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CONTENTS | NOVEMBER 2018 | VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5
4 Team Note 6 Coronado Calendar 8 USS Michael Monsoor Commissioning 9 Navy SEAL Foundation 13 Turkey Trot
14 Coronado Island Film Festival
32 Island Girl: Shop Small Saturday
18 History of Movies in Coronado
36 Baby Del Celebrates 35 years in Coronado
24 Natural Storytellers
40 Comfort Food with Style
30 In Focus: Jeremy Noyes
46 Passion for Paperwhites
Front Cover: Marilyn Monroe appeared on the cover of the North Islander Annual magazine in January 1953. Image reproduced from a vintage postcard.
Back Cover: Photograph courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command
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FROM THE CROWN CITY MAGAZINE TEAM | NOVEMBER 2018
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ovember in Coronado is a special time as we honor our veterans, come together for Thanksgiving and enjoy the annual film festival. This month’s cover represents a perfect trifecta of this issue — Coronado Island Film Festival, Veterans Day and the 60th anniversary of the filming of the iconic film, Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe. Coronado has its own star-studded memories of Monroe, the 1960 Golden Globe “Best Actress” winner. A handful of lucky islanders remember the day when they sprinted to the beach to catch a glimpse of Monroe at the Hotel Del filming Some Like it Hot. The island has been the set for many films since movie-making began, and today the city is abuzz and on the lookout for a glimpse of Tom Cruise with the filming of the Top Gun sequel. The Navy SEAL Foundation has a new home
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in Coronado. Its mission is to support the Naval Special Warfare community and their families through tough times and transitions. Stop by the recently opened office on B Avenue and say hello. This time of year, we are getting our hearts, homes and refrigerators ready for the holidays! Christine Van Tuyl gives us inspiration to shop small and support our local merchants. Local chef Clyde Van Arsdall shares his heartwarming story of food, family and a delicious holiday recipe we can’t wait to try! From all of us at Crown City Magazine, we wish you and your families a happy Thanksgiving, and we give special thanks to our veterans and their families. Enjoy our November issue! The Crown City Magazine Team, Amy Slack, Heather Canton, Leslie Crawford and Amy Stirnkorb
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ONGOING Art in the Park: 1st & 3rd Sundays, Spreckels Park Farmers Market: Weekly Tuesday afternoon, Coronado Ferry Landing Rotary Club: Weekly Wednesday at noon, Hotel del Coronado Optimist Club: Weekly Thursday at 7am, Coronado Community Center Soroptomist Club: Weekly Thursday at 7:30am, St. Paul’s Methodist Church NOVEMBER 4: Daylight Savings Time Change 6: General Elections 7: Camp Wamp Dine Out Not In 11: 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day – End of WWI 9-12: Coronado Island Film Festival 22: Thanksgiving 22: Turkey Trot 22: Optimist Club Thanksgiving Movie 24: Lorton Mitchell Memorial Surf Fest 24: Small Business Saturday 27: #Giving Tuesday 28: CIFF Classic Movie Series
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he USS Michael Monsoor will officially report for active duty in January. The commissioning ceremony is scheduled for Jan. 26 at Naval Base Coronado - North Island and is sponsored by the Navy SEAL Foundation and the Coronado Council of the Navy League. The new guided missile destroyer is named after Michael Monsoor, a 25-year-old Navy SEAL who was killed in action in Iraq in 2006. Monsoor was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions on a mission in Ramadi. On Sept. 29, 12 years ago, he was on a rooftop with other SEAL snipers when a grenade was tossed into their location. The grenade hit him on the chest before falling to the deck. Monsoor could have escaped. Instead he threw himself onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates.
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Monsoor, who was stationed in Coronado and is buried at Fort Rosecrans, is the only SEAL to receive a Medal of Honor for service in Iraq. The 610-foot-long ship was christened in June 2016. It is the second of three Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers, a high-tech ship that requires only a small crew of about 100. It was built at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine, with state-of-the-art technology that includes multiple antennas designed to reduce radar visibility and an electric propulsion system. The commissioning ceremony is free and open to the public. About 5,000 people are expected at the event. Attendees must request an invitation 60 days prior to 
the ceremony. To sign up, please visit www.monsoorcommissioning.org.
Creating Community Navy SEAL Foundation CEO opens local office
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obin King wants the men in Naval Special Warfare and their families to know they have help when they need it. As CEO of the national Navy SEAL Foundation, she is focused on creating a caring and supportive community, whether it’s for health, education, injury, loss or transitions. And now that she is based in Coronado, moving from Virginia Beach, Virginia, the organization is even more focused on local community. About 40 percent of the Navy’s Special Operations forces are based in Coronado, including the Naval Special Warfare Command, which is responsible for training and equipping SEALs and other Special Warfare team members. “Our programs have always been global, but we haven’t had an office here,” King said. “Not being here gives a perspective that we weren’t focused on people here. We’re dispelling that perspective.” The new offices at 1033 B Ave. include a community space where people can just drop in and hang out. And the foundation recently held a Princess and Her Frog dance for fathers and daughters. Dads on the West Coast are different than East Coast dads, King said. Here fathers dance more with their daughters, King said with a smile.
