When I lived in Carlsbad, I lived with Ron Packard's family in 1976; you probably know him as the former Mayor and Congressman. I lived there for a short time while I prepared to serve a 2-year Spanish-speaking LDS Mission (Mormon) between 1976 to 1978 in Arizona. Anyway, I was always in Carlsbad. It wasn't very nice back then, except for the beach. When I came abck in 1978, there was a wall on the beach to protect it against storms.