Category Archives: Pacific Grove

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

Bistros A Go Go

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Site of the former Shnarleys Pizza. It was overpriced anyway, preyed on tourists I guess.
Grove Bistro

There’s another ‘Bistro’. Must be the latest fad name for tiny restaurant, with a name that implies “Yes, we have alcohol”. People in PG are sometimes still afraid of the old blue laws.

Bistros, Trattorias, Taquerias, Pubs, Sports Bars. Whatever.

Scotch Bistro – er Bakery has scraped the “Scotch Bakery” lettering from the windows, readying the former landmark to disappear for good.
Scotch Bakery

Now the historical signage is gone
Scotch Bakery Gone

Announcement
Favaloros Bistro

And you know the sun’s settin’ fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
‘Cause your heart’s bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can’t you see the sun’s settin’ down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Iris Dement “Our Town”

Bistros A Go Go

Shop Closings

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Leaving Lighthouse in PG there’s Gaspers Jewelers. Now where do I get a watch battery replaced with a cheerful, no sneer service?
News Rack Gaspars 2

Newest ghost town, 300 block of Forest Ave. Moe says that vacant storefronts are filling up, but it looks like they are just moving around.

Trotters moved to the Sprouse Reitz building.
Trotters 1

Marita’s moved to Lighthouse.
Maritas07

The Unfinished Furniture In The Raw store is finished
305 Forest Ave

Still vacant since the fall:

First Noel
First Noel

Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home

SPCA
Spca Oob

SPCA too
Spca Too Oob

Lighthouse Cinema
Lighthouse Cinema

Shop Closings

Widen Holman Highway?

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Several residents of Crest Road, a Pebble Beach street that runs parallel to Holman Highway, said noise from the highway is already disruptive. Building two more highway lanes will create more noise. Some residents said a sound wall should be part of the project.

David Dilworth, a Pacific Grove environmental activist, also said other alternatives need to be explored. “Pacific Grove is essentially an island,” Dilworth said. “You are only dealing with what one lane is doing.”

68 At Chomp

On one hand we have the Chamber of Commerce begging people to come to PG and shop, and on the other we have the gadfly “environmental activist” that will make you sit in traffic jams, breathing excess exhaust.

One: It’s only to the most busy part of the road – CHOMP.
Two: The Pebble Beach residents bought homes NEXT TO A STATE HIGHWAY. To expect tranquility there is just stupid.

Widen Holman Highway?

Pacific Grove Merchant Trivia!!

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Remember when Pacific Grove’s downtown businesses where there mostly for the locals? Was it a much better time then?

Where was Crocker Burger?

Where was Crocker Bank?

Which bottle shop was PG’s First?

Name the brand of gasoline that used to be sold:
Where Club Fit is
Where Lighthouse Cinemas is

What did lovers love at Lovers’ Point.

Name the restaurant that occupied the beach before the Old Bath House.

Where was the PG Swimming Pool?

Where was The Fat Cat?

Where was The Golden Egg?

What kind of trading stamps were offered by Holman’s?

Where could you redeem them?

Where was Elsa’s?

Bonus! Name one of the waitresses

What kind of food was served at Tom’s Cafe?

Who was the mascot of a restaurant lonnnng before it was Passionfish?

The Elegant Elephant. What was it?

Space Age _______.

Name a Squid House.

Where could you play Boccie Ball?.

GroveMont. Not a theater, what was it?

They called it Top Hat, but no one wore one there…

VNB, UCB, HSOA, ______

“The Store With So Much More”

Another Restaurant: The Pied Piper. Where?

How ’70s! A CB Radio Shop…..

“Let’s all go to ___________”

Sweets. Candy? No!

DLI Students Arrested In PG Robbery

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Dli Arrested

Sean M. Davis, 19, Thomas C. Hood, 19 and Lee Nixon Jr., 18, were charged in the strong-arm robbery of a 24-year-old Seaside resident that took place at 3:40 a.m. Saturday.

The victim was struck on the head and robbed of his wallet by a man accompanied by two others at an automatic teller machine at the Bank of America branch at 601 Lighthouse Ave., police said.

What does anyone need cash for from an ATM in PG at 3:40AM? Nothing’s open at that time of the day.

DLI Students Arrested In PG Robbery

Dangerous Trees To Be Chopped Down

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Arborist quit

City Manager Jim Colangelo said West Coast Arborists will remove the trees in December at a cost of $65,000. The firm will focus on trees that need to be cut down using cranes, while city employees will focus on less expensive tree-cutting, he said.

Residents who were originally critical of the plan to cut down 200 trees said on Wednesday that they were happy with the process and that the council members went to look at the trees.

Jean Anton, chairwoman of the city’s beautification and natural resources committee, praised the council members for going to the park. In her four years on the committee, she’s never seen that happen.

Dangerous Trees To Be Chopped Down