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Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 20, 2007		reads	comments
	Junipero Plaza - Junipero Plaza: The WWII picture was of a stone gate that guards the entrance to Junipero Plaza Street. The street is only one block long, and only six houses call it home. There are stone gates at both ends of the street. This picture is of the Laguna Street entrance where the gate has two beautiful arches on either side	2100	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 14, 2007		reads	comments
	Indistinct Thicket - Indistinct Thicket: Ed thought that the wall of shrubbery was so unique that it warranted a Wednesday Where Is It feature. While many of the dedicated staff of edhat.com expressed doubt that identifying such a common sight would be a possible task, and a heck of a self-esteem downer so close to Christmas, Ed was not deterred.	1697	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 06, 2007		reads	comments
	Ceramic Faces - Ceramic Faces: The WWII picture yesterday was of a couple of Marge Dunlap ceramic faces. However, they were not in the fountain being rained on. These faces were on the side of a wall. As it turns out, there are many walls in town decorated with Marge Dunlap faces.	2875	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 29, 2007		reads	comments
	Nice Graffiti - Nice Graffiti: Yesterdays WWII picture was of a smiling face, a smiling face in a medium that may look oddly familiar. Familiar, say, like the art genre that appears on every family refrigerator. You know, like an elementary school art project.	2324	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 15, 2007		reads	comments
	Fess Up - Fess Up: There is no shortage of shortages in Santa Barbara. There is an affordable housing shortage, a shortage of single men, and as we read on the front page of the News Press, a shortage of basil. But, if you pay attention to the market, it is apparent that the tallest shortage in town is the lack of luxury hotel rooms.	2094	5

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 08, 2007		reads	comments
	Sign No Sign - Sign No Sign: In Santa Barbara on Foothill Road just east of San Roque Road, there is a sign that has been seen so many times it has faded into a cryptic message that can only be read by people who knew what it said before. Neil Young said it is better to burn out than to fade away. Well, unfortunately for this sign, its fate was the worser of the two evils.	2304	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 01, 2007		reads	comments
	Golden Arches - Golden Arches: Maybe it was a bit of a stretch to think that subscribers would have an easy time identifying an entry arch into a parking lot. Especially since the arch we chose is in the back part of a parking lot that not a lot of people use.	1962	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 25, 2007		reads	comments
	Rising Place - Rising Place: The picture in the WWII was of a piece of tile, imprinted with strange, mystical words, written in an old scripted font: rattlesnake, heal, human needs, shrine. What on earth could this be?	2768	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 18, 2007		reads	comments
	The Californian - The Californian: Last week subscribers knew where the THE was. This week they did not. And that is despite the fact that this particular THE is at the same location as a previous WWII. It is also the location of one of the most famous historic photographs of Santa Barbara	2237	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 11, 2007		reads	comments
	Victor The Florist - Victor The Florist: Victor Sourmany started selling his flowers as a bucket shop in front of the house at this location. Eventually he rented the house, then he bought it, then he added on that piece in the back, then his children were born there.	2667	4

