{"id":2494,"date":"2008-05-08T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2008-05-08T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:15:43","slug":"the-carlsbad-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"The Carlsbad Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/080508collect380.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" alt=\"080508collect380.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\" \/>Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong>Louis Cantabrana<\/strong>, 73, and <strong>Thomas Royal<\/strong>, 81, (best friends and long-time business partners) enjoy collecting, according to nicely written profile by <strong>Joe Tash<\/strong> in the <strong><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080508-9999-1mc8collect.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the early 1970s, Royal and Cantabrana opened a \u201crare junk\u201d store called the Flying Unicorn on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. During that time, Cantabrana, a former IRS agent and IBM manager, ran the business, while Royal wrote scripts for television documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a perfect partner,\u201d Royal said of Cantabrana, because of his trustworthiness, business sense and ability to charm customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since closing the shop &#8220;in the late 1990s&#8221; the two have continued to collect and trade on <strong>e-Bay<\/strong> from their Carlsbad home (which is packed with &#8220;thousands of items&#8221;). Royal and Cantabrana are Carlsbad originals, for certain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080508-9999-1mc8collect.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s Louis Cantabrana, 73, and Thomas Royal, 81, (best friends and long-time business partners) enjoy collecting, according to nicely written profile by Joe Tash in the San Diego Union-Tribune. In the early 1970s, Royal and Cantabrana opened a \u201crare junk\u201d store called the Flying Unicorn on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. During that time, Cantabrana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}