To the untrained eye, Downtown Santa Cruz is host to a wonderful collection of outlets, boutiques, and restaurants designed to satiate the hunger of any consumer. If you take out an earbud and listen closely, you’ll be exposed to a wide cast of characters detailing their own special monologues — either to themselves or to a friend (and in some cases, an audience).
If you’re lucky, you’ll catch a clever one-liner from someone’s daily musings, or even a long spiel about a social ill. Many of the characters are quite hilarious, in the way that if I was hypothetically included in their dialogue I, too, would be in tears.
I surveyed Pacific Avenue in my free time and illustrated some zingers I came across from Downtown’s wittiest.
