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Jim Frimmer, San Diego Mission Valley Realtor

The ActiveRain Convention Station: The Gaslamp Quarter

My owner is a Realtor with Century 21 Award in San Diego.If you're not getting a rental car for the Convention, not to fear. Directly across from the Convention Center is San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. 

I'm not sure where the name "Quarter" came from because this thriving restaurant, shopping, and movie district is anything but a quarter, encompassing 16½ blocks. It's San Diego's version of the French Quarter in New Orleans. I don't think city regulations allow anything to stay open past 2:00 a.m., and that's well past my bedtime, but it seems whenever I go to the Gaslamp Quarter, it's happening.

The Gaslamp Quarter has a long and interesting history, which you can read about here, and there is a complete list of everything to do in the Quarter right here.

Some dining places that I can highly recommend:

  1. Entrance to the Gaslamp Quarter from the San Diego Convention Center sideChocolat Cremerie
  2. Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar—Owned by the widow of Jim Croce; highly recommended but not cheap
  3. Dakota Grill & Spirits
  4. de'Medici Cucina Italiana
  5. Dick's Last Resort—For all you beer drinkers and pool players
  6. Donovan's Steak & Chop House
  7. Dublin Square Irish Pub & Grill
  8. Fifth Avenue New York Pizza
  9. Gaslamp Strip Club—Get your mind out of the gutter. Great strips of steak.
  10. Ghirardelli Ice Cream and Chocolate Shop
  11. Henry's Pub—Live music
  12. Hooters—Now you can go to the gutter.
  13. Nicky Rotten's Bar and Burger Joint
  14. Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery
  15. Rockin' Baja Coastal Cantina
  16. Sammy's Woodfired Pizza—Great selection of California-style pizzas
  17. Sevilla—Expensive. Make reservations.
  18. Tequila 100 Bar and Grill
  19. Trattoria La Strada Cucina Toscana
  20. Buca de Beppo Italian Restaurant—Just barely outside of the Gaslamp Quarter boundary but well worth the food and a view of the restrooms. Yep, you read that right. Visit the restrooms, even if you don't have to go. Don't put sugar on your food; they don't mark the salt and sugar shakers, and they look identical on some tables. Been there, done that. 

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If you're looking for a great condominium in Mission Valley,
the heart and soul of San Diego, please give me a call.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

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Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

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15 recent blog posts:

  1. The ActiveRain Convention Station: Joe's Crab Shack
  2. The ActiveRain Convention Station: Location, location, location, even on airplanes!
  3. The ActiveRain Symphony Station: One of our own (me!) performs Claude Debussy at Pacific Regent in La Jolla
  4. Are you missing a great opportunity to reach out to past Clients?
  5. Remind your buyers and sellers about the home improvement tax credit
  6. Four great posts about mold
  7. A different kind of team
  8. Reblogging courtesies, or letting the originator have all the glory
  9. If you like your ActiveRain points, don't go on vacation!
  10. Previewing properties can be scarey!
  11. You have to go here when you come to the NAR Convention in November
  12. Using your ActiveRain blog to establish relationships
  13. It's pansy digging time at Weidners Garden!
  14. Are you making it fun for your Clients?
  15. Recent San Diego Zoo renovations featuring young flamingos

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The ActiveRain Convention Station: Joe's Crab Shack

My owner is a Realtor with Century 21 Award in San Diego.If you need a great place to eat seafood, Joe's Crab Shack is right behind the San Diego Convention Center, south side.

I go here at least once a month because the food never disappoints, the atmosphere is alive, and it also has great views of the Convention Center, Hilton Bayside, and the big Dole ships at the dock across the way.

Joe's Crab ShackJoe's Crab Shack is a national chain of 120 restaurants in 28 states, with many of them being on the waterfront. It was founded in Houston in 1994, and there are four of them here in San Diego:

  1. 7610 Hazard Center Drive, in Hazard Center, which is right across the I-5 freeway from San Diego's premier shopping destination, Fashion Valley Mall.
  2. 525 E. Harbor Drive—This is the one behind the Convention Center. It used to be the site of the San Diego Rowing Club.
  3. 4325 Ocean Boulevard in Ocean Beach—A great location on the Beach.
  4. 314 Harbor Drive in Oceanside—This is about 30 miles north of the Convention Center.

