Day 18: Pacific Avenue

I have not written yet about the neighborhood, with an explanation of why the house, or rather the land that it stands on, needs to be sold. I will cover that soon, but this post is about the next street parallel to John Street, Pacific Avenue.

This street was always different than most of the other streets in the Tree Section of Manhattan Beach, because it has sidewalks. Other streets, including John Street, don't, giving it a sort of rustic look. There are no tract houses in the Tree Section, but because of the uniform sidewalk and parking strip, the houses on Pacific always looked more traditional. However, this has turned out to be its saving grace; Pacific Avenue has not changed as drastically as the rest of the Tree Section, where trees, other foliage, and old, small houses come down, and fake Italian villa multi-storeyed McMansions, utilizing every inch of the property, go up.

So you still see a few tiny bungalows on Pacific:

Though you also get this, just across the street:

There is a school (used to be two!) on Pacific, a church, and even an apartment building with two tikis, which have been there since the'70s!

There is another apartment building on a street off of Pacific with a fabulous font:

The trees along Pacific tend to be smaller, but some form shady avenues:

And there are some nice blooms along the way:

But my favorite bit of Pacific is where there are three almost hidden houses in a row, all with abundant jungly foliage in the front yards. They remind me of the houses you used to see everywhere in the Tree Section.

Even though these properties are shady (the photo makes it all look brighter), they are full of flowers in the spring.

 The eucalyptus trees along the parking strip make another nice avenue.

I'll miss this block of Pacific Avenue when I go!