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Lawsuits over pickleball courts? Oh yes! 109 Rametto vs Montecito Club. The clubs courts were allegedly built without permits directly disturbing 109 Rametto (just North of the courts). At one point the owner of 109 stated he would not back down until the courts were removed.

When I need something, since live on the Westside, I try San Andres Hardware first (trying to shop local), then head to Home Improvement Center if I can’t find what I need. Having Channel City Lumber close by will be a good thing.

Shirley, you must be joking. . .

Do not use my full name as I have received some threats from challenging Ty Warner on his application to alter the land use restriction on the Coral Casino. He is holding the reopening the Coral Casino, closed for 3 years, hostage to altering the 87+ year private club restriction on Coral property to allow a public restaurant. While some members support his requested change based on some unenforceable promises he has made, there are many members who oppose his application because they find Mr Warner untrustworthy and are afraid to come forward publicly for fear of retribution. The ball is in his court to work out a compromise with members or go forward with the legal process.

Was Weston's Camera Shop long ago.

You got it!

The reason the houses on Sherwood are “newer” is that every house but one was burned down in the Painted Cave Fire on June 27, 1990. We lived in a cottage behind a main house on Sherwood and lost everything but our cats that night. I was only able to save them because a sheriff’s deputy compassionately let me through the blockade at Hi-Time around 5pm. The air was thick with smoke by then, a fire also having started at the dump a short while before the Painted Cave fire roared down the mountain and jumped the 101, and by midnight, almost 500 structures from San Antonio Ranch to Hope Ranch were gone, including most on Sherwood and some on El Sueno. (Also, El Sueno and Calle Real used to be open to through traffic.) As a side note, we lost one of the best restaurants around, The Philadelphia House, on Hollister. Finally, it’s important to remember that this was arson (purposefully started on Painted Cave Road off Hwy 154 on a hot, Santa Ana night) and murder, since a woman was killed in the fire, not to mention the many horses and wildlife in the way of its path that night.

Calling a livestock trough a pool certainly is a new stretch for real estate agents... Then again, they tend to stretch the meaning of almost every word to fit their god-awful narratives.

#1 is the old Crocker Bank building (in the 60's) (then Bank of America/Borders Books/Marshall's)

Nope, never mind, doesn’t work. But #7 looks a little like De La Guerra and State St, where there used to be a Starbucks.

Great news on Channel City Lumber moving into upper state. The area has long been needing a hardware store. The drive out to Goleta or all the way down to Home Improvement added countless hours / days to projects and regular shopping. Great move and a great team. They're super nice and always willing to help.