Girlfriends

My high school girlfriends get together — in the pre-dot. com boom years. Of course, I’m the one wearing black–but I like the overall composition of color, the pale blues and whites, the smiles. L-R (last row) Candy Aggeler, Helen Fouser, Lynn Miller, Jan Gunther, Sue Sperry, Barbara Sawyer, Me, Janice Beckley L-R (kneeling) Lynn …

Dear El Granada

Dear El Granada, I live in El Granada on a block that is almost like an island–an island because I don’t feel any connection to any of the other blocks to the east, to the north or even to the south. To the big wide open west I see the pulsing Pacific. Sometimes the sea …

Meet G & G

Meet identical Coastside twins, Greg and Guy Giedzinksi. Guy is “retired” but brother Greg works for himself at his business called San Gregorio Design– building all kinds of neat stuff. For awhile Greg and Guy were separated twins–Greg was skiing and working in Colorado and Guy lived in Montara and worked in South San Francisco. …

A Little Romance

In an earlier post, I told you that the circa 1970s Half Moon Bay developers Deane and Deane (along with big corporaton partner Westinghouse) sought to personalize the Coastside, you know, give it a personality, stamp it with an identity. So they started the popular highway-clogging Pumpkin Festival–in its own way similar to the Ocean …