Ocean Avenue
Ocean Avenue is Carmel’s main street: a bakery from 1899, a village laid out in 1902, a park under the oaks, and a long slope down to the white sand at the water’s edge.
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In 1902 James Franklin Devendorf and Frank Hubbard Powers, for the Carmel Development Company, filed a subdivision map for the core of the village. The builder Michael J. Murphy put up nearly 350 buildings here between 1902 and 1940. (Wikipedia)
Fritz Schweninger opened the Carmel Bakery on Ocean Avenue in 1899, and the city developed Devendorf Park, at Ocean Avenue and Junipero Street, in 1932. (Wikipedia)
Much of Carmel’s character is what it leaves out. The city has no traffic lights, no parking meters and no street lights. Zoning drafted under city attorney Argyll Campbell, who served from 1920 to 1937, ruled out chain restaurants and billboards, held buildings to one or two stories and set out to protect native trees. (Wikipedia)
The village has long had no street addresses and no house-to-house mail delivery, though the city is now in the process of assigning house numbers. (Visit Carmel)
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