Lulo’s mother, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, was a world-famous poet who claimed to be the first resident of Pacific Beach. Edward and his father Franklin had been leaders in the lemon industry which sustained Pacific Beach after the college closed in 1891. Edward Barnes and Lulo Thorpe had been in the first class at the San Diego College of Letters there when it opened in 1888. The Barnes family had been prominent among the early pioneers of Pacific Beach. This home was directly across the street from the home of Edward (E.Y.) and Lulo Barnes, at 3361 4 th, and the Jackson family and Barnes family became close. Riley Richmond Jackson was born in Wisconsin in 1899 but moved to San Diego with his family about 1910 and lived at 3358 (now 3360) 4 th Street. It was built in 1931 for Richmond and Ruth Jackson. The address on the fence outside the driveway says 4830 but for years the property was known simply as Holiday Hill. The estate agent explained that the house had been sold and added that the new owners intended to preserve it and to live there themselves. Enclosed behind a white plaster wall the house seems isolated and remote, but on a recent weekend the doors were open and throngs of people were attending an estate sale there.
Now hemmed in by housing developments to the east and west, an elementary school to the north and multi-story condominiums to the south, it was originally at the farthest corner of the community, surrounded by vacant land that had once been lemon ranches. The Jackson home, Holiday Hill, overlooking truck farms, former lemon ranch houses and Lamont and Diamond streets in 1938 (San Diego History Center #83:14603-1)Īn expansive Spanish-style house on a bluff at the northern end of Noyes Street has overlooked Pacific Beach for more than 90 years.
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