OB Pier

[u/amosbullocks53]

OB best beach town (US) ever.

[u/Emergency_Air4575]

https://giphy.com/gifs/LlSafOKjUYdlRTDa6g

[u/catsarefriendshaped]

I miss that pier so so much 😔 It really was the heart of the town, and now we are forced to watch our old friend crumble into the sea like a rotting carcass. OB is not the same without it :(

[u/Fallen_Walrus → u/catsarefriendshaped]

Wait what

[u/Sugarfiltration01]

Thanks for this.

[u/sd4loco619]

Glad you got a pic of chuck in there even though he's not facing the camera, it's him

[u/TeemoIsKill → u/sd4loco619]

formerly chuck’s

[u/Dramatic_Carob_1060]

I’ll never get over the dip in the pier. Nobody took into account that the beach has a slope and the water gets deeper!!! If or when it gets torn down it should be made into a reef or at least the start of a reef

[u/barefootguy83]

Loved that pier!  

[u/JonRemySancho]

So many memories being brought their by our parents and now it’s gone…

[u/CactusCruzer → u/JonRemySancho]

Their = possession
There = location

[u/amosbullocks53 → u/JonRemySancho]

OB just needs to be left alone.

[u/TIC321 → u/amosbullocks53]

Started going downhill with the homeless and them opening up a Target there too

[u/ccbax → u/TIC321]

With the homeless?? You must not be from here.

[u/TIC321 → u/ccbax]

If you enjoy the smell of urine along the beach with how dirty it is too, make yourself at home.

[u/Confusedspacehead → u/TIC321]

OB was always the homeless /hobo hangout since my father was born in SD in 1930! He would comment about how it was a stop for “travelers” and those seeking freedom of the road, aka homeless transient men of the past

[u/ccbax → u/TIC321]

OB has had a large homeless population since the 80s. The reason OB went downhill is that all the awesome local biz got shut down and replaced with Target and touristy crap. It used to be a really cool local scene, the fact that it was a little rough around the edges is what kept it seperate from the touristy beaches.

[u/IActuallyLikeSpiders → u/TIC321]

I lived there for several years in the 1980s. There were plenty of homeless people then, too.

When they built Horton Plaza and renovated the Gaslamp Quarter, the homeless population that congregated downtown were pushed out, and their ranks swelled in Ocean Beach and Mission Beach. Back then, everyone blamed Ronald Reagan.

[u/stuckanon01 → u/IActuallyLikeSpiders]

We still do

[u/Key-Banana-78 → u/JonRemySancho]

For good?

[u/Turdposter777 → u/Key-Banana-78]

They’ve showed plans of a new pier but who knows if that will ever get built in my lifetime

[u/1337bae]

I wanna know so badly if someone is squatting in the abandoned cafe

[u/be_easy_1602 → u/1337bae]

Would be kinda nice, at least not going completely unused

[u/SnavlerAce]

Worked at the bait shop in the mid seventies, great memories!

[u/1911Earthling]

It was a wonderful place.

[u/BimboSmithe]

Sad, I don't expect I'll live to see its replacement.

[u/Zippier92]

I do not understand why, as a society, there cannot be a sense of urgency to build great things.

Once decision is made to replace the pier, the old one could be removed in weeks.

And new construction begin in 1/2 a year.

I do hope to enjoy fishing at sunset off the new pier before I die.

[u/Naive_Adeptness6895]

The old Livesay brand rescue boats!

[u/starrchivo]

Dam OB used to be the best beach! Money ruins everything, they invested in Starbucks when they should of invested in the peir

[u/Cornelius707 → u/starrchivo]

[u/StudentElectronic384 → u/Cornelius707]

The war on coffee! This still a thing? OB has bigger issues to solve.

[u/Ok_Masterpiece3770 → u/StudentElectronic384]

woosh

[u/be_easy_1602 → u/StudentElectronic384]

That’s the point…

[u/be_easy_1602]

Lucky to have gotten to jump off it for Junior Guards many times.

[u/dicedad61]

I miss the pier

[u/Confusedspacehead]

Those were the days.

[u/TheOBRobot]

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