San Diego, CA—All of San Diego was very excited; today was game day, the day
that the San Diego Chargers would take on the New England Patriots in an
American Football Conference playoff game. We had home field advantage; a better
record; the fans were stoked, the game was sold out, and for a while it looked
like the Chargers would indeed win. But fumbles by the Chargers enabled
the Patriots to capitalize on their mistakes. The Patriots won 24-21 on a
field goal with only a few minutes left in the last quarter. "There
was no joy in Mudville..." On the way to picking up Jerry Schaefer and his dog Bubba on a field trip for
the City of San Diego's Historic Resources Board, on which we both serve, I
passed Qualcomm Stadium and saw evidence of the mounting fan fever as game time
neared. Eventually when I got home, a few hours before game time, I also
saw a string of balloons in Charger colors decorating one of the Mission Gorge
businesses.
Evidence of Charger mania could be seen throughout town today,
with everyone convinced that the San Diego
team would defeat the New England Patriots (notwithstanding all their Super Bowl
exerience). It wasn't to be.
Jerry Schaefer and Bubba, his standard poodle,
accompanied me on a "windshield tour" of homes and buildings
up for historical designation. The building on right is at 1701 National
Avenue in the Barrio Logan Community.
Jerry and I had 26 properties we were required to physically look at in
preparation for the January 25 meeting of the City of San Diego's Historical
Resources Board. Of these 21 were located in an area of town known as
Burlingame, which has a voluntary historical district. Today's houses were
ones that had not been previously volunteered for inclusion in the
district. Before we got to Burlington, however, we drove to the
Barrio Logan property to see a commercial property on National Avenue.
With Jerry navigating, me driving, and Bubba ensconced on a blanket on the back
seat, we next toured the homes of Burlingame that will will come before us.
Some homes of San Diego's Burlingame Neighborhood
3095 Kalmia
Street
2434 Dulzura Street
2455 Dulzura Street
3124 Laurel
Street
3109 Laurel Street (at
Capitan)
2475 Capitan Street
2426 Capitan
Street
2414 San Marcos Avenue
2433 San Marcos
St
2445 San Marcos Avenue
2526 San Marcos Avenue
2531 San Marcos Avenue
2537 San Marcos Avenue (A)
2537 San Marcos Avenue (B)
2538 San Marcos Avenue
2617 San Marcos Avenue
2675 San Marcos Avenue
2675 San Marcos Avenue
3178 Maple
Street
3170 Maple Street
3154 Maple
Street
3145 Maple Street
END BURLINGAME SURVEY
3005 Laurel Street
Our next stops took us to a commercial building on
University Avenue, an apartment building on Sixth Street, a residence on Lark
Street, and another residence on San Fernando Street
801 University Avenue, Uptown
area
3200 Sixth Avenue, Uptown area
4004 Lark Street, Uptown
Community
384 San Fernando Street, Peninsula Community
As Sandi and Shahar had a balloon gig in the evening,
Shor came over for dinner. For a while he raced toy cars with his Grandma
and Grandpa on the kitchen floor. Later, I read him a children's book about the Torah,
his favorite subject at Soille Hebrew Day School.
Racing over the linoleum— Shor's grandparents take a
turn at racing toy cars with him on kitchen floor.
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