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San Diego Community Newspaper Group
Thursday, July 9, 2015
www.SDNEWS.com Volume 27, Number 13
OB seagull logo sold to local businessman BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON The iconic Ocean Beach seagull logo has been sold. What that means remains to be seen, but new logo “steward” John McCoy, owner of Ocean Gifts & Shells at 4934 Newport Ave., is open for suggestions. “I purchased the handdrawn logo created back in the '60s by Bob Sorben about three months ago,” said McCoy. “I carried it (seagull logo) in my store for 21 years.” McCoy, who sells T-shirts as well as seashells and other ocean-oriented merchandise, said he’s “talked to people about carrying products (with the logo),” which he produces in quantity, since he purchased it.
The tribute band Kissed Alive played and interacted with fairgoers at the Rock and Roll San Diego booth all day during the OB Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off KISS PHOTO BY MIKE McCARTHY; CHILI PHOTO BY JIM GRANT on Saturday, June 27. (Below) The OB Noodle House crew had a unique way to serve their chili.
Kiss in the rain leads to a gain for OB Street Fair BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON The 36th annual OB Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off on June 27 was a huge success despite some unexpected rain drops that failed to INSIDE dampen festiviThe Beacon ties. photo conIn fact, brief test winners rainfall may are on actually have page 14. added to the experience, said Denny Knox, executive director of the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association (OBMA), the community’s business improvement district (BID). “It was just cooler out — not cold — and I think people stayed longer,” said Knox, adding rain
‘We’ve had an earthquake before — but never rain.’ DENNY KNOX EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OCEAN BEACH MAINSTREET ASSOCIATION
short-lived while adding, “Nobody panicked. It was just kind of fun. We’ve never had weather like that. We’ve had an earthquake before — but never rain.” There was also another meteomay actually have brought more It was the first time in the rological “first” at the street fair. people out. fundraising event’s 36-year histo“We had a windy moment, a “The crowd was constant all ry that it had ever rained. dustup, that came through the day and there were no significant “And it did it twice,” noted SEE FAIR, Page 8 issues,” added Knox. Knox, pointing out the rain was
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“I’m willing to talk to people about licensing it (logo),” McCoy said, noting, “I paid a lot of money to get a copyright for it.” The story of the OB seagull logo is interesting. Its originator, Bob Sorben, still owns and runs Peninsula Graphics in Point Loma. According to a recently released history of the OB seagull logo, Sorben, who was born and raised in OB/Point SEE LOGO, Page 5
The day of the Dolphin, the billboard and the PLA BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON Years ago, the Village of Point Loma was blighted by a dozen or more billboards, the removal of which became a priority for the nonprofit Point Loma Association (PLA). Only two of those billboards remain. But eliminating them, particularly the one left at Garrison and Rosecrans streets, is proving elusive. A controversy has emerged between father-son Holly and Alan Murdock, owners of the Dolphin Motel at 2912 Garrison St., and the PLA over an existing billboard acquired by Dolphin on an adjacent parcel, named the Small Hotel at 1410 Rosecrans St., a fourroom motel that Dolphin intends to expand its operations into.
PLA is an organization of residents and businesses created in 1961. It is committed to improving the quality of life of Point Loma through beautification, education, charitable activities and civic collaboration. Robert Tripp Jackson, PLA president, said the group was approached by the Murdocks in February 2013. At that time, Jackson said the Murdocks, in a letter, offered the “permanent removal of the billboard” on their property at 1453-55 Rosecrans in exchange for the PLA’s support of their application for a parking variation with the city on their property. Excerpts from the Murdocks’ 2013 letter: SEE DOLPHIN, Page 16