Pink Candles at Ridgemont High: 80's

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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Valentine's drinks from Scrimshaw & Imperial Grounds

What up Verne!

Yes, Verne the whale, Scrimshaw's mascot...

Phileas Foggs Bar & Restaurant

Our lunch was located on the northern end of the Sabre Springs Plaza strip mall which also houses HOB Coffee....

CAB, fresh from her trip from England thought we could try this place out...

RIP Tom Petty

Another legend gone...

Farewell to rock icon Tom Petty (October 20, 1950 - October 2, 2017)

Our 22nd Anniversary - Communal Coffee, OB Beans Coffee Roasters & Supannee House of Thai

I decided to just cram our anniversary day in one post so here it is...

Yesterday, with the lovely overcast sky and the benefit of being super early (8 am) at Communal...

Turn it up to 11 for PCaRH's blogaversary!

A decade plus one...

(purple Bingo number from flckr user Leo Reynolds)

It's the11th Blogaversary of Pink Candles at Ridgemont High...

Return to Lofty Coffee Cafe and Bakery, Little Italy

TC and I were so happy that Bert was back home...

Daylight Savings time was the other day and we were crazy enough to head over to Little Italy the next morning...

Some coffee was in order here...

RIP Bill Paxton

RIP Bill Paxton...

(May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017)

He left an amazing body of work...

Fast Times at Clairemont High + a cool rummage sale find

When I first snapped this shot on the PCH near Little Italy, I was trying to get the primate mural...

I didn't realize there was an incoming plane headings towards Lindbergh field!

That was pretty close, as the plane flew overhead....

A quick walk at Liberty Station + a revisit to Con Pane

With our frackin' paper cupped coffees from Butler's in hand,

(as seen from the 94, heading west)

we made our way across to the 94 to get to the 805....

Ch-ch-changes...in North Park + Poke One n Half + Dark Horse & the Prince mural once again!

My sister called me up earlier today wanting to have lunch. TC was off early from practice so off to North Park we went. Apparently, there is a newish poke place there now..

My nephew drove and parked near this wall (the "North Park" mural on the side of a furniture store).

The blank slate straight ahead used to have street art on it...

Prince and David Bowie mural @ the Moonlight Beach 7-11, Encinitas

After our first coffee of the day from Steady State in Carlsbad,

we headed down to Carlsbad for our second hit of caffeine, but also for another main reason...

Prince mural in Barrio Logan, Santa pinata + more caffeine @ Por Vida

A mere few minutes away in yet another neighborhood...

was a mural that a friend of mine told me about...

"Dearly Beloved" Prince mural, Normal Heights

Over on Adams Avenue...

a few steps away from the Normal Heights sign was...

John Marshall High School

The morning was still young. We were planning to take our Christmas photos on a particular painted flight of steps in a different neighborhood. For now, we were still in Los Feliz, having had some really great pastries from Twenty40...