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By Bob Dorn
I worked for the San Diego Evening Tribune for approximately eight years and 11 months. I was just 13 months short of being vested in the retirement program when I quit. That’s okay.
If I’d stayed on at the paper I might have gone fully crazy.
I was 28 when the Trib hired me out of a small-town daily in New Jersey’s rural northwest.
Here’s an update on some of the projects in and around Ocean Beach. Like the projects near the foot of Santa Monica, over on Froude Street, the THC rebuild on Newport and the Ladera Street stairs repair.
5040 Santa Monica Ave.
The mixed-use project at 5040 Santa Monica Saratoga Ave. includes the construction of a 2-story commercial unit in front and 4 residential units behind and above the front unit. It was approved by the Ocean Beach Planning Board by a vote of 7 to 2 on July 1, 2015.
The project now nearing some level of completion is a scaled-down version of an original development plan that had been approved back in 2006 but never constructed. The site sat dormant for around 10 years, but construction did begin in late 2017. The lot supposedly contains “the last sand dune in OB”.
By Beau Grosscup
President Donald Trump says “it’s a scary time for young men in America,” meaning young (and by definition any) men should be very afraid of being falsely accused of sexual assault/rape.
Yet, according to many studies (Stanford University, BBC News among them) just two percent of rape and sexual assault charges are proven to be false. President Trump (and many others) would have us believe that false charges are the rule rather than the exception.
Fortunately, the #MeToo movement and many other sexual assault victims support organizations are here to correct the record.
Come join the Ocean Beach Historical Society’s monthly presentation on our local history. This Thursday, Oct. 18, the Society presents “Villa Surf – Dan Dixon’s Pleasuredome, 1950-1962”
by local author Barbara Houlton. Villa Surf is the magnificent home of Dan Dixon which overlooks the ocean where Sunset Cliffs Boulevard ends
Barbara Houlton has written two books about Villa Surf – located where Sunset Cliffs Natural Park has obliterated all evidence of its past and history. Beginning with the undeveloped site, its construction, its subsequent coverage in the Sunday edition of the San Diego Union, the books cover the early years.
The third volume is now being written,
On Monday, October 15, the San Diego City Council voted 5 to 3 to ban Styrofoam, also known as polystyrene. The tentative ban is on the use and distribution of products, such as egg cartons and food service containers, that use Styrofoam.
The ban would also prohibit the use and sale of items made partially or completely of polystyrene foam such as:
It took Eater San Diego to break the big news: Pop Pie from University Heights is moving into the former Nati’s in Ocean Beach.
It reports Pop Pie co-founder Steven Torres has confirmed – after months of denials – they’re moving into the space at Bacon and Niagara that previously was the home of one of OB’s original eateries.
Construction of the new Pop Pie could be over by the end of this year or early 2019. They’ll have space for a 130 patrons. They report:
Circulate San Diego is trying to get San Diego residents to let the leaders of the San Diego airport know how we want to see better mass transit – even a trolley – to the airport. And they urge everyone to send a letter now – through a form they provide.
It’s criminal that there isn’t a trolley already to the airport. Many other major cities have a train, street car or tram to theirs.
Here’s the message from Circulate San Diego:
WARNING: The following article is satire.
By Brett Warnke
October, 2018
Dear Dunc,
May I call you Dunc? I want to be familiar with you. I want to know you. I’ll tell you the straight stuff: I want to be a crook.
As it stands, I’m a greedy teacher. I know! Children, facts, unions, books!
It’s all so frightfully boring, so paperwork-y and tedious. Some of my children are homeless. They live in vans. Sometimes I show them pictures of your sprawling Alpine home just to make them feel bad about not being born rich, like you.
A Great White shark seen on a video off the coast of Point Loma is unlikely the same one who attacked the teen at Beacon’s Beach in northern Encinitas back in September, says a shark expert.
Caren Charleston of Escondido captured on her video a dimly-lit shot of a Great White while she and her husband were fishing on their boat about ten miles from the Point Loma shore.
San Diego Police are turning to the public in the hopes someone can identify the woman shot to death in the Baron’s parking lot last Tuesday night, October 9.
She was described as black, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 156 pounds and in her late 20s or early 30s. The victim may have given birth “in the past few months,” San Diego police homicide Lt. Anthony Dupree said.
San Diego City Works Press, a project of the San Diego Writers Collective, is proud to present the release reading for local novelist Josh Turner and San Diego poet, Joe Medina on Sunday, October 21, at 4:30 at Tiger!Tiger! in concert with Verbatim Books,
Baxt and Medina’s works continue the tradition of SD City Works Press of birthing first books by homegrown authors. In fact, Fall 2018 marks 13 years of publication by City Works Press. The San Diego Writers Collective is a group of San Diego writers, poets, artists, a
It was hoping down at the beach this Friday morning in Ocean Beach. Lots going on. The surf was jumping. Palm fronds were being cut down. The Oktoberfest stage was going up. Streets were being repaired. It was a beautiful morning with the sun hitting the surf right next to the OB Pier.
When the weatherperson says “high surf – be careful” – the surfers converge looking for large surf. And they found it this morning. Lots of folk out to see it.
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