Matt Hormann

Editor’s note: This article appears in our February 2026 print edition. We are publishing it online ahead of schedule to include updated information about the sale of the Highland Theatre. The Bob Baker Marionette Theater (Photos – Matt Hormann) “Passing of a movie house,” read the 1963 headline in the Highland Park News-Herald & Journal.

Original Suffragist House in Highland Park (Photo – Matt Hormann) Located on North Avenue 66, the Victorian home was once a way station for women’s rights activists. By Matt Hormann Within its three wood-framed stories, early women’s rights advocates plotted strategies for equality, including an 1896 California ballot initiative for women’s voting rights. Situated at the intersection of N.

“We need the tonic of wildness,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. “We can never have enough of nature.” This philosophy inspired the creation of Earthside Nature Center on the outskirts of Lamanda Park in 1971. By Matt Hormann Today, the center stands derelict behind a black wrought-iron fence, just south of Del Mar Boulevard, tucked behind an urgent care facility.