
Gilberto Santillan walked into Angela DuRoss and John Taylor’s Manhattan Beach home one recent afternoon with a red cooler full of hot tamales stuffed with cheese. Santillan, a 55-year-old man who speaks broken English, has been visiting DuRoss and Taylor’s home – and 1,000 other Manhattan Beach homes – every week for more than 15 years. He was their trash man.


