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The weather is nice and balmy this July, so let’s get outside and go for a little ramble down the old La Playa Trail.
Driving a wagon down Chicken Ranch Canyon, one could see the sparkling waters of San Diego Bay spread out ahead.
Every evening, the “sunseteers” descend on Sunset Cliffs.
The last motion picture projector from the old Strand Theatre in Ocean Beach sat abandoned and forlorn in the Wings Beachwear store for 20 years.
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A look back at the Theosophical Society, Katherine Tingley, Lomaland and its Greek Theater, which remains today.
The 41st Ocean Beach Street Fair has been given the year off (for good behavior) this summer, so we all have a year to wait for the resumption of that well-loved tradition.
With this issue, Point Loma-OB Monthly starts its third year of publication.
Alas, April, the mild-mannered month that typically heralds the coming of spring — and sparkles like its designated diamond birthstone with a pile of precious celebrations — is now on lock-down. These fun events that highlight fertility and rebirth, freedom, the national pastime, pranks and humor, and literary and planetary pursuits will all have to be rejiggered this year.
While most coronaviruses cause common cold, three have become more dangerous, crossing species to people: the first was SARS CoV in 2003 and the latest to “make the jump” — SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes “Coronavirus Disease 2019” or COVID-19. According to former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, there was a large, late-season spike in U.S. “flu-like” illness, raising the unsettling possibility that the novel corona virus may have been here earlier than initially thought.
