Wednesday, November 29, 1972 - Page 334
(2:30 PM 12/9/1972)
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim
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| UPDATE FROM 11/29/2013: Well how about that? For the first time, I calculated my earnings at the Ivanhoe from this pay slip, and it turns out I was making $1.75 per hour. Between Feb 1968 & March 1974, California minimum wage was $1.65 (info) |
Left for work at 7:00 A.M. Twas a beauteous day, very windy, hence clear. Finished rooms 124, 125, & 126, then started 127, 128, & 129. Did as little as possible but Mike thought I was busy. Quit work at five and got home by 7:00 P.M. Watched T.V. alot. Now, Eye Sore Park has been getting publicity along with some other trailer parks in O.C. To fill you in, here's the newspaper clipping about the situation.
If you can't read the article, here is the important part:
Orange Coast Edition DAILY PILOT
Orange County, California -- Tuesday, November 28, 1972 -- Ten Cents
NEWPORT WARNING -- 6 Trailer Parks Get 5-day Notice
by L. PETER KRIEG
Six Newport Beach trailer parks that city officials say have made no attempt to meet health and safety codes today were given five days to meet all state standards or tell it to the judge.
"We have posted six trailer courts with notices declaring them to be public nuisances," said Building Supervisor Robert Fowler. "If they don't make all repairs within five days, we will start filing legal action."
The six parks are Lee Haven Trailer Park, 2940 W. Coast Highway; Deluxe Trailer Park, 2912 W. Coast Highway; [Here's mine:] Bay Shore Trailer Park, 112 W. Coast Highway; Lido Village, 700 Lido Park Drive; Ebb Tide Mobile Home Park, 1560 Placentia Ave., and Beach and Bay Mobile Home Park, 7204 W. Coast Highway.
Fowler said the owners and managers of the parks posted were the only ones who refused to cooperate with the recent city council-initiated crackdown on all trailer parks within Newport Beach...
There are nearly 300 trailers in the six parks given notice this morning, Fowler said. Bay Shore Park [that's ours again, which I fondly called Eye Sore Park] at the corner of Dover Drive and W. Coast Highway is the most populous, with 100 trailers.
Councilman Richard Croul indicated he felt the actions taken by the building division may be harsh. "How can we justify this?" he said. "There are a lot of places in the city that encroach on the public right of way (one of Fowler's complaints about the trailers). We let other places stand that were built without a building permit," Croul said, noting that Fowler had also cited the erection of dozens of illegal cabanas in the parks. [Yes, we had an illegal cabaña for storage of our extra junk and it was truly an eye sore]
Fowler explained that the city is enforcing state laws and cannot be arbitrary.
It got mom pretty disturbed but I assumed it was just a political maneuver that would lose impetus, or at least take a long time before any serious action was taken. So far (it's December 9, Saturday), I've been right. From the date on this page to now, it has been learned that Eye Sore Park's property lease runs out about May, then the Irvine Company, who wants the land for development, can kick us out with 90 days notice. So we've still got 6 months to go, but I pro'ly won't be here when it all happens.
TOMORROW: Trailer park crisis explodes
If you can't read the article, here is the important part:
Orange Coast Edition DAILY PILOT
Orange County, California -- Tuesday, November 28, 1972 -- Ten Cents
NEWPORT WARNING -- 6 Trailer Parks Get 5-day Notice
by L. PETER KRIEG
Of the Daily Pilot Staff
"We have posted six trailer courts with notices declaring them to be public nuisances," said Building Supervisor Robert Fowler. "If they don't make all repairs within five days, we will start filing legal action."
The six parks are Lee Haven Trailer Park, 2940 W. Coast Highway; Deluxe Trailer Park, 2912 W. Coast Highway; [Here's mine:] Bay Shore Trailer Park, 112 W. Coast Highway; Lido Village, 700 Lido Park Drive; Ebb Tide Mobile Home Park, 1560 Placentia Ave., and Beach and Bay Mobile Home Park, 7204 W. Coast Highway.
Fowler said the owners and managers of the parks posted were the only ones who refused to cooperate with the recent city council-initiated crackdown on all trailer parks within Newport Beach...
There are nearly 300 trailers in the six parks given notice this morning, Fowler said. Bay Shore Park [that's ours again, which I fondly called Eye Sore Park] at the corner of Dover Drive and W. Coast Highway is the most populous, with 100 trailers.
Councilman Richard Croul indicated he felt the actions taken by the building division may be harsh. "How can we justify this?" he said. "There are a lot of places in the city that encroach on the public right of way (one of Fowler's complaints about the trailers). We let other places stand that were built without a building permit," Croul said, noting that Fowler had also cited the erection of dozens of illegal cabanas in the parks. [Yes, we had an illegal cabaña for storage of our extra junk and it was truly an eye sore]
Fowler explained that the city is enforcing state laws and cannot be arbitrary.
It got mom pretty disturbed but I assumed it was just a political maneuver that would lose impetus, or at least take a long time before any serious action was taken. So far (it's December 9, Saturday), I've been right. From the date on this page to now, it has been learned that Eye Sore Park's property lease runs out about May, then the Irvine Company, who wants the land for development, can kick us out with 90 days notice. So we've still got 6 months to go, but I pro'ly won't be here when it all happens.
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| My abode at Eye Sore Park. Chuck is at the left leaning on my '63 Chrysler Imperial, and that's me wearing the leather hat I got in Rapid City. This is a 1973 photo taken after the canvas cabaña (it was under the awning) was cleaned up and removed to comply with city regulations. |
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