets by hand here, preserving a craft that disappeared from most of the city when mass-produced plastic arrived in the late twentieth century.
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