Encinitas
A proposal to combine two ocean-view buildings along south Cardiff’s Restaurant Row and create one super-sized facility with space for multiple wedding receptions has won its first set of permit approvals.
The Encinitas Planning Commission voted 3-1, with Commission Chairman Glenn O’Grady opposed and Commissioner Al Apuzzo absent, to grant the project a design review permit and a minor-use permit. Next, it’s on to the state Coastal Commission.
Pacific Coast Grill owner Stephen Goldberg, who is one of the managing partners of the Belly Up music venue in Solana Beach, is proposing to knock out the walls between his restaurant and the now-closed Beach House Restaurant and merge the two L-shaped facilities, creating one 9,388-square-foot building.
A 40,000-square-foot self-storage facility proposed at the corner of North Roosevelt Boulevard and Palm Avenue suffered another setback recently at the hands of the Key West City Commission.
100 years ago â¦
The Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1920, edition of The Cobb County Times reported that a Packard automobile and 135 gallons of moonshine whiskey were hauled in by Marietta Police Chief W.A. Bishop and Policeman P.M. Groover the Sunday night before when they were called out to a two-car wreck on Atlanta Road.
The bootleggersâ car collided with another and the brakes locked, preventing it from being driven any further. When the police arrived on the scene, the men had abandoned the Packard and the whiskey.
This was the second large booze haul in a week.
Sheriff Swanson, while serving some legal papers, discovered the Friday before a two mule-drawn wagon with a false bottom covered in fodder that held 75 gallons of brandy. The wagon driver was found asleep and under the influence by the side of the road a few miles out of Marietta.