Ocean Beach (San Diego, California)
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Ocean Beach is a small 742-acre beach community a few miles northwest of downtown San Diego.
OB is about as unpretentious as San Diego beach living gets. Sunny days are punctuated with the occasional jet roaring overhead, the barking of happy dogs partying at Dog Beach, waves pounding the coastline of Sunset Cliffs. It's a place where Halloween and New Year's Eve are high holy days, and the O.B. Chili Cook Off, the Christmas Parade, and the 4th of July fireworks show are annual traditions.
In many ways, it's kind of a quiet sleepy place that time forgot. It's one of the few places left in San Diego (or the rest of the country for that matter) where the shops are locally owned and managed, and there isn't a Baby Gap and a Pottery Barn on every corner. Well, at least not yet. A few years ago Starbucks moved in, and it caused quite a controversy. Many communities would welcome a Starbucks - it means gentrification. For OBecians, it means homogenization, something that for the most part has not taken firm root in our beloved little community. And we like it that way.
Anyway, there's a lot to be said for this funky little beach town, with its odd collection of antique stores, bars, Deadheads, restaurants, musicians, activists, bikers, artists, and feral cats. We may not all agree on everything, except that we all call OB our home.
www.oceanbeach.com
www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/oceanbeach...
www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/maps/mapoc...
OB is about as unpretentious as San Diego beach living gets. Sunny days are punctuated with the occasional jet roaring overhead, the barking of happy dogs partying at Dog Beach, waves pounding the coastline of Sunset Cliffs. It's a place where Halloween and New Year's Eve are high holy days, and the O.B. Chili Cook Off, the Christmas Parade, and the 4th of July fireworks show are annual traditions.
In many ways, it's kind of a quiet sleepy place that time forgot. It's one of the few places left in San Diego (or the rest of the country for that matter) where the shops are locally owned and managed, and there isn't a Baby Gap and a Pottery Barn on every corner. Well, at least not yet. A few years ago Starbucks moved in, and it caused quite a controversy. Many communities would welcome a Starbucks - it means gentrification. For OBecians, it means homogenization, something that for the most part has not taken firm root in our beloved little community. And we like it that way.
Anyway, there's a lot to be said for this funky little beach town, with its odd collection of antique stores, bars, Deadheads, restaurants, musicians, activists, bikers, artists, and feral cats. We may not all agree on everything, except that we all call OB our home.
www.oceanbeach.com
www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/oceanbeach...
www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/maps/mapoc...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Beach,_San_Diego,_California
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 32°44'42"N 117°14'28"W
- Clairemont 11 km
- Tierrasanta 17 km
- Navajo 17 km
- Otay Mesa 25 km
- Torrey Pines 26 km
- San Pasqual Valley, San Diego 42 km
- Summerlin, Nevada 422 km
- Tartesso 428 km
- Arnold, California 680 km
- Arden-Arcade 757 km
- Liberty Station 2.6 km
- Southern Wildlife Preserve 2.9 km
- Mission Bay 3.6 km
- Peninsula 3.9 km
- Midway-Pacific Highway Corridor 4.1 km
- Old Town 4.1 km
- Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego 4.2 km
- Fiesta Island 4.2 km
- San Diego International Airport (SAN/KSAN) 4.8 km
- San Diego Bay 11 km
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