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foundation, which will maintain its headquarters in Virginia, offers everything from respite child care and scholarships to computers for surviving children and wellness stipends for surviving spouses. “We send kids to camp every year. The kids get to play together and realize they are not alone,” King said. Children of Special Warfare forces deal with a parent being away, sometimes 270 days out of the year. Since 9/11 there has been a continuous demand for Naval Special Operations. “Our guys go to combat zones all the time. There is a lot of stress. There’s an entire generation of kids where their dad has gone to combat zones their whole lives.” The non-profit foundation was established in 2000 and quickly grew to become the biggest support group for Naval Special Warfare in the country with a $20 million
That’s just one of the many differences King has noticed between the two coasts. “We need to listen to the community and be flexible about what those needs are,” King said. “West Coast families are so much more dispersed. They are not running into each other at the grocery store. They don’t know each other as well. How do we create this very warm environment and have everyone feel welcome?” A holiday event is in the works, and the foundation is the lead sponsor for the commissioning of the USS Michael Monsoor on Jan. 26. The ship, a Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, will be commissioned in Coronado. The main focus of the foundation’s support is for the ranks in the SEALs and the Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC) and their families. The
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operating budget this year. Last year, $15 million went back into the community, which numbers about 10,000 active-duty members and their families, King said. “That’s a massive amount of support. It’s a full-time business for us.” The foundation is five times bigger than all the other organizations supporting Naval Special Warfare combined, she said. Almost all the money comes in through fundraising. King, a 27-year Navy SEAL wife, has been with the organization from the start and CEO since 2013. “What started as a scholarship program quickly grew because we started to see gaps in what the Navy would provide. It just made sense what needed to be covered. Everything has been very organic.” The foundation is organized around “five pillars of support” (which also includes veterans): war-
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rior and family support; educational opportunities; tragedy assistance and survivor support; warrior transition; and legacy preservation. Last year, 41 percent of the foundation’s support funds went to tragedy assistance; 19 percent went to warrior and family support; 16 percent to educational opportunities; 16 percent to child development; 7 percent to warrior transition; and 1 percent to legacy preservation. “Every program needs to have a purpose,” King said. The foundation, for example, offers six months of mortgage payments for gold star families, but she said “it’s not just for the money. The philosophy behind that is ‘breathe, we’ve got you. Decide what you want to do in six months.’” She said there is a tendency for widows to sell their homes quickly and return to their hometown only to discover they no longer fit into that place and lifestyle.
The foundation puts 94 cents out of every dollar directly to programs or into a reserve fund, earning it a Charity Navigator four-star rating and a ranking in the top 1 percent of all non-profits for financial stewardship. Online solutions are in the works to help warriors support each other. “We’re looking at social media solutions,” she said. The key is making those connections secure. “We need to know it’s only Navy SEALS talking to SEALS.” It’s part of the focused effort on brain health, King said. “The steps in advancing brain health have been phenomenal. We are very informed what the challenges are, and we want to be sure our guys focus on good medicine, not bad medicine.” The organization puts 94 cents out of every dollar directly to
programs or into a reserve fund. That commitment to its mission has earned the foundation a fourstar rating from Charity Navigator and a ranking in the top 1 percent of all non-profits for financial stewardship. King hopes all members of Naval Special Warfare and their families take time to see how the foundation can help them. “So many times people don’t bother to learn about something they don’t need until they need it. We want to be supporting the community the way they want to be supported.”
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he average American consumes 3,000 calories on Thanksgiving dinner. Add drinks and dessert, and that number goes up to 4,500 according to the industry association Calorie Control Council. What better way to feel good about that extra serving of mashed potatoes than heading out for a run Thanksgiving morning? Plus, you’re exercising for a good cause. Coronado’s Turkey Trot, now in its fifth year, supports the Copley Psychiatric Emergency Department at Rady Children’s Hospital. The timed 5K, organized by the Coronado unit of Rady Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, is a family-friendly event with awards in age groups from 7
and under to 80 and up. Last year, nearly 1,000 runners and walkers participated in the sold-out event. “The Turkey Trot is a fun-filled event that brings together friends and family while supporting a critical resource for Coronado and San Diego’s youth,” Turkey Trot cochair Kristina Quesada said. “Teens in San Diego suffer the highest rate of suicide in the state,” said Dean Dwyer, president and CEO of the Copley Foundation. “That’s simply unacceptable....” Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the United States for 10- to 24-year-olds, according to a 2016 study by the Centers for Disease Control. California studies have shown that among 15- to
24-year-olds suicides rank as the third leading cause of death, behind unintentional injuries and homicide. The auxiliary is hoping to reach a goal of $75,000 for the new psychiatric emergency department, which is expected to be completed next year. The new wing is believed to be the first of its kind in the country. Premier sponsors Island Living and the Arendsee Family, and platinum sponsors Coronado Fitness, Milberg Orthodontics and California American Water have already helped the auxiliary achieve its goal. Runners, walkers and strollers are welcome for the Nov. 22 event, which will be held at Tidelands Park. (Runners start at 8 a.m.; walkers at 8:15 a.m.) To register, go to active.com.
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Third festival brings out the stars and honors locals By KRIS GRANT
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ach year, the Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) has gotten better and better. Add one more “and better” to reflect this year’s third annual festival, which takes place over four fun-packed days and nights, Nov. 9 to 12. One of the barometers of a successful film festival is the level of participation from major motion picture studios. Coronado’s festival will include movies from Universal, Fox Searchlight Pictures and 20th Century Fox. “If a festival is able to secure a ‘studio pre-release’ film, that’s a home run,” said the nonprofit festival’s founder and CEO Doug St. Denis. “This year CIFF will have three studio pre-releases. And all are receiving a lot of Oscar buzz.” They include Green Book (Universal), Widows (20th Century Fox) and The Favourite (Fox Searchlight Pictures), all of which will be released to the public after the festival. Green Book, one of the two opening-night films, won the “Audience Favorite” award at Toronto, the granddaddy of film festivals, which was attended by CIFF’s executive director Andy Friedenberg. “To put things in perspective, nine of Toronto’s audience favorites over the past 10 years were nominated for the
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Oscar’s Best Picture award; three of them won,” Friedenberg said. The film tells the story of a bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx who is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class African-American pianist, into the Deep South on a concert tour in 1962. Widows is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. The film stars Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall. The Favourite is set in early 18th century England, which is at war with France. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. The studio pre-releases are just a snippet of the 95 films, including narratives, documentaries (“docs”) and shorts, in this year’s festival.
