Monterey locals are buzzing like a hornet nest.
Significant historical research has gone into this question over the years. And all of that research leads to the conclusion that it’s always been called Lovers Point. And it got that name because it was and is a famously popular smooching and hoochie-cooching location for young romantics.
A description of Lovers Point published in the American Guide Series’ Monterey Peninsula said the place was “named by legend and designed by nature as a trysting place for sentimental youth.”
The confusion comes, I guess, because some people mistakenly thought that a lot of religious services were conducted at Lovers Point, back in the day. But researchers say that, while some occasional services were held at Lovers Point, most of the religious stuff actually happened at Jewell Park, just down the road from Lovers Point. In fact, a “preacher’s stand” had been erected at Jewell Park for the convenience of pastors holding services there.
Well, the point seems to be that you could find Jesus at the Jew Park in Monterey. Makes sense when you think about it.
In fact, a true adherent to the teaching of a Jew might say Lovers Jesus Point is redundant. Like saying Point Point or Park Park.
A reliable reference book about Monterey place names, Monterey County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary, by Donald Thomas Clark, cites several authoritative sources on the matter. As far back as 1885, the rocky outcrop was referred to simply as Lovers Point, according to Clark.
Clark and McCombs also pointed out that the location had a bunch of other names over the years, including Point Aulon, Laboratory Point, Organ Point, Spooney’s Point and simply The Point.
The Point. I like it.
Apparently blame for attempts to inject Jesus where he doesn’t belong goes to Santa Cruz in 1968, which is a notable place and time, let alone their more recent campaign “save the Swastika“.
“You can’t regulate what’s on the inside of somebody else’s house,” said police spokesman…. The man apparently rotates the swastika flags with other, less controversial banners, and Friend said police started receiving complaints of Nazi flags about a month ago. Over the weekend the resident hung America’s Old Glory and Britain’s Union Jack under two Nazi flags. Monday, he hung a modern German government flag between the two flags of the Third Reich.
Notable the Santa Cruz police openly admit they don’t know how laws work. An ideologically permissive zone in the direction that flows all the way to Monterey.
We all know which way the baptismal waves go in the bay.
Nazi surf’s up!