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In the era of Instagram, businesses use street art to attract customers

LOS ANGELES - Inside the shops along Melrose Avenue, there's plenty to appeal to fashionable young customers such as Melissa Wang. But it was outside the Paul Smith store where the 25-year-old found what she was looking for.

"Did you even visit LA if you didn't stop to take a photo in front of the pink wall?" said Wang as she snapped a photo of her friend.

From morning until night, a steady stream of visitors from across the city and around the world pose, pout and preen in front of the clothing store's Pepto Bismol-hued wall. The crowds are so intense that the

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