Joe's Crab Shack margaritaAll locations are open 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, and 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

I've never had a bad meal or drink at any of the locations, so I'll leave it up to you to choose your own meal. I can highly recommend the margaritas, of course, especially the margaritas.

I'll have more close-by restaurant locations between now and Thursday, so stay tuned. If you'd like recommendations for a specific area away from the Convention Center, let me know via a comment.

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If you're looking for a great condominium in Mission Valley,
the heart and soul of San Diego, please give me a call.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

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Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

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15 recent blog posts:

  1. The ActiveRain Convention Station: Location, location, location, even on airplanes!
  2. The ActiveRain Symphony Station: One of our own (me!) performs Claude Debussy at Pacific Regent in La Jolla
  3. Are you missing a great opportunity to reach out to past Clients?
  4. Remind your buyers and sellers about the home improvement tax credit
  5. Four great posts about mold
  6. A different kind of team
  7. Reblogging courtesies, or letting the originator have all the glory
  8. If you like your ActiveRain points, don't go on vacation!
  9. Previewing properties can be scarey!
  10. You have to go here when you come to the NAR Convention in November
  11. Using your ActiveRain blog to establish relationships
  12. It's pansy digging time at Weidners Garden!
  13. Are you making it fun for your Clients?
  14. Recent San Diego Zoo renovations featuring young flamingos
  15. Public art along San Diego's Embarcadero

Click here to subscribe to Jim's blog

My favorite ActiveRain Groups:

ActiveRain Convention Channel
ActiveRain Guerrilla Marketing Channel
ActiveRain History Channel
ActiveRain Library Channel
ActiveRain Nature Channel
ActiveRain Symphony Channel
ActiveRain Travel Channel

The ActiveRain Convention Station: Location, location, location, even on airplanes!

My owner is a Realtor with Century 21 Award in San Diego.If you enjoy flying, and you're flying into San Diego for the 2009 National Association of Realtors Convention (or any other time, too), sit on the left side of the plane in a window seat. You won't be disappointed.

Personally I like the night flights, but the day flights won't disappoint either.

If you don't like flying, sit on the right side of the plane in a non-window seat, and maybe take your eyeshades with you, or just pull the airplane window shade down and close your eyes. That's about all I can do for you.

On the left side of the plane, you'll see lots of freeways, Mexico, downtown San Diego -- don't worry, the skyscrapers aren't in the landing path -- possibly the U.S.S. Midway and maybe a cruise ship or two, the Coronado Bridge, San Diego Harbor, and lots of sailboats. On the right side of the plane, you'll see residential areas, the huge Navy Hospital, and Balboa Park, from where the picture below was taken.

And don't worry. Even though it looks like you're flying in between skyscrapers at a couple of hundred miles per hour, San Diego International Airport continually ranks among the safest in the nation. At least that's what they tell me.

Plane landing at San Diego International Airport

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If you're looking for a great condominium in Mission Valley,
the heart and soul of San Diego, please give me a call.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

**********

Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

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15 recent blog posts:

  1. The ActiveRain Symphony Station: One of our own (me!) performs Claude Debussy at Pacific Regent in La Jolla
  2. Are you missing a great opportunity to reach out to past Clients?
  3. Remind your buyers and sellers about the home improvement tax credit
  4. Four great posts about mold
  5. A different kind of team
  6. Reblogging courtesies, or letting the originator have all the glory
  7. If you like your ActiveRain points, don't go on vacation!
  8. Previewing properties can be scarey!
  9. You have to go here when you come to the NAR Convention in November
  10. Using your ActiveRain blog to establish relationships
  11. It's pansy digging time at Weidners Garden!
  12. Are you making it fun for your Clients?
  13. Recent San Diego Zoo renovations featuring young flamingos
  14. Public art along San Diego's Embarcadero
  15. A guide to Balboa Park in downtown San Diego

Click here to subscribe to Jim's blog

My favorite ActiveRain Groups:

ActiveRain Convention Channel
ActiveRain Guerrilla Marketing Channel
ActiveRain History Channel
ActiveRain Library Channel
ActiveRain Nature Channel
ActiveRain Symphony Channel
ActiveRain Travel Channel

The ActiveRain Symphony Station: One of our own (me!) performs Claude Debussy at Pacific Regent in La Jolla

My owner is a Realtor with Century 21 Award in San Diego.For those coming into town for the 2009 Convention of the National Association of Realtors, I will be performing in my chamber music group on Friday afternoon, November 13, at 4:00 p.m., at the Pacific Regent in La Jolla, 3890 Nobel Drive.

