One of the oldest family businesses is Ivy’s. The owner, Kathryn Barwick, is a third generation OBer. She says her store is “ridiculously cheap”, with the average item beginning and ending at around $30.00, Barwick describes her store as Bohemian, but filled with the basics for most women’s wardrobe.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary is a playful and smart women’s boutique offering clothes and accessories to help articulate any style. The owner is Cecelia Church, a trained seamstress and former costume and prop designer who has worked with some of San Diego’s most accomplished theater companies—Lamb’s Players, San Diego Repertory Theater and Diversionary….
Sabrina Reflexology
Meet Sabrina Cox, a reflexologist and natural nails technician who has taken the ubiquitous manicure and pedicure treatment and raised it to a high art. Working at an Art Moderne building on Normal Street in Hillcrest—an understated, second-story space with nothing to distract from pure escape and indulgence—Cox blends the…
Rubber Rose
The Rubber Rose, located in North Park, is a spicy little boutique that offers some of the latest, greatest, highest quality, ahem, adult toys. The gadgets come in a dazzling range of varieties and prices. Quiet, efficient, aerodynamic and unbelievably adorable, all of these modern weapons of mass pleasure are…
