RODA VIVA CLOSES TODAY – MORE LUMPS OF COAL FOR AREA BUSINESSES

December 23, 2007 by PT Rothschild.

Temecula, CA – In the wake of all the recent business closing and layoffs, a six year establishment and local hangout spot for Ivan and friends has served their last meal today. As I sat there having a Xincu (‘chin-goo’) Brazilian beer, Marina of the red hair and a alumni of the Invisible Children’s Displace Me campaign in LA earlier this year, walked around doing her serving duties for the last time. “The rent here is absurd and Temecula just keeps raising taxes,” she quipped. The restaurant could have been sold to new owners and stayed open but the Mall wouldn’t renew the lease to the potential buyers, forcing still more people out on the street just before Christmas - ‘BA Humbug! The Mall has plans for this prime location but no details are forth coming so far.


So a small special crowd (Ivan, Kenny, Matt, Liana, Katt, Paul (Ivan’s roomie), and Paul (Inverse) gathered to reminisce about times past. Ivan (of Ivan Promotions) remarked with friends, Kenny and Matt, about how they had originally found the place and made it their ‘spot’, going from being there just on the weekends to rolling through also on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. “We hit it hard, after becoming hooked on the Sunday dinner special that was ‘all you could eat for $10.99,” said Ivan. There were some big events here and even local Timmy D put in live entertainment, (without the dreaded special use permit - which means only special people have to have one at $4K) that Mayor Chuck Washington supported and attended.

“I remember having a birthday party here and it was the first time that I saw my mother and (divorced) father actually sit down together, have a meal, and be cordial to each other. Usually I just got handed off from one parent to another. My best friend Streeker got my them together for the celebration so I have some fond memories here.” As Sid, the manager mixed us the Ivan special, Ivan waxed these final words, “our lives from where they were when this placed opened are nowhere near where they used to be.” Amen to that as another seven people hit the street from the local TV station, Channel 27, last week. Merry Christmas Tiny Tim!!

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