Now is the perfect time to work on your guitar skills, and The Monterey Music Store has over 100 guitars for sale, both acoustic and electric! Come check out our new store at 419 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Our Monterey Music Store charge card offers low monthly payments with ZERO down.
Shelley Bennett Skincare is happy to announce that our online store is now open! Shopping for your favorite skincare products is easier than ever. We carry Image, Caudalie, and private label Shelley Bennett Skincare products for every skin condition...plus some fun gift items!
Shelley Bennett Skincare is a small, owner-operated business located in Downtown Old Monterey. Please visit our website to place your order.
Please read update at end of blog post. Being mindful of the risk of the novel coronavirus and Covid-19, Union Yoga asks that you please bring your own yoga mat to the studio. If you do not yet own a mat, we are offering our current mats and towels at wholesale prices!
Now through the end of March, all Lifeform mats are 30% off and all Manduka mats and towels are 40% off at our studio.
Our studio is maintaining a level of awareness of Covid-19 as new information is presented. We're now open and keeping our regular class schedule and we're using Clorox wipes to wipe down our studio mats and Clorox to keep the studio handles, knobs, and public spaces clean.
If you are not feeling well, coughing, or having allergic sensations, we ask that you refrain from coming into the studio. Staying home will not only help to keep our community healthy but will lessen the anxiety of others. We're all in this together!
Union Yoga is located at 244 Pearl Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Come in, do some breath work, get into your body, and maintain a healthy lifestyle and mindset.
An update from Union Yoga on March 16, 2020: Yogis, we are called into action. It is the appropriate time to temporarily close the studio, effective immediately. I was hopeful that we would be able to keep the studio open for another week but it is not in the best interest of our community to do so.
Owning a yoga studio is a true work of passion and service. We operate on a month to month basis and class sizes and our income has been dramatically reduced over the last two weeks. This is likely true for most small businesses. There are ways you can help.
Monthly subscribers, please consider staying with Union during this time. Your subscriptions will be transferred over to the online streaming service. Your membership goes toward the pay of our teachers. Purchase gifts or class cards for yourself or friends to use at a later date. Those who have purchased class packs that expire in 6 months, those classes will be extended for the time we are closed.
Please read update at end of post. It's an unprecedented time out in the world right now, so we at Alvarado Street Brewery & Grill wanted to let everyone know that in addition to following all CDC guidelines we are ramping up our already stringent hygiene and sanitation practices. We are confident that you can feel safe if you're healthy enough to visit us and have an experience at our pub. If you'd rather not risk it, we're setting up systems to allow curbside pickup of food and beer, which we'll announce in the coming days.
Company-wide we're encouraging social distancing, no physical contact, and have been washing hands and sanitizing like there's no tomorrow. You'll find us disinfecting non-stop (tables, door handles, menus, restrooms, any and all surfaces) and handling glassware properly (not touching the top part of the glass). Our production brewery mandates staff to use personal protective equipment and nitrile gloves when handling sanitary equipment and performing brewhouse / cellar duties. Brewery employees who can work from home will be doing so, and we have restricted all work related travel, participation in events, and encouraging to our staff to refrain from air travel, large gatherings and the like so that we're able to do our part in the effort to mitigate the spread of this virus.
Alvarado Street Brewery & Grill is located at 426 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey. Our phone number is 831-655-BEER.
Update from Alvarado Street Brewery & Grill on March 16, 2020: After much consideration, we have decided to restrict our dine-in business. It will be take-away only for food and beer, 12pm-7pm daily, for now. As we expand curbside options we will let you know those details. So give us a call, and we'll get you fed and some coldies in your fridge! Eat and drink well as we're hunkered down for awhile.
It is with great sadness that the event coordinators of the 22nd annual “Bunnies and Bonnets” Easter Parade announce the cancellation of this year’s parade. The organizations and individual volunteers who work together to put the “Bunnies and Bonnets” parade together must follow the most recent guidelines by the California governor regarding events with 250 or more people and potential spread of COVID-19. There is no higher priority than the health and safety of those in our community.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support. We look forward to seeing you in April 2021!
