The peace-and-quiet contingent seems to have won the great Balboa battle over bands, booze and bacchanalia. But it wasn’t always so, oh no! By Jim Washburn | Newport Beach | OCinsite.com Part One of this article was published on October 26th–you can read it here: When Newport was Fun; Part Two can be read here: …
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The peace-and-quiet contingent seems to have won the great Balboa battle over bands, booze and bacchanalia. But it wasn’t always so, oh no! By Jim Washburn | Newport Beach | OCinsite.com Part One of this article was published on October 26th–you can read it here: When Newport was Fun. …It’s [The Pavilion's] success was overshadowed …
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The peace-and-quiet contingent seems to have won the great Balboa battle over bands, booze and bacchanalia. But it wasn’t always so, oh no! By Jim Washburn | Newport Beach | OCinsite.com It may finally have been the end of an era this past May when the Newport Beach City Council passed a “Loud and Unruly …
In 1923, a syndicate of Pasadena men purchased all of the land on the easterly extreme of the peninsula from Edna Ferguson, the widow of Joe Ferguson. The property was then subdivided, a map filed in May 1923, and public improvements installed during the winter of 1923-1924, after which an intense selling campaign began. These …