Category Archives: Pacific Grove Eye

Empty Shops – Not Like The Good Old Days

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Diversity Lane Stores Oob

Newly announced in the “out of business” club is Ariana Cafe.
Cafe Ariana Closed

Here’s the stated reason. . . . no place to potty or wash up after the fights.
Cafe Ariana Restroom Excuse

Following the other thrift shops is the MCAP.
Mcap Oob

This Sucks – Vacuum store moving to C-Side.
PG Vacuum

Miller Brothers – was a ‘consignment store’. Certified Pre Owned used stuff.
Miller Brothers

Across the street is the vacant 115 Central.
115 Central

Central Coast Credit Union.
Central Coast CU

Empty shop in the former Union 76 location. This building is a terrible design for facing a main street.
Ryan Lease

Vying for the title of longest running “Going Out Of Business” sale ever, Gaspers’ sale started last December. Look for their first annual “Going Out Of Business” sale coming soon.
News Rack Gaspars 2

Out of the race for title is the Lane Furniture store over in Monterey. Gahhh, please, please close already and take the da-glo posters away…
Lane Furniture 485 Lighthouse Out Of Business Not

Empty Still – Since January.
Movie Mart
Moviemart Oob

68 Skate
68 Skate

Stokes Gallery (though like most galleries it never seemed to be open anyway)
Stokes

French Glass. What happened to this long time business?
French Glass

Homescapes
Homescapes

Laundromat
Laundrymat Oob

Trotters
Trotters 1

Maritas

SPCA Thrift Shop
Spca Oob

Both of the movie theater buildings remain empty – Grove Theater
618 Lighthouse Ave Grove

And Lighthouse Cinema
Lighthouse Cinema

Of course we cannot leave out Old Bath House.
Old Bath House

Prize for PG’s oldest empty business is the Valley National Bank.
Valley National Bank

Over on the Monterey end, there’s several properties that look all but abandoned. Quite trashy.

Birks Locksmith
Birks Keys

Mack Stove
200 Block Lighthouse Mack Stove

This was one of the numerous karate “schools” on the Avenue
Karate School

Empty Shops – Not Like The Good Old Days

Art Gallery Invasion

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Looks like Bistros and Galleries are neck and neck. The transformation of PG into a wanna be Carmel is well underway. Next we ban ice cream cones and a celebrity will run for mayor . .

Lewis
Lewis Gallery Closed

Stokes Collection (says they are closing though it never seems to be open anyway)
Stokes

Is disabled access a possibility? Look at that threshold.
Impossibility

A loft in a single story building . .
Loft

One Eyed Art Stares at City Hall
One Eyed Art

Welter
Ed Welter Gallery

Bookworks took the books out and now calls it a Gallery.
Bookworks Gallery

And eek out some attention to the Interiors shop (what interior decorator would keep xmas lights up in April?)
Art And Interior

Art Gallery Invasion

Favaloro’s Scene Of Police & Ambulance Already

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That’s Hospital-iano!

Barely open for two weeks and PG Police, ambulance and PG fire department were seen in front of Favaloro’s Big Night Bistro at around 7:30 Thursday night the 29th. Somebody was wheeled out on a stretcher and taken away in the ambulance. The ambulance left with the siren and lights going.

Favaloros Ambulance

Favaloros Patient
What that was about, more family squabbles or just some bad clams?

Favaloro’s Scene Of Police & Ambulance Already

KMBY 1240 Original Studios – Virtually Unchanged

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In a recent rare visit to Cannery Row I noticed that there are very few landmarks left. The cannery buildings are all but gone and replaced with replicas. What those that are still there have changed drastically to accommodate imprisoned fish, tourists and more commerce. Gone forever are original bohemian places like Odyssey Records, Kalisa’s, Capone’s Warehouse and The 812 Cinema. One thing that has not really physically changed in over 35 years is the radio station offices, studio and transmitter that broadcasts at 1240 AM. Once Monterey’s only top 40 pop station KMBY, it’s now a talk radio format known as KNRY. Back in the 1970s, friends and I would often visit the studio, whether to collect prizes won in the many call in contests, or just see the DJ working at the turntables. Here’s a photo collection of the studio as it is today.

Antenna sits on shoreline of Macabee Beach.Kmby 1240 Tower 1

View from Foam StreetKmby 1240 Tower

A long way up
Kmby 1240 Tower

Danger! Rock and Roll RF!
Kmby 1240 Danger Rf

Coverage from that antenna:
Kmby Coverage Map

The Bear Flag Building.
Kmby 1240 Bear Flag

1929
Bear Flag 1929

Sign over the door.
Kmby 1240 KNRY Sign

Sign on street.
Kmby 1240 KNRY Be Smart Sign

Entry Way.

Going upstairs. Everything is the same as I remember from the 70s.
Kmby 1240 Going Up

Reach the top, go around the corner . .
Kmby 1240 Corner

The Hallway. Door to studios, observation window, door to offices.
Kmby 1240 Hall

Here’s where you’d see real live DJs spinning 45s like The Monkees or Martha And The Vandellas.
Kmby 1240 Studio Window

If you went into the office lobby, you could pick up the latest survey of the “Top 12 plus 40”
Kmby 1240 720404

Time to leave. Going downstairs you’d notice the low ceiling. The redwood ceiling is from the 70s era.

Thanks for the memories. Step out and back out into the phony charm.
Kmby 1240 Leaving

KMBY 1240 Original Studios – Virtually Unchanged

Dilworth Says NO To Christmas Lights

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See failed council member candidate David Dilworth at the podium on the meeting of December 6?

Dilworth Warning

Spouting propaganda about “light pollution” in large cities masking out the twinkling stars at night. Makes about as much sense in foggy P.G. as solar heat. You’d think he’d bring this up in the fall or spring when the skies are not fogged in or filled with storm clouds. But no, he tries to make you feel guilty for having Christmas lights up. Guilty for admiring Candy Cane Lane, as if it was killing of otters or causing monarchs to go sterile.

I used to think Dil was just another kook. Now I think he is just another America hater. I’m going to Walmart and buying a few hundred C7s on strings for the yard, eaves, trees and whatever else needs to be Christmasy.

Dilworth Says NO To Christmas Lights