Every year it snows in Caledonia Park no matter what nature’s weather is. Here’s the mountain on the basketball court, there’s more fun in the rest of the park with bounce houses, pony rides and visit that fat guy in the red suit . . .
Category Archives: Pacific Grove
Shop Closings
Leaving Lighthouse in PG there’s Gaspers Jewelers. Now where do I get a watch battery replaced with a cheerful, no sneer service?
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.
Marita’s moved to Lighthouse.
The Unfinished Furniture In The Raw store is finished
Still vacant since the fall:
First Noel
Home Sweet Home
SPCA
SPCA too
Lighthouse Cinema
Widen Holman Highway?
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.”
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.
Pacific Grove Merchant Trivia!!
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
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.
Dangerous Trees To Be Chopped Down
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.
Business Group Requests Unlimited Parking
Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006
One of the concerns was that employees would take advantage of the no enforcement policy and park their vehicles in front of the establishments where they are employed.
Commission encourages the BID group to . . come back to us next July or August with a plan to implement the extended parking for shoppers and indicate they are going to control employee parking.
Nothing new here – there appears to be little or no enforcement of the 2 hour limits already. Numerous commercial vehicles and personal cars from store owners and workers park all day with no need to move.
Hazaras parks it’s van around Lighthouse and Forest all day.
Victorian Corner workers take up so many parking places and the loading zone all day . . .
That delivery trucks cannot even use the “loading zone” set aside for the purpose and spill over to red zones and crosswalks
Business Slow? Blame The Parked Cars
From the Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006
A group of students from Monterey Peninsula College are developing a marketing plan for four (4) businesses on the west side of Grand Avenue between Lighthouse Ave. and Central Ave. They have observed large vehicles parking all day long in front of these establishments which blocks sight distance to the businesses. Passing vehicles on Grand Avenue have difficulty seeing the stores because of parked vehicles.
Large vehicles parked all day? So the two hour limit is not enforced there either.
So one idea is to extend your store signage to the street, just like Ariana Cafe once did.
Or get the city to make the spaces in front of your business ‘loading zones’. Works for Victorian Corner.
Or join the sandwich board club.
Is it the parked cars? No I think these kinds of shops belong in Carmel anyway. Business success means selling an item or service that people want. Do people come to PG for the Carmel experience?
Scotch Bakery Trades Pies For The Pie-Eyed
Sign posted on window of Scotch Bakery announces an application for a liquor license. It appears that at least one of the Favaloros have had enough of that “spending time with the family” and are going back into the evening restaurant business.
Sad that another PG institution goes by the wayside. Scotch Bakery was mentioned in John Steinbeck’s book Cannery Row and was an alternative to DeSmets back in the days when downtown PG was more for residents than visitors. Some say since SB was sold it has not been as good as it was anyway. Well so much for historical stores, make way for more alcohol and pasta. For real good bakery stuff, check Pavel’s across from Grove Market. There’s nothing on Lighthouse Avenue worth checking.
Favaloros had a restaurant that closed soon after the owner, Anthony Favaloro was arrested for allegedly choking his mother-in-law there one night. I notice that his name is not on the liquor license or fictitious name statement for this restaurant.
Susan Goldbeck Was Never Serious About That $1000 Offer
Susan Goldbeck is quoted in the Carmel Pine Cone as saying she would pay $1,000 to any Pacific Grove resident who could prove she ever raised her voice or had been rude during a City Council meeting.
“It was a joke. The idea people would call in and ask for a reward is ridiculous. Soon I will be a private citizen, let my people go,” Goldbeck said.
That is so stupid, first to say it and second to deny that it was a promise. So glad to have her gone.
Goldbeck Was Not Really Serious About That $1000