Umbrella Man Has A Posse
"Umbrella Man", a former NASA electrical engineer whose real name is Robert Steffen, has been a downtown fixture in Santa Cruz for years.
What you may not know is that he used to be a different downtown fixture some years ago: Mr. "Have a nice day" hidden in a tent of black garbage bags in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz, and pictured here in a rare revelation. Robert ran for president and had his platform prominently displayed in front of the bench on which he always sat, invisibly draped in his formless black plastic.
Nowadays, after a stay in a mental clinic, he has been resurrected as the colorful, beautiful, extroverted Umbrella man. I found two recent photos of him on Flickr, here and here. (If you know of others, let me know) The latter picture was taken this past Halloween, and you can see above that he now is once again a well-known icon of the Santa Cruz community. Maybe his bid for presidency is taking a turn for the better.
References: For a recent article, see "Mary Poppins He's Not" at this link. See also Metro Santa Cruz News July 12, 2000.
posted by Pyramis at 12:34 PM
4 Comments:
We lovingly refer to Robert as the Pink Man of Santa Cruz. Since my son has started attending UCSC 2 years ago, we have seen him ONLY IN PINK.
Just greeting Robert and looking at him makes me smile.
he needs a bath he stinks
Wanted to let you all know that Robert Steffen is a petophile. you can look him up on Megan's law. So be careful, there's something dark behind the "Colorful" mask!
Please do be careful as the man on Megan's Law lives in Sacramento and looks different than our pink man here; the name "Robert Steffen" seems to be a very common one.
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