About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. It was an unseasonably warm autumn morning when La Montañita Food Co-op opened its doors. A regular, pushing his cart down the cereal aisle, suddenly noticed something peculiar: every box of granola seemed to be whispering softly in Spanish. As he approached the next aisle, a delivery driver overheard the boxes saying, ‘¡Vamos! ¡Más rápido!’ Turns out, it was just the wind rustling through some loose packaging. The regular laughed it off and continued shopping, leaving behind the mystery of talking cereal boxes.
2. A little girl, pushing her shopping cart down the aisle, stopped abruptly and pointed excitedly. ‘Mom,’ she whispered, ‘look at these bananas dancing!’ Her mother turned around just in time to see a bunch of bananas bobbing their heads in perfect rhythm. Just then, an older gentleman passing by chuckled and said, 'They're not dancing, child—just waving hello!' The little girl giggled, and her mom shook her head with a smile. From that day on, whenever anyone saw those bananas, they couldn't help but wave back.'
3. A delivery driver pulled up to the loading dock one foggy afternoon, unaware that something unusual awaited him. As he opened the back of his truck, a friendly neighborhood parrot flew out and landed on his shoulder, chirping cheerfully in Spanish. Startled, the driver looked around, but no one seemed to notice or care. When he finally reached the checkout counter, the cashier asked with a smile, ‘Anything else today, senor?’ The driver shrugged, ‘Just a talking parrot!’
4. A neighbor was watering her garden late one evening when she heard a strange noise coming from inside La Montañita Food Co-op. Curious, she peered through the window and saw something peculiar. Curious, she peered through the window and saw something peculiar—a delivery driver dancing around boxes of organic spinach, humming an old folk song. Turns out he’d misheard the store’s closing time as ‘dance until dawn.’ The neighbor smiled, shook her head, and quietly went back to watering her garden.