The concert should last about 1½ hours, and the public is welcome, so if anyone wants to come up to La Jolla, enjoy a bit of classical music, and then go out to
tour La Jolla afterwards and possibly have something to eat, call Russel Ray at 619-341-0173 (he also happens to be my page turner for the concert). Keep in
mind that the best touring is during daylight hours, and darkness gets here around 6:00 p.m. now, but there are lots of good places to eat in La Jolla, especially if price is no object.

Following is the concert program:

Claude Debussy: Flower Child, Impressionist, Revolutionary

Joanne Regenhardt, Narrator
Janelle DeStefano, Mezzo Soprano
James Frimmer, Piano

  • C'est l'Extase - Janelle and James
  • General Lavine - James
  • Clair de Lune - James
  • Chevaux de Bois - Janelle and James
  • Sarabande - James
  • Pagodes - James
  • Serenade for the Doll - James
  • Sarabande Excerpt - James
  • Nuit D'Étoiles - Janelle and James
  • Beau Soir - Janelle and James
  • Il pleure dans mon coeur - Janelle and James
  • Pour Les Arpeges Composes - James
  • L'isle Joyeuse - James

About Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), a French composer, one of the most important impressionist composers (even though he himself disliked the term), is also one of the more prominent composers from the late 1890s and early 1900s.

Debussy began piano lessons at the age of 7, and at the age of 10 was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied for 11 years. In 1884 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his composition L'Enfant prodigue.  His win resulted in a scholarship to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which included a four-year residence at the Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome. Much of his later music displayed harmonies and chords featuring dissonances that were never musically resolved. His harmonies, considered radical in his day, were influential to almost every major composer of the 20th century. 

Performer Biographies

Joanne Regenhardt, narrator, has been known to San Diego audiences since 1955 when she represented San Diego in the San Francisco opera auditions and began signing with Starlight Opera. She has sung concerts throughout Southern California both in oratorio and in solo peformances withy symphony orchestras and in recitals. Her book of poetry, "Soundings," was published in 2002. Joanne is currently integrating narratives of musicians' lives into programs of their music, choosing aspects of the lives and musical selections which can be nejoyed in an intimate setting. She has done this with the lives and music of Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and, of couse, Claude Debussy.

Janelle DeStefano, mezzo soprano, has been praised for her passionate delivery and rich, seamless voice. She has sung on regional operatic orchestral and musical theater stages throughout the United States. Recent roles have included Romeo in "I Capuletti e I Montecchi," Mrs. Winemiller in "Summer and Smoke," and the title role in Benjamin Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia." Janelle has a special interest in Spanish song and Zarsuela, and has performed at the Zarzuela Festival in Napa, California, as well as with the acclaimed early music ensemble, El Mundo. Janelle has won several vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, San Diego District; the National Association of Teachers of Singing; and the Musical Merit Foundation. She currently is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

James Frimmer, piano, received his Bachelor of music and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. While at the University of Redlands, James served as staff accompanist and was a winner of the University's concerto competition, the Redlands Bowl Young Artists Auditions and the Young Artists competition. He has performed in master classes of Daniel Pollack, John McCabe, and José Feghali. In addtion to being an active chamber musician in the San Diego area, James is also a Realtor with Century 21 Award in Mission Valley and the Operations Manager at Borders Books and Music at Plaza Bonita in National City.

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If you're looking for a great condominium in Mission Valley,
the heart and soul of San Diego, please give me a call.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

**********

Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

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15 recent blog posts:

  1. Are you missing a great opportunity to reach out to past Clients?
  2. Remind your buyers and sellers about the home improvement tax credit
  3. Four great posts about mold
  4. A different kind of team
  5. Reblogging courtesies, or letting the originator have all the glory
  6. If you like your ActiveRain points, don't go on vacation!
  7. Previewing properties can be scarey!
  8. You have to go here when you come to the NAR Convention in November
  9. Using your ActiveRain blog to establish relationships
  10. It's pansy digging time at Weidners Garden!
  11. Are you making it fun for your Clients?
  12. Recent San Diego Zoo renovations featuring young flamingos
  13. Public art along San Diego's Embarcadero
  14. A guide to Balboa Park in downtown San Diego
  15. Hotel safety tips for those coming to the NAR Convention next month

Click here to subscribe to Jim's blog

My favorite ActiveRain Groups:

ActiveRain Convention Channel
ActiveRain Guerrilla Marketing Channel
ActiveRain History Channel
ActiveRain Library Channel
ActiveRain Nature Channel
ActiveRain Symphony Channel
ActiveRain Travel Channel

The days are getting shorter.....

