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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.
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Every evening, the “sunseteers” descend on Sunset Cliffs.
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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.
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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.
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With this issue, Point Loma-OB Monthly starts its third year of publication.
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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.
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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.
