I was down on Main Street about 4 p.m. today and the “Rock the Blockers” were setting up for tonights event in Half Moon Bay. Meet Theresa, representing the HMB Chamber of Commerce. She works for US Bank in town.
Will Success Spoil the Miramar Beach Bohemians?
You decide….
Click on the photos to see a much bigger picture!
L-R: Nani’s son Ivan, Michael Powers‘ daughter Marika, Michael Powers & his wife Nani!
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A few weeks ago I saw this fancy car in front of the A-frame
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Here’s another video I shot at Michael Power’s Kayak Party a few weeks ago; to view click on the link below
http://vimeo.com/1020650
Meet Michael Powers’ talented daughter, Marika,
Sunset by Lynn K. McCloskey
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Some Questions for a Coastside Artist
Some questions for Coastside artist Linda Montalto Patterson, whose latest work is currently on display at Moon News Bookstore in Half Moon Bay.
Halfmoonbaymemories.com: Does your latest work have a name or theme?
Linda: The new series doesn’t have a formal name. I consider it a garden series. There are 7 paintings in all They are each comprised of two panels that hang next to one another. Three of the paintings are hanging separately but not as a unit due to the space in Moon News.
HMBM: What’s your day like?
Linda: My typical day starts with a look at the ocean, and Of course you can hear the waves pounding. Our house shakes with the waves . I often feel we are living on a boat and the views from the garden reinforce that feeling.
I can be way in the back of the property sitting under the trees, and look out, and there is the ocean, and I feel as though I am on a island of my making floating on the water.
My day continues with a stroll through the garden. This is an important time for me, a time of reflection and appraisal.
How is my garden doing? What changes need I make? What is blooming? What changes have occurred over the night?
I begin my day with either working in the garden or painting, or taking care of a wedding setup or doing a landscape design. I work with local architects and also individual clients and do landscape concepts for them.
HMBM: Do you love living in Miramar?
Linda: I do love living in Miramar . We have lived there since 1984.
HMBM: Miramar is a little known place—Even today the Coastside retains a little bit of its identity as a “remote place.” You got here when the word “secluded” meant something.
Linda: We moved to the Coastside in 78 . We lived in the “Old School House” on 6th and Le Conte in Montara, now known as Montara Gardens. We lived there when the post office was in the small building at the end of 6th street and mail was sent to us marked:
“Linda & Richard
Old School House Montara.”
It was a different world, yet such a short time ago. We lived in the old apartment on the first floor of the School House. We rented it sight unseen. We were recently back from Spain; Richard was working on a Master’s at San Francisco State, and we had a big German Shepherd dog.
We couldn’t find a place in the city that would allow us to rent with a dog. So on a very wet, rainy night we heard about a space at the Montara School House, and Richard got into the phone booth at the peanut & fish bait shop on HWY 92 and called Colleen Fulller . She said she didn’t care if we had a horse as long as we paid the rent. We made an agreement and the next week moved in.
HMBM: Did you have a studio in the School House?
Linda: The School House was enormous. We had the whole first floor at out disposal. i taught art
classes on the stage in the theatre room, and my art studio was what is now the “mirrored room.”
Wild horses from Montana were corralled in the fenced area which is now the garden space around the school house. I’d paint at night and the horses would stare into the lights of my studio with their mournful eyes.
HMBM: Then you moved to Miramar?
Linda: In 84 we moved to Miramar and I loved the change. I used to ride my bike from Montara to HMB everyday to work for the local Ophthalmologist Melto Goumas.
I’d pass through Miramar and delight in the sunshine, and then work my way back into the fog of Montara each night.
Miramar sits in what is considered the sun belt of the coast. I often see the fog bank shrouding Princeton Point to the north and the “Ritz” to the south, while we are in the sun.
I worked for Goumas for 10 years and became an optician, and medical assistant. I enjoyed it. We did minor surgery in office and I loved assisting.
HMBM: What makes you the happiest?
Linda: Probably working in my art studio; the French doors are wide open, and I can take in all of the garden. I can hear the ocean, and the occasional sound of Michael Powers working on one of his stone creations, and I’m in the “creative zone” of the neighborhood and I feel all is well with the world.
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“The Hat”: Photo by Lynn Kalajian McCloskey
About the photo, “The Hat,” Lynn K. McCloskey says: I took the photo April 20th on a hike Larry and I were on at Rush Creek, which is a marshy area in Novato (north east). Larry was taking a photo in a nearby tree and hung his hat on this twig among somewildflowers. I saw the photo op
Email Lynn: [email protected]
The “Scoop” From Deb Wong at Spring Mountain Gallery in HMB
Hi June,
I added what you sent me, but haven’t found much more to add to http://www.ShorelineStation.com, except some photos, and a little extra history. Linda Goetz said that she would get back to me if she remembers anything.
