Month: January 2019

Portion of Point Loma Nazarene once known as Lomaland on the Peninsula

By Dave Rice / San Diego Reader

Rosecroft is a historically-designated estate occupying nearly two-and-a-half acres atop Point Loma. Built in 1912 by architect Emmor Brooke Weaver, who oversaw the design of dozens of local residences between 1904 and 1945, the Italian Renaissance mansion includes nine bedrooms and 12 baths spread across 15,600 square feet of living space in the main residence and outbuildings.

The largest remaining residential parcel in Point Loma, Rosecroft’s grounds were purchased in 1903 by heiress Marion James Robinson and her husband Alfred. The Robinsons were drawn to the area by Katherine Tingley, leader of the spiritual Theosophy movement.

The Old Broad Found Out How You Can Protect Your Account

Yesterday my friend came to me in tears and confusion. She had gone to pay her T-Mobile bill and her debit card was rejected. She couldn’t understand why that was because she had ample money in her account.

She called her credit union to find out why it was rejected, and they told her that she, along with 1000 other people, had their accounts breached on January 14th, and a letter telling her how to reinstate her account had been sent to her post office box. The trouble was that she had not yet picked up her mail at the post office.

They told her that if she came in they would issue her a new debit card on the spot. She was so upset I asked her if she would like me to drive her to the credit union – I bank at the same one – and she quickly said “yes.”

Famosa Park supporters and neighbors have noticed something going on this morning at the site.

These photos were sent the OB Rag – taken this morning (1-22-19).

The 2-story house in Point Loma that was crushed by a falling pine tree and in which two people were killed, was a short-term vacation rental.

The house at 4404 Santa Monica Avenue is listed on VRBO – a major vacation rental host site – for an average of $193 a night. And tragically, you can see the huge tree that collapsed in the background on the main photo.

Sunday morning during the King tide, a half dozen San Diego Police officers were seen milling about the parking lot behind Bravos on Bacon Street. They were part of an investigation and search for a man wanted in an early Sunday morning sexual assault in Ocean Beach.

A little after 2 am a woman was walking on the sidewalk in the 1800 block of Bacon Street near Narragansett Avenue when a man emerged from an alley, grabbed the victim by the arm and pulled her about 30 feet into the alley.

The woman was hit in the face and thrown to the ground; then she was sexually assaulted. The suspect ran away from the scene.

The sexual assailant is described

For the third year in a row, thousands of San Diegans rallied and marched for women’s rights on Saturday, January 19.

The massive crowd – estimated by police at 20,000 – gathered at the front of the County Administration Building, listened to speeches and music beginning around 10 a.m. and near noon, the throng moved to Pacific Highway on the now-familiar march route for downtown demonstrations.

And although half the size of the first Women’s March the day after Trump was inaugurated in 2017, and not quite as large as last year’s, this year’s crowd was decidedly younger – with many youthful women participating. This reporter spoke to half a dozen participants who all observed a younger crowd.

By Geoff Page

“Road Diet” Coming to West Point Loma?

There is a new term, a euphemism actually, that traffic engineers are using to make certain traffic changes to our streets sound more palatable. It’s kind of like saying border “security” instead of border “wall.” Or “workforce housing” instead of “affordable housing.” The term is “road diet.” It actually means that a roadway is put on a “diet,” much like a person. The road is slimmed down to be, in the case of West Point Loma Blvd. east of Nimitz, half its former self.

This was all explained by the City of San Diego at the Peninsula Community Planning Board, (PCPB) meeting on Thursday, January 17 at the Point Loma Library. The city presented a Power Point show to explain the significant changes proposed for West Point Loma Blvd. in order to create a mostly protected bicycle lane. The city explained that it monitored parking along West Point Loma on a series of days and concluded it could remove parking with little impact to the area.

By Jim Miller

This year the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday falls in the midst of one of the biggest teachers strikes in recent American history. And Dr. King, who gave his life while supporting a public sector sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee because he saw it as a model for his Poor People’s Campaign, would recognize the spirit of this strike.

By the end of his life, King, who had long supported labor, came to question not just racial injustice, but also the economic and political struggles he identified as the edifices which produce beggars in the marketplace. His call for questioning the evils of racial, economic and other forms of institutionalized exploitation led him to challenge the American power structure and the unjust business as usual of our society.

That is precisely what the teachers in Los Angeles are doing.

UPDATED:Two people were killed when a massive pine tree collapsed onto a two-story house in the 4400 block of Santa Monica Avenue in Point Loma Monday morning, authorities said. The tree fell around 6 a.m.

Washington — In the two years since he took office, President Trump racked up more than 1,400 conflicts of interest involving the government, those trying to influence it and the Trump Organization, according to a report released today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

President Trump used the presidency to enrich himself by repeatedly promoting his businesses as extensions of his administration. Political allies, wealthy donors, special interests and foreign governments adopted a key tactic of patronizing Trump’s businesses to curry favor with the Trump administration. Here are some of the key findings from CREW’s tracking of Trump’s conflicts of interest:

by Ernie McCray

I heard a man say
we shouldn’t
resist the president
because leftwing presidents
before him committed political wrongs
in their day.

And to him I say,
hey, what somebody
did or didn’t do back in the day
has no say
in why I resist
this man
who occupies the White House today.

OB Historical Society Hosts “Trolley To The Beach” Program

by Bob Edwards

On Thursday, January 17th, the Ocean Beach Historical Society presented a program on the history of electric streetcar service in the beach areas of San Diego. Eric DuVall, local history enthusiast and president of the Historical Society narrated an enlightening and humorous hour long slide and video presentation before a near-capacity crowd at Water’s Edge Faith Community church on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard.

Mr. DuVall’s lecture included photos, maps, and documents taken from the Historical Society’s archives and other sources such as the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo.