Ocean Beach Entryway Sign Under Attack – New Designs to Be Finalized by Community Vote

by on August 14, 2012 · 2 comments

in Culture, Environment, History, Media, Ocean Beach

One of the new designs for the OB Sign.

The OB Sign in better days.

The OB entryway sign is under attack – by termites and the weather.

The wooden iconic welcome was installed back in the mid-Eighties, but now nature has taken its toll.  It needs to be replaced.

Look at the damage form termites:

The OB Town Council had issued a call to the community for new designs.  And the Council reports that of those designs submitted fourteen were accepted; they will pare the entries down to about five – and then place the issue up for a community vote. (It’s unclear how that vote will occur – it could be via facebook.)

Also not clear is whether a brand new design will be approved by the village.

The town council reported that the response from the community has been 6 to 4 in favor of the original.

The plan is to have the new sign installed by the end of 2012.

Here are a few of the new designs (from Channel 10 Michael Chen’s report):

And here’s another partial new design:

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Debbie August 15, 2012 at 2:33 pm

Will one have to be a member and pay $10 to the OBTC to vote :-)

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Debbie August 15, 2012 at 2:36 pm

Correction….$20 bucks! Unless you want to be silver, gold or platinum supporter :-)

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