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La Jolla
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La Jolla is a hilly seaside community within the city of San Diego, California, United States occupying 7 miles of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean within the northern city limits. The population reported in the 2010 Census was 46,781, Local Native Americans, the Kumeyaay, called this location mat kulaaxuuy, lit. land of holes. The topographic feature that gave rise to the holes is uncertain, it probably refers to sea-level caves located on the north-facing bluffs. It is suggested that the Kumeyaay name for the area was transcribed by the Spanish settlers as La Jolla, an alternative, pseudo-etymological suggestion for the origin of the name is that it is an alternate spelling of the Spanish word la joya, which means the jewel. Despite being disputed by scholars, this derivation of the name has been cited in popular culture. That supposed origin gave rise to the nickname Jewel City, during the Mexican period of San Diegos history, La Jolla was mapped as pueblo land and contained about 60 lots. When California became a state in 1850, the La Jolla area was incorporated as part of the chartered City of San Diego, in 1870 Charles Dean acquired several of the pueblo lots and subdivided them into an area that became known as La Jolla Park. Dean was unable to develop the land and left San Diego in 1881, a real estate boom in the 1880s led speculators Frank T. Botsford and George W. Heald to further develop the sparsely settled area. In the 1890s the San Diego, Pacific Beach, and La Jolla Railway was built, La Jolla became known as a resort area. To attract visitors to the beach, the railway built facilities such as a bath house, visitors were housed in small cottages and bungalows above La Jolla Cove, as well as a temporary tent city, erected every summer. The La Jolla Park Hotel opened in 1893, the Hotel Cabrillo was built in 1908 by Squire James A. Wilson and was later incorporated into the La Valencia Hotel. By 1900, La Jolla comprised 100 buildings and 350 residents, the first reading room was built in 1898. A volunteer fire brigade was organized in 1907, the city of San Diego established a fire house in 1914. Livery stable owner Nathan Rannells served successively as La Jollas volunteer fire captain, first police officer, the Bishops School opened in 1909. La Jolla High School was established in 1922, the La Jolla Beach and Yacht Club was built in 1927. In 1896 journalist and publisher Ellen Browning Scripps settled in La Jolla and she was wealthy in her own right from her investments and writing, and she inherited a large sum from her brother George H. Scripps in 1900. Unmarried and childless, she devoted herself to philanthropic endeavors, particularly those benefiting her adopted home of La Jolla and she commissioned many of La Jollas most notable buildings, usually designed by Irving Gill or his nephew and partner Louis John Gill. Her donations also launched the Scripps Memorial Hospital in 1924, the Scripps Metabolic Clinic, Ellen Browning Scripps also founded Scripps College, a womens college, in 1926
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La Jolla Shores
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La Jolla Shores is a beach and popular vacation/residential community of the same name in La Jolla, San Diego, California. The quaint La Jolla Shores business district is a relaxed, mixed-use village encircling Laureate Park, the beach is approximately one mile long and stretches from the sea cliffs just north of La Jolla Cove to Blacks Beach south of Torrey Pines State Park. Shores meets the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus and Kellogg Park, encompasses the Scripps Pier, the beach is a popular launch point for kayakers as it is the only beach boat launch in the San Diego city limits. The beach is popular among stand up paddlers, swimmers and snorkelers. During certain times of year you can see sharks, stingrays. Described by the Orange County Register as the best beach in the area, La Jolla Shores regularly features in the TruTV show, Beach Patrol, San Diego and Lifeguard on The Weather Channel
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Black's Beach