“I love shorts,” said Friedenberg, a virtual walking encyclopedia on cinema. “It always amazes me how filmmakers can draw you into a story and absolutely capture your imagination, elevate your pathos or cause you to laugh uproariously in the space of just a few minutes.” Eight shorts packages averaging 100 minutes each will be screened at the Black Box Theater and Coronado Performing Arts Center at Coronado High School. “Spotlight San Diego” includes Hula Girl, about the Carlsbadbased inventor of the Hula Hoop and Bosko and the Rebirth of Tiki, about an Escondido artist who consults around the world on all things tiki. “It was obvious that we needed to show the Bosko film at CHS — home of the Islanders,” Friedenberg said. “Their mascot is that six-foot, 700-pound tiki constructed of Hawaiian lava rock.” Other film venues include Vintage Village Theatres, the Coronado Library Winn Room, the John D. Spreckels Center and the Hotel del Coronado, the festival’s presenting sponsor, where Some Like It Hot will be screened on the beach where it was shot 60 years ago. Jack Lemmon’s son, actor Chris Lemmon, will introduce his “Pop’s” movie and present a live performance, an updated “Twist of Lemmon.” The festival also includes panel discussions, free educational workshops, the opening night “Taste of the Festival” party with food and drink from a dozen Coronado restaurants and the popular “After-Hours Meet the Jury and Filmmaker’s Disco Bash” at Emerald C Gallery.
The stars will come out in theaters (and on the sidewalks) at Coronado’s third annual film festival.
WALK OF FAME New this year are “Stars on the Avenue,” a presentation of more than 100 Hollywood-walkof-fame-style stars that will dot Orange Avenue beginning the weekend before the festival. Each self-adhesive star will bear the name of an industry notable who has been to Coronado. “From more than 200 names, we had to narrow it down to our first 100 stars to honor,” St. Denis said. “It was so hard to choose!” Then there is the question of where to place each star’s name. “We know we have to put Emma Stone’s in front of Night & Day Cafe,” St. Denis said of the 2017 Best Actress Oscar winner for LaLa-Land. “Emma made it known that Night and Day Cafe was
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her favorite restaurant when she vacationed here as a teenager from her native Scottsdale.” Leonard Maltin, the celebrated movie critic, author and film historian, returns as honorary festival host and jury president. Honorees are selected by the Coronado Island Film Festival management and invited to attend the weekend’s event. At the Leonard Maltin Celebrity Tribute dinner in the Crown Room of the Hotel Del, this year’s film honorees will be saluted with a video montage of their work. Maltin has also assembled a new “Meet the Critics” panel, and Terry Curtin, adjunct professor of film marketing at USC, will host a panel, “Women in Film.” Among her panelists is Lisa Bruce, the Academy Award-nominated producer of Darkest Hour, who hails from Coronado. Music industry heavyweight Ray Costa has put together a blockbuster “Music in the Movies” panel, bringing together four of Costa’s longtime clients including Kris Bowers, composer for Green Book. Insider’s tip: While watching Green Book, you’ll marvel as actor Ali plays the piano, but you’re actually hearing Julliardtrained Bowers tickling the ivories.
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the 1972 film heralded as the finest surf film ever made. The Monday, Nov. 12 showing at the Coronado Performing Arts Center does not require a festival pass and all donations received will be passed on to the Searfus and Mitchell families. • Veterans Day Salute. At the Coronado Performing Arts Center, a rousing Veterans Day tribute will be led off by the National Anthem, played by the La Jolla Symphony Trumpets, whose members include Coronado resident Ken Fitzgerald. Three films will be screened. The first is a short, Coronado Veteran Volunteers on the USS Midway, produced by Coronado Middle School students, and the second, Welcome Home — a Salute to Coronado’s Vietnam Veterans, was written by Michael Woiwode and produced by Tony Perri. The feature documentary, Dateline-Saigon, tells the story of five journalists whose courageous reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War in the face of fierce opposition from government is uncannily relevant to challenges journalists face today.
LOCAL FLAVOR While the Coronado Island Film Festival is well respected in Hollywood circles, it stays close to its Coronado roots, and will include: • Tribute to Lorton Mitchell and Stan Searfus. Coronado recently lost two beloved members of its community, Lorton Mitchell and Stan Searfus, both avid surfers. Tribute films will be shown followed by Five Summer Stories, 16
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• Culinary Cinema. Three food-focused docs will be shown at the Spreckels Center, followed by taste samplings by local chefs that mirror the film’s content. • Educational outreach. Chris Lemmon will have a special presentation for Coronado High School students, entitled “Why is funny funny?” Two educational workshops on screenwriting and the legal issues of filmmaking at the Spreckels Center are open to the public, without charge. • Liyana, an award-winning documentary about five orphans in Swaziland, will be presented by Rotary Club of Coronado. All Coronado Rotarians are invited to attend the film without charge. • Island of Dogs trailer. Coronado dogs take center stage in a promotional trailer. When the festival issued a “canine casting call,” 38 eager dogs ambled over; 11 made the cut. You’ll see Frisbee-flying dogs, skateboarding dogs and dogs dashing through the Village Theatre lobby to grab the best seats in anticipation of the next film.
TICKETS At press time, only the Film Buff Pass for $235 is still available. It includes all screenings, panels, live performances and parties except the Leonard Maltin Celebrity Tribute dinner at the Del. (The Crown City VIP Pass, which includes the tribute dinner, is already sold out.) There will be some availability to buy rush-line tickets at individual movies for $15 cash, but many movies fill up quickly with pass holders. See you at the movies! • Kris Grant is a veteran journalist and president of the Coronado Island Film Festival.
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Scene Setter Coronado a longtime draw for moviemakers
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The 1929 movie The Flying Fleet was the first major Hollywood production filmed at Naval Base Coronado - North Island. The movie, a story about the careers of six midshipmen after graduating from Annapolis, was made with the cooperation of the Navy.
