Posted by paulrivas on: April 16 2010
This sign, hastily taped to a makeshift stand outside downtown Goleta's coolest building says, "WE BUY YOUR GOLD SILVER CONDITION DOESN'T MATTER", in magic marker on hot pink card stock.
Would you sooner walk up and sell your gold to local businesspeople with no budget and no time but who draw their T's look like crosses, or mail it off with MyGoldEnvelope?
Posted by paulrivas on: April 09 2010
On this day, the Rivas Cultural Services cobalt blue '69 Volkswagen Beetle wasn't even the coolest old bug in its lane!
The Santa Barbara Man About Goleta-mobile was purchased in Lompoc in late '68 by Eugene Zandona of Santa Barbara's lower Eastside. He had to go to Lompoc to get it because they were all out of cobalt blue in Santa Barbara. When old man Gene's bum leg made driving it too difficult, he gave the bocho to Rivas Cultural Services in 2004, at which time it had 132,000 miles. Der Volks Werks down on East Gutierrez Street does the maintenance.
Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of old VW bugs in Santa Barbara and Goleta?
Posted by paulrivas on: April 04 2010
If a Mexican tells you that your chava has a sancho, or that you got sancho'd, then your chick is partying with another dude. Ordinarily, this would all be in Spanish. Yet what we have here is a Mexican busboy's t-shirt advertising Sancho Services entirely in English.
It's a Mexican joke in perfect colloquial English that only an English-reading Mexicanist who likes trashy t-shirts will appreciate, let alone buy! Talk about a niche market! Too bad the international craftsman wearing the rare piece declined to have his face appear in the picture. There's a guy who knows what's funny and should charge $30/hour for Spanish lessons.
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Santa Barbara Man About Goleta celebrates local color with bilingual humor and California style. Rivas Cultural Services are international advisers expert in Latin America and budget travel.
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