COMMENT 290714
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2012-06-23 10:18 AM |
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Very cool urban hike! Thank you for sharing your adventure and the history behind what you see. The hobo house is awesome. It gets my vote for photo of the day.
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COMMENT 290726
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2012-06-23 10:56 AM |
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cute, you would pop coins on the tracks to get a souvenir....we used to pop coins on the tracks because we were certain it would derail the trains...different upbringings I guess ; )
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COMMENT 290728
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2012-06-23 10:57 AM |
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Thanks again UH. Can you tell me where the name Nun's comes from? I have heard different stories as to why. I've been told the sleuces were for dead cattle and pigs from the trains. They would slide off the ones that could not be sold and that would attract the sharks and that's how it became know as sharks cove. Bobby Korner aka the carpet market kid is a cito classic. Got to surf with him and here all his stories growing up.
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-06-23 02:50 PM |
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I want to live in that campsite..Nice story pictures guys.
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COMMENT 290775
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2012-06-23 04:03 PM |
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Thanks so much. My ancestors settled in the neighborhood circa 1900 and I am blessed to be here. The house on Miramar Avenue and the garage were part of the Sykes property. Few people realize that those exquisite, historic places are not protected.
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COMMENT 290779
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2012-06-23 04:10 PM |
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Is it legal to hike the tracks like that?
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AUNTIE S.
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2012-06-23 08:29 PM |
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Another great story and fantastic pi ctures. %yank you for the nostalgia.
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COMMENT 290826P
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2012-06-23 10:04 PM |
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775, good point. And as more and more Los Angelenos and others move into Montecito more and more of what it made it special is destroyed, leveled and rebuilt into mansions, notable only for how much they cost. Those of us who knew it back when are saddened.
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COMMENT 290835
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2012-06-24 06:36 AM |
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@728 The Nun's beach area is named after a group of nuns who used to live there. Their house was destroyed in the "flood of '69". The lot sat empty for years till Kenny Loggins built the house presently there (he sold it long ago). It's the fourth house east of the Miramar.
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COMMENT 290878P
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2012-06-24 08:40 AM |
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Really fun read - would love to join UH, can you send link to that? Thank you for sharing!
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FLICKA
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2012-06-24 09:47 AM |
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If the water well is at the end of Humphrey Rd, it belonged, orginally, to the Sykes, providing water to the Montecito neighborhood. There was a water tower but the owners took it down not too many years ago as kids liked to climb it. I believe the well still provides water to the Miramar Beach cottages. The Sykes garage went with their big house, the 1st on Miramar Ave on the right. When my mom was little (b. 1912) they would go to the Miramar train stop for a ride to town, a bucket on a post held a flag to wave the engineer down. The big white house on Posilipo was moved there in the 50s during a highway widening, it had been on Miramar Ave, north side of highway. The house was cut into 3 pieces to move. The Nuns were the Imaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) order (Casa de Maria). Mrs. Bishop (Bishop Ranch in Goleta) willed 2 cottages, 1 on each side of creek, to the nuns. They didn't live there but used them for beach days. Sharks cove is named because during the drought of 1860s about 100,000 head of cattle were slaughtered in the area, The Matanza, and hides and tallow collected, bodies thrown in ocean; hence, Sharks Cove.
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COMMENT 290775
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2012-06-25 08:29 AM |
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It has been at least five years since Miramar Beach has used water from the Sykes well on Humphrey Road. Property owners use what others use in Montecito.
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COMMENT 291125P
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2012-06-25 08:56 AM |
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I walk the beach from Miramar Beach to Summerland quite a bit and it really is so sad what has happened to the hotel. I don't understand why they don't just level it and turn it into a meadow like Hammonds. At least then it wouldn't be such an eyesore. Every year it looks worse and worse. What a waste!!
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COMMENT 291565
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2012-06-26 01:27 PM |
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I hope we hear the history of Santa Claus lane soon!
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STACE
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2012-07-02 05:22 PM |
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@ 775, 728 and FLICKA - Thank you all so much for your added historical facts and anecdotes. We love hearing what people personally recall and what lore they pass on from friends and family.@878 - We are flattered that you'd like to join a UH, but in truth we are just a couple of slow-poke walkers who strike out with no a camera and a whole lot of curiosity. It's pretty nerdy, but we enjoy it...BUT - like last year we will have our "UH Invitational" on December 31st, at high noon, starting place and guest commentator(s) to be determined. And yes, 565, there will be a Santa Claus...as we make our way southward. Maybe we'll save that story for the holiday season.
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