Thursday, August 11 2011

A new beacon for the community
Overnight the sign that started CityFest came down…and a new Hillcrest sign with LED lights was installed. The first sign was donated to Hillcrest by women shopkeepers in 1940. After years of being unlit, in 1984 the community raised donations in to rebuild it, and the party created under the beacon was the genisis for CityFest, San Diego’s first neighborhood streetfair which has continued throughout the decades. The new sign will be relit at 8pm Sunday for the last hour of CityFest.