Hand Maden. Not fans of the Farmer’s Market, they come out totally against it, complaining about the street being blocked. For one thing, their block is not part of the Farmers Market and second, they close at 5:00 pm. So what does the Market have to do with it?
Was an architect’s office. Looks like a good place for an art gallery or used clothing store.
Lighthouse Avenue’s perpetual store closing, liquidation, going out of business, quitting, lost our lease, emergency clearance store in the Lane Furniture location.
This year is no different:
Wait! No it’s an EMERGENCY and re-opens.
In Summer 2007 they closed forever again.
Spring 2007, with the biggest signs ever, they promised the store was closing for good.
One restaurateur who simply couldn’t hang on is Melange chef-owner David Frappiea, who, along with investors, sunk a substantial chunk of change (estimated at around $200,000) into the old Favaloro’s space (closing for seven months during renovation) to bring us Pacific Grove’s best fine-dining restaurant. But in the current economy, high-end restaurants have suffered the most due to lack of corporate events during the holidays, and diners searching for bargain fare.
$18.50 for a plate of noodles. This eatery seemed so out of place in Pacific Grove. Make way for Olive Garden!
The software company was headquartered in P.G. and sold a computer operating system that many say was better than the upstart Microsoft’s product.
Long before “Think Different” became a marketing slogan, Kildall’s Digital Research was thinking differently, writes Terry Horton, who remembers the early days and now lives in Dubai. He speculates that the IBM deal fell through in part because of an East Coast/West Coast culture clash.
“First, their office was not an office,” Horton writes of Digital.”It was an old house on the beach in Pacific Grove with a view to the northwest that produced some wonderful sunsets. Second, the office staff were not wearing real suits. In fact, a majority of the secretaries wore shorts and bikini style tops. In other words, it was horrifying to a staid easterner in a three-piece suit planning to put the ultimate success or failure of their PC project in the hands of someone like this.”
Jim Tirjan of Campbell found himself contemplating “what if.” What if IBM had gone with Digital instead of Microsoft?
“Would Pacific Grove today be what Redmond became?” he writes. “OK, maybe people in Monterey like it just the way it is, but the implications for Silicon Valley would be staggering.”
Moved over to Forest Ave, empty since Green’s Camera closed in September 2008. The namesake street is looking very vacant. The Cottage Style next door in the old Grove building shut down July and is still empty.
Rearranging The Deck Chairs – Lighthouse Business Center Moved
Another gallery dries up and blows away. Never went there, never needed to. Won’t miss it.
The council has before it a resolution approving a contract between the two cities for fire service effective Dec. 16 that resulted from three years of feasibility studies of a merger, according to Pacific Grove Fire Chief Andrew Miller.
Monterey, in general, pays more in salary for similar fire department work, he said, but Pacific Grove will save costs because fewer firefighters would be required at its station and the combined department would be able to draw resources from three fire stations in Monterey.
Should have happened years ago – about the time of the Pebble Beach fire on Huckleberry Hill.
J. Worthington going out of business.
The voters passed a sales tax hike. For that to work you need sales.
