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The works and personal histories of Cliff May, Florence Palmer and Thomas Shepherd names that could belong on the Mount Rushmore of La Jolla architecture were spotlighted during a La Jolla Historical Society webinar March 31.
Speakers talked about the architects, their backgrounds and influences and significance to La Jolla’s history, along with local examples of their work, during the first of a two-part series. The second webinar will be Wednesday, April 14.
The first lecture focused on homes built before World War II, ranging from Spanish Eclectic to spec houses.
Thomas Shepherd
Speaking as the owner of a Shepherd-designed, historically designated house, La Jolla Landmarks Committee Chairwoman Seonaid McArthur talked about his work, not on her house but the Rev. Nassau and Estelle Stephens House on Amalfi Street.
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Repair and restoration efforts are underway along La Jolla’s Coast Walk Trail, with a little help from the neighborhood.
For the past several years, Friends of Coast Walk Trail has worked with the La Jolla Parks & Beaches group and the city of San Diego to carry out improvement projects on the trail, which runs between Coast Walk (a short street west of Torrey Pines Road between Prospect Place and Amalfi Street) and Goldfish Point.
But the Friends can’t do it alone.
La Jolla’s five Rotary clubs came together for a fundraising hike for Friends of Coast Walk Trail in October, and more than $7,500 raised is now being used to stabilize a slope.
La Jolla traffic board recommends changing signs to keep trucks from being stuck on Hillside Drive
Despite a lot of signs at Hillside Drive and Torrey Pines Road, trucks are still getting stuck as they turn from one street to the other.
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Feb. 22, 2021 4:06 PM PT
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The La Jolla Traffic & Transportation Board is recommending that the city of San Diego replace signs at various intersections along Hillside Drive to try to discourage trucks over a certain length and weight and prevent them from becoming stuck.
The vote came following La Jolla Community Planning Association President Diane Kane’s presentation to the T&T Board at its Feb. 17 meeting, detailing “multiple issues on Hillside Drive.”
If 2020 has proved anything, it’s that La Jollans don’t lose their fighting spirit.
As the world battled the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, locals hopped online or otherwise did what they could for various causes whether it be neighborhood character, racial justice or adapting to ever-changing public health restrictions to keep their businesses open. All of this without in-person entertainment, meetings and events and while staying masked and socially distanced.
Through Dec. 26, residents of La Jolla’s 92037 ZIP code had registered 833 cases of the virus. San Diego County’s cumulative cases stood at 145,779 as of Dec. 27, with more than 1,400 related deaths.