Pacific Grove Good Old Days Photos, 2008

While checking the mail, I took a stroll up and down The Street. The weather was real warm this year. Not much pizazz, the usual high cost carnival goods and a few distinct items.

Cheap Eats
GOD Cheap Food

Expensive Shirt
God 69 Dollar Shirt

Expensive Hats
God Expensive Hat

Expensive Slippers
God Expensive Slippers

Expensive Kid Dresses
God Expensive Tie Dye Dres

Tighty Tiedyes
God Expensive Tie Dye Undies

Junk Metal made into art trinkets (several booths were selling these)
God Junk Metal

Junk Metal that still looks like junk metal. And sharpie on cardboard box art.
God Junk Metal 2

Like Posters, only more expensive.
God Like Poster

Like Skateboards, only uhh nailed to the walls
God Like Skateboard

Too many dogs
God Dogs

Too many people to have obstructing signs in the walkway
God Road Blockage

For those that have searched the far reaches of the earth for a melted beer bottle, and only from Key West (Florida, I presume)
God Flat Bottles

Where’s the Zantac? (oh, all the pharmacies downtown are gone)
GOD Fried Fries

For the hippies that don’t use much, Soap By The Slice
God Soap By The Slice

Recycle Exhibit in tossing distance from Hollys’ trash overflowing.
GOD Recycle Or Not

Climb The Giant Terd/Turd (getting a lot of fluff on the spelling – I say that terd is less offensive – kind of humorous to misspell. I deliberately chose the misspelling even after Firefox warned me, just to not become another floater in the Google searches for scatology).
God Doody

I’m outta here
God North

Pacific Grove Good Old Days Photos, 2008

The Most Sustainable P.G. Thing Is Going Out Of Business Signs

What a great example of recycling. These businesses would be awarded something for their ‘green’ efforts, if they were not shut down.

First saw the signs at Hallmark.
Hallmark Oob

Then First Noel
First Noel

Now they area in use at Wooden Nickel in a closing gala.
Wooden Nickle OOB

I don’t know anyone that ever spent money at Wooden Nickel. It looked like another store full of phony country charm. Speaking of phony charm, the charm’s the same, but the name is new over at Country Attic, now to be known as Nancy’s Attic.
Nancys Attic

The Most Sustainable P.G. Thing Is Going Out Of Business Signs

The Ugly Less-Ugly News Racks Get Ugly

“We will pay for a maintenance program if they become damaged or have graffiti,” she said. “The maintenance fee for each site is about $500 per year.”

Ugly News Rack

Last year these ugly steel news racks were in the planning phase. The first one arrived and now blocks the morning sun from the coffee place. Now it starts sliding back into ghetto news rack chic – thanks to Coast Weakly sticking it’s bumper stickers all over it. That should cost the bad tabloid a $500 maintenance fee, and lose 4 of it’s plastic boxes elsewhere in town.

Lisa Bennett pointed it out in the council meeting, attorney Laredo confirmed it was the same as graffiti.

The Ugly Less-Ugly News Racks Get Ugly

“P.G. Remodel” Goes Awry

A “P.G. Remodel” is one of those house modifications where 90% of the house is replaced and then the square footage increases by another 90%. The resulting structure my have a slight resemblance to the original, but there is often only about 5% of the original building there.

Over at 419 Congress Avenue, here’s the original 500 square foot structure, working toward that 10% of original building.
Juan The Builder Remodel

Looks like too much was removed, 9% of house fell into 200% of basement.
Juan The Builder Remodel

Juan The Builder – should he change the name to Juan The Destructor?
Juan The Builder Trailer

Follow up: A hysterical preservation lady spoke at the next city council meeting urging that everything possible be done to restore the damage. If they care so much why did they allow the little salt box be ‘restored’ into a forest chalet in the first place?

“P.G. Remodel” Goes Awry

Primo – Small Food Portions, Big Whines

The wine bar was a losing business prospect over at the Grove Bistro which stayed open for 9 months.

Can being open four days a week be a success? Will they add live music like the ‘pretending to be a bookstore’ coffee house or ‘pretending to be a home theater store’? The clock starts now.

Don’t forget that Big Wines attract crime.

Primo Open

Primo – Small Food Portions, Big Whines