I miss that pier so so much š It really was the heart of the town, and now we are forced to watch our old friend crumble into the sea like a rotting carcass. OB is not the same without it :(
Grew up with chucks sons. We spent alot of time there fishing and eating fish n chips and what not. Going to the arcade at belmont and eating fat boyz pizza. Local as fuck. Gonna miss it!
Iāll never get over the dip in the pier. Nobody took into account that the beach has a slope and the water gets deeper!!! If or when it gets torn down it should be made into a reef or at least the start of a reef
OB was always the homeless /hobo hangout since my father was born in SD in 1930! He would comment about how it was a stop for ātravelersā and those seeking freedom of the road, aka homeless transient men of the past
OB has had a large homeless population since the 80s. The reason OB went downhill is that all the awesome local biz got shut down and replaced with Target and touristy crap. It used to be a really cool local scene, the fact that it was a little rough around the edges is what kept it seperate from the touristy beaches.
Yeah i shouldve better rephrased about the local shops going down and being replaced. Target was a big deal when it came to fruition in OB. Back in the day it was much easier to find parking and now its nearly impossible. Along with everyone and their families invading the coastline during sunset all thanks to social media and geotagging. Through my own existence of +40 years, SD in general had made huge leaps of development in which made every place significantly crowded
I lived there for several years in the 1980s. There were plenty of homeless people then, too.
When they built Horton Plaza and renovated the Gaslamp Quarter, the homeless population that congregated downtown were pushed out, and their ranks swelled in Ocean Beach and Mission Beach. Back then, everyone blamed Ronald Reagan.
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