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 04, 2007		reads	comments
	Cherub Fountain - Cherub Fountain: The fountain shown in yesterdays WWII was uniquely different from the fountains of Edhat Past. Just look at it. Those are cherubs, the little baby angel characters made famous during the Italian Renaissance. Santa Barbara, in case you have not heard, is an early Californian, Spanish Revival kind of town.	3003	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 28, 2007		reads	comments
	Take A Breather - Take A Breather: The vent is a breather for the utility vault underneath the sidewalk there. Apparently there is a very large gas pipe hiding underground, underneath the palm trees, along the waterfront. It is amazing the things that lurk below the surface of our beautiful town.	1879	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 21, 2007		reads	comments
	Ed's A Wall Nut - Ed's A Wall Nut: While the phrase Build back the wall was a recent rallying cry for local citizens displeased with the Santa Barbara News Press, the phrase Tear down this wall was coined back in 1987 by part time Santa Barbara resident Ronald Reagan as he stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.	2601	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 13, 2007		reads	comments
	Tile Totem - Tile Totem: A phoenix is a bird that is reborn from the ashes of its death. Dumbledore had one in his office. It was prominent in the second book of Harry Potter, saving Harrys life after the basilisk put him on deaths doorstep. In Santa Barbara there is a phoenix totem pole on Micheltorena Street just east of Anacapa Street.	5482	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 06, 2007		reads	comments
	Yard Duty - Yard Duty: There was a big orange clue in yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It picture. The picture of the open gate would have been too conefusing if there werent a clue. In fact, we blew up the picture extra big just so the clue would be visible to all dedicated Edhat subscribers even those whose eyesight might be not as 20 20 as it once was.	2994	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 30, 2007		reads	comments
	On The Upside - On The Upside: No, things are not looking up for Santa Barbara. And, people are not either. Yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It picture was taken at one of most common and well trod spots in town.	1944	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 23, 2007		reads	comments
	Golf And Hoff - Golf And Hoff: This weeks Wednesday Where Is It is a picture of a picture of a World War II location. We took our WWII picture at the intersection of McCaw Avenue and Las Positas Road. The WWII picture shown is part of a sign on a chain link fence next to the Municipal Golf Course.	3157	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 16, 2007		reads	comments
	Treat Again - Treat Again: With fire raging on the other side of the mountain, ashes falling on our cars like snow, and a red flag warning issued up and down the coast, what better subject for a Wednesday Where Is It than a picture of a fire hydrant.	3186	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 09, 2007		reads	comments
	Showgrounds Staging - Showgrounds Staging: Why it is there, and how long it is going to stay? We found out that there are 50 engines stationed at the Showgrounds from all over the State, San Diego to Alameda Counties.	2244	5

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 02, 2007		reads	comments
	Viva La Onramp! - Viva La Onramp!: What can we write about an onramp? Well, for one thing, it is a long onramp, probably the longest in town. Tragically, it was near the location where they found the dead body of a homeless woman yesterday. And, symbolically it is also the onramp that many Fiesta fearing locals will use to get out of town this weekend for a little viva la getaway.	2282	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 26, 2007		reads	comments
	Beating A Dead Cart - Beating A Dead Cart: The reason we were at Ralphs yesterday was because it was the scene of the days Wednesday Where Is It picture. The picture we took was from the parking level looking through an opening up to the grocery level.	2054	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 24, 2007		reads	comments
	Windows of Opportunity - Windows of Opportunity: It is not the fact that there are a lot of windows at the Courthouse that inspired Ed to count them. The motivating factor was that they were hard to count. At the Courthouse, the windows are haphazardly located, like cows on a grassy hill.	2280	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 19, 2007		reads	comments
	Green Was My Fountain - Green Was My Fountain: We took a picture of this water for our Wednesday Where Is It. To most of our subscribers, it looked like the water from the fountain across the street at the Mission. But that water is as clear as plastic food wrap compared to the electric Kool Aid that is on tap at the Rose Garden.	2432	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 16, 2007		reads	comments
	Old Is In; Nu Is Out - Old Is In; Nu Is Out: Yeah sure, there are plenty of skylights in town. Many of them are even round. But this skylight is located in a central downtown location. You would think someone would have noticed it.	2115	9

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 28, 2007		reads	comments
	Copper Ed Door - Copper Ed Door: Where in Santa Barbara can you find a cooper rendering of a man climbing a mountain pass? And, at the same place, a copper rendering of Spanish ship entering port? And besides pass and port, it is also the same location where you can get a passport.	2189	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 21, 2007		reads	comments
	Ed Tracks One Down - Ed Tracks One Down: For those of us with a one track mind, where context is the engine and content the passenger, we must tell you that this little building that could is found at the train station on the other side of the tracks from the depot. It is the old signalman building.	2503	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 14, 2007		reads	comments
	What's In A Name? - What's In A Name?: If you look carefully at the SB logo shown in yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It picture, you will see that the oval around the SB couplet has a gap in it at about first base. You see, the oval is not an oval at all. It is a C, the third letter in the alphabet and the first letter in the word Clinic. The C is important because it is a clue to figuring out that the WWII picture is of the old Santa Barbara Clinic Building.	2569	4

