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att, loved your article about one of Santa Barbara’s treasures, the “historic” Paradise Café (The Legend Continues, Vol. 2, Issue 42). When the restaurant first opened and they wanted to change the neon sign name from “La Paloma Café” to “Paradise Café,” the Historic Landmarks Committee turned them down, stating that neon was not allowed in the Landmarks District. You could repair an existing sign but, if you replaced it, then it needed to conform to the “no neon” rule. Needless to say, the decision got appealed to the City Council. As a member of the City Council at the time, when I asked the Landmarks Committee what they would do if we modified the Arlington Theatre neon sign, they indicated that we would have to take it down, too. After much discussion, including about the fact that the word “Paradise” had the same number of letters in it as “La Paloma,” the City Council determined that if you just changed one of the words, but not the whole sign, then it wouldn’t technically be a replacement of the sign. So, the end result was that the word “Paradise” got added in one color and the old original “Café” portion of the sign remained in the original color! Hal Conklin Former Mayor/Council Member (Editor’s Note: Terrific letter, Hal, thanks for writing in. I really enjoyed hearing the story of the sign from Randy Rowse when we spoke that morning at the Paradise and he did mention quite a related fight at City Council, but I didn’t know the reason for the two colors… I suppose I just figured it was an aesthetic choice and didn’t ask about it. (Litigation attorneys around town are cringing, wondering how a Boalt Hall-educated lawyer didn’t ask the right question in a deposition-like interview of a local business ownercum-City Councilmember. Sorry y’all, I missed one.) I love the detail and it reminds me of ...continued p.31
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