Meet Me In The Middle

Excerpt by Joe Ditler

Photos courtesy of Kel Casey

Meet Me In The Middle

“The median. It runs 12 blocks by 18 feet. It was once lined with orange trees, hence the name, Orange Avenue. The rats found it too the delicious and the pest-ravaged young orange trees were soon replaced with more durable palm trees and railroad tracks. Now, on July Fourth weekend, the median strip is filled with tens of thousands of locals and visitors, eager to see the parade and celebrate the Fourth of July… As former football great Mike Ditka once said, ‘If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade.’ And so it is…”

Happy Fourth of July to you, Coronado… Live long and median on!