Ocean Beach is a community of San Diego, California, Zip Code 92107 (a semi-famous zip code; poems and tee shirts have been done). Where Interstate 8 ends at the Pacific Ocean.
Ocean Beach is place where the new is mixed with the old. New condos and old, small, square, wood frame beach houses. Long boards and Boogie Boards. New antique shops and other stores that have been in business for many decades.
The denizens of OB also run the gamut. They range from the semi-affluent (who seem to have only recently found the place), to the poor (the elderly, new immigrants, the disabled), to the not so invisible homeless. Poets & Artists, craftspeople, surfers, shop owners, bikers, we all share the same small corner of San Diego.
The beach is small, western facing, and beautiful. The dogs even have their own beach! The pier is one of the longest & oldest in the country. There are tidepools and cliffs...
I found it twenty years ago, and fell in love with it.
It has been said that Ocean Beach is more of an attitude than a place.
Ocean Beach is place where the new is mixed with the old. New condos and old, small, square, wood frame beach houses. Long boards and Boogie Boards. New antique shops and other stores that have been in business for many decades.
The denizens of OB also run the gamut. They range from the semi-affluent (who seem to have only recently found the place), to the poor (the elderly, new immigrants, the disabled), to the not so invisible homeless. Poets & Artists, craftspeople, surfers, shop owners, bikers, we all share the same small corner of San Diego.
The beach is small, western facing, and beautiful. The dogs even have their own beach! The pier is one of the longest & oldest in the country. There are tidepools and cliffs...
I found it twenty years ago, and fell in love with it.
It has been said that Ocean Beach is more of an attitude than a place.
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