-Downtown Campbell Business Association, The Home Church, West Valley Rotary Community Corps, Campbell Parks and Rec Foundation
Questions: Brooke Ramirez, bunniesandbonnets@gmail.com
Pacific Valley Bank currently has a full-time opening in our Monterey branch for a Client Service Representative (Teller). This position requires an individual with the flexibility to work approximately 40 hours per week.
The Client Service Representative provides a variety of client service functions including processing account transactions and assisting clients with other bank products, such as online banking, investment accounts, loan products and other deposit accounts.
View the full job description here. Pacific Valley Bank is located at 498 Alvarado Street in Downtown Old Monterey.
The Old Monterey Business Association is suspending the Tuesday Farmers Market on Alvarado Street for the remainder of the month of March, and will decide in April when the Market will resume. This proactive measure is being taken in order to lessen possible exposure to the COVID-19 virus for both vendors and patrons of the Market during these uncertain times.
It is our hope that by moving quickly we can help avert this pandemic from taking hold in our city and in Monterey County.
Please sign up for the Old Monterey e-newsletter to stay abreast of all the latest news in our business district.
UPDATE: AS OF MARCH 17, OSIO THEATRE HAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION WHEN WE HAVE A DATE FOR OUR RE-OPENING.
Below are the showtimes for Osio Theater, March 13-19, 2020. Osio, a nonprofit movie theater dedicated to independent, foreign, and art films, is located at 350 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey. Purchase advance tickets on our website.
WENDY
Weekdays at 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 6:45pm
Sat & Sun at 11am, 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 6:45pm
Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up. Watch the trailer.
THE TRAITOR
Daily at 1:15pm, 6:15pm
In the early 1980s, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra. Watch the trailer.
GREED
Weekdays at 4pm
Sat & Sun at 11am, 4pm
Self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie's retail empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion – bringing the high street to the catwalk and the catwalk to the high street – but after a damaging public inquiry his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicized and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. Watch the trailer.
ORDINARY LOVE
Weekdays at 4:15pm
Sat & Sun at 11:15am, 4:15pm
An everyday couple with a remarkable love, there is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their enduring devotion as they must find the humor and grace to triumph over a year of adversity. Watch the trailer.
THE BANKER
Daily at 1:45pm, 6:30pm
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur. Watch the trailer.
THE ASSISTANT
Weekdays at 4:30pm
Sat & Sun at 11:15am, 4:30pm...Read More
Do you want to start a subscription for your favorite comic books for local, in store pick-up, or mail order and support the Lighthouse District's own local, owner-operated comic shop? Just make a ComicHub account and choose Current Comics Monterey as your favorite store!
On ComicHub, you can manage what’s on your pull-list, see all upcoming products, track your purchase history, and buy what’s set aside for you all online or on the free app.
But you're always welcome to come visit us, chat with whoever's behind the desk, and geek out at our store, located at 400 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey.
Lilify's set of four hand-sewn and hand-fringed linen napkins are an elegant addition to any tablescape. Designed in-house, made in Monterey, and available in six gorgeous shades of linen, you can find them in the store at 281 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey and online.
Every year, as part of the Celebrate Campbell Awards Dinner event, the Campbell Chamber of Commerce invites us (Downtown Campbell Business Association) to name a person to honor for their contributions to our little fun village of Downtown Campbell in the previous year.
This year, we cheated. We couldn't narrow it down to just one person to give the award to. Our persons of the year for 2019 are Michael Sanders and Mark Thornton. They're a couple of regulars of the Downtown Campbell scene by way of their affiliation with the Home Church.
The Home Church is one of the community organizations that has quietly worked alongside the Downtown Campbell Business Association to help us run many of the events happening in Downtown Campbell, but Michael and Mark have done far more than just show up to help us check tickets and direct traffic. They've gone the extra mile out of love for their community to help make Downtown Campbell the place that it is.
Michael Sanders is the Facilities Manager and IT Manager of the Home Church and can come close to outrunning Usain Bolt if you tell him that you're taking his photo (despite a broken foot). He's been at the Home Church for over 20 years and we've been quite familiar with him for most of those years. His friends attest to his great sense of compassion for those around him, good humor, and his amazing singing voice.