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 07, 2007		reads	comments
	Giant Step For Ed - Giant Step For Ed: The steps in yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It contest were at the intersection of Laguna and Figueroa Streets. It is where Laguna Street gets very narrow. It could be an early 20th century version of traffic calming, but more likely a result of the strange topography at this particular location.	2417	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 31, 2007		reads	comments
	D Is For Defensive - D Is For Defensive: Last year, as you were driving on THE 101 North staring to the right, wondering if the color of the Big Yellow House was really yellow, you could not miss the construction going on by the side of the freeway just north of Summerland. Was it freeway widening? Was it a new bike lane? Or, was it two treats in one?	2594	10

Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 24, 2007		reads	comments
	Tale Of One Tower - Tale Of One Tower: This control tower is just off THE 101 at the Fairview exit. It is tucked away behind the southbound onramp, next to Island Seed and Feed and the crane shop that hangs a Christmas tree each year from one of its cranes.	2742	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 17, 2007		reads	comments
	Ed Finds A Dinosaur - Ed Finds A Dinosaur: As you are probably aware, dinosaur sightings are not commonplace around here of late. Reports of them are even less frequent than reports of seeing Oprah. But, even though the fierce predator looks like something out of Jurassic Park, Nursery there is no cause for alarm. This dinosaur is made out of metal - a sure sign that it is not the real thing.	2549	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 10, 2007		reads	comments
	The Jaguar Ed - The Jaguar Ed: These days, cars approaching the intersection in the afternoon pile up on Garden waiting for the light on Gutierrez to change. And when drivers stuck in traffic look to their left, they see a giant wild cat painted on the side of a building in the back of a vacant lot, overgrown with weeds and other dead things. The cat, a bigger than life Jaguar, climbs up of the trunk of a fallen tree, staring with one eye onto the wasteland of stop and go traffic below.	4014	6

Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 08, 2007		reads	comments
	Ed's Secret Spot - Ed's Secret Spot: There is a special place in town that you will not find on any tourist map. When you ask the hotel concierge for a top ten list of things to do while visiting Santa Barbara, it never gets mentioned. Tucked away in a little oasis just below the main thoroughfare, it is a quaint little hideaway visited almost exclusively by locals.	2528	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 03, 2007		reads	comments
	Park Place - Park Place: The family behind Manning Park in Montecito gave the land to the County in 1935. The park, located just South of the corner of San Ysidro Road and East Valley Road, is chopped up into little private sections where people can hide in the shade of an oak tree to have a picnic.	2405	4

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 19, 2007		reads	comments
	Ed Moose - Ed Moose: Yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It picture was of a couple of zeros, or maybe a double O. Few subscribers ventured a guess as to where the letters could have been. The few who tried came up with ShOOz, the zOO, FOOdland, a bOOkstore, and the bottom of the roulette wheel.	2282	4

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 12, 2007		reads	comments
	Wall Mart - Wall Mart: Yesterdays WWII picture was of a wall. Walls are often built to keep foreign invaders out, like Huns, burglars, and editorial departments. But, as history teaches us, physical barriers rarely provide long term protection against established trends. Metaphorically speaking, the WWII wall, which separates Paseo Nuevo from the funky businesses on Ortega Street, was unable to prevent the spread of chainification into Santa Barbara.	2280	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 02, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Is Over! - March Ed-Ness Is Over!: March went in like an Ed and out like a hat. Now after 22 contests, 44 pictures, and 1591 contest entries, it is time to turn out the lights, the EdNess is over.	2696	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 30, 2007		reads	comments
	Rock And A Hard Place - Rock And A Hard Place: Everyone must know the location of one of the mosaic stone rocks in town. There is one by Rocky Nook Park, and there is one by Borders. Also near Rocky Nook park lurks the mosaic-tiled reptiles, Ethel and Harry. But did you know that there is one in IV?	3076	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 29, 2007		reads	comments
	Horse and Cow - Horse and Cow: Between the times when we had our plush corporate offices on De La Vina Street, up until the time when Highlights Salon graciously offered to help, the dedicated staff of edhat.com would personally drop off tshirts to contest winners each Friday.	2171	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 28, 2007		reads	comments
	Million Dollar Address - Million Dollar Address: The grand prize winner of CAF Million Dollar Home Raffle wins a home in Santa Barbara valued at $1,000,000. But, they won't tell you where the home is. We asked the audience and found out.	3171	5

