We have known Jim & Donna Klinge for over a dozen years, having met them in Carlsbad where our children went to the same school. As long time North County residents, it was a no- brainer for us to have the Klinges be our eyes and ears for San Diego real estate in general and North County in particular. As my military career caused our family to move all over the country and overseas to Asia, Europe and the Pacific, we trusted Jim and Donna to help keep our house in Carlsbad rented with reliable and respectful tenants for over 10 years.
Naturally, when the time came to sell our beloved Carlsbad home to pursue a rural lifestyle in retirement out of California, we could think of no better team to represent us than Jim and Donna. They immediately went to work to update our house built in 2004 to current-day standards and trends — in 2 short months they transformed it into a literal modern-day masterpiece. We trusted their judgement implicitly and followed 100% of their recommended changes. When our house finally came on the market, there was a blizzard of serious interest, we had multiple offers by the third day and it sold in just 5 days after a frenzied bidding war for 20% above our asking price! The investment we made in upgrades recommended by Jim and Donna yielded a 4-fold return, in the process setting a new high water mark for a house sold in our community.
In our view, there are no better real estate professionals in all of San Diego than Jim and Donna Klinge. Buying or selling, you must run and beg Jim and Donna Klinge to represent you! Our family will never forget Jim, Donna, and their whole team at Compass — we are forever grateful to them.
I noticed the cops nice harley
That’s funny–I just took a photo of that poster on the side of Rudford’s about a month ago!!! A great bit of history!!!
Back before America lost its innocence… sigh.
Great history for San Diego great restaurant
I don’t know what’s more awesome – the Lincoln Continental or the coolness of Rudford’s!
Hey, anon, I was going to ask you how you knew it was a Harley, then I reflected on the year. Only Harley would have been around in a streetable cop bike. Electra-Glide in Blue.
I like how Rudford’s advertises itself as “air conditioned”….everything is ‘air conditioned’ today….anyone know if that A/C sign is still up on Rudford’s?
Great photo! Before I moved back East I lived in North Park for 5 years and University Heights for 3 years. I was a regular at Rudford’s and I miss it. The owner owns a few diners in the area. The interior has changed a few times since 1963 and the “air conditioned” sign is not there anymore. It was always fun to watch the working girls walking up and down El Cajon Blvd. in the middle of the day. Some of them weren’t half bad 🙂
More innocent times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Fm19PN8m8
I have two framed black & white photos in my hallway:
(1) My Dad with JFK (during a whistle stop campaign by train throughout CA while he was running for President in the summer of 1960).
(2) My Dad with Richard Nixon (during a whistle stop campaign by train throughout CA while he was running for the Governor of CA in 1962.
In the first picture, my Dad is respectfully shaking JFK’s hand. In the other, he is standing next to Nixon and looking at the former President with a huge grin on his face while Nixon-smiling–looks straight at the camera).
Both pictures have elicited a lot of comments through the years.
But I just always remember the story my Dad told me about what happened when JFK asked for a Heineken beer with lunch and that was the only beer that wasn’t in the train’s kitchen galley…
Another video fo the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3_3TIcFciA
Thanks, Jim for the home video. Looks like North Park hasn’t changed much at all.
JTR – Talk about not changing….SD folks look at the 39 second mark of the video @#10 and the 101 KGB radio station car in the parade….KGB was rocking SD then, and still rocking it today. Probably playing the exact same music too (just call it classic rock now).