80s History

5/28/1980	Congressman Bob Wilson speaks at Annual Dinner. $11/person; membership is at 700.
10/1980	Sewage treatment issue arises. PLVB supports the City’s application to continue only primary treatment of sewage, provided that the City acquires or sets aside an adequate site for a future secondary treatment and water reclamation plant.
5/22/1981	Memberships exceed 900; Chief of Police William Kolender speaks at Annual Dinner. $12/person.
10/13/1981	SDG&E begins work on undergrounding on Talbot.
5/1981	From King Boyd’s timeline for the 25-year celebration: “The Local Coastal Program reared its ugly head and the Association immediately marshaled its forces to get changes made. Kirk Butler particularly objected to the suggestion that Rosecrans be widened to four lanes as one would go through her living room.”
2/1982	PLVB steps into debate on allowing fishing on Kellogg Beach; lack of public restrooms, litter, and crowding at issue.
3/1982	Port halts fishing on Kellogg Beach.
5/26/1982	Annual Dinner - $12.50; membership reaches 1000+.
6/30/1982	Ceremony marks completion of undergrounding project on Talbot.
1982	PLVB weighs in on opposing the Bay Club Hotel Marina because of the 30-foot height limitation and objection to over-building. The hotel is eventually built to be two stories.
5/26/1983	PLVB weighs in on opposing the Bay Club Hotel Marina because of the 30-foot height limitation and objection to over-building. The hotel is eventually built to be two stories.
5/26/1983	Neil Morgan returns to Annual Dinner; dues still $5 individual; $10/family.
1983	Ann Jackson, with PLVB, writes letter to School Board regarding the newly vacant Dana Junior High School. PLVA Concerned of vandals and neglect. School Board Assures PLVA there will be security at location.
2/1984	PLVB enters debate on people living in cars parked on city streets; City Council votes to ban the use of vehicles for temporary or permanent living quarters.
2/1984	PLVB becomes Point Loma Village Association. The newsletter states, “During the past few years the Association has become increasingly involved in working with various agencies of federal, state and local governments, the Port District and other who directly affect the entire Point Loma area. The Association now acts as a service group, the voice of the community.”
5/31 1984	PLVA celebrates its 20th anniversary; dinner still $12.50; membership drive increases membership to 1,350.
8/21/1984	Newsrack enforcement is in the news. In the November newsletter: “We are meeting almost weekly with the City to try and resolve the problem of newsrack proliferation and have support of Councilman Gloria McCall in her effort to “screen” the obscene publications with opaque glass.”
11/1984	Another billboard down – three to go.
11/1984	Dorothea Laub and son Richard survey business owners in the Village and determine that parking is the #1 problem!
1/1985	PLVA weighs in on advertising balloons.
2/1985	Another billboard down! Two to go! PLVA weighs in on satellite dishes.
3/1985	PLVA gets involved in updating the Peninsula Land Use Plan.
5/1985	PLVA turns its attention to the Dana Jr. High site after vandals attack. The school was closed in the summer of 1983 due to lack of attendance. The PLA tries to slow down the school board’s bid process and is horrified to find that the school district is considering rezoning the property to allow for multi-family development; it’s later found that the school district allowed the SWAT team to use the school for exercises! Thus the bullet holes in the walls. Residents seek a court order to stop the demolition of Dana.
5/30/1985	Ernie Hahn speaks at the Annual Dinner on “San Diego – Rebirth of Downtown.”
9/23/1985	Point Loma Sign installed on Harbor Drive – Dorothea Laub toiled on the project and argued with the City for over a year; the cost: $5,000. Dorothea said that the sign “gives Point Loma a real sense of community.” New logo based on the sign unveiled in 2/1986.
1986	PLVA Chairwoman, Ann Jackson, joins forces with the Dana Coalition and PLVA membership. Dana in shambles and homeless living in school. Hot water was never turned off. PLVA sends team out to clean up the grounds and Base Ball Field. Hang banner " If the School District won't take care of their school, PLVA and the Community will have to." School Board announced selling Dana off to private development.
5/1986	PLVA is happy to report that the lease for the Booby Trap has not been renewed. La Scala moves in and takes over lease.
5/29/1986	Annual Dinner: $15/person.
6/1986	PLVA lobbies to save five piers in the Shelter Island Yacht Basin.
7/1986	PLVA enters flap over Navy personnel parking on Rosecrans. Problem: Navy won’t allow sailors to park unregistered or uninsured cars on base.
12/1986	Dana School closure investigated by the San Diego County Grand Jury.
1987	Dorothea Laub, , nominates Ann Jackson, to Chair the Peninsula Community Planning Board. Makes recommendation to Mayor Maureen O'Connor and City Counsel to change the zoning of Dana Junior High School. Proposal was to zone it under the Institutional Overlay Zone ( I-Zone). This would protect the property against private ownership, and had to remain a Public use. PLVA backs it up. Hundreds of people at City Hall. City Counsel approves.
5/28/1987	PLVA celebrates its 25th year; Malin Burnham speaks about “The America’s Cup – What it Means to Pt. Loma and San Diego.” Record set for largest dinner turnout – 435.
11/1987	City purchases the lot on the corner of Poinsettia and Voltaire to accommodate a new Point Loma Library.
1/1988	City approves a new Peninsula Community Plan. Features: A substantial amount of property rezoned to commercial; an ordinance with the intent to develop a general nautical or related historical design theme; pedestrian orientation; better signs and landscaping. PLVA members Dick Lareau, Norm Magneson were major contributors to the plan.
1/1988	PLVA sends a questionnaire to its members asking about changing the name to Point Loma Association (to eliminate misconception that PLVA directs its energies only toward Village area), increasing dues and creating additional membership levels, installing parking meters, extending the trolley line to Point Loma, and other issues.
5/19/1988	Councilman Ron Roberts is the speaker for the Annual Dinner; PLVA has 1700 members.
6/1988	Dues increase to $10/member.
3/1989	Dana school site rejected for swap with the Midway Adult Center. Proposed uses: library, auditorium, fields (would sell old library land).
4/1989	PLA newsletter is four pages!
5/10/1989	PLVA changes its name to Point Loma Association; membership reaches all-time high of 1,900 members.
5/18/1989	Steve Kelley, Editorial Cartoonist for the San Diego Union, is the speaker at the 27th Annual Dinner meeting at the Kona Kai. $17.50/person.
6/1989	PLA purchases two street signs at Shafter/Scott at Shelter Island Drive; local banks pitch in to purchase four more.
11/1989	PLA weighs in on sewage treatment facility and supports water reclamation.

On Eternal Patrol

By Dan Wieder | December 8, 2018

The ground was soggy from days of rain, but the sky was bright blue and the sun searing, sending souls in search of shade. Friday morning, December 7, 2018, on the 77thanniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group gathered to place wreaths at the Submarine Memorial in Liberty Station. Point Loma Association members […]

Mean Green Team – December 2018

By Dan Wieder | December 8, 2018

December 7 – Submarine Memorial Commemoration Today the Mean Green Team along with the 52 Boat Memorial Veterans paid tribute to the submariners from World War II in the first Commemoration of the Submarine Memorials at Liberty Station. This inaugural event happened to occur on the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and we […]

Thank you, Lorie!

By Dan Wieder | November 15, 2018

Point Loma Association extends a sincere ‘thank you’ to our District 2 Councilmember Lorie Zapf for her many years of service to our community and her strong support of our all-volunteer organization. We will miss working with you! Ms. Zapf has listened and responded to her constituent’s needs, not always able to fulfill each request […]