by Susan Stewart | Jul 1, 2018 | Community, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
He is not your father’s lawyer, says the Mobile Law Center’s Stephen Stern. And just one visit to the tricked- out 1978 Airstream Argosy confirms it. Carefully selected to convey a welcoming message of affordability and utility, the inside of the Argosy has been...
by Susan Stewart | Jun 1, 2018 | Business, Community, People, San Luis Obispo
He’ll upholster anything but furniture, says Mitch Watts, including a custom chicken holster. Yep, you read that right. In the four decades he’s been in the custom auto upholstering business, Watts has done it all. So when customer Craig Vetter asked him to...
by Susan Stewart | May 1, 2018 | Community, History, People, San Luis Obispo
When a rider-less motorcycle plowed through the window of The Anderson Hotel Barber-shop in 1963, the only damage was to the window that held its famous sign. The replacement was crafted in a hurry and lacked the word “hotel,” an omission that current owner Ray...
by Susan Stewart | Apr 1, 2018 | Business, Community, People, San Luis Obispo
Meathead Movers is 21 years old Aspiring entrepreneurs, listen up! It’s a landmark, coming-of-age year for Meathead Movers, a 21-year-old business whose humble beginnings, irrepressible growth, and give-back philosophy make theirs a business model well worth studying....
by Susan Stewart | Mar 3, 2018 | Community, History, Nonprofit, San Luis Obispo
On April 30, 1975—thirty years after the United States first became involved in Southeast Asia—North Vietnamese soldiers stormed the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon and raised the communist flag. The Vietnam War was over. [from The Vietnam War, a book by...
