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Editor's Notebook: Tour Point Loma's architectural gems during OH! San Diego, March 23-24
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: Welcome to our spring issue! Hopefully, you'll find it loaded with information to enrich your life on this picturesque peninsula. And in case you think you've seen it all, check out the architectural wonders in Point Loma that will be open for free tours, Saturday, March 23 and...
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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: From the Pacific Beach Files: Mystery of the ‘shoe tree’
While walking around PB seeking inspiration for this month's letter, I came across a dozen pair of athletic shoes hanging from the branches of a tree on Garnet Avenue, east of Gresham Street. Huh? Pretty weird, I thought. Through the years, I've seen an occasional pair or two dangling from utility...
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Point Loma and Ocean Beach Community Conversation brings local issues to light: crime, traffic, neighborhood preservation make the headlines
Electric scooters gone wild. Congested traffic and the ever-increasing number of speeding motorists. The "uptick" in community crime. Short-term rentals replacing neighborhoods. Loitering and panhandling by homeless people. The preservation of North Chapel at Liberty Station. Safe roads for all...
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Editor's Notebook: Set for take-off at USS Midway Museum in San Diego
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: If you call yourself a San Diegan and yet have never toured our great landmark — the USS Midway Museum at 910 N. Harbor Drive — you better get there soon! Wear your walking shoes and be prepared to become emotionally engrossed in military history for more than 4 hours! The aircraft...
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Editor's Notebook: Flying off to fun in 2019 for San Diego and Pacific Beach
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK: Happy New Year, PB! As the photos in this issue will reveal, Pacific Beachers ended 2018 with a myriad of celebrations and good times. For my part, I wandered downtown to 910 N. Harbor Drive for a tour of the USS Midway Museum , where I became emotionally engrossed in military...
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Photos: All Souls Christmas Home Tour in Point Loma is the oldest one, west of the Mississippi
A tradition and a beacon of the season to many, All Souls Episcopal Church's 67th annual Point Loma Christmas Home Tour took place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 with 600 visitors to the marketplace, food trucks, tea social and five gorgeous houses decorated for the holidays and open...
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Photos: Wearing History - Of doughboys, dancing and donuts for 'The Great War Gallop' in Point Loma
Point Loma Assembly Hall was transformed into a World War I canteen for "The Great War Gallop!" 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, where friends and associates of Wearing History, gathered to reenact the welcoming home of troops and dance to period music by the Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra. It was...
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Editor's Notebook: History is not bunk, Henry Ford! Ocean Beach Historical Society will mark its 25th anniversary with special events
Editor's Notebook: The study of history is important because it tells us how we got to where we are now — and that is empowering. But don't take my word for it: Theodore Roosevelt famously said: "I believe that the more you know about the past, the better you are prepared for the future." Carl...