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t the dawn of moviemaking, Coronado had everything to make an ideal filming location: wide beautiful beaches, a unique resort hotel and a pioneering flight school and naval aviation base. Although documentaries and scenic films had been filmed here for years, the first narrative film production shot in Coronado was directed by Allan Dwan in 1912, The Maid and the Man. It was made by the La Mesa-based American Film Company, where Dwan worked as a filmmaker. Dwan went on to become a noted Hollywood director, and in 1915 he was back in Coronado to direct A Girl from Yesterday with “America’s Sweetheart” Mary Pickford. The movie, made for film mogul Adolph Zukor’s Paramount Pictures, featured scenes on John D. Spreckels’ yacht.
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From left: James Cagney and Margaret Lindsay in Devil Dogs of the Air (1935, Warner Brothers); Johnny Downs, Betty Burgess and Leon Errol in Coronado (1935, Paramount Pictures); and Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959, United Artists).
In September 1915, a Lubin Film Studio opened on 1st Street and Orange Avenue. Several interior and exterior sets were built, and a lavish party was held for Sigmund Lubin with Coronado and San Diego dignitaries and movie actors. The studio consolidated several western Lubin studios, and it quickly began producing one- and two-reel silent films until the pioneer film company went out of business in 1916. Although it was one of the biggest film companies in the country, it had lost money in various film patent lawsuits and its main studio in Philadelphia burned down.
City and the Hotel Del to film Princess Virtue (directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Bluebeard Photoplays) in 1917. And the era’s biggest star appeared in his first starring role in a film shot with several scenes at the Hotel del Coronado — Rudolph Valentino. He performed under the name Rodolfo di Valentini in The Married Virgin, made and released in 1918 and then later in 1920 when Valentino became hugely popular. Another big star associated with Coronado was Charlie Chaplin, although he never filmed here. Chaplin vacationed here and came to play on one of the Coronado polo teams. Dwan came back again to Coronado to shoot scenes for Soldiers of Fortune in 1919. It starred Wallace Beery and Anna Q. Nilsson. Filming took place on the beaches of the Strand and in Balboa Park. Coronado also doubled as a more exotic locale in The Dragon Painter, starring Sessue Hayakawa in 1919. The Japanese Garden across from the
Star power In 1916, Henry Pollard came to Coronado to direct one of the first movies about the U.S Navy, Miss Jackie of the Navy. The film starred his wife, Margarita Fischer, and was shot at the Hotel del Coronado, with the courtyard a stand-in for a South Seas island. Mae Murray, one of the big stars of the silent screen, came to Tent 20
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Hotel del Coronado served as a set where the future star of The Bridge on the River Kwai (he was Col. Saito) played the lead role of Tatsu. The big “vamp” star of the silent screen Pola Negri came to Coronado in 1926 to film Good and Naughty for Paramount Pictures, a tale of yachting and womanly wiles. And the celebrated “It” girl Colleen Moore made Her Wild Oat in 1927 with local scenes. (Moore was also famous for making the bobbed hair style of the flappers popular).
Military movies The year 1929 introduced a tradition of military movies filmed in Coronado that highlighted aviation. The Flying Fleet was the first film to portray naval aviation, which had its birth in Coronado in 1911. The MGM film starred Ramon Navarro and Anita Page. Page later settled in Coronado and married Adm. Herschel House. They lived at 717 A Ave. for many years. Next came Flight, a story about Marine aviators starring Jack Holt,
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directed by future Oscar-winner Frank Capra. The big studios were attracted to aviation pictures, and lined up Clark Gable, in his first starring role, and Wallace Beery to star in MGM’s 1932 Hell Divers about the Navy’s dirigibles, then stationed at North Island. Warner Brothers stars James Cagney and Pat O’Brien were featured in Devil Dogs of the Air, a 1935 film about two U.S. Marine pilots, one a past stunt pilot, competing for the same woman, played by Margaret Lindsay. Sophisticated movies returned in the 1930s, and the Hotel del Coronado became popular again. Coronado was released in 1935 starring former Little Rascals child star and later Coronado resident Johnny Downs, with co-stars Betty Burgess and future Wizard of Oz Tin Man Jack Haley. The Del also featured prominently in Mister Cinderella from MGM also costarring Haley and Furness. The story is one of mistaken identity with Haley in the Cinderella role among society people. Another Del-centered film was Yours for the Asking starring George Raft,
George Raft and Dolores Costello in the 1936 Paramount Picture film Yours For The Asking.
Dolores Costello and Ida Lupino in a casino setting, where beach scenes included shots of Groucho Marx and Charles Ruggles. World War II brought a spate of military-themed movies filmed partially in Coronado, starting with Wings of the Navy in 1939, starring George Brent and Olivia de Havilland. Flight Command starred Robert Taylor and Walter Pidgeon in 1940. It was shot at North Island and had 2nd unit flight photog-
raphy by aviator Paul Mantz. Dive Bomber, released in 1941, had many North Island scenes and starred Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray. Flynn lived aboard his yacht Sirocco moored at the Coronado Yacht Club during the filming. These movies were followed by Task Force with Gary Cooper in 1949, and Wings of Eagles, with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in 1957, which was based on naval aviator, screenwriter,
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and late Coronado resident Frank “Spig” Wead, played by Wayne. A different type of film was also partially shot in Coronado in 1957: The Brothers Rico, a mafia-style movie starring Richard Conte and Diane Foster.