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Blacks Beach is a secluded section of beach beneath the bluffs of Torrey Pines on the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States. It is officially part of Torrey Pines State Beach and this distinction is important as Black’s Beach is most known as a nude beach, a practice that is no longer permitted in the southern portion managed by the city of San Diego. Blacks Beach was named for the Black family who had a farm overlooking the beach. They sold the land, and then it was subdivided into La Jolla Farms lots, the Farms residents retained the Black family’s private road to the beach. Many mansions can be seen in the portion of the beach. There is a funicular that goes all the way down from a mansion on the cliff to the beach into a known by locals as the mushroom house. A submarine canyon funnels swells into Blacks Beach, making it appealing to surfers, usually, lifeguards are at the beach until 6,00 p. m. year round. Due to budget cuts, lifeguard patrols were limited but have increased because of funding by UCSD, stingrays can be found along the coastline when the water gets above 50 degrees. Blacks Beach is about three miles north of the popular La Jolla Shores beach in La Jolla, San Diego, California, below the bluffs of Torrey Pines, which extend up to 300 feet above the sandy beach. On the bluffs above Black’s Beach are the Torrey Pines Gliderport, Torrey Pines Municipal Golf Course, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, to the north of Black’s Beach lies the rest of Torrey Pines State Beach, which altogether stretches 4. Originally including the current Torrey Pines State Beach, Blacks Beach was the first, because Blacks Beach was traditionally recognized as a clothing optional beach, nudity is tolerated for the portion of the beach that is managed by the state park. Until 1977, the city portion of Blacks Beach was posted as swimsuit optional, in that year, the southern portion of Blacks Beach is known to surfers as one of the most powerful surf breaks in Southern California. The waves gain their power due to the effects of Scripps Canyon. Because of the large surf, fast breaking waves, and aggressive crowds, Blacks is a dangerous surfing location. Black’s Beach can be difficult to due to its location beneath the Torrey Pines bluffs. Landslides can occur, with tragic results, beachgoers are warned to avoid setting up beach sites too close to the cliffs. There are four routes to Black’s Beach. Visitors are advised to stay on the trails since many people have gotten stuck or even fallen to their deaths on the cliffs
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Windansea Beach
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Windansea Beach is a stretch of coastline located in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. The neighborhood adjacent to the beach is named Windansea after the beach and it is named after the 1909 oceanfront Strand Hotel that was renamed Windansea Hotel in 1919 after the owner Arthur Snell ran a naming contest. The Windansea Hotel which was located on Neptune Avenue between Playa del Sur and Playa del Norte burned down in 1943, geographically, it is defined by the beachfront extending north of Palomar Avenue and south of Westbourne Street. The main peak at Windansea is a reef break, during the winter months, Windansea can have six-to-eight foot surf. Other breaks in the vicinity of Windansea include Middles, Turtles, Simmons, the distinguishing landmark at Windansea is a palm-covered shack that was originally constructed in 1946 by Woody Ekstrom, Fred Kenyon and Don Okey. The Surf Shack at Windansea Beach was designated as a landmark by the San Diego Historical Resources Board on May 27,1998. The shack was struck down by waves during a high tide on December 24,2015. The Windansea parking lot is located along Neptune Place, between Nautilus and Bonair Streets, although recently upgraded by the City of San Diego, it offers a limited number of parking spaces. Street parking is typically widely available, there are no drinking fountains, showers or public restrooms available. Steve Pezman, former publisher of Surfer magazine and current publisher of The Surfers Journal, the Windansea Surf Club featured was founded by Chuck Hasley in 1962, and included members such as The Endless Summer star and first Vice President Mike Hynson and Skip Frye. In 1963, Michael Dormer and Lee Teacher built a six foot,400 pound version of their Hot Curl cartoon character out of cement, iron, a mop, a bulb. The statue appeared on the rocks over Windansea beach in La Jolla, in 1964 Hot Curl was the inspiration for a string of Beach Party movies, including Muscle Beach Party starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Buddy Hackett, and Don Rickles. The title article in Tom Wolfes book of essays, The Pump House Gang, is about a group of surfers from Windansea Beach who attended the Watts riots as if it were the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena. Beaches in San Diego, California Bill Andrews High Resolution Aerial Panorama of Windansea
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Surfer (magazine)
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Surfer is a USA monthly surfing culture magazine. The magazine was founded by John Severson in 1959 as a program to accompany his yearly surf films, since 1959, Surfer has used its publication as a means of bringing readers a slice of the entire surfing world. Its editor-in-chief is Todd Prodanovich, the editor is Grant Ellis. The magazine was started as quarterly and then, became bi-monthly, Severson sold Surfer to Better Living Inc. in 2000. Official website The Enthusiast Network, parent company Subscribe to Surfer
