Point Loma - Jamba Juice and Goodwill

I'm totally posting these out of order. We actually did this before our first Oasis post, but I was too excited to have the Oasis post go first.

While making a U-turn on Rosecrans to get to Jamba Juice (I had a gift card), I noticed the Loma Lodge changed their signage. Here's the new one:

Here's an older pic of the Loma Lodge from a post I did from July 2007. I miss the Gilligan's Island-like font! WTF Loma Lodge???! It had been like that for practically forever and now it's got this newfangled electronic marquee! (shakes fist upwards in anger)

Here's my former elementary school, George Dewey. Ironically, Dewey was US Navy Admiral at the turn of the century known as the "Hero of Manila." if you go by the pre-Howard Zinn U.S. History books. Dewey is best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of heat stroke) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.  In the American version of the history books, that's what they want you to believe. They conveniently leave out the part that the Americans kept out the native Filipinos from their walled city (Intramuros), thus preventing them from fighting during this "mock battle".

Of course, there was no loss of life. Unbeknownst to the Filipinos, the Spanish colonizers had an agreement with the Americans to shoot a few cannons at each other's ships, make a "show" of it (without killing anyone, of course), and then quietly hand over their island possessions (Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam) to a new colonizer, the United States, for the sum of $20 million. The battle of Manila Bay was a sham.  The Spaniards would rather hand over their possessions to the white Americans whom they considered more superior than the native Filipinos. Shining examples of colonial mentality and racism....

So, as I always tell my daughter, history always has two sides of the story. Try to get both sides and realize that our story, as Filipino Americans is usually marginalized, excised, distorted and triviliazed in American history books. Dewey was a hero? Not to the Filipinos.

Here's another example...Magellan discovered the Philippines? Not to the Filipinos - In fact, Magellan's quest to circumnavigate the world was cut short in the Philippine island of Mactan (in the Visayas) by Chieftan Lapu Lapu and his men. In the American history books, Magellan was killed "in a skirmish with the natives". In the Philippines, Lapu Lapu is hailed as a Filipino hero and there is even a status in Cebu to commemorate him and honor him as the first Filipino to successfully repel a foreign invader. You won't see that version in the history books, eh.

Okay, now that I dropped that history bomb on you all, here's where we went next. Divalicious had given TC a Jamba Juice gift card for Christmas last year. I still had some $$$ on it, so off we went to get a smoothie for TC. This in in that strip mall that used to have Crown Books. There's also a Henry's here.

TC's Mango Smoothie along with a Tomato Cheddar Twist in the bag. Note TC's raglan sleeve shirt (used to be mine but now it's way too tight for me; it used to fit 10 years/15 lbs ago; the word "Maganda" means "Beautiful" in Tagalog. I bought it from Superman's friend J who used to have a clothing company, Malakas at Maganda)

Here's that tomato cheddar twist, which kind of tastes like a plain cheese pizza. Mmm...

We were here in Point Loma to check out a few thrift stores and also have lunch before heading up to ice skate at UTC.

Here's the strip mall sign - this is off Rosecrans.

Our next destination...Goodwill. I was on a quest to find vintage plates and candlestick holders to make homemade cake plate/dessert stands.

Here's the view of Goodwill across the street (taken while in the car because we were going to have lunch across the street at Noodles and Company).

Up next...lunch at Noodles.