What: The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival
Where: Girard Ave, La Jolla
When: Saturday, October 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, October 7, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Why: To bring our artists’ roots back to La Jolla, to celebrate our wonderful community, and to raise money for underfunded programs such as art, music, science, physical education, and technology, at the local public elementary and middle schools.
Cost: FREE!
This was listed on the range $13,888,000 to $14,888,000, and had been on the market since summer of 2016 (and refreshed several times). Then somebody came along and paid $15,000,000 cash:
La Jolla in the 1890s
Scripps Oceanography La Jolla early 1900s
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club
La Jolla Bird Rock WW2 Gunnery School
Mission Beach in the 1920s
Solana Beach 1928
A somewhat-remodeled single-level home in La Jolla’s gated Windemere community with virtually no yard, an interesting pool, and virtually right on the tennis courts. This closed for $1,110,000 in April:
Keith at Modern San Diego had this to report in his last newsletter (see below):
The house has been torn down since, and is now the residence of The Lerachs.
This is from 2005 when they bought it:
Here’s how the Lerachs’ 5.88 acres looks now:
Long-time reader and commenter here, gameagent, is involved with the upcoming car show in La Jolla. They need a few more volunteers – click here if interested in helping out, and getting a plate of snails:
Link to Voluteer
From the UT:
There are a host of dream-house raffles across the West this year, and a big winner in many of them appears to be a Seattle-based consultant. The raffles have the same concept — for a $150 ticket, get a chance to win a multimillion-dollar dream home. Although there are lesser prizes, the house is only given away if ticket sales hit a certain threshold.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego has used consultant Neal Martin Zeavy to run its dream-house raffle at least since 2008. In the decade that he has run the event, the fundraiser has never sold enough tickets to result in a house giveaway.
Zeavy was paid $525,000 by the San Diego charity last year, according to the nonprofit’s tax returns. For context, Charles Day — the San Diego charity’s president and CEO — received $224,985, the tax records show. Zeavy has helped run dream-house raffles for at least five other nonprofits.
Those who took in the pro golf and spectacular weather at Torrey Pines today also saw a number of paragliders in the background. It reminded me of our reader Murph checking out the bluff-front houses:
Here’s how he described his close calls:
During my “formative” flying days (about 3 years ago) I had quite a reputation at the Torrey Pines Gliderport. Some of my hair-raising moments included……..
**I was losing lift and trying to make it back to the gliderport, but could not make it so I had to land at Black’s beach. This is rather routine as you just aim for a dry section of sand. Well, as I was rounding a bend and setting up for a final *flare* to land I realized that it was high tide and that particular section of beach did not exist anymore! I landed in 4 feet of water and began a mad panic to unclip my gear before the waves sucked me and my wing back out to sea.
Never have I been so happy to see a middle aged nude guy, as he raced into the surf and held onto my paraglider so I could extricate myself!
**Once while flying over the Torrey Pines Reserve area the wind got too strong and I landed traveling BACKWARDS on the north side of Torrey Pines Rd with my wing draped over a tree. The lifeguards showed up and left when I told them I was uninjured. 15 minutes later I started hearing lots of sirens. They started getting louder and before I knew it there were 4 emergency vehicles there. I told them I was okay so they all left….including a hook and ladder truck that COULD HAVE helped me get my wing out of the tree, but hey…I was alive AND unhurt so no worries here!
** My alternative landing stories also include one where I was trying to fly with the big-boys above Scripps aquarium. In my attempt to make it back to the lift-band along the cliffs I sunk-out and had to land right on La Jolla Shores Dr. Fortunately for me a construction truck not only yielded, but even gave me a ride back to the gliderport!
Luckily I have never hurt myself or anyone else. Torrey Pines is actually a very safe paragliding site……as long as you stay within your comfort zone and fly smart. The more I fly the more conservative I get. My library of noteworthy “stories” has not expanded in the last couple years.
This house sold for $8,500,000 in 2012:
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