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areas, such as Hope Ranch H and Carpinteria. Another Ital^ Stephan Raffetto, served ^ the Mission Canyon area. '●' Otto Hopkins had several acM ^ counts in Montecito. such as
From kft 10 nght Laum, Ida Mono F.. Augusta, and Charles BorgatdBikmorc Hotel and the San to in the yard oj thar Cota Lane home, ca. 1923. Photograph courtesy of Ysidro Ranch, as well as some Ida and Laura Borgatello and Augusta Lord.
ers made trash runs three to four times a week, although some large estates, such as the McCormick family’s Kjven Rpcki, re quired pick-ups six days a week. The brothers had a fleet of large, green, open-stake pickup trucks to collect the re fuse. Usually the trucks carried six fiftygallon oil barrels to transport the wet gar bage to neighboring farms and ranches for the livestock. Dry garbage was unloaded by pitchfork at a nearby landfill. These sites included one near Santa Barbara Jun ior High School, one off of Las Positas Road near Bel Air Knolls, one off of the 4500 block of Cathedral Oaks Road, and one near the tar pits in Carpinteria. A major step forward for the business came in 1942 when the brothers received the contract for refuse disposal at the U.S. Marine air base in Goleta. The brothers then purchased one of the first parcels on San Antonio Creek Road. On these ten acres they established a hog ranch and of course fed the hogs the wet garbage they collected on the base. The Borgatellos were not the first in this business. George Travena and Lino De Lorenzi were among the first, using a
accounts in Hope Ranch. Local government regulated collection territories to avoid duplication of services. At the end of World War II. the city of Santa Barbara put out to bid the trash col lection business for some of its outlying areas. The Borgatellos picked up the con tract for Mission Canyon and a number of other neighborhoods. Not long after coming home from the war, Charlie Borgatello met another re turning veteran and old neighborhood friend, William Walker. Walker was one of five children of Talbot "T C.” Walker who had made a fortune in the firm Pope and Talbot, a shipping company in San Francisco. The Walkers had moved to Montecito in 1919 and had purchased The Qables on Alston Road. Before the Second World War. William Walker had served as a volunteer fireman in Montecito with Charlie Borgatello. He later served as a fire commissioner for Montecito. Walker had saved some $15,000 when he got out of the military after the war. He, his father, and Charles and Mario Borgatello formed a partnership to pur chase the Buell property off of East Val ley Road for $45,000 in 1946. They de veloped the property into Montecito