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 27, 2007		reads	comments
	Celebrity Locations - Celebrity Locations: Santa Barbara Mayor, Marty Blum chose the location of the elephant fountain for the first of our two March Ed-Ness pictures yesterday. Salud Carbajal chose the other location, the train at the zoo.	2286	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 26, 2007		reads	comments
	Stair Flight - Stair Flight: If you have been to Hendrys Beach any time in the last year or so, you probably noticed that they have been building some steps up to a lookout on the side of the bluffs. You can see the stairsinprogress next to the showers, behind the Brown Pelican Restaurant.	2200	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 23, 2007		reads	comments
	Free Eddy - Free Eddy: They say that the best things in life are free. In Santa Barbara, the beach is free, the parks are free, walking down State Street is free, public education is free, and, of course, Edhat is free. The picture shown yesterday for March EdNess seemed to say, Santa Barbara Free which is the notsoobvious domain name of the Daily Sound, something else that is free.	2199	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 22, 2007		reads	comments
	Plenty of Fish - Plenty of Fish: We live in an interesting town where there is only one fabric store, but the Community Environmental Council has two locations. So, when our March EdNess Where Is It picture is of a piece of art outside a building that's home to the fabric store and one of the offices of the nonprofit, by the fabric store is a correct answer, while by the CEC is not.	2245	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 21, 2007		reads	comments
	Opportunity Knocks - Opportunity Knocks: The dome shown in yesterdays March EdNess Where Is It is on the Goleta side of the 200 block of West Carrillo. It is by Spudnuts and Carrows, near the dance studio, the liquor store, and Rustys Pizza. The dome is actually on top of the CVS Pharmacy, part of the old Pythian Castle Lodge Hall.	2009	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 20, 2007		reads	comments
	Pool Party - Pool Party: We cant ever remember a time when the dedicated staff of edhat.com went to take a Where Is It picture and found someone else there taking a picture of the very same thing. So on Sunday, when we ducked behind a chain link fence and scaled a small hill just below the first base side of the Dos Pueblos High School baseball field, running into another picture taker was the last thing we expected.	2507	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 19, 2007		reads	comments
	Par Four - Par Four: The Friday March Ed-Ness pictures were of a logo showing children circling the world, and something red lying on a lawn.	2207	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 16, 2007		reads	comments
	Three Little Seahorses - Three Little Seahorses: Once upon a time there were three little pigs. One made his house out of straw. One made his house out of wood. And, one made his house out of brick. It was a brick house. The bricks were stacked, and thats a fact. As you probably have heard, the first two pigs lost their houses in the winter storms of 1995. The third pig was a lawyer	2378	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 15, 2007		reads	comments
	Guard Ed - Guard Ed: Yesterday, the two March EdNess pictures were taken at the same place, Magi, the secluded estate of Ed, founder of edhat.com. The first picture was of the gnarly fence surrounding the 50 acre parcel, tucked in the foothills above Santa Barbara. Even if you managed to climb over the gate with your spleen still intact, you would be no match for the pack of Dobermans.	1985	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 14, 2007		reads	comments
	Old School - Old School: Every time the dedicated staff of edhat.com has driven past the building shown in yesterdays March EdNess picture, weve thought that it would be a wonderful whereisit. The building is old and big, and the architecture is not very typical of Santa Barbara. It reminds us of an old school or a hospital from a black and white movie.	2852	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 13, 2007		reads	comments
	War and Peace - War and Peace: We have reported on Edhat before that Skofield Park is one of the nicest getaways in town. A block away from the Rattlesnake Canyon trailhead, you can find acres of peace and quiet. Near the entrance to the park there is a big green converted barn house where you can find even more peace, it is the word written on its side in big white letters.	2050	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 12, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Day Seven - March Ed-Ness Day Seven: We gave you a whole weekend to mull over the picture of the compass on ground and the odd sculpture attached to the side of a building.	2404	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 09, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Day Six - March Ed-Ness Day Six: DC is where our nations Capital is. It is also the name of a comic book company. From our quick Wikipedia search we found out that there is a DC comic character by the name of Wildcat, which, if you look, has the letters DC in the middle of it. And, if you have been in Santa Barbara for a bit, you probably know that there is a bar, err cocktail lounge, on the side street by Paseo Nuevo with the same name.	2200	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 08, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Day Five - March Ed-Ness Day Five: Last month, one of our subscribers suggested that we take a March EdNess picture of the foam cutout hardware on the walls of OSH. To be honest, neither Ed nor the dedicated staff had any idea what this meant. But, we knew that OSH was in the Fairview Center, so the next time we were there, we checked it out.	2614	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 07, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Day Four - March Ed-Ness Day Four: The first picture March EdNess picture was of a beauty salon turned toy store. The other picture was of an old white apartment complex on Coast Village Drive, with big arches and balconies. It is called Villa Fontana, which means, fountain city in Italian. There is a small two spigot fountain in front of the building, but it is nothing to gush over.	2559	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 06, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Day Three - March Ed-Ness Day Three: One of the March Edness pictures shown yesterday was wheely hard and wheely scary. The other picture was of a bunch of wheels stuck together to form a sphere. The wheely hard and scary picture was of a stonefaced man yelling down at the people below from a turret in a tall tower 95 feet above the ground.	2333	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 05, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness Day Two - March Ed-Ness Day Two: The Friday March EdNess Where Is It pictures were of a wall at the beach and a metal bar in a park. The wall looked like Stonehenge. The bar was almost unnoticeable.	2196	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 02, 2007		reads	comments
	March Ed-Ness! - March Ed-Ness!: Okay so maybe opening day of March Edness 2007 was not as easy as we thought. Yesterday was a tale of two signs. One was shown from the front, the other shown from the back. The one shown from the front warned of great danger, severe tire damage, if the driver backed up. Our I.T. guy is always telling us the opposite, that there will be severe damage if we do not backup.	2260	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 22, 2007		reads	comments
	B of Ed - B of Ed: It is an indisputable statement of fact that the building itself is ugly. It is a solid white cube with no windows except the front doors. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a prison. The only clue that it is not intended for incarceration is the filigreed facade that spreads above the front door like a bad toupee.	2829	1

