Lemon Grove Review » Lemon Grove Trivia http://www.lemongrovereview.com What's happening in Lemon Grove Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:01:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 First In-N-Out Burger in the county http://www.lemongrovereview.com/2009/08/lemon-grove-gets-first-in-n-out-burger/ http://www.lemongrovereview.com/2009/08/lemon-grove-gets-first-in-n-out-burger/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:07:37 +0000 Oldtimer http://www.lemongrovereview.com/?p=39 In-N-Out Burger in the Lemon Grove Plaza

 In 1990, In-N-Out Burger opened its first location in San Diego County, right here in Lemon Grove. To much fanfare, the line snaked out the parking lot and onto busy Massachusetts Avenue for several weeks. 
 
Los Angeles and Orange County transplants, who were already familiar with the popular burgers, were excited In-N-Out had finally come to San Diego. Until then, some of the burger-cult would drive to Orange County or Riverside just to satisfy an In-N-Out Burger urge.
]]> http://www.lemongrovereview.com/2009/08/lemon-grove-gets-first-in-n-out-burger/feed/ 0 Lemon Grove “Lips” are actually in La Mesa http://www.lemongrovereview.com/2009/08/lemon-grove-lips-are-actually-in-la-mesa/ http://www.lemongrovereview.com/2009/08/lemon-grove-lips-are-actually-in-la-mesa/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:46:28 +0000 staff http://www.lemongrovereview.com/?p=15 The Lips

Lemon Grove sure does love its quirky landmarks. Plaster lemons, geological lips, just two things that bring a little zing to the town, now that the actual lemon groves are gone. The lips inspiration is actually pretty well documented. It was originally an artist’s joke that’s been maintained by anonymous freelancers ever since. If you haven’t seen them, the mouth is actually just a clever natural formation of rock faces that, if you have an artist’s imagination, come together to form a set of not-too-sexy-plumpish lips in a large boulder.

In 1977, artist, Lemon Grove resident, and cheeky 17-year-old Steven Garcia decided that the lips he saw in the rocky formation needed some paint to help his friends see what he saw in the natural formation. So that year Lemon Grove got a big red permanent kiss from above route 94. Over the years embellishments have been added, but those were mostly stolen. The lips had accompanying painted-on eyes for a while, but nobody seemed to care about maintaining them. Garcia left the area at least 20 years ago, and ever since it’s been random lighthearted Lemon Grovians who’ve kept the lips juicy and bright on a volunteer basis. Maybe the biggest secret about the lips is that they’re actually, politically and geographically, in La Mesa. But you have to be in Lemon Grove to see them.

A Big Kiss From Lemon Grove – By Matthew Alice | Published Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 in the San Diego Reader

]]> http://www.lemongrovereview.com/2009/08/lemon-grove-lips-are-actually-in-la-mesa/feed/ 1