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Spanish For several months now we have been watching a new building go up on Blvd. Juarez. Since we've been researching different low-cost building materials, we were interested to note that this one was being built with adobe bricks. Eventually it was finished in our favorite Santa Fe style with the sculptured roof corners and painted a beautiful sea green color with the name Cosmos 2000 lettered in white.
Pedro and Rosa Rincon are the owners of Cosmos 2000 Farmacia, which opened 3 months ago. It's a well-stocked pharmacy, with all of the usual items one would expect, as well as some a little different. They have a nice collection of art objects in very good taste. Don Quixote must be one of their favorite literary characters, because several of the statues showed him with his faithful Sancho Panza. My eye was caught by a little box in the shape of a turtle whose shell formed the lid. I couldn't resist buying a little wooden cross decorated with tiny calla lilies of different colors for a friend who loves that sort of thing.
Cosmos also has a good supply of soccer balls, sunglasses, watches, stockings, towels, and calculators.
One of Pedro's specialties is Cuban cigars. We were amused to see a raw carrot in the case with them. He explained that a carrot or an apple would keep the humidity just right. He also showed us some of the pipes he had for sale. One of them had a face carved on it, with little eyes that rolled around and looked at me. Another looked like an angry Aztec god. The most unusual was a two-part pipe, something like a double boiler, with a compartment at the bottom for wine and one on top for tobacco. Now smoking that would be an experience.
Pedro and Rosa are both from Jalisco. They have a 6-year old daugher named Moraima, who was helping in the shop the evening we were there. She is obviously very intelligent, as well as pretty.
Cosmos 2000, with its futuristic name and its traditional construction, its up-to-date medications and its historic art, is an interesting blend of the old and the new.
