After a career in this business, there is a general rule that small airports must keep costs low. That is all they have to offer carriers whose profit on short hops and volume of originating traffic is slim. One gate at LAX or SFO boards more passengers in a day than the entire terminal @ SBA does in a week, or month. An overbuilt terminal increased costs. We may have gone a bit overboard on it. Two stories for a tiny tarmac and small airplanes.
Having been in the airline biz for 35 years you’d be surprised sometimes how routes aren’t extensively researched. Sometimes it’s a reasonableness/dartboard approach. This one was set up to catch European flights both ways from ORD. It always was going to be summertime seasonal. It obviously didn’t meet United’s expectations. It always amazes me which routes stick and which don’t. I had a friend who was an executive at American. He’s since passed away but he always fought for more service here. Surprisingly, the numbers rarely worked out. The cost of the new airport and proximity to LAX didn’t work in our favor.
SOHO House would be rad
What did you expect? It's private property. And why should he care how you refer to it? He's just a working stiff. If you have valid accusations of sexual abuse (and there are certainly many), bring them to those responsible and/or to law enforcement.
Owned by a private, tax exempt foundation controlled by the notoriously private Sperling family - owners of Phoenix University, Apollo Global Management among other clever tax shelters.....
I am so surprised United didn't bring them back. Flight times weren't great but the convenience was awesome. I wonder if it was due to lack of pilots?
united also didn't bring back their direct flights santa barbara to and from chicago...
Prior to recent extreme storms and up to 2020, when I moved into a new home, I owned a condo in the shadow of three of the largest Eucalyptus Trees in town and feared them coming down in storms as well as exploding and setting the neighborhood on fire. YES... they are extremely combustible with a high level of oil in them and the explosions create a much greater span of embers and rapid fire spread. They are a hazard all over town...
The backstory is that the night before the birthday party my friend's husband broke his hip so the party was canceled and the shoe never got its debut! Full circle!
Carp!
I just contacted the "new owners" and they are going to drop it by my house so I can re-paint it and use it (finally) for my friend's 80th! I told him I'll take it back to the field on 101 and it should be good for another 10 years! I'll send you some photos!
Well, here's the story behind the red shoe! 10 years ago August my best friend was celebrating a milestone bday. I had been with her somewhere and we had seen a giant red stiletto shoe. She got such a kick out of it / her husband had one made a surprise for her party. Sadly, he broke his hip the night before its debut so it went into storage and eventually on the street for disposal! I love seeing it every time I drive up or down the highway. Her big big birthday is this August so if you could connect me to its new owner I would love to borrow it/ restore it/ surprise my friend (again!) and then drop it back off on highway 101!
Curious how many guns were turned in? How many had been used in a crime?
Fascinating, Jack. You have wonderful stories about these parts!
My great great grandfather planted many eucalyptus trees on his ranch as wind breaks in the 1860’s. They used to line the old highway ( cut down in the 1950’s when the highway became the freeway) line the railroad tracks ( cut down in the 1970’s to give the new owner’s a better view of the ocean) but still there between the pastures and orchards. The smell was wonderful the debris horrid, a beautiful vision and a terror during wild fires. Great as a windbreak as long as it was too strong.
I drove into the Seminary, curious as I love to photograph SB architecture. Within 2 minutes a man (caretaker?) came out and gruffly told me I had to leave immediately. He should be thankful that I didn't refer to it as what was stuck in my head: "Pedophile Village" ????
[Thank you for celebrating-or holding accountable-our town!]
Gorgeous ocean and city views, awesome modern flow to downstairs and lovely historic details at 519 East Pedregosa - thanks for highlighting
1227 Calle Cerrito Alto for $2.5mil and only 15 pictures?! Give me a break.
On font alone I'm guessing Broad Street Oyster Co
It’s not even the spending on salaries on current employees, it’s the spending on the pensions for people who have only ever sat behind a desk. Save pensions for fire and police. Make desk workers get 401ks like the rest of us.
I am the owner of that property on Park Lane and removed the Eucalyptus trees. While we have lived in the property for over twenty years, in the last few we have lost three of the Euc’s there to rain/wind. During the last large storm one took out an irreplaceable Live Oak, damaged our roof, and home. The Euc’s are beautiful there, unquestionably, but just don’t form a deep enough root system so it’s a problem and further exacerbated by the required asymptomatic trimming for the SCE power lines. If there was a way to protect the native Oaks and the structure, I would have kept them happily. But due to the poor root stability it was not worth the risk to the native Oaks, structure or utility lines. We will plant something native, which won’t compete with the Oaks or cause trimming issues with the utilities lines. It’s obviously controversial but I don’t see the other option of topping them as a better solution.
The airport also has a pin available instead of the big lanyard. It’s about the size of a dime with a sunflower face and a message “I support the sunflower,” which is more discreet. Both are free.
Thank you for writing this very informative piece!
Do you happen to know what’s going on with what looks like an abandoned east half of the Pepper
Tree Inn on upper State St? I see people going into the entrance to the hotel driveway, but the right side looks like they maybe started a Reno, but have since stopped?
Alright let’s all relax. In the town, they could ask $20 hr, and you could still have to circle the block to find parking.
Okay, fair. Thanks for the formulas. Can you plug in the actual numbers for us so we can see? If it’s a big story - which it very well may be - then let’s get the details so we can actually hold someone accountable.
