Carlsbad’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 “rare junk” 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.
“He was a perfect partner,” Royal said of Cantabrana, because of his trustworthiness, business sense and ability to charm customers.
Since closing the shop “in the late 1990s” the two have continued to collect and trade on e-Bay from their Carlsbad home (which is packed with “thousands of items”). Royal and Cantabrana are Carlsbad originals, for certain.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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