Wait a minute-you have 2 personas here? Yuck
As I responded last time you asked, Chick-fil-A has been planning to open a restaurant there for years. I tried asking a few months ago whether it’s still a go, but I got no response.
Erik, this was one of your finest “walk with me”s. So much detail, so many photos and created with such love for Santa Barbara. Bravo!
What is happening to the old IHOP on Calle Real near Turnpike?
Not especially germaine, but you are the one who brought it up - the business of Fleetwood Mac playing everywhere you go in this town. It's crazy! Like time travel to 1977? I don't know - if you go to L.A., you get a lot of hip hop all over the place, and that would be worse for my ears. And, to be fair, this kinda is the Yacht Rock capital of the world, isn't it?
Remembering what 129 E. Anapamu street was when you first move to town was a way to date when you arrived. Tutti’s for me.
Time is running out for the Thomas Keller restaurant at the Coral Casino to open in 2025 but as it is a Ty Warner thing 2027 might be a more appropriate target.
Christine!, i didn't, probably because it wasn't posted anywhere that I see on local media. But more to the point, you are a negative Nelly.
Love this, Erik. Thank you!
Oh jeez, not another feelings nazi- why don’t you just ask Erik if you can pre-read every post beforehand ?
Did you see me cooking for 60 at the Horse Rescue in SYV recently? ✌️
I don't know who Christine is but she never has a kind word to say. I hope she's able to put this energy in to good use to find joy or do good work in the community instead of polluting message boards with negativity.
I enjoy your comments.
I've been a regular customer of Del Pueblo Cafe for years. I know ownership changed through family. The new gal seemed OK. A few a months ago a friend and I stopped in again for lunch. We ordered some Guacamole with our chips. The owner said they were out. I happened to have a few hundred Avos in my truck. I went out and brought them a bag 30 or so. Not ripe, but very nice of me. Owner took them with no thanks and we never saw her again? We paid our tab with a $100 bill. The waitress told us they did not have any change? And then left the burden on us to come up with the proper amount? (they could of went to ralphs for change).So rude! We vowed never to come back there again. Now they are begging for $ through go fund me? Your customer service went downhill and the portions were shrinking. The customer is #1. You failed in biz. Your fault! As a businessman I would never beg for $ if my biz failed. The new generations are pathetic!
. . . . Additionally Huguette wasn’t so private ~ she was listed in the Manhattan & Santa Barbara phone books up until her stroke in 2008. Anyone with an old phone book could easily see she was constantly visiting up until 2007! Will no one else defend her? . . .
Where did I say I oppose housing on or near State Street? If we are going to build housing it should be downtown or along our urban corridors. But this situation is unique in that the city is making major financial concessions, some permanent, to a global private equity firm. Under no circumstances should the city gift public land or destroy a parking garage in order to make a project "financially feasible" for private equity. It would be such a major mistake to give away our ground rights to Paseo Nuevo to get this project built. Give them another lease, sure, but it's unfathomable to give away public land -- that's permanent and we'll never get it back.
Roger, with all due respect to your opinion, my opinion is that you are a part of the problem. This thinking is what leads us to what we have, a dead downtown and State St with no light at the end of the tunnel. The solution to State St IS housing. We need people down there, and we need them to shop, eat, and support local businesses. We agree on that. But NOBODY will lose money to build housing. The city does not have the money to build housing. We need business minded people that live in reality to find real solutions that lead to real change and real action.
I agree 100%!!
Well- the video of the kid on Friday afternoon playing piano was pretty clear to me. Last time I walked State st to eat dinner at The Blue Owl - State Street was dead for the 4 blocks down and back to the Granada….
This is such a tired trope - "State Street is a ghost town" - usually uttered by the same people who stubbornly claim to never go to State Street. I walk or bike State Street 4-5 times a week and there are always people out and about.
The best thing about being downtown is it’s full of people who actually want to be there rather Nextdoor complainers.
The above was wonderful. I love our Santa Barbara. We came here in 1949. I miss the old days. This post sparked my heart. Thank you!
Huh? Public market was packed on Friday night and is always busy. Arigato was bustling 2 weekends ago. Yeah not a lot of retail anymore but that’s an everywhere problem not just a SB problem.
Santa Barbara Mission
The blacksmith weather vane is on top of the building at 18 East Figueroa St, downtown. You can see it from the Figueroa entrance to La Arcada. Some years ago, I set up my easel in La Arcada and painted it.
It Never ceases to amaze me why this quite unpleasant Christine chooses to read Siteline and continues to live in California.
Please move to Texas
