if you want, grab a picnic and come to Santa Claus beach...everybody's welcome here!!
I had high hopes for the Miramar...it looks nice and they promised us the moon..c'mon in and have a burger after a swim on the beach...the old Miramar was iconic but time caught up with her and she was sold.. first to a disco coke-head from New York, then Ty Warner then finally Rick Caruso, LA developer..
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| Rico!! |
Rico Suave I call him
but the recent blunder on the beach killed the vibe...it seems from the stories that some parents and kids were enjoying a day at the beach after graduation, below the Miramar, when some young men in blue suits looking like Jehovah's Witnesses or Wendy's Young Miss America Foundation conservative youth, confronted the parents and told them to leave the "private" beach..and they happened to pick on a hero of the mudslides, Abe Powell, leader of the Bucket Brigade in Montecito!!
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but this type of snooty behavior exhibited by the Miramar staff won't work in Montecito...sure there's rich folks here but they're not like Wendy..they're nice...I remember when we were kids we'd sneak thru the yards, the big mansions and yards to get to Shark's beach to surf..the homeowners just let us, they were so cool..we thought we were sneaking in and it was fun...then a little fire at the beach on cool foggy mornings
what makes Santa Barbara such a cool place to live is the cool people who lived here before us..they made it cool so we carry the torch but when uncool people move here, they mess up the cool...what the Miramar did was uncool.. and that ain't too cool..you dig?
so the new Miramar needs to tap into the history of the area but with rooms going for $800 per night, I think they may be targeting a different clientele who really don't care about the area
Rico..you got some 'splainin' to do
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