Encinitas history in Times of San Diego

Times of San Diego:

Beneath today’s surf culture, cafés, and coastal neighborhoods are traces of very different eras: a silent film actor who invested in early town lots, a historic movie palace still operating downtown. This cliffside spiritual retreat gave a surf break its name, and flower fields that once helped define the region’s economy.

Most of it is still there — if you know where to look.

Sydney Chaplin, the older brother of Charlie Chaplin, purchased acreage in Encinitas in 1923 during a coastal land boom, paying about $5,000 for property along what was then a developing stretch of Highway 101.

More at the link on La Paloma, the Ecke flower fields, Swami's and the Olivenhain Germans.