1965 with Jerry Lewis playing different roles in Family Jewels. The Del featured prominently in The Stuntman with Peter O’Toole and Barbara Hershey in this 1980 movie about making a World War I movie. Apparently, some of the scenes were so realistic out-oftown viewers called to ask if the Del was actually blown up for the movie. Loving Couples was also made in 1980 starring Susan Sarandon, Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn and Stephen Collins as two swinging couples out for a fling. It featured shots inside the Del’s lobby as well as the tennis courts, pool and sun deck. James Belushi played a detective with his dog in K-9 in 1989, and Steve Martin came to town to film scenes for My Blue Heaven in 1990. Military movies returned to Coronado with the increasing
Things heat up Then came Some Like it Hot in 1959, the most famous movie to be filmed in Coronado. Billy Wilder’s all-star cast featured Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Joe E. Brown. The movie is listed No. 1 on the American Film Institute’s “Funniest American Movies of All Time.” The Hotel del Coronado and the Coronado beach made a great set, which many locals still remember viewing. Various themes made up the next batch of Coronado-based movies. Comedy returned in
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importance of Special Warfare and the Navy SEALS. Act of Valor, from 2012, had several scenes shot in Coronado. American Sniper had one location shooting of a wedding party at the Loews Hotel. Scenes for Top Gun 2, to be released June 26, 2020, with Tom Cruise have recently been filmed at Naval Base Coronado - North Island. And then there is Daydream Hotel, the locally produced film by Tony Perri shot here in 2017. Coronado has a rich and long association with moviemaking and as a home and vacation resort for members of the film industry. The Coronado Island Film Festival honors and continues that tradition. • Christian Esquevin has been the Director of Library Services at the Coronado Public Library since 1988.
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Storytellers Documentaries showcase local film company’s talent
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oronado resident David Romero will be among the producers and directors at this year’s Coronado Island Film Festival. Romero, who founded Eddie Grace Arts & Film with his wife, Danielle, will be showing the full feature, Making Fun, The Story of Funko. The documentary focuses not only on Funko toys, but on people from all walks of life who collect them and the connections they make
with each other. Funko was a two-year project that included 60 interviews and
filming at international locations. “David always follows through, no complaining, and he gets it done. He stays very focused, he’s even keeled,” said Mike Becker, founder of FUNKO Toy Company. Romero, 52, who has lived in Coronado with Danielle and their son since 2004, first set his sights on a music career. He fell in love with rock and roll at 16, learned to play the guitar, then evolved into singing and songwriting. A native of Barrio Logan, he attended St. Augustine High School where music was the center of his life. He went on to San Diego State University earning a degree in English literature, but took every film media course he could fit into his schedule.
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Eddie Grace Arts & Film (from left): Isaiah Glasoe, Lito Buendia, David Romero and Ian Ware Background image from Making Fun, The Story of Funko
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After college, he moved to Los Angeles immersing himself in the New Wave music scene. In 1989, Romero was a member of the band Colours, which was invited to tour the Soviet Union. He arrived home just as the USSR was breaking apart, watching television images of tanks rolling into cities where the band had recently performed. Romero’s band eventually disbanded and Romero was hired in 1994 to manage the recording studio at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, working with big-name artists. He developed a video series called Big Blue Rambler, filming musicians as he drove them around town in a Rambler Ambassador to run errands — a concept developed long before Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In 2006, Romero and his wife founded Eddie Grace Arts & Film. The name is a combination of the first names of Romero’s father and Danielle’s grandmother. Although Romero is the face of Eddie Grace, Danielle also plays a producer’s role, keeping the day-to-day operations running. With his background of music production and songwriting, Romero brings a lot of talent to the table. He says with a smile, “I’m a product of experience, and what not to do,” and emphasized that he has a great team working alongside him, comprised of Lito Buendia, Isaiah Glasoe and Ian Ware. (Both Glasoe and Ware are Coronado School of the Arts graduates.)
The filming of Bread, Salt and the Graphite Kid in Barrio Logan was a four-year project.
crew and no practice runs. That’s not to say there isn’t a lot of planning and preparation, but it allows for more creativity and flexibility in production. One of the aspects of filmmaking that has surprised Romero most is “How wrong I am with the original story idea compared to how the story evolves into the finished product.” One of the challenges, Romero said, is “narrowing down good ideas to something that you’ll spend a year or two on, and then finding the funding to make it happen,” all while keeping the creative side of the business flowing.
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All filming, music, graphics, editing and marketing work is done inhouse. Songwriting is still very much a part of Romero’s life and woven into his films. Everyone pitches in on the projects, sharing the jobs of producing, filming and editing. The company’s latest release, Bread, Salt and the Graphite Kid, debuted on KPBS this past July and tells the story about old- school discipline and the mentoring of young students in the sport of soapbox derby racing, with the goal of making the finals in Akron, Ohio. The full-feature documentary, which was a four-year project, is set just across the bay under the bridge. There’s also a nice
twist of history in the film, going back to the glory years of soapbox derby racing in San Diego in the 1940s.
Making a difference Romero collaborated with Mary Ann Beyster, president of The Foundation for Enterprise Development, and San Diego production company Passage Productions on We the Owners, a full feature documentary about employee-owned businesses. We the Owners, has won awards, been viewed by tens of thousands of students and purchased by 100 companies as an educational resource. Beyster and Romero went on to create the Kitchenistas of National City. National City had been identified as having
Kitchenistas of National City cooking at Olivewood Gardens.
the highest rate of juvenile diabetes in the country. Kitchenistas is a short film focused on a peer group support program of communitybased training at Olivewood Gardens, teaching participants how to cook traditional food in a
healthier way. The documentary, which was shown at last year’s Coronado Island Film Festival, has been picked up by PBS stations around the country, making it one of PBS’ top online, non-series shows.
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“He brings hometown loyalty to the subject when he gets involved,” Beyster said. “He’s very creative, tying artistic style to messaging. The use, the context, the depth of the story. He’s seeking the deeper understanding and brings a lot of respect to the subject. Always a student of learning technique, style and topics, he brings that learning and capacity of curiosity to each project.” Some of Romero’s productions were going on at the same time, and things won’t be slowing down for him and his team anytime soon.
