Category Archives: Pacific Grove

Being Distinct

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Going Out Of Business since August 2012! Smallest Going Out Of Business sign yet on the longest ongoing going out of business sale ever. Think it will really happen? Probably not, there is no “March 31th”. Get ready for Hazaras Emergency Spell Check Reopening Sale.

Hazara Carpet Closing

Oriental carpet stores are the all time champion of fake “going out of business” sales.

Phony going-out-of-business sales long have plagued Oriental rug retailing here and across the country, dealers say. The industry is susceptible because Oriental rugs can cost thousands of dollars, and many consumers lack the expertise to judge whether a rug’s quality matches its price. That frequently makes the lure of huge markdowns effective, especially when the discount is off a grossly inflated original price.

Also lacking distinction, the rapidly changing 606 Lighthouse Avenue cries out for another occupant.The Nothing Store

This place is a regular photo-shop satire subject – 2009:
Gone Too

Still Sustaining The Gulls – Open Dumpsters In Pacific Grove

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Long running story here on the blog, the Dumpsters Of Commerce, where Pacific Grove businesses show their lack of regard for the health and safety of the town. Some have improved, notably Mando’s and Fandango. Others still don’t give a darn and continue to violate health codes.

Let’s look at Juice & Java, yep wide open
Dumpster Juice Java 171213

Juice & Java food garbage feeding the gulls & rats:Dumpster Juice Java 171213 2

Peppers Mexicali Cafe also serves the birds
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Come and get it!Dumpster Peppers 171217

Too much for one birdGull At Brunch

Call up the guests and have a brunch party. Then poop on everything.
Gull Brunch Guests

In motion!

Pacific Grove Losing Police Department?

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PG Cop Car 1980s

Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe confirmed the city has reached out to the three agencies about the future of police services in his city.

“We are exploring a number of options in terms of finding ways to reduce costs for various services,” Kampe said.

Former Pacific Grove police chief Carl Miller, who retired in 2006, likened the ongoing process to a death knell for the city’s 125-year-old police department.

“The police department is going away, and no one is aware of it,” Miller said.

Pacific Grove Losing Police Department?

Pollution Warnings Posted At Lovers Point

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Must be a springtime event.

Pollution Warnings

Signs are posted at Lovers Point Beach in Pacific Grove after a high level of bacteria was found in samples taken on Monday. The advisory will remain posted until samples indicate that indicator bacteria are at a safe level for recreational water contact according to state guidelines.

It is recommended that you do not swim in or have contact with storm drain water. Bacteria, viruses, protozoa or chemicals may contaminate storm drain water, and contact with storm drain water may cause illness.

Contact with the ocean water might make you sick but the SCUBA divers take the chance:
pollution divers

And the Adventures By The Sea rents kayaks for people to explore the polluted waters.
pollution kayaks


Pollution Warnings Posted At Lovers Point

Tidepool Police Shocked! Shocked! That Signs Are Posted To Warn About Seal Birth Area

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Every spring the seals arrive at Hopkins to have babies and signs get posted informing people to stay away. Looks like Jim Willoughby has awoke from his winter hibernation and is suddenly outraged that someone would post the signs on the railing along the rec trail.

Seal Posse Red Sign Seal Posse Orange Sign

Anyone walking along the trail early this month could not have missed the proliferation of 11 obtrusive and intimidating signs adjacent to the Hopkins Marine Station fence. Some were unusually large red inflammatory signs with a foreboding warning against entry to the coastline beyond that point.

Let’s go back to 2012 when the city erected a green lath fence in this same area, blocking the viewshed and access to the beach. For some unknown reason, the city added a white plastic fence next to the green lath fence, creating an eyesore. Since then, the green lath fence has been removed and replaced with a permanent wooden rail fence, which is now posted with warning signs.

Well, what can we expect? The rec trail is a place where many more signs can be found, some that are downright ugly or tacky. Where is the outrage Willoughby?

Signs to sucker the tourists
Sign Historic Farmers Market

Signs for vandals to decorate
Graffiti Stickers

More signs to to sucker tourists
Sign GOD

Graffiti unchecked
Graffiti Rec Trail Graffiti Trash Can

Go back to bed Jim and call when you can do something that really matters.

