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The Urban Hike: Lower Eastside

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COMMENT 138933	2011-01-22 11:53 AM
Urban hikes, what a great idea to get to know the town. When I was a girl, 60 yrs ago, there were still some horse corrals in the neirghborhood (with horses in them!) that could be seen from the highway when we drove into SB.
COMMENT 139015P	2011-01-22 08:49 PM
I agree about the community sense of the neighborhood, although living here, I can't really say that I have found it friendly on my strolls around. The older people, yes; the younger ones, not. Interesting about the brick house; I've wondered about it. As for the underpass, I am looking forward to it, although I fear it being a hangout. I hope it will be VERY well-lighted. I am looking forward to it because I hate walking or biking the narrowed Milpas crossing underpass and around the round-about, which is fine for cars, but feels frightening on a bike -- and disagreeable to walk. Thanks for your ambles. Interesting about the creek maybe having trout. It does dry up in the summers, so how would trout survive?
COMMENT 139023	2011-01-23 06:02 AM
We live in the 'hood and every time we drive past that brick house on the corner of Carpinteria Street & ? we admire the orange tree at the brick house you pictured. It almost seems fake it is so well groomed and always seems to have the same oranges!
COMMENT 139015P	2011-01-23 07:20 AM
One of the things that the absence of adequate homeless facilities has done is make many who live in the 'hood use cars to get the mile or less to the beach for a walk! Walking under the underpass and down the next blocks, past the sleeping bags, being asked for money along the way, being saddened at the condition of so many of our fellow citizens is not something to brighten the heart and mind. The centering of facilities in one area, already densely residential, is really outrageous.
COMMENT 139036	2011-01-23 08:05 AM
Pity that the powers that be did not consider the level of pedestrian traffic on Milpas before choosing a roundabout to solve the traffic problems. In countries where they are common, every dork knows that they are not appropriate for areas with pedestrian traffic outside of very narrow limits. The one at the bottom of Sycamore Cyn falls within those limits because the radius of the circle is so tight that most traffic slows to a craw to get through it. The one at the UCSB entrance falls into another set of those limits because there are only three roads in/out of the circular flow and pedestrians are shunted away from the whirlpool. Milpas on the other hand . . . Oh well, live and learn (I hope).
COMMENT 139037	2011-01-23 08:13 AM
The yellow brick house was built by the Bortolazzo family and later traded for a Mom and Pop house in the back type market across the street from the market a block down on Cacique which at that time was Toscans, a local bar with bocce ball courts in back and a grove of bananas. This whole neighborhood at that time was little Italy.
COMMENT 139038P	2011-01-23 08:24 AM
@933 so it was a...neigh-borhood?
SEEDLADY	2011-01-23 08:25 AM
I really like this photo and walk tour! Fantastic--thanks.
INQUIRING MIND	2011-01-23 10:36 AM
139036 should know that some of us have been to other countries as well, and have actually seen roundabouts there where pedestrians are prevalent and accomodated. This could be done at Milpas as well, with the installation of traffic signals regulating the inlets. I see the Milpas roundabout as virtually the only solution to organized flow of traffic, and while I don't have to walk through it, it certainly solves the vehicular aspect of the problem. I have lived and learned
COMMENT 139136P	2011-01-23 01:53 PM
I know this is extra work, but it would be great to see a Google map of your walks.

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