Encinitas: Our History and People

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Top: A few banners created by local
artists along Coast Highway promoted
by the Artist Colony’s “Arts Alive”
community program.
Above: Swami’s Beach & Park.
COURTESY OF DAPHNE FLETCHER
Right: “Dog Days of Summer”, first
held in a parking lot in Cardiff in 2005.
It expanded to Encinitas Community
Park, holding various events like the
dog/owner look-alike contest.
• Encinitas Library (540 Cornish Dr.) has occupied several locations,
including one on the corner of “D” Street in the Rupe Building during the
1940s into the mid-1950s. Manuel Oncina Architects, Inc. are contracted to
design a new state-of-the-art facility, financed by the City of Encinitas. On
February 23rd the $20-million-dollar, 27,798-square-foot library opens.
This facility includes a 2,000-square-foot Community Room, 537-squarefoot
Special Collections Room, an informal Literary Lab with 15 computer
workstations for group instruction and three group study rooms. A reading
deck along the west side, a Friends of the Library bookstore and an entry
coffee cart are part of the main space. Civic Art shows are included as part
of the library design, with local artists and performers playing an integral
part of the library’s design.
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