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?
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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.
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Marita’s moved to Lighthouse.
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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

Flood Of P.G. Businesses Closing

Diversity Lane Stores Oob

An inability to draw first-run Hollywood movies and low attendance numbers is forcing Lighthouse Cinemas in Pacific Grove to shut its doors.

A theater representative said the last movies will be shown at the four-screen theater Sept. 7.

“We wanted to do everything possible to keep the theater up and running, but for all its quaintness and charm we simply couldn’t get the kind of movies needed to keep it operating,” said David Corwin, president of Metropolitan Theaters Corps., which has operated the Lighthouse for the past two years.

The kind of movies available is only part of the problem. The service and value for the money paid is a big part.

Lighthouse Cinema

But wait! There’s more! Other shops closing this month:
SPCA Shop, went upscale & moved to Carmel.

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SPCA 2 went with them too.

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Schnarly’s Pizza. That stuff was too expensive for locals.

Shnarlys Oob

Oh Flowers moved to a low rent district (Laurel Ave).

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Piano Store – 86 those 88s.

Piano Store

Laundromat at Congress and LHA.

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Home Sweet Home. Corny imported ‘country charm’.

Home Sweet Hoome OOB

First Noel year round X-mas store, closing before the season starts on November 1.First Noel OOB

And of course, with all these places closing, a shop called All Things PG looks pretty bare. Matches the rest of all things P.G.

All Things PG

Flood Of P.G. Businesses Closing

Miniature Golf Opens At ATC As Other Shops Close

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Oceans 18, a Monterey Bay-themed course — complete with sea otter and sea lion obstacles and a swirling starfish in place of the traditional toy windmill — is scheduled to open in early May.

While one of the three buildings that comprise the Tin Cannery is filled with tenants, a second building is about half vacant, Grimm said. In 2000, The Herald reported that the center had 40 shops. There are now 25, Grimm said.

As outlet tenants leave, the plan is to bring in more entertainment and fitness-related businesses, casual dining spots, and maybe even a microbrewery and a cafe to tie the American Tin Cannery closer to the tourist- and family-oriented Cannery Row, Grimm said.

Miniature Golf Opens At ATC As Other Shops Close

Favaloro’s Closes

Favaloros Closed

 

Nino and Marie Favaloro will retain ownership of The Scotch Bakery and Café Ariana. Both are looking forward to being free in the evenings to spend more quality time with their children who were literally brought up in the back end of their restaurants up to this point in their lives. It was a difficult and emotional decision to sell the restaurant, but in the end, the kids’ needs won out.

 

Could the charges of Anthony Favaloro allegedly strangling a worker have anything to do with it? One of the strangest business owners in P.G.

Favaloro’s Closes