Yes, that is Father Miles Riley*** of the S.F. Archdiocese, now retired, The photo below was taken 2 years ago at a party – he was a very good singer! ”
(Photo: Miles Riley and Deb Wong singing Christmas carols.)
Our friend Bud Andre knew him, when Bud was a practicing priest. I did the website for Bud’s “Sandpiper Ceremonies,” though he is now on hiatus.
Meanwhile, Michael & I are working on a project for Franco, of a 1991 map of “Half Moon Bay Businesses” [created by Arlon Gilliland, owner of the Bird Nest Gallery in Oregon] that is now hanging in Cunhas (you see it by the stairwell). Michael photographed it, and I added a few things to it, including drawings of Franco’s 3 businesses: Riaces, Cunhas Market, and San Benito House.
I also added Spring Mountain Gallery, for good measure.
We are ordering 1,000 to start. It will be “Courtesy of Cunhas, Riace, and San Benito House”, though I believe that Franco wants to sell them, not give them away. I phoned the artist of the map, who now lives in Oregon, and who apparently used to draw those maps regularly for Half Moon Bay, and I got his permission to change/duplicate them. Shoreline Station is in there, with a few of the businesses that paid to be included. Michael joked to Bev Cunha that they were both too cheap to be included back then, and she said: “Yep, you’re right!”
I guess the Shoreline Station site is not that interesting to most….its history isn’t even that old. Many folks STILL complain that they didn’t know where Spring Mountain Gallery was located!
Most of our business is by word of mouth, or repeat customers, which isn’t bad. Our buddy Lionel Emde (of Periwinkle Framing in Pacifica – I did his website, too) says that we should have our customers write good reviews in “City Search”, which has quadrupled his business. But Michael doesn’t feel comfortable asking people to do that. I got one lady to write one, so at least there’s one!
We had felt as though we were in a black hole, or had a cloaking device installed over our building for many years. We were hoping that Franco’s business, Riace, might help bring some in, and it has, to a slight degree. Or that big bear out front. I wanted to put a huge hat on him/her, but it would involve a lot of manuvering,a tall ladder, and the hat would have to be glued on, with the winds we get.
There is even that interactive sculpure (that I have been putting t-shirts on, which say: “Half Moon Bay, CA.” on them). To little avail. Perhaps it’s the economy, which has affected many businesses, local & otherwise. Maybe the poster we are working on might clue some in…or not…oh well.
At least everyone knows where Lemos Farm and Pony Ranch is!!!!
In any event, I hope that you are doing well, and enjoying the warm weather!
Take care,
Deb
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***Miles Riley: When I worked at Time in San Francisco in the early 1980s, I once called Father Riley at the Archidiocese for a comment on a story. I don’t remember the topic but I remember him as a gracious man. Isn’t it funny–these people who come into our lives peripherally, and then, again, years later -or people you didn’t know your friends knew…this is getting too complicated but it makes me believe we are moving around in a smaller space than we think.
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Do you love cats? Click on Deb Wong’s link here
No matter what: You can enjoy the day
Back to the 1950s when “Bud” Hara Bought HMB Auto Parts
From the Half Moon Bay Review
This story is from some time in the 1950s
“Raymond “Bud” Hara, formerly of Redwood City, has purchased the Half Moon Bay Auto Parts, it was announced today.
“Hara is well known on the coastside. He is the uncle of Ray and Pete Villa of Half Moon Bay, the brother of Mrs. Betty Villa of Tunitas canyon district. He has lived all his life in San Mateo County.
“Hara’s uncle, now deceased, was Jack Hara who operated a horse ranch in the Miramar district a number of years ago. Another uncle was Ray “Zip” Hara, former Shell oil truck driver, who covered Half Moon Bay and the backwoods district more than 25 years ago.
“Hara plans to move to Half Moon Bay with his wife and two daughters as soon as his Redwood City home can be sold. He has been in the auto parts business for 17 years.
“Mrs. Nancy Hara, wife of the new owner, will assist her husband in the store.
“The indicated sellers of the store were Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn “Red” Monroe of Pacifica. Monroe said that he planned to open an auto parts store at Pleasant Hill, Calif, with his sons soon.”
The “Talking Cars” in the tv commercials are making me feel guilty
about selling my car. After all, I’ve known the J30 for 15 years; we’re close; she’s like a pet. I’m even concerned about who the next owner will be. I’m worried about it.
Today I drove the J30 to the Park Auto Sales lot in San Bruno
Here’s my pal, the J30–note “the spoiler”
Joel took the car; he also owns racehorses that win
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And, finally, here’s a little video called “Goodbye J30, Goodbye”. To view, click on the link below