Tidepool Police Shocked! Shocked! That Signs Are Posted To Warn About Seal Birth Area

Good News For Shoplifters, P.G. Banning Plastic Bags

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Shop elsewhere for full service.

California Bag Ban

Monterey Hear-Old

The City Council on Wednesday will take its first look at a proposed ordinance that would ban retailers from giving customers single-use, carry-out plastic bags.

The proposed measure also would require retailers — after six months when the law would take effect — to charge 10 cents for recycled paper bags. The charge would go up to 25 cents after a year.

The report says the crackdown on non-reusable bags would “reduce the amount of litter generated by the use of plastic bags” and keep the city’s land and waterways cleaner.

In addition to loss of convenience and cleanliness there are reports about the increase of theft by users of reusable shopping bags –

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“I think we’ve gotten to a place where it’s really going to work for the environment, businesses and the community in general,” Councilman Mike O’Brien said at the time.

But the bag ban is contributing to thousands of dollars in losses for at least one Seattle grocery store, and questions have been raised about the risk of food-borne illness from reusable bags that shoppers don’t often wash.

Mike Duke, who operates the Lake City Grocery Outlet with his wife, said that since the plastic-bag ban started last July, he’s lost at least $5,000 in produce and between $3,000 and $4,000 in frozen food.

Dan Cort: Runaway Mayor, Mvsevm Director and Preservator

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Dan Cort Bailn Like Palin

Preservating? Sounds like something dirty one would do in vacant buildings over in Stockton.

Dan Cort Preservating

DAN CORT, Director

Home: Pacific Grove
Business Background: CEO of the Cort Companies; preservating and renovating historic real estate in Northern California for the past 30 years

Dan Cort: Runaway Mayor, Mvsevm Director and Preservator

Thanks to Esther for the tip

P.G. Mayor Tells Shopkeepers to “Be Distinct”

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Yah, but don’t ruffle the old guard by trying to open provocative lingerie shops or anything that may take customers away from Fandango or Grove Market.

Pacific Grove’s businesses need to be more distinctive, Mayor Bill Kampe told the city’s Chamber of Commerce on Friday.

“The hard evidence is that we are not well identified by those outside of P.G.,” he told 200 people at the chamber’s annual membership luncheon at The Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach.

He said some ideas for standing out on the Peninsula are changing the mix of businesses downtown, improving its visual appeal, getting better signs or adding public art.

Meanwhile, I’m sure there are more “distinct” art galleries and resale shops ready to move in when other art galleries and resale shops go out of business.

213 Grand Ave Art Really Closing

P.G. Mayor Tells Shopkeepers to “Be Distinct”

Lovers Point Pool Reopening By Summer?

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Then
Lovers Point Pool And Slats
Now:
Kiddie Pool

The first pool just above the beach at Lovers Point was a saltwater plunge built in 1938. The current one, which was closed last summer because of a host of maintenance issues, was built in 1972. For years, the city held swim lessons and recreational swimming programs at the pool.

The city didn’t have the money to pay for pool repairs, so the community fundraising drive was organized. The goal was $250,000 — an amount that would probably provide an operating-fund endowment and swim-lesson scholarships.

A city busy spending money on image consultants and unnecessary street remodels leaves little for project the residents can enjoy.

Lovers Point Pool Reopening By Summer?

Forest Avenue 76 Station Customers’ Credit Card Information Hacked

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Again!

On Feb. 21, a person reported to the PGPD the theft and unlawful use of their credit card information.

The investigation led police back to the 76 Station where its management cooperated and all gas pumps were inspected for a skimming device but none found, police said.

The skimmer is a device that is attached to a point of sale machine and collects encoded information from credit or debit cards.

Several versions of skimmers were found affixed to gas pumps at the same location on Dec. 7.

Skimmer devices are now being found INSIDE the pumps, plugged into the card readers. Some stations attach anti-tamper stickers to the door of the pumps – if the seal is broke, don’t stick anything in it..

Gas Pump Security Seal

Forest Avenue 76 Station Customers’ Credit Card Information Hacked