COMMENT 145260
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2011-02-12 10:26 AM |
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Lots of really cool homes on the upper westside. Also one of the best microclimates of SB. Not foggy and not hot like San Roque.
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COMMENT 145279P
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2011-02-12 11:21 AM |
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I enjoy your walks. Thank you for sharing.
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HATTIE
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2011-02-12 12:07 PM |
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loved this & all your previous ones. thanks so much for sharing your hikes in such an enjoyable way. i've always wanted to know the story behind that marvelous place at the corner of mission & modoc. i remember when they were renovating it, must have been almost 10 years ago. can anyone shed some light on its history?
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COMMENT 145311
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2011-02-12 02:14 PM |
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I really like the look of the brick and stone work at Angel's place, very nice.
Good job Angel and thanks for the article and pics.
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PATRICK
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2011-02-12 02:49 PM |
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Thanks for sharing your stroll through our Bestside 'hood!
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COMMENT 145326
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2011-02-12 04:13 PM |
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This is a remarkable neighborhood of individual homes that has a very cozy and increasingly cared for feeling as more and more renovations take place. These people have the best of all worlds: close to downtown, close to the freeway and quiet and relatively isolated from busy thoroughfares. They are a little pocket unto themselves and must feel good about having chosen this unique part of town to live in.
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EL BARBARENO
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2011-02-12 05:16 PM |
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Love your columns. Thank you!
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COMMENT 145343
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2011-02-12 05:35 PM |
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While not my taste, I respect the sentiment behind Angel's recreation of his childhood home. It is certainly no less out of character for the neighborhood than the "modern" addition vetoed just a few blocks away by our busybody planners.
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COMMENT 145379
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2011-02-13 04:26 AM |
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This neighborhood is simply called "Westside" or, more specifically, Middle Westside, to distinguish from the true Upper Westside (above Mission Street) and Lower Westside (below Carrillo Street). Westside, of course, if different from West Downtown or Lower West Downtown, which newbies from KEYT simply lump all together as "Lower Westside". Sometimes also peeps west of Harding School, up Valerio Canyon, call themselves "Upper Westside" as more of an elevational distinction rather than a latitudinal monikor (as skewed as our street latitudes are anyway). Anyway, as the are featured this time is all within my usual dogwalking trails in the Middle Westside, indeed the 1920s-era sidewalk concrete contractor names and stamps are a quirky historic artifact, along with a few concrete obelisk pillars still remaining here and there as the street name posts.
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COMMENT 145386
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2011-02-13 07:02 AM |
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The wooden "birdhouse" looks like a Thai Spirit House. The Thai provide housing for the ancestral spirits. They give them their own wooden home outside of the regular house. They are traditionally given offering of food, flowers and incense to keep the spirits happy and occupied outside of the main house.
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COMMENT 145412
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2011-02-13 10:21 AM |
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Hattie, you asked for history of house at Mission and Modoc. My aunt lived half a block away around 60 years ago, I was a little girl. Grandma told me an old couple lived there; their son was in a mental institution and was going to be let out. The mother begged that he be kept because they were afraid of him. Well, he got out, came and stabbed his father to death (in that house). I don't know if that was while my aunt lived nearby or before. I remember that the house could hardly be seen from the street due to trees and other vegetation. I love that there is a horse now, like driving by. In the 50's there were lots of "backyard" horses on Modoc, and a stable of Arabian horses belonging to the Eblens.
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SBALAX
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2011-02-13 05:02 PM |
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I really enjoy your walks and your reports back to us from the field. One of our first houses was a little bungalow on San Pasqual, another street that has many spellings. Angel's house looks great and it's clear that it represents a lot of pride and labor. I sure, though, he meant his home state of Jalisco. Guadalajara is its capital.
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COMMENT 146571
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2011-02-18 06:53 AM |
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Love the Mexican Marvelous house.....
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COMMENT 250835
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2012-01-22 04:36 PM |
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I've done this! But I was on the other side of town on State Street and the streets surrounding it. I had a great time seeing how the other half lives! Such beautiful houses and neighborhoods. Jealous of all the beautiful landscaping, it was hard going home and adjusting to my normalness. I always enjoy visiting friends who remained in Santa Barbara after graduation. I always stay at the Sandman Inn. In a great neighborhood worth exploring and super cheap!
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