COMMENT 160486
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2011-04-02 11:24 AM |
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Wow, great memories of growing up on the Westside, I grew up on Coronel St. IIt was a dirtlike alley which opened up to a field back in the 70's. Such an awesome place to play and hangout with the neighborhood kids. Now, not anymore. Makes me sad.
Thank you for sharing your urban hike!
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COMMENT 160537
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2011-04-02 02:54 PM |
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Having not lived here my whole life, this ongoing post is fascinating to me, I love learning all I can about how SB was and now is and all these neighborhoods with their eccentricities as well as interesting little tidbits that make them special.
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AUNTIE S.
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2011-04-02 03:25 PM |
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Again, I *love* these articles. The tile murals are fantastic and I will definitely drive over to see them (can't walk - I live in Noleta). I lived in town for many years and don't find the house numbering system weird at all. State St. is the dividing live. As you go in either direction from State, the even numbered houses are on the right, odd on the left. Makes sense to me and I don't think it has anything to do with turf wars.
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JAZZEE
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2011-04-03 12:21 AM |
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I so enjoy your urban hikes. The real Santa Barbara. And thank you for the maps.
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COMMENT 160614P
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2011-04-03 08:19 AM |
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We have been on Westside since the 70's, also my parents. Why divide at Sola? The division between
Lower Westside and Westside is logically Carrillo! The Upper Westside starts on Mission, the houses are newer and it has a more suburaban feel. The Westside is from the 101 to Mountain Avenue, between Carrillo and Mission. Stuff on the other side
of the 101 is Downtown.
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COMMENT 160639
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2011-04-03 09:55 AM |
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I agree w/614P... the divide is at CARRILLO, not Sola. Totally. But if the Westside is up to Mountain Avenue, does that mean that Clearview and everything above counts as Mesa?
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COMMENT 160641
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2011-04-03 10:02 AM |
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Are you sure those dogs were at Robbins and Gillespie? Those weren't streets on your route.
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TOTCH
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2011-04-03 10:48 AM |
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I attended Wilson school. We watched as Rancheria, became a hiway. Jerry Lowry, recently deceased police chief, was there at the same time. We were enamored
with all the road building equipment.
There were crossing guards to assist us crossing Rancheria. I grew up in the 900 blk. of San Andress, so
walked across Anapamu till moving on to "jr. high".
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COMMENT 160660P
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2011-04-03 11:41 AM |
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Urban Hikers here- Sorry about the incorrect location of the dogs- as pointed out, they aren't on Gillespie. They are actually on Chino between Victoria and Anapamu. Re: the boundary of the Lower Westside, Westside, etc. You are right that Carrillo is the boundary. We agree. We included the map of our hiked streets on the Westside in this post & included the route we took to get over the Anapamu bridge. We wanted to add the cool dogs, even though they and the bridge are not Lower Westside. From the Westside we crossed Carrillo and the rest of the article is about what we saw in the Lower Westside proper. As we've said, both in this article and previously, we're hikers first and formost, amature historians, iconoclastic boundary setters and admirers of our town. Please don't take any of this too seriuosly - it's indended as little more than a cheap thrill and encouragement for you to strike out and become urban hikers yourselves. Happy hiking!
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COMMENT 160740
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2011-04-03 05:57 PM |
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To answer the question of address' it is simply that
State is the dividing line between east and west and the numbers start over from 1 each way. As you travel a street and the addresses are increasing the even numbers always are on the right and the odd are on the left. Therefore as you cross State they swap sides.
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COMMENT 160660P
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2011-04-04 09:44 AM |
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The address thing does seem strange though. Do all streets in all cities do this? For example does Sunset Blvd or Ventura Blvd. or do any of the streets in LA renumber at a demarcation point? Seems to me that they remain consistent. I know that when a long street like Sunset Blvd. begins in a new city, the numbers will often change, but it does seem that within the city limits of a given city, the street numbers either get higher or lower depending on the direction that you are traveling. Why don't street numbers in SB follow this user-friendly pattern...
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COMMENT 383393
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2013-03-10 06:49 PM |
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Have you found out anything more on the artist Jose Roldan? I live in Florida and recently purchased 10 hand painted plates in the same style as the tile you saw. They were also signed by both Jose and Enimia but she signed her last name as Roldan as well. My plates are dated from 2009.
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