Mark Thornton is a leader and volunteer at the Home Church who's very much a hands on kind of person no matter what it is. He loves working with his hands and is an avid gardener, cook, and nature lover. He's hands on with teenagers and loves working with them to shape the character of young adults. His friends speak warmly of how reliable and sensitive he is in difficult situations.
The Downtown Campbell Business Association is very grateful to these two men and the Home Church for all of their support over the years. We are so proud to name these two gentlemen as our persons of the year for 2019 and we will be celebrating their contributions to the community this weekend at the 52nd Annual Celebrate Campbell Awards dinner.
BTW, both of these men are dog people. Can you tell?
Undoubtedly, you know there's this Covid-19 Novel Coronavirus thing going around. Regardless of how you feel about the risks of it, we have one thing to ask of you. Please stay home if you're sick.
It doesn't matter if you truly only have a cold and can back it up with laboratory test results. People on the street won't see it as trivial. Anyone who appears to be spreading germs in Downtown Campbell is going to discourage people from coming here. Downtown Campbell remains open for business as it always is, but things aren't normal. We'll eventually find a new normal, but we are going to need help from our loyal community to get there sooner.
You can start by making sure that all of your friends understand that FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS SPREAD GERMS. Downtown Campbell is a very social place. You come here to celebrate birthdays, retirements, bachelorette parties, and last nights in town. If you're going to hit the town with friends here, please do us a solid and remind your entire crew to stay away if they're sick or even think they might be coming down with something. Make sure your friends know you'll forgive them if they have to back out.
Even under the best of circumstances, operating a small business is a monumental challenge. In most cases, it's not something any sane person will want to do to make money. You do it because it's who you are. You do it because there's something about it that you just love, but it's still a struggle. Challenging times are coming and we will need your help. Start by keeping all of us more healthy.
We're sure you've heard plenty about the Covid-19 "novel coronavirus". We're going to post some links for you as a public service announcement. Local governments are acting urgently to to enact precautions with public health and safety in mind. There is a lot of information being shared out there about this and some of it is of questionable value.
If you are trying to understand what Covid 19 is and how it affects you, please start with these three websites. For the most relevant local level information affecting Santa Clara County, we especially recommend that you check the Santa Clara County Public Health Department's Coronavirus page or social media accounts for updates.
The Covid 19 Coronavirus is a fast moving topic and official news sources may not be able to keep up with the latest developments, but please use these official information sources to judge the accuracy of things that you read online.
Teeth Whitening Monterey is happy to announce our monthly specials for March 2020! The limited time offers are listed below. Please phone us at 831-717-4676 to make your appointment. We're conveniently located at 188 Webster Street in Downtown Old Monterey.
In March, we're offering a 15 minute session for $99, a 30 minute session for $134 (reg. $149), a 45 minute session for $154 (reg. $199), and for returning customers we're offering a 15-minute touch-up for $49 (reg. $69).
The featured landmark home this month is the Ed Arnott House at 155 Alice Avenue. Built in 1922, this house is a fine example of the Craftsman/California Bungalow style with many character defining features. It has a broad, closed veranda style porch supported by brick and stone pillars and unusual stacked wooden brackets at the top. An additional open porch can be seen on the west side of the house. Its low-pitched roof is supported by projecting eaves and exposed roof rafter tails. Large transom style windows frame the front door with many small divided- light, casement windows on either side of the chimney and the side porch. The house also has a small finished basement.
The current owners said that they found several old-double hung windows along with heavy weights in the basement when they started their renovation efforts. The original front door went missing over the years and when they bought the home in 2012, the existing hollow core front door was in bad shape and unsafe, with gaps that let light and wind through it. They replaced it with a new, solid fir door in the Craftsman/Bungalow style that matches interior molding woodwork.