My owner is a Realtor with Century 21 Award in San Diego.....and that means that we start lighting up our homes earlier and earlier.

The time between Halloween and New Year's Day also happens to be the time of the year when a great many home fires occur since it's also the heating season and a lot of cooking gets done for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and those New Year's Day football games.

The National Fire Protection Association ranks cooking as the #1 cause of home fires, which surprised me since I don't cook. I knew that cigarettes, candles, heating equipment, and extension cords were high on the list. Let's take a look at cooking, though, and what we can do to prevent cooking fires:

  1. A major cause is simply the lack of cleanliness. Not only can a heavy accumulation of grease catch on fire, but it creates a health hazard since all sorts of bacteria and other micro-organisms live in the grease. Clean the air filter on your kitchen vent hood, as well as the surfaces of your stove, microwave, and nearby cabinets, drawers, and countertops.
  2. Kitchen fireDon't wear clothes with loose-fitting sleeves, or roll the sleeves up when cooking, especially with an open-flame gas appliance.
  3. Paper towels, hot pads, towels, and curtains at that kitchen window should be kept well away from hot surfaces such as the countertop toaster oven.
  4. San Diego Gas & Electric recommends having all gas-using appliances inspected annually to help prevent gas leaks or other problems during this time of heavier-than-normal usage.
  5. Check clearance between stove and bottom of microwaveMany people install microwaves above the stove and below the cabinet. Sometimes, though, it doesn't leave enough clearance between the bottom of the microwave and the top of the burners, causing heat damage to the bottom of the microwave and forcing you to reach over hot pots or burners to get to those rear burners. If you don't think you have enough clearance, you probably don't. Move the microwave, get a different microwave, or have the microwave raised.
  6. If a fire starts in your microwave, do not open the door. Instead, unplug the microwave and the fire should go out on its own due to lack of oxygen. Make sure you have a working fire extinguisher in your kitchen that is ready to use, and call the fire department if there is any doubt whatsoever. It is better to call back and cancel the alarm rather than call too late.
  7. Practice fire safety!The same goes for a fire in your oven. Keep the door closed and turn off the oven off.
  8. If you have a grease fire in a pot or pan, you can usually snuff it out by carefully sliding a lid over the pan. Make sure you turn the burner off and resist moving the pot or pan to the sink. Just leave it alone until the pan cools. Baking soda is also a great way to suff out a grease fire. Whatever you do, never, ever throw water on a grease fire because the grease will splatter and possibly cause the fire to spread.

 

Questions about the upcoming NAR Convention? Click here.

 

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If you're looking for a great condominium in Mission Valley,
the heart and soul of San Diego, please give me a call.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

**********

Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

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  1. Mission Valley condos: If you spend too much time looking....
  2. Before you pull the plug on Grandma....
  3. Need a roommate for the NAR Convention next month?
  4. Water conservation resources
  5. News You Can't Use, Vol. II: What's your definition of financial ruin?
  6. News You Can't Use: I don't want to be rich and famous....
  7. A tour of Cancer Survivors Park in downtown San Diego
  8. ATTENTION: Don't eat those pumpkin seeds!
  9. Watch those square feet numbers!
  10. Controversies? Or building people and businesses?
  11. It's summer time!
  12. 33rd Annual Fall Home Decorating & Remodeling Show coming up
  13. Speechless Sunday: Sunset at the beach
  14. If this is in your front yard, call The Orkin Man (before Halloween)!
  15. Want a piece of sports memorabilia?

Join me in the following ActiveRain Groups:

  1. Out and About - Share specific events, places, and things to do with your target audience.
  2. NAR 2009 Convention San Diego - Coming to the Convention in November? Check in here.
  3. Guerrilla Marketing Tactics - Marketing that requires mostly ingenuity, creativity, time, and energy.
  4. Inspired By Nature - Where you can come to relax among Mother and Father Nature's fauna and flora.
  5. Classical Music - Share classical music events with your target audience.
  6. Active Rain Book Club - A great place to find information on books of all genres.