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 15, 2007		reads	comments
	Out Like A Lyon - Out Like A Lyon: The Lyon Moving Company, who occupied the building for decades, moved themselves out about seven years ago. They are now in Goleta. And, even though the building is branded with the Lyon name, it is, well,... lying. Today, there's some telecommunication equipment in the building, but the biggest tenant, and the user with the lions share of the usable space is the Brooks Institute.	2284	2

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 09, 2007		reads	comments
	Second Time's A Charm - Second Time's A Charm: Petrinis has not been around as long as Joes, but has been at its current location longer, since 1958 as the sign says. According to Joe Bohnett, the current owner, the sign itself was not original, but was placed up there in the late sixties or early seventies.	2597	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 08, 2007		reads	comments
	Cup Of Joe - Cup Of Joe: Yup, you have seen it a million times, but for some reason the neon chef hides from your consciousness like the bell bottom pants you wore in High School. How could you have missed it? The chef is on the Joes sign! You know, Joes, possibly the first place in Santa Barbara that you ever drank.	3160	4

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 25, 2007		reads	comments
	El For Ed - El For Ed: The correct answer was El Prado, as in the El Prado Inn, the motel that is directly across the street from Cantwells Market. You know, the one with the cool old sign. The word Prado is blue, written in Andalucianish font. The word EL is yellow, written in cursive.	4091	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 18, 2007		reads	comments
	Deposit Ed - Deposit Ed: The picture was taken by the East Side Community Center on the corner of Montecito Street and Soledad. The box was put at that location sometime around 1991 as part of the Trash Your Stash campaign initiated by the Santa Barbara Police Department and Officer Gary Gillingham who started a company to market these boxes.	2232	3

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 11, 2007		reads	comments
	Wall Fountain - Wall Fountain: Yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It picture was taken of the front of the building at 1801 State Street. The fountain on the side of the wall was not running on Tuesday when we took the picture. The water in the trough of the fountain was murky. We did not feel compelled in the least to take off our shoes and dangle our digits in the pool. The only things in the water were a few lucky coins.	2398	add

Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 04, 2007		reads	comments
	VIP Funny - VIP Funny: Yesterdays Wednesday Where Is It picture was of the letters VIP. It is possible that these letters are somehow related to the Film Festival. It could also be that our photo only captured some of the letters. Maybe the whole word was VIPER, or some other word containing the letters in our picture.	3096	2
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