MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 224
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Bayside looks to boost its budget
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
DOWNTOWN — Despite financial constraints, officials in the Bayside District have high hopes of making big changes in the coming years to attract more tourists to the area. Board members of the Bayside District Corp., which manages a 30-block area downtown in con-
junction with City Hall, recently approved next year’s proposed $961,900 budget, along with its operations and marketing plan. It includes new parking and movie theaters, as well as programs that will bring more services to visitors and capital improvement projects that will clean up the area. Many of the ideas have been batted around for years with no
tangible results. However, it does appear that change will be inevitable once plans to redevelop the faltering Santa Monica Place Mall become a reality. After three years of no increase, City Hall will give Bayside 2 percent more in its subsidy this year, or $620,900. Last year, Bayside received $610,418 from City Hall. See BAYSIDE, page 5
Giddyup!
According to an Associated Press report, Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick told a middle-school class he was visiting in April that the U.S. Congress is different from the Texas legislature, in that in Washington there are “454” members on the House side and “60” in the Senate. (The real numbers are 435 and 100.) And The Kansas City Star, reporting in May on a Missouri legislative debate on the Confederate flag, quoted Rep. Jim Avery as stating that the 1803 Louisiana Purchase involved a fight with France over the territory: “Well, we fought over it. We fought over it, right? You don’t think there were any lives lost in that? It was a friendly thing?” (It appears well-settled in history that the Louisiana Purchase was just a land deal.)
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 213th day of 2005. There are 152 days left in the year.. On Aug. 1, 1790, the first United States census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people. In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it.”
- KENNETH BANCROFT CLARK
AMERICAN EDUCATOR AND PSYCHOLOGIST
INDEX Horoscopes Home base tonight, Aries
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Surf Report Water temperature: 64°
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Opinion Commissioners don’t listen
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State Beyond Pluto
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Comics Yuks redux
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
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Legal Notices DBAs
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Will Rogers State Historic Park, once the working ranch of the late humorist, held its Western Ranch Jubilee on Saturday. The jubilee featured family activities including trick roping, horse and wagon rides, pony rides for children, live music and demonstrations of cowboys working cattle.
Promenade might give alley cats new home BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
THIRD STREET PROMENADE — Business leaders are hoping a new venture on the Promenade will lead to a few good strikes. Members of the Bayside Business District Corp. — a nonprofit organization that regulates downtown businesses with City Hall — supported plans on Thursday for a second-floor property on the Promenade to be converted into an “upscale” bowling alley. The 14,000-square-foot facility, located above the Armani Exchange clothing store at 1322 Third Street Promenade, is in the process of becoming a 12-lane bowling alley, complete with bar and lounge. It was previously office space and once a Woolworth’s. The property’s investors are said to have been looking at ways to make an exciting and active use of the empty space, said David Hibbert, a local architect working on the project. Hibbert said the new bowling alley is still in the conceptual stage. It will require a conditional use permit approved by City Hall before going online. He said the bowling alley, if See BOWLING ALLEY, page 5
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Ysidro Reyes: A reflection of SM’s past BY WINTER JOHNSON Special to the Daily Press
Ysidro Reyes IV is a child of Santa Monica, and not only because he was born here. Born in 1911 on 11th Street and Wilshire Boulevard when “there were only three houses on the block,” 93-year-old Reyes is a direct descendant of Spanish soldier Ysidro Reyes, one of Santa Monica’s original Spanish landgrant owners.
The Reyes family made an architectural mark on early Los Angeles, with his great-greatgrandfather building the first home in Encino in 1796, called the “Reyes Adobe.” His great-grandfather built the first house in the Pacific Palisades in 1838. The Reyes Adobe still stands today, labeled as a landmark. The family later sold its land to Colonel Robert S. Baker, one of two men credited with the founding of Santa Monica.
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The Santa Monica that Reyes describes differs from the current and growing population of more than 84,000. According to Reyes, the land of his childhood was full of haystacks and sycamore trees, scattered homes and the lowing of cattle. Contrary to today’s fashions, men in those days had such large mustaches that their teacups had small porcelain barriers to prevent See PROFILES, page 6
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