Chamber cancels two-day festival citing declining attendance and pushback from waterfront merchants
The Oceanside Chamber of Commerce has pulled the plug on Harbor Days, a two-day festival of food, boating and aquatic fun that began 60 years ago as a celebration of the city’s newly minted marina.
Luis Lopez, who has owned the Lighthouse Fish & Seafood Market in the harbor village for 14 years, agreed. He said his regular customers didn’t show up during Harbor Days, and the tourists usually walked right by. Camp Pendleton contributed displays of military boats, vehicles and weaponry, and the U.S. Coast Guard offered tours of its 85-foot cutter the Point Hobart, which was stationed in the Oceanside harbor at the time. Today the nearest Coast Guard cutter is in San Diego.
In recent years the festival become more corporate, she said. Commercial vendors selling products like windows and artificial turf replaced a lot of the “mom and pop” booths offering food and arts and crafts.
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