{"id":319659,"date":"2025-10-20T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319659\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:42:12","slug":"daylighting-law-60s-reminiscences-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319659\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Daylighting\u2019 law, \u201960s reminiscences \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Daylighting\u2019 problems result from a poor law<\/p>\n

The problems with \u201cdaylighting\u201d enforcement are the result of another in a long line of badly thought-through laws coming out of our California Legislature (\u201cLa Jolla remains a hot spot for \u2018daylighting\u2019 tickets,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0La Jolla Crime and Public Safety News, Oct. 9,\u00a0La Jolla Light).<\/p>\n

Instead of putting the burden on motorists to decide where they can and cannot park by prohibiting parking within a blanket 20 feet of marked and unmarked crosswalks, the law instead should have required councils to review all crosswalks within, say, three years or another reasonable period of time and to add red curb paint within 20 feet of those where warranted.<\/p>\n

Once paint was added, parking violations would be clear and dealt with as in any other red zone. This would also allow local councils to be the ultimate arbiter of what distance was appropriate for each crosswalk in the area.<\/p>\n

As it stands, we have yet another one-size-fits-all, top-down state law, like the recent housing-near-transit bill<\/a>, that is so poorly thought-through that it makes no sense for many areas and is a nightmare for councils and residents.<\/p>\n

When are some of our elected representatives (I\u2019m looking at you, Catherine Blakespear and Tasha Boerner) going to notice some of the unnecessary problems they are creating and repeal some of these laws?<\/p>\n

Kevin Knight<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remembering La Jolla golden girls<\/p>\n

In my junior year in 1961 at La Jolla High School, one of my cheap thrills was getting to look at, and even some days exchanging greetings with, local beauty Salli Vinning.<\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t friends but would acknowledge each other as we passed by on campus or at lunch. Salli graduated that year.<\/p>\n

Then in my senior year, Sallie was replaced by Linda Opie and Kathy Harris, two motivating reasons to go to school each day. Kathy won the Miss San Diego Junior Miss contest that year and is still active. However, both Salli and Linda were discovered by the \u201cdream factory\u201d in Hollywood and became prominent extras in the popular series of \u201cbeach party\u201d movies that hit the screens during the \u201960s. The camera and director liked them both and they looked like matching \u201cbookends,\u201d as their director described them, in their sexy bikinis in every beach dancing scene.<\/p>\n

They both married young and both of their young husbands died tragically together doing stunts in an airplane over Windansea Beach. Salli went on to act in more films as Sally Sachse, but Linda\u2019s cinema career pretty much ended after the death of her husband.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Salli died this past September and Linda died coincidentally a few months before her. But their lives from the La Jolla beach culture to the glamour of the silver screen were kind of a big deal back in the \u201960s.<\/p>\n

Alan Segal<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s on YOUR mind?<\/p>\n

Letters published in the La Jolla Light express views from readers about community matters. Submissions of related photos also are welcome. Letters reflect the writers\u2019 opinions and not necessarily those of the newspaper staff or publisher. Letters are subject to editing. To share your thoughts in this public forum, email them with your first and last names and city or neighborhood of residence to robert.vardon@lajollalight.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday for publication in the following Thursday\u2019s paper. Letters without the writer\u2019s name cannot be published. Letters from the same person are limited to one in a 30-day period. \u2666<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Daylighting\u2019 problems result from a poor law The problems with \u201cdaylighting\u201d enforcement are the result of another in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7354,90991,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-319659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la-jolla-light","12":"tag-la-jolla-light-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115408912100098165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}