People & Places Tours: Polemics of Goldfish Point

People & Places Tours:

Rogues or royals?  Historical legends or misfits?  Landmarks with secret stories? Historian Carol Olten explores novel and unfamiliar stories about some of La Jolla’s distinctive people and places in a new series of guided walking tours presented by the La Jolla Historical Society.

Tour participants will meet Olten at 2 p.m. Thursdays at each of the sites for visual programs and discussions of singular – and often surprising! – looks at some of the people and places shaping La Jolla history from dubious guests at the Green Dragon Colony to a female aerialist who regularly descended to the beaches from the skies with a pet monkey in the late 19^th century.  Visit the LJHS website for tickets, $10 for members and $20 for non. Each tour will be about an hour and a half.  

Details:

Duration: Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes

When: Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Where: Meet in front of Cave Store, 1325 Coast Blvd. 

Polemics of Goldfish Point

Controversial characters seem to have been the mainstay of historic rambings about this scenic cliffside topographic wonder offering views to here and back.  For starters there’s the infamous Professor Gustav Schulz, who dug the steps to Sunny Jim Cave to make a tourist dollar in the early 20^th century; Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, just visiting in 1905 who wrote a book about it called Sea Fairies, and two entertaining cliff jumpers named Horace Poole and Helen Keyes (the latter accompanied by a monkey). Meet in front of Cave Store for a circus in the making!