Lorielle Sidewalk Sale this weekend

My wife got a good deal on a nice high quality shirt here yesterday so I thought I would pass it on.

530 N Coast Hwy 101
Encinitas, CA 92024
(760) 753-4822
(across from the Pannikan)

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Music as a Metaphor for Leucadia

Music as a metaphor,

A 1946 Seeburg “Trashcan”

A large percentage of the population would look at this music appliance (they were appliances to be heavily used and then discarded) and say “it’s time to throw this junk away.”

Is it to far off to view Leucadia in a similar light to this picture?

Very unique, very funky, worn and abused, not very functional in today’s world, a relic from yesteryear?

I really don’t blame folks who say its junky and want to throw it away. I can see their logical path and desire to discard this and go in a different direction. I don’t view their motive as evil.



So we progress in the music world and we change for the better, right? For better or worse and for a variety of reasons, today’s music appliances look like this.
I think most of us have one or two black rectangular generic boxes about 16 inches wide that music is generated from.

Sure they may have a different nameplate on the face of the box. Sure some of them produce better sound that others. They are ubiquitous and indistinguishable void of any character or uniqueness. Why are they all black? I’ve never been able to figure that one out. My guess is so they could not be seen, and we could hide the uglyness.
Is it to far off to view some modern commercial developments and housing developments in a similar light as this “modern music appliance?
There is another choice, and that choice is restoration.


When fully restored, this 1946 Seeburg “Trashcan” is a proud and prized collectors item. An American treasure that is loved by all who see and hear it. It is a conversation starter and a show stopper.

It is also about 50 times more valuable than the above generic black boxes. The reasons are fairly obvious.

As a personal comment, I have a Dolby digital theater setup that rocks, I have a Danish Bang & Olufsen system that is state of the art and an excellent example of modern art, and I have this 1946 jukebox restored by myself and my good friend and Jukebox hero Fred Caldwell.

We enjoy all the music systems but the jukebox is the only one that can bring a tear to your eye. I have seen friends tear up at its beauty and feel a strong desire to go over and touch and caress it, I call that behavior a “ jukebox hug.”
Of all three music systems in the house this is my favorite by a mile, it’s a tube amp mono speaker honey sounding music device from 1946. It will never be thrown away or discarded, it will always be maintained at a very high level and will only become more and more valuable as the years go by. It could care less about modern trends and fancy widgets.

Is it to far off to view Leucadia in a similar light to this picture?

Cheers
Peder Norby

Peder Norby is the Highway 101 Coordinator for the city of Encinitas

Coast Highway Clean Up

Still There

In 21st Century southern California it's nice to see some preservation exist here and there.

Time

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Postcards courtesy of Fred Caldwell.

Local Yokels

Leucadia 1972

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Idiots

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The Leucadia 101 Post Office. Puppet and Ozzo...you suck.

Leucadia Hymettus Roundabout Landscaping

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After

New Leucadia Farmers Market Logo

Bamboo 2u and Tikis Too

One of the more funky/cool downtown Leucadia business is Bamboo 2u and Tikis Too. They just redid the front of the store, adding some landscaping to the front planter. Looks swell.

1240 N Coast Hwy
Leucadia, CA 92024
(760) 943-6284

I couldn't find a website.

Sheltered Paradise, the trees make it so

Exhibit A: Coronado Ave in Imperial Beach, California. No big trees, just a few scraggly palms. Note the thin center median where nothing can grow. Lots of corporate franchises, not much in the way of independent small business.


Exhibit B: Leucadia Hwy 101, Leucadia California. Old growth trees on both sides of the road and the center median. (and lots of cool mom&pop small business).

Leucadia is Funky, not junky.

A Lesson on Secrecy and Slippery Slopes

U-T EDITORIAL: NORTH EDITION
Encinitas council learns a lesson on secrecy

March 22, 2008

What a slippery slope a City Council tries to climb when it conducts public business in closed session and by observing only the bare minimum of legal requirements.

Encinitas, now under the council majority of Jerome Stocks, Dan Dalager and James Bond, some time ago changed the way the city schedules closed meetings. It now calls them “special” and gives the public 24 hours notice instead of 72.

This creates the potential for abuse. Someone objecting to the propriety of considering something in closed session has little time to seek relief from the courts.

We have opined on this before. What Encinitas now calls “special,” we call “abhorrent.”



Stocks, mayor for this year, says the 24-hour notice allows the city much more flexibility in arranging a closed-session agenda and is reluctant to have closed meetings on a formal schedule. But, why does Encinitas, a city of 63,000, have so many lawsuits and personnel matters to take up behind closed doors? Presumably, only those who meet in secret know for sure.

Recently, Encinitas took another step to make its government even less transparent. City Council actions taken in the afternoon closed sessions, someone or someones decided, would no longer be reported to the public at the evening regular sessions.

What that meant, for example, is that on March 12 the council took two actions behind closed doors after short public notice, walked into an empty council chamber and gave a report that appears on no videotape. The public showing up for the 6 p.m. regular meeting was oblivious as to what happened.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?



It sounds to us like Stocks, Dalager and Bonds went out of their way to create public distrust and foster conditions ripe for abuse.

The right thing is to report the actions taken immediately after the closed session and to repeat the report during the regular session when someone is actually present to hear it. How difficult is that?

To Stocks' credit, after this page began inquiring into the Encinitas situation, he revised the policy: “I will now, effective today [Wednesday], be making sure [in a move to ensure “belts and suspenders” disclosure] that the city attorney also report out any special meeting activity during the 'reports' portion of the regular City Council meeting.”



This is an election year and what the threesome was unwittingly doing was handing the council minority of Teresa Barth and Maggie Houlihan a sure-fire issue. No member of the public is going to call for more secrecy in government. Neither is the media.

What last week's items were about is not the issue. But, since we've aroused your curiosity, one had to do with building heights (Leucadia Cares v. City of Encinitas) and the other with a long-running battle by an adult bookstore to stay in business (City of Encinitas v. F Street). The city apparently prevailed on a definition of building heights in a dispute with Barratt American. The adult-store dispute was sent back to trial court.

So, three council members unwisely put themselves in an untenable position. When the spotlight was turned on Encinitas' policy, Stocks adeptly changed it. Give Stocks credit for correcting the situation. Give Barth and Houlihan credit for forcing the issue.

We'll let Teresa Barth have the last word: “As I said previously, I think Encinitas should strive to do the best, not the least.”



See also: History of Consent Calendar Misuse

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