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

Phil Bowhay Writes – Chickens In Pacific Grove

Pro Chicken Mack

Another nice story. Brought back memories when he mentioned donkey baseball played in P.G.

Somewhere along the line I suppose the city passed a law against them, and while not every home had a hen house, most people had fresh eggs. There was a nice sort of cluck cluck from back yards, and a strident cock a doodle doo from a rooster or two.

And speaking of pigeons, you will remember the early days of television when most of the houses in town had spindly aluminum antennas wired to the chimneys. Well, in flew a wave of wild pigeons, big and black, and they roosted on those antennas just long enough to bend or break them, and away they went. All over town, antennas either gone or pointing down!

Ocean View Cablevision was releasing hundreds of pigeons from it’s office/headend on Forest Hill.

Phil Bowhay Writes – Chickens In Pacific Grove

Downtown Farm Reborn?

This is the Green Spot, a collaboration between Applied Solar and two local environmental groups. Only a few months old, the quirky little property is evolving into a vortex for all things local and green.

Three groups will unveil the Green Spot at the Good Old Days celebration. Fifteen booths, displays and demos will show locals how to shrink their eco-footprints by planting trees, building compost bins, installing solar-energy systems, setting up cisterns, cleaning green, curbing trash and auditing home energy use.

Can I get a tax cut for this? How much more would Jose the gardener charge to compost my lawn trimmings? Is cabbage resistant to deer and raccoon poo? Do you really think the weekender homeowners are really going to buy this? Judging by the mountains of trash the businesses create, it shows that they wont. Who’s left to join the compost club, the dozen or so frequent attendees to the city council meetings?Brevity Comic Hippie 080609

Downtown Farm Reborn?

No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses

And Sam “the sham’ Farr has showed some rare gonads and came out against the spraying. Weird, I’ve always thought Farr was in the AgBiz’s back pocket.

Doctors and scientists from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the California Department of Public Health and the state Department of Pesticide Regulation examined the illness complaints that followed aerial spraying of a pheromone product in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties last year and described their findings in today’s report.
As the LBAM program continues, the state will monitor the safety of any future spraying.

Mothra

No Link Between Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying and Reported Illnesses

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

If the gas prices keeping tourists away don’t kill downtown this will. If I need to leave the car down or up the hill to go to the bank or hardware store, forget it. I’ll just keep driving all the way to Sand City.

Cort floated an idea that came out of the city’s Economic Advisory Committee. Pacific Grove could close several blocks of Lighthouse Avenue to cars, he said, creating the first “pedestrianized” downtown on the Peninsula.

Murmurs grew until the room was buzzing like a poked beehive. The noise drowned out the mayor’s subsequent comments on water storage and solar roofs.
But City Councilman Alan Cohen, who also sits on the committee and owns Lighthouse Business Center, is skeptical. He worries that commercial rents on Lighthouse – which are already at a premium – could be affected. And he doesn’t like the notion of customers walking several blocks to go shopping, then schlepping their packages back to their cars. “It would close off traffic on a street that brings a lot of people to town,” he says.

Rough estimate of the planned no car zones:

Ban Cars Downtown

Mayor Cort Wants To Transform Lighthouse Avenue Into A No Car Zone

Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos

Every politician seems to have an agenda that is not revealed when campaigning. Better name is 7 Morons.
Tic Ommons Moron Manor

It’s called Oceans 7 and gives an impressive presentation from the sidewalk through its broad, open-ended, open-to-the-sky walkway separating the two parts of the two-story building (one side numbered 2-6, the other, 1-7) that are united by patterns made by the mid-century-modern stairway railings. Their clean lines criss-cross as they curve around the landings, recalling the optical rhythms of 1950s functional sculpture. A subdued little square of a garden atop a platform on the far side of the courtyard has a small, glazed spherical fountain with water lazily covering its whole shape.

Mayor’s Agenda – Redevelop Apartments Into Weekender Condos

American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?

No April Foolin. I’ve thought this would be a much better hotel/convention site than the Holman’s Building.

ATC

Representatives for the owner,(. . .) Cannery Row Co. envision a model development that would incorporate “green” energy-saving building technology and turn the former factory building into a complex containing condominiums, moderately priced apartments, a hotel “that could compete with Pebble Beach and Carmel,” shops and service businesses.
Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort and City Manager Jim Colangelo agree that the property is underused.
Colangelo said city officials have had talks with Cannery Row Co. representatives during the past several years “trying to figure out a way the city and Cannery Row Co. can generate more revenue” from the site.

American Tin Cannery Being Developed? With Housing?