Dang that’s ugly and unsafe.
Category Archives: Pacific Grove Eye
eBay Find: Lovers Point Drive-Inn Specials
Abalone for $1.50 wow. What’s the date? 1950s?
Don’t you forget – “Little Pig Sausages Served Anytime”
Postcard – shows that it was where the Tinnery now is.
Are The Downtown Buildings In PG Safe?
October 17, 1989 – the Loma Prieta Earthquake took down lots of unreinforced masonry buildings –
In Santa Cruz:
And in Salinas:
Notice that there are warnings on every ‘historic’ building downtown:
Be safe when shopping, stay out of unsafe buildings – shop the big box stores.
Turn Out The Streetlights – Why?
Is P.G. trying too hard to be another Carmel? Think about it – bistros, art galleries and no streetlights sounds very Carmel to me.
The ‘cobra’ lights west of Congress are on
But the fake antique lights are OUT!
Turn Out The Streetlights – Why?
New Vacancies In New Monterey
Another Furniture store goes into “We Quit” mode. Will they stick around for the annual going out of business sale like the Lane store?
No Foul, No Loss – the rusty yard decor store moved to the Grove building in PG. This was at onetime a store that residents went to for small motor repair or power tools, Brody’s.
Art Galleries On The Wane?
Let’s hope so. Sitting empty (next to another storefront that’s been vacant since April) is Edward Welter gallery.
Some say that galleries really do nothing for the town’s economy. They are closed more than the are open and generate less sales tax than retail would.
Summer Reading Offers
Detective Lisa Spurlock has a problem. It’s 1972, and she’s working to solve the murder of a teacher of Russian in the small coastal community of Pacific Grove, California, while at the same time coping with the chauvinistic viewpoints of some of her male cohorts. In the course of her investigation, Lisa learns a few things about Russians and their language, about her fellow police officers, and about surviving as a woman in a traditionally masculine domain.
Lane Furniture’s 2nd Annual Going Out Of Business Sale!
Clearance!! We Really Mean It This Time!! It had to happen, Lighthouse Avenue now has a perpetual store closing, liquidation, going out of business, quitting, lost our lease, emergency clearance store in the Lane Furniture location.
Back last winter they promised the store was closing . .
C’mon, Just admit it:
Open House Signs Block Sidewalks
Must be though selling houses these days. But not as tough as navigating the sidewalks, say if one was in a wheelchair . . .
In Union City the hazardous signs are confiscated:
For the past four weekends, a city employee, working overtime, has patrolled streets in search of violating signs. On the first weekend, courtesy notices, explaining the city’s longstanding sign ordinance, were placed on the signs. Since then, the signs have been confiscated.
At least 50 of them – mostly free-standing signs directing home buyers to an open house – still are sitting in the city’s corporation yard, Public Works Director Mintze Cheng said. No fines have been levied against the violators.
The signs were becoming a safety issue, Cheng said. Clusters of free-standing “open house” signs block sidewalks, while others end up in the street, she said.
But real estate brokers say the policy makes it harder to sell homes.
Oh boo hoo for the real estate shysters.
Lets take out the ghetto sidewalk graffiti signs too. But instead of holding them captive at the city yard, burn them . .
Powder Spill Gridlocks New Monterey
The spill was discovered about 6 a.m. near Washington Street and Del Monte Avenue near the Monterey Sports Center. The center and a nearby parking garage were closed. The tunnel to New Monterey was closed, knotting traffic in the downtown and Lighthouse Avenue area for almost four hours.
