Porteño of the Week
Geoffrey Hickman Owner/Walrus Books Age: 37 Resides: Palermo • Why did you guys decide to open your bookshop in San Telmo? We live in Palermo and originally the bookstore was in our home in 2004-5. We were looking for a nice place and Palermo was just too expensive but we were able to purchase this [...]
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Walter Quintero Gibralter Bartender/Film Student Age: 33 San Cristóbal • How long have you worked at Gibralter Pub? I’ve been behind the bar for five months, but I’ve worked here for two and a half years— I used to work security at the door. • Do you prefer working behind the bar? Yes, it’s much [...]
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Inés Cortazo Professor/ Owner, San Telmo Colonial Age: 78 San Telmo • When did you open up the San Telmo Colonial Guesthouse? A brother of mine opened it up, oh a long time ago, and in the last twenty years we started receiving foreigners. We were the first! Before that we received mostly national tourists. [...]
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Carolina Geres Telemarketer/Student Age: 22 —Lomas de Zomora • You study architecture in the University of Buenos Aires. Why did you decide to study architecture? I’d like to design community housing and plazas. I want to travel to the interior of the country and build neighborhood housing that people can pay off bit by bit. [...]
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Alberto Baiz Owner, Rincon de Quesos Age: 49 San Telmo • When and why did you open a wine and cheese store here? We opened it 2005 after doing an investigation into what type of businesses the area was lacking. There wasn’t a winery in this neighborhood so we decided to open one that would [...]
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Mario Alarcón Vendor, Cosas Ricas Bakery, San Telmo (Founded: 1898) Age: 48 —Villa Crespo Q: This bakery is always so busy, but if people eat sweet croissants and pastries everyday for breakfast don’t they get overweight? Yes they do get fat like me! I need to lose 20 kilos. • Do you eat pastries everyday? [...]
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Virginia del Barco Med student/Bar owner Las Del Barco Age: 27 Villa Freud, Palermo Q: What made you decide to study medicine? I always said I was going to be a doctor from a young age. It’s odd because we’re a family of lawyers—my mom and older sister are lawyers, but I wanted to know [...]
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Sebastión Castro Artisan/street vendor Age: 29 Martínez Q: How long have you been in Buenos Aires and how did you end up here? I’m from Rio Negro—El Bolson. I came to Buenos Aires four years ago after I met my girlfriend when she was visiting up there and we hooked up, so I came down [...]
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Liliana Escobar Owner, Panificación Harlem Age: 40 Perú 910 —San Telmo Q: When did you open your health food store and how did you do it? I opened about six years ago. I received a small micro-loan from the city and was able to rent this place and start the business. • How was the [...]
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Ester Vanda Marini Owner, Arte Naturale/author/massage therapist Age: 43 -San Telmo Q: You’re Italian. How did you end up in Buenos Aires? I came when I was traveling around South America around five years ago. I wanted to see Chile. I passed through the dessert and was in Chiloe and I had an Italian friend [...]
