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by Jake Samuel

I was driving up PCH this morning.....the tide being too low to surf Bay St. I was driving up to Will Rogers to trail run.

As I passed the Jonathan Club, I looked to my left and saw the turquoise wrought iron security gate in front of a generic condo building with the word “Sorrento” arched across the top. And then I thought, “Who even knows how beautiful and simple the Sorrento Beach Grill that stood for years on this site was and what would you rather have standing there today.”

Then I thought about the lighthouse at the jetty between Santa Monica Canyon and Temescal Canyon and how a pre-fab lifeguard headquarters took its place years ago.