Heart & Soul. Mix of beauty parlor and requisite art gallery and jewelry store.
Lasted little less than 5 months
Beginning of year:
Alexis Everett says she has always been interested in hair styling and finally decided to bring her “Heart And Soul” to Pacific Grove and open her own business
PG Hometown Bulletin, 1/2/08
Today:
Sign in window, early April. Knew it was a loser back then, eh?
admin’s concept:
The plan also calls for expansion of the restaurant from 92 to 128 seats, the addition of a 570-square-foot outdoor seating deck and ADA improvements within the restaurant, including a wheelchair lift, bathrooms and seating configuration.
The Old Bath House shut down in November 2005 after the city decided not to renew the lease with longtime operator Dave Bindel, who got behind about $30,000 in rent.
The concept also includes demolishing the Lovers Point public restrooms, which mayor Dan Cort called an “eyesore,” and installing new ones on the first floor of the restaurant.
So the thousands spent on repairing the fire damaged cinder block restrooms were a waste of money?
The kiddie pool at Lovers Point would also be removed and in its place a year-round picnic area would be built.
There goes another thing that the residents use, to be replaced by another picnic area where weddings take place.
A “sustainable” Pacific Grove isn’t just about the environment; it’s economics too, City Councilwoman Vicki Stilwell told her colleagues at Wednesday’s council meeting.
In her case, the economics of the city didn’t sustain her and her husband’s business, the Woodenickel gift shop at 529 Central Ave., which is holding its final closeout sale today.
“We’ve had a wonderful five years,” Stilwell said, “but I don’t know if it’s the recession, the price of gas, the mortgage crisis.”
Business just hasn’t been good enough.
Sorry to sound mean, but first you need to have something to sell that people want. Fewer tourists and fewer people decorating their weekender homes equals less need for phony country charm.
If you are going to pimp the town to tourists, you’ll have to cave and give them something that they will be drawn to P.G for. One suggestion is to get Trader Joe’s to move to the main floor of the Holman building. But that would decimate the all-blessed Grove Market, none of our best bribed politicos would approve it.
Think . . something unique yet familiar to all . .
What a great example of recycling. These businesses would be awarded something for their ‘green’ efforts, if they were not shut down.
First saw the signs at Hallmark.
Then First Noel
Now they area in use at Wooden Nickel in a closing gala.
I don’t know anyone that ever spent money at Wooden Nickel. It looked like another store full of phony country charm. Speaking of phony charm, the charm’s the same, but the name is new over at Country Attic, now to be known as Nancy’s Attic.
The Most Sustainable P.G. Thing Is Going Out Of Business Signs
The wine bar was a losing business prospect over at the Grove Bistro which stayed open for 9 months.
Can being open four days a week be a success? Will they add live music like the ‘pretending to be a bookstore’ coffee house or ‘pretending to be a home theater store’? The clock starts now.
Don’t forget that Big Wines attract crime.
Notice that Moammar’s Chamber Of Commerce had the address wrong in the website. Should get a refund on the dues for that mistake.
It’s really at 612 Lighthouse. If your business is silly enough to bend over for Moammar, check what you are getting . .
Seemed that it could have made it with longer hours. Was only open from 11:00 to 4:00. Even with those short hours they never took down the “open” signs.
Costume shop, looks mighty empty. It was open less than 3 months.
Just like the vacation homes in PG that are vacated in the winter, the Futons And Such store whisks away back to it’s Alvarado Street location.
Another empty store to keep balance with the empty Hallmark store.