Kitchenistas of National City has been so successful that Beyster and Romero are considering making a full feature to follow up with the stories of success after participants have gone through the program. Not only is the community on a healthier path, women empowered by the Kitchenistas program have gone on to open their own restaurants, find their voices in their community, and even run for public office. Romero also continues working with Funko on commercials, promos and special events including
Comic-Con where Funko has a massive presence. “At this point he’s part of the Funko family,” Becker said. Romero’s curiosity has provided him access to many fascinating people and stories. But fame, his or anyone else’s, has not affected Romero, who is a soft-spoken natural storyteller. “He’s professional, authentic, sincere, confident and humble. There’s a sincerity about him around the projects. You get his whole being. He’s the hidden gem in Coronado,” Beyster said.
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A R O U ND TOW N | CH RIST INE VAN T U YL
There’s no need to leave Coronado when it comes to your holiday shopping. You don’t even need to go online. After all, our enchanted isle is home to some special and imaginative small shops, as magical as the season itself. From a hidden treasure trove of jewelry to a garden of whimsy to a shop of your child’s wildest dreams, you’ll find more gifts and goodies than you can shake a Sugar Plum fairy at! Here are five small shops not to miss.
Holiday Shopping, Island Style Sip and savor worldly flavors From the organic Baklouti green chili and butter-infused olive oils to lavender and blackberry ginger balsamics, if you can imagine it, Coronado Taste of Oils has it. This family-owned shop is dedicated to supplying the freshest olive oils and fine-aged vinegars, bottled on site. The products are imported from all over the world, from the finest growers in Tunisia, Australia, Chile, Italy and here in California – and you can try every one of them! The shop also offers gifts such as serving plates and cutlery, as well as gourmet pastas, sauces and other tasty condiments. (Jalapeño wine mustard, anyone? How about a jar of Island rum caramels?) Taste of Oils does complimentary gift-wrapping and ships anywhere in the U.S. You can order online and pick it up in the store… even design your own gift basket. CORONADO TASTE OF OILS 954 ORANGE AVE. 619-522-0098
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Stroll into a child’s fantasy
A San Diego tradition for more than 40 years, Geppetto’s offers up a magical world of classic toys that inspire creative play for the whole family. Although the shop opened its newest location on Orange Avenue this spring, you might remember Geppetto’s from its former digs at the Hotel Del. (That shop closed when the Del restructured in the 2000s.) This playful and eclectic store offers all the awardwinning toys you and your kids can imagine. From the latest Harry Potter wand to sequin unicorns, from mini-scooters to the always-amazing Magna-Tiles, from sticky slime to sticker books, it’s all there. Purple voice changer? They’ve got it. A chewing gum lab? But, of course. But perhaps the best part is the service. The employees are friendly and quick to offer advice on the newest and hottest toys…and they do free gift wrapping on all items. Yes, please! GEPPETTO’S 1146 ORANGE AVE. 619-522-0918
Wander inside a whimsical wonderland You can’t help but smile when you walk into quirky, charming Seaside Papery. Colorful hanging butterflies beckon from the window, inviting you to explore a delightful garden of stationary, cards, candles and other gifts you won’t find anywhere else. Think flamingo pens, cheeky cactus décor, palmtree-print phone cases and even an alpaca llama pillow. The best part? This shop doesn’t take itself too seriously. You’ll feel a bit like you fell down the rabbit hole when you find cute pouches for “Taco Money,” a book on Bad Girls Throughout History and a cookbook of cocktail
recipes inspired by the likes of Frida Kahlo. And don’t forget the beautiful in-store wrapping!
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Emerge a glamorous gypsy When you step into d Forsythe, tucked away upstairs around the corner from Village Pizzeria on Loma, you might feel like you’re entering the treasure-filled lair of an exotic and very successful pirate…one with an eye for jaw-dropping, arrestingly beautiful jewelry. The small store is absolutely dripping with colorful, statement-making pieces like Tibetan sacred necklaces, dancing Indian earrings, baroque drop pearls and even a dragon pendant with African trading beads. In business since 1998, shop owner Dolores Forsythe travels the globe in search of unique gemstones and handcrafted pieces, icons and metals that she weaves into signature jewelry. Her collection includes many one-of-a-kind pieces from Denmark, Cambodia, Laos, India, Bali, Thailand, England and Nepal. Dolores will even repurpose your old, “ugly duckling” jewelry into a new design that you will love. (You’re welcome!) D FORSYTHE UNIQUE JEWELRY FROM AROUND THE WORLD 1136 LOMA AVE, SUITE 203 619-435-9211
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HISTORIC | THE BABY DEL
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Oh Baby!
The Livingston House was moved to Coronado via a large crane that was barged
A look back at the fascinating history of the island’s 131-year-old iconic landmark
across the bay by two tugboats on Nov. 19, 1983.
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t’s been 35 years since the spectacle of an old Victorian house, dangling off a giant crane, making its way by barge across the bay to North Island and eventually down Ocean Boulevard to its new home in Coronado. The epic journey of the Livingston House from Sherman Heights to Isabella Street on Nov. 19, 1983, was the culmination S H A R E YO U R of a grand dream of then-owners Chris and Francie Mortenson and the rebirth of an old MEMORIES house to one of the island’s most recognized Hundreds of people lined landmarks, the Baby Del. the street 35 years ago to “It was unbelievable,” said Gerry MacCawatch the Baby Del come down Ocean Boulevard to rtee, a resident historian and tour guide, who her final home. Were you watched the home’s trek from San Diego. one of those people? If you The Queen Anne-style house was built in have your own stories or 1887, the same time the Hotel del Coronado, photos of the Baby Del and which opened in February 1888, was under would like to share them, construction. Mrs. Harriet Morris LivingCoronado Historical Assoston, a widow, bought the property on the ciation would love to hear corner of J and 24 streets in the then-tony from you. Please contact neighborhood of Sherman Heights. She paid CHA Registrar, Vickie Stone, Theodore Wrampelmeier $6,500 for the lot at 619-435-7242 or vstone@ and commissioned Edwin Booker to build the coronadohistory.org. 13-room house at a cost of $5,000. The partially shingled, two-story house built with redwood, had a generous front porch and an octagonal three-story corner tower and could compete with the fine homes springing up in the area during the height of the 1880s building boom. San Diego’s population exploded from approximately 2,600 in 1880 to nearly 40,000 only seven years later. It was also the heyday of the Queen Anne style in America. One of Livingston’s neighbors was Jesse Shepard, who was building his own fanciful Victorian house that year, now known as the Villa Montezuma.
