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About Talmadge |
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Talmadge is located in the northeastern
corner of District 3 situated near San Diego State University and
isolated by canyons on the north and west and set off by the Talmadge
Gates which run through the heart of the community. Talmadge was established
in 1925 by real estate developers Roy and Guy Lichty and funded substantially
by Joseph Schenck, who was then President of United Artists. |
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Talmadge was named after the wife of Mr.
Schenck, Norma Talmadge, and her sisters, Constance and Natalie. The
three sisters were noted silent film stars. On January 3, 1926, the
sisters hosted a dedication ceremony in Talmadge. More than 10,000
San Diego residents as well as famous actors Buster Keaton and William
S. Hart were in attendance. The community was advertised as a self-sufficient
community, a place from which "residents could send their children
to school from Kindergarten through college and not have to move." |
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The Talmadge area was called by the San
Diego Union newspaper on July 28, 1928, "the city's most attractive
close-in residential tract." |
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Talmadge Community
Links |
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Kensington/Talmadge
Community Association |
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Talmadge
Maintenance Assessment District |
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Contact
Talmadge E-mail |
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Talmadge Community
Groups |
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The Kensington/Talmadge
Community Association offers a dinner for a reasonable price
before their monthly program. The chair is Mr. Rex Downing and they
meet every fourth Thursday at the Kensington Community Church, 4773
Marlborough Drive, beginning at 7pm. |
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The Kensington/Talmadge
Planning Group deals with land-use and planning matters with
the communities of Kensington and Talmadge. The chair is Allan Frostrom,
who can be contacted at 619/284-9171. They meet every second Wednesday
in the Kensington Community Church, 4773 Marlborough Drive, at 6:30pm. |
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The Talmadge Community
Council (TCC) works on neighborhood issues and concerns in
Talmadge. They meet every third Tuesday at 4725 Lucille Drive beginning
at 6:30pm. |
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The Talmadge Maintenance
Assessment District (T-MAD). In 1998 local residents banded
together to create the Talmadge Maintenance Assessment District (TMAD)
to restore, maintain and improve the quality of life for Talmadge
residents. The City of San Diego approved the TMAD master plan on
July 17, 2000. The T-MAD oversees the community's assessment district
which is currently restoring the Talmadge historic gates and coordinating
the improvements to the traffic circle at 49th Street and Adams Avenue.
They meet every fourth Tuesday of the month at Our Father's Church,
4481 Estrella Avenue, at 6:30pm. |
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Community Newspapers |
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The Kensington/Talmadge
Community News - they can be reached at Newsletter, c/o Ken-Tal
Planning Committee, P.O. Box 16391, San Diego, CA 92176, or e-mailing
kentalnews@yahoo.com |
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The Talmadge Gates |
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The City of San Diego Historic Resources
Board declared the Talmadge Gates as Historic District #422 on May
25, 2000. The gates are of a unique design in the City and provide
a distinctive community identifier and supplemental street lighting.
The gates were designed in the mid-1920's by engineer Frank R. Carlson.
They were cast in 1927 at Union Machine Works in San Diego, at 406
West Market Street at a cost of $1,000 each! The gates surround the
Talmadge Park Estates Unit #1 and Talmadge Park Unit #3. The gates
are wrought iron and approximately 10 feet wide and almost 15 feet
high and are decorated with fanciful curves and shapes reminiscent
of Andalusian iron work and reflective of the Spanish revival designs
of the 1920's in California. There are two distinct designs: one a
symmetrical arch frame spanning the sidewalk with a decorative light
fixture and secondly a flat arch frame crossing the sidewalk and an
arched "giraffe" neck arm that supports a decorative light
fixture. |
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Council Representative for Talmadge: April Chesebro
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