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Encinitas: Our History and People

Encinitas: Our History and People By the Encinitas Historical Society Authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Jim Filanc and Garth Murphy Cover painting by artist Kevin Anderson Published by HPN Books and Ledge Media ©2021 Visit www.ledgemedia.net/encinitas to order printed copies And visit www.HPNBooks.com for info on how to publish your own book as a fundraiser for your community

Encinitas: Our History and People
By the Encinitas Historical Society
Authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Jim Filanc and Garth Murphy
Cover painting by artist Kevin Anderson
Published by HPN Books and Ledge Media ©2021

Visit www.ledgemedia.net/encinitas to order printed copies

And visit www.HPNBooks.com for info on how to publish your own book as a fundraiser for your community

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Top: The U.S. Navy protecting the<br />

Coast during the war.<br />

Left: “Have Yourself a Merry Little<br />

Christmas” is a song written in 1943<br />

by longtime <strong>Encinitas</strong> resident Hugh<br />

Martin <strong>and</strong> Ralph Blane <strong>and</strong> sung by<br />

Judy Garl<strong>and</strong> in the 1944 MGM<br />

musical Meet Me in St. Louis.<br />

IMAGES COURTESY OF S. BOSS.<br />

Below: A member of the Coast Guard<br />

patrolling <strong>Encinitas</strong>.<br />

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1948 ä<br />

• Black out is ordered along the Southern California coast following the<br />

bombing of Pearl Harbor. Headlights are taped revealing only a 1” slit of light.<br />

Local volunteers patrol the streets at night.<br />

• The Golden Lotus Temple on the bluffs of the Self-Realization Fellowship,<br />

topples down onto the beach below on July 21st. It had been built <strong>and</strong><br />

dedicated just a short four years earlier on January 2, 1938.<br />

• Japanese-American citizens, living in San Diego County on February 19th are<br />

taken to the Oceanside train depot with only one suitcase each not knowing where<br />

they are going. Due to the Civilian Exclusion Order 9060, these local citizens are<br />

transported to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona for the duration of WWII.<br />

• Electricity comes to Olivenhain.<br />

• Noah’s Ark Cafe is a favorite attraction on the northwest bluff of Leucadia. It is<br />

created by George H. Herbert to resemble an ark <strong>and</strong> is flanked by several large<br />

plywood animal shapes, colorfully painted with reflectors for eyes, that are<br />

placed all over the entire hillside. Unfortunately, it is demolished in 1962.<br />

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