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By the time the Mortensons found the house for sale in 1979, it had been through many owners and many ups and downs. It had been saved from demolition by Rev. Robert L. Stevens, who bought the rundown structure in 1970 and embarked on its restoration. But the neighborhood had also fallen on hard times and the house was a target for vandals. When the Mortensons saw the old Victorian, they said it said was love at first sight, but they never occupied the home in Sherman Heights. Instead they embarked on an ambitious plan to move the house to a more desirable neighborhood. They wanted a property near the ocean, and a lot with tennis courts near the Hotel del Coronado became the chosen sight after obtaining a variance for the coastal zone’s 30-footheight limitation. (The home’s turret stands at nearly 50 feet.) The move took nearly a year of planning and about $120,000. The bureaucratic red tape included permission from the Navy to use a dock at North Island and moving hundreds of overhead wires so the
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The Baby Del, on Isabella Avenue near Ocean Boulevard, has become one of Coronado’s most recognized homes.
3,800-square-foot, 80-ton house could be hauled 27 blocks to the bay. The momentous undertaking started at midnight Nov. 6 to minimize traffic and utility interruptions as the load rumbled down Island and Fifth avenues. “I don’t know if I would have
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even considered it knowing what I do now, but once you start the ball rolling on something like this, there’s no turning back,” Chris Mortenson reported to the San Diego Union that November night in 1983. The house — along with the
home’s carriage house, which also made the trip — then sat at the Fifth Avenue Landing (by Embarcadero Marina Park South) for two weeks until the USS Kitty Hawk vacated the North Island aircraft carrier pier. Once in Coronado, it was towed along the naval station’s airstrips to Ocean Boulevard and its final destination on Isabella. Hundreds of people watched and street lights had to be moved, Coronado native Susan Keith recalled. Chris Mortenson was an early developer of the Gaslamp Quarter. He also reestablished the idea of single-room occupancy inns, receiving a national award from the American Institute of Architects for the Baltic Inn on Sixth Avenue. The Baby Del underwent its own redevelopment into a 5,000-squarefoot, three-bedroom, 3½-bathroom family home. The tower, which was removed during the move, was reattached. A miniature version of the Del’s Crown Room — with 19 French doors in a half circle — was added to the back of the house as well as a basement for a wine cellar and workout room and an enclosed BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY NOW!
walkway from the addition to the attic, which has access to the turret. To connect all the stories, Mortenson dropped a steel-supported spiral staircase in place. The three-bedroom house with its grand redwood staircase and big landscaped garden became the toast of Coronado and the site of many gatherings until the death of Chris Mortenson in April 1995 at the age of 47, after a battle with multiple sclerosis. Shortly thereafter, his widow sold the house to Susan Heavilin and her husband at the time, David Bolles. “We didn’t know the history of the house. I just wanted a house with a big backyard. We thought it was just a normal house. I didn’t know it was so famous,” said Heavilin, who still lives in the house. “I didn’t really understand it when I bought it.” The couple and their two children, who lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona, originally bought the house as a second home, but ended up moving permanently. Over the years, Heavilin has added her own touches. She said the redwood staircase was heavily dam-
aged and was eventually removed. She has painted, replaced the floors and pulled out some of the dark woodwork. “For the most part, the house is exactly the same. I arched the doorways because they were very low. I’ve done stuff to try and keep the house going,” Heavilin said. Stories of ghosts in the Livingston’s house have circulated for years with reports of chairs rocking by themselves in the tower. In Sherman Heights, there were rumors that Livingston’s daughter fell, or perhaps was pushed, to her death from the second floor. Livingston only lived in the house for a year. By 1889, she was listed as living at The Leland, and by 1892 she had moved to San Francisco, transferring the property to her daughter Josephine Livingston, who sold it that same year for $1,000. While the story of the home’s many occupants has faded into the depths of time, the house still stands tall overlooking the ocean and near its namesake, the Hotel Del, 35 years into the second phase of its life.
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“There are very few people who don’t have a primal reaction to food cooking over fire. The smell, the visual, it’s all a part of the experience” — Chef Clyde Van Arsdall IV
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High Class Home Cooking Local chef Clyde Van Arsdall IV serves up comfort food with style
Chef Clyde Van Arsdall’s catering business specializes in outdoor cooking events.
