Encinitas Time Machine
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Encinitacardihain?
Back in 1986 when 69% of Encinitas, Cardiff, Leucadia and Olivenhain voters chose to form a single city, their main motivation was familiar to us today – controlling local development. A more divisive issue also had to be settled – what were we going to call ourselves? If a majority of Cardiff residents had had
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Roy’s Market: Sooner or later your favorite store
Back in the mid ’40s, Gerard Roy emigrated from Quebec to New Orleans, then on to Encinitas. After he got here, he figured that Leucadia needed its own market, so he rented a classic building that might look familiar – it now houses Bing Surf Shop and Duck Foot Brewery. He called it simply Roy’s
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Encinitas Beauties in the Grape Day Parade
Exactly a century ago, an octet of proud young Encinitans traveled to Escondido to show their Grape Day Parade celebrants how we roll on the coast. Proudly displaying the Encinitas flag is 16-year-old Irene Rupe, who was last seen in Encinitas Time Machine hot-rodding her jalopy on Ponto Beach in the late ‘40s. Thanks to
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Moment of Nostalgia: Encinitas A&W
Several classic landmarks from Encinitas past are missed, but none more so than the A&W Drive In on the southeast corner of Coast Highway 101 and Encinitas Blvd. (formerly San Marcos Rd., but that’s another story). Located on a small hill that was flattened to create Moonlight Plaza where Leucadia Pizzeria now stands, in the ‘60s and
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Dr. Timothy Leary at La Paloma
On August 18, 1979, counterculture icon and psychedelics advocate Dr. Timothy Leary gave a fascinating illustrated lecture at La Paloma Theatre. He introduced his “Global Runway” theory to illustrate how humans are destined to emigrate and populate other planets. The illustration projected on La Paloma’s screen showed the planet Earth circled by an arrow, starting
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Once Upon a Time, gas was 26 cents a gallon
On November 16, 1961, our cozy coastal village of 3000 folks took a Mercury rocketship into the future when the Vulcan Square Shopping Center opened between D and E Streets above Vulcan Avenue. With Kennedy-era bravado, the Coast Dispatch reported that “Area residents are shaking their heads in wonder to see what was a tree shaded hillside
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Golden Lotus Temple
This majestic Golden Lotus Temple once graced the bluff top at the Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Hermitage and Meditation Gardens {also known as Swami’s). Built in 1938 by SRF founder Paramahansa Yogananda, it collapsed due to bluff erosion in 1942 – one of the earliest casualties of a natural process that plagues our city to this