The Peter Paul Arnott and Son’s Lumber Yard was one of the early 1900’s businesses in downtown Campbell. Along with lumber, Peter and his son Ed helped provide cement building blocks for foundations, chimneys and basements. They were kept busy as the newly created downtown business district on East Campbell Avenue grew rapidly. (See photo)
However, on October 27, 1917, a disastrous fire quickly swept through the downtown community and destroyed many buildings including the house of E.A. Arnott according to Jeanette Watson’s book, ‘CAMPBELL the Orchard City’. Although not much is known about the Arnotts, one can surmise that the Ed Arnott House on Alice Avenue was built using materials that were readily available from the family’s business.
Alice Avenue, now part of a historic district, was created in 1915 on a portion of the site of fruit drying yards owned by the George E. Hyde Company, a canning and fruit dehydrating plant occupying 17 acres in Campbell. This residential subdivision named “Hyde Residential Park” was built primarily for housing cannery workers, though George and Alice Hyde (the Street’s namesake) resided there too.
Photo courtesy of Campbell Museums.
Campbell Avenue looking east at the corner of First Street, 1905-1910. On the right side of the street is the newly constructed Odd Fellows Hall, Peter Arnott’s residence (with palm trees) and Al Smith’s Auto Shop where the fire started that wiped out the entire block of buildings.
Want to learn more about Campbell’s Historic buildings? There’s a free app for that. Search for: Historic Campbell, available for both Android and Apple.
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Ritual Day Spa is now offering hand crafted soaps and bath bombs from Buck Naked Soap Company! They are vegan, organic, and smell fabulous! Come pick one up and bring the spa experience home.
Have ya’ll met Alyssa? Alyssa has been such a great team member at Bombshell. Besides being a great employee at Bombshell, Alyssa is also working hard on finishing her Masters in Art Therapy and she also has an internship at a local hospital! Alyssa loves to help others, has a huge heart, and is full of positive energy.
We love you so much Alyssa!
Wow! Our Wednesday Night Dungeons & Dragons nights have eclipsed our wildest expectations! We've never thought we'd have so many players at our weekly D&D nights. Come join us for pick-up n play one-shot campaigns for all experience levels every Wednesday night at 7PM. If you're a Dungeon Master, please message us. We could use a few more DM's.
Special thanks to Recycle Bookstore for helping out with supplying DnD books for our players! ?❤️
If your skin needs a little moisture boost in this season of winter dryness, give this great moisturizing CBD body lotion by Yuzu soap a try! Moisturize, soothe, and heal your skin with this 100% hemp-derived CBD lotion. It's formulated with plant-based oils and butters that are rich in vitamins and antioxidants.
Below are the showtimes for Osio Theater, March 6-12, 2020. Osio, a nonprofit movie theater dedicated to independent, foreign, and art films, is located at 350 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey. Purchase advance tickets on our website.
GREED
Weekdays at 1:30pm, 4pm, 6:45pm
Sat & Sun at 11am, 1:30pm, 4pm, 6:45pm
Self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie's retail empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion – bringing the high street to the catwalk and the catwalk to the high street – but after a damaging public inquiry his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicized and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. Watch the trailer.
ORDINARY LOVE
Weekdays at 2pm, 4:45pm, 7pm
Sat & Sun at 11:15am, 2pm, 4:45pm, 7pm
An everyday couple with a remarkable love, there is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their enduring devotion as they must find the humor and grace to triumph over a year of adversity. Watch the trailer.
THE BANKER
Weekdays at 1:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm
Sat & Sun at 11am, 1:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur. Watch the trailer.
ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND
Daily at 4:15pm
This documentary film tells the moving story of Robertson’s personal journey, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie alongside the four other men who would become his brothers in music and make their mark on music history. Once Were Brothers blends rare archival footage, photography, iconic songs, and interviews with many of Robertson’s friends and collaborators. Watch the trailer.
THE ASSISTANT
Weekdays at 2pm, 6:30pm
Sat & Sun at 11:30am, 2pm, 6:30pm
Jane is a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, to which she decides to take a stand against, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered. Watch the trailer.
FANTASTIC FUNGI
Daily at 2:30pm, 5pm, 7pm
Sat & Sun at 11...Read More