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or Clyde Van Arsdall IV, cooking has always been a way to make any place feel like home. Van Arsdall’s father was a Navy captain. And while Van Arsdall spent much of his childhood in Coronado, there was still a lot of moving around. Wherever the Van Arsdall family was, they focused on farm-to-table eating, growing much of their own produce, shopping at farmers markets and adapting local recipes. The 50-year-old says those recipes became intertwined with his childhood and taking them along
as they moved from place to place helped bring familiarity to new cities. “We lived all over the place, but whenever we had to move away from somewhere, we’d have these recipes to hold on to.” And after Van Arsdall graduated from Coronado High School in 1987 and headed to the University of Rhode Island, his mom made a beautiful cookbook of all those treasured dishes for him to take along. Having inherited his parents’ passion for cooking, Van Arsdall entered the Baltimore International Culinary School in 1992. CROWNCITYMAGAZINE.COM
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After culinary school, Van Arsdall moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked at the renowned Red Sage restaurant under Chef Mark Miller. Miller’s restaurant brought high-end Southwestern food to the forefront, and inspired Van Arsdall to pursue a similar culinary concept. “Mark was my mentor. He took common Southwestern dishes and made them elegant enough to serve in a $4 million restaurant to congressmen and senators.” In 1995, Van Arsdall moved to Atlanta and ran two restaurants. Both his parents were southern, so he relished in returning to his southern roots. “Even though I spent most of my childhood in Coronado, I was raised in a southern household. I grew up on grits and fried chicken and dirty rice.” It was during his time in the south that Van Arsdall developed his concept of comfort food with an elegant flair. “Often it’s not about what you’re serving but about how you’re serving it. It can be as simple as serving fried chicken on fine china, or cutting chicken pot pie into slices and serving it with a drizzle of gravy, or presenting macaroni and cheese in a stack rather than a bowl,” he said. He also transforms good old mac ’n’ cheese by blending gourmet cheeses and adding prosciutto or lobster. Van Arsdall returned to Coronado in 1997, and for more than a decade now, he’s owned and operated 3 Squares 42
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Gourmet (a nod to the military’s “three square meals” and his father’s and grandfather’s time at the U.S. Naval Academy), a catering company specializing in what he calls “exceptional events.” These are the kind of events people don’t want to do themselves, such as barbecues from around the world, clam bakes, crab cracks, seafood boils, pig roasts and luaus. Among Van Arsdall’s favorite recipes are those prepared in one dish. “I think the most elegant version of that is paella,” he said. Perhaps one of Spain’s most beloved comfort foods, paella is “such a versatile dish,” he said. “It’s like a pizza. You can do half vegetarian and half chicken or pork |
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sausage — there’s a paella to please everybody.” Van Arsdall has donated paella dinner parties for auctions at the Soroptimist Club of Coronado and the Coronado Schools Foundation (the latter went for $3,500). He has a special tripod for the preparation so that the people he’s cooking for can watch. “So often at dinner parties, food is whisked from behind closed kitchen doors, but there’s such a better sense of community when you can involve your guests,” he said. Likewise, he loves cooking over an open flame. “It’s a huge part of our psyche. There are very few people who don’t have a primal reaction to
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food cooking over fire. The smell, the visual, it’s all a part of the experience,” Van Arsdall said. He’s built an open Tuscan oven in the backyard of his Coronado home, and he loves cooking out of a 200-year-old cauldron he found at an antique shop in Ocean Beach. Van Arsdall sources much of the meat he cooks with from the acclaimed Heart & Trotter wholeanimal butchery in North Park. Last year, he ordered turkeys from the butchery and tagged Heart & Trotter in an Instagram photo of him roasting them on a spit in his backyard. The Cooking Channel came across the photo and asked him to film for their show Man Fire Food, which focuses on cooking with real fire. He and host Roger Mooking worked together in his backyard for two days, roasting turkeys on a spit and creating a layered broth in the cauldron. The result was a
sumptuous, rustic soup. The episode aired in June, marking Van Arsdall’s television debut. Van Arsdall recently brought his expertise to the Hotel del Coronado participating in the Chef Throwdown, which benefitted the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He served pan-fried eastern stone crab cakes and received the second-most votes in the people’s choice category. Earlier this year, he took on another culinary opportunity as general manager and executive chef of The Zodiac at Neiman Marcus in Fashion Valley. He’ll continue to operate 3 Squares Gourmet (www. chefclyde.com) in conjunction with The Zodiac as it launches its private catering service. Van Arsdall is hosting an instructional turkey carving event at the restaurant on the evening of Nov. 8. Participants will learn how to properly carve a turkey and then enjoy turkey
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“I’m exploring what San Diego’s signature dish will be,” he said. He’s inspired in particular by flavors and fish of Baja. The gig at The Zodiac also has a serious perk: the hours. A chef’s schedule is often late nights and weekends, but The Zodiac is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. That allows him to spend time with his three kids (ages 15, 11 and 7). “I’m a dad first and a chef second, but these hours let me be both,” he said. “I get to do the same thing my parents did — focus on food and family.”
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aperwhites remind me of Christmas holidays when we lived in Germany many years ago. It was such a treat during the cold, gray winter to have brilliant green stalks blooming with fragrant white flowers lining the windowsill. As we move toward the holidays, even though we don’t have dark, gray winters in Coronado, I still look forward to forcing paperwhite bulbs. It’s a way to bring a touch of blooming nature into the house. Easy to prep and grow, a container of paperwhites, which are a type of narcissus, can be an elegant centerpiece or a beautiful gift. Forcing bulbs sounds more complicated than it is. Basically, it means forcing them to bloom on our schedule, not theirs. Bulbs start showing up in nurseries at the end of August and are still available now. You’ll want to buy the freshest bulbs possible. Purchase them from a reputable nursery that has bulk bins of bulbs (say that three times fast!) on display so you can pick out your bulbs. This is preferable to the big box stores, which typically only sell bulbs in prepackaged sets. Those bulbs have probably been sitting around for a while in less than ideal conditions. When picking bulbs, choose ones that are firm. It’s OK to have a little growth sprouting from the top. If you’re not ready to prep the bulbs right away, put them in a cool,
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dark place until you are ready. I start assembling my containers in mid-November. You can put multiple bulbs in a big container or a single bulb in a small container. Surround the bulbs with pebbles with the top half of the bulb above the surface of pebbles. I’ve used everything from fancy stones and glass beads to crushed gravel. Put them away in a cool dark place without water until you are ready to force growth. When you add water, pour it up to just the bottoms of the bulbs. Any higher and you run the risk of rot. Once you’ve added water, put them back in the dark, cool place. The darkness retards the growth, otherwise they will quickly grow into a gangly mess. Once the bulbs are well established with about 8 inches of growth, bring them out into the light where they will come into bloom quickly. Once you start the process of adding water to the pots, it will take about five to six weeks for them to bloom. The general rule of thumb is if you are planning to have blooming paperwhites for the holidays, add water about the second or third week in November. It’s not a perfect science and one year my calculations were off, so my friends and family received New Year’s gifts instead. No matter when I hand them off, people always seem pleased to receive a small pot of happiness.
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