SALES From page lA compromise, ever." "Enid's skill, deep knowledge and enthusiasm for historic preservation were remarkable and inspiring," commented attorney Susan Brandt-Hawley, who worked for Sales in many of her fights to thwart demolitions. "She educated so many about preservation and kept local agencies aware that threats to historic resources would be carefully monitored." "Her take-no-prisoners approach roiled many who misun- derstood that this was the only way this 'warrior' could fight the good fight," said friend and neighbor Suzanne Paboojian. "She started the focus on what is historic in Carmel," commented Mayor Sue McCloud, and the documents the city uses to determine buildings' significance"are probably a nat- ural outgrowth of what she started years ago as chair of what is now the historic resources board." James Bryant and his wife, Mary Hill, met Sales after buying an historic adobe in Monterey in 1999. Bryant formed the Alliance of Monterey Area Preservationists, and Sales joined its board. They became close friends, and toward the end, they helped take care of her in her failing health. "We were kindred spirits," Bryant said. "Enid was an inspiration for many reasons." Born June 3, 1922, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sales moved to San Francisco with her family around the age of 10, according to Bryant. Her mother had a home in Carmel, and Paboojian said Sales recalled "how she and her brother would run from the beach and up the back steps of La Playa hotel, where she always enjoyed going for a drink or dinner later in life." She attended Reed 1 College in Oregon and was married for a short time to - jazz critic Grover Sales. In San Francisco in the mid-1970s, she ran the city's redevelopment agency and "organized moving a dozen Victorian homes in the mid- dle of the night in order to save them, shutting down the city's transit and traffic light systems, and making sure everything was up and run- lung in time for the morning commute,"Paboojianreport- ed. / Later in Carmel, she fought to place Sunset Center on the National Register of Historic Places, but she also savored the city's less grand buildings. "It was the good exam- ples of vernacular, ordinary i things that ought to be pre- served - all the little cot- tages of Carmel," Livingston said. "She was a champion in my book." t In 2006, the California Preservation Foundation named her Preservationist of the Year, and AMAP gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to orga- nizing and running her own Carmel Preservation Foundation, she served on the county's historic resources review board. She often took on preservation work almost single-hand- edly, recently fighting the demolition of the Marsh's building in Monterey that Bryant now sees as a memorial to her. "She loved Carmel so much," he added. "She wanted to· establish the downtown core as an historic district and pro- mote it." In fact, "heritage tourism;' will be the topic of a Sept. 19 forum, A Bright Future for a City's Economy, which Sales organized. "It was her hope it would inspire our area to use historic buildings for good economic reasons, not just for sentimental reasons." While a formidable, uncompromising opponent, Sales was also funny, sharp, congenial and bright. "She adored bourbon - sometimes gin - and loved good stories and sitting around with people, and talking and laugh- ing and good foodi' Livingston said. Bryant and his wife visited Sales at the hospital the night before she died. Despite her struggles with pain and labored breathing, they managed to share a few laughs. "She was sharp to the end, and funny, and so pragmatic and objective about things, including herself," he said. 1 "There's a void I don't think can be filled." Bryant said a pally will be held to celebrate her life. "There will be a Jack Daniels for her," he said. , OCR Text: SALES From page lA compromise, ever." "Enid's skill, deep knowledge and enthusiasm for historic preservation were remarkable and inspiring," commented attorney Susan Brandt-Hawley, who worked for Sales in many of her fights to thwart demolitions. "She educated so many about preservation and kept local agencies aware that threats to historic resources would be carefully monitored." "Her take-no-prisoners approach roiled many who misun- derstood that this was the only way this 'warrior' could fight the good fight," said friend and neighbor Suzanne Paboojian. "She started the focus on what is historic in Carmel," commented Mayor Sue McCloud, and the documents the city uses to determine buildings' significance"are probably a nat- ural outgrowth of what she started years ago as chair of what is now the historic resources board." James Bryant and his wife, Mary Hill, met Sales after buying an historic adobe in Monterey in 1999. Bryant formed the Alliance of Monterey Area Preservationists, and Sales joined its board. They became close friends, and toward the end, they helped take care of her in her failing health. "We were kindred spirits," Bryant said. "Enid was an inspiration for many reasons." Born June 3, 1922, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sales moved to San Francisco with her family around the age of 10, according to Bryant. Her mother had a home in Carmel, and Paboojian said Sales recalled "how she and her brother would run from the beach and up the back steps of La Playa hotel, where she always enjoyed going for a drink or dinner later in life." She attended Reed 1 College in Oregon and was married for a short time to - jazz critic Grover Sales. In San Francisco in the mid-1970s, she ran the city's redevelopment agency and "organized moving a dozen Victorian homes in the mid- dle of the night in order to save them, shutting down the city's transit and traffic light systems, and making sure everything was up and run- lung in time for the morning commute,"Paboojianreport- ed. / Later in Carmel, she fought to place Sunset Center on the National Register of Historic Places, but she also savored the city's less grand buildings. "It was the good exam- ples of vernacular, ordinary i things that ought to be pre- served - all the little cot- tages of Carmel," Livingston said. "She was a champion in my book." t In 2006, the California Preservation Foundation named her Preservationist of the Year, and AMAP gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to orga- nizing and running her own Carmel Preservation Foundation, she served on the county's historic resources review board. She often took on preservation work almost single-hand- edly, recently fighting the demolition of the Marsh's building in Monterey that Bryant now sees as a memorial to her. "She loved Carmel so much," he added. "She wanted to· establish the downtown core as an historic district and pro- mote it." In fact, "heritage tourism;' will be the topic of a Sept. 19 forum, A Bright Future for a City's Economy, which Sales organized. "It was her hope it would inspire our area to use historic buildings for good economic reasons, not just for sentimental reasons." While a formidable, uncompromising opponent, Sales was also funny, sharp, congenial and bright. "She adored bourbon - sometimes gin - and loved good stories and sitting around with people, and talking and laugh- ing and good foodi' Livingston said. Bryant and his wife visited Sales at the hospital the night before she died. Despite her struggles with pain and labored breathing, they managed to share a few laughs. "She was sharp to the end, and funny, and so pragmatic and objective about things, including herself," he said. 1 "There's a void I don't think can be filled." Bryant said a pally will be held to celebrate her life. "There will be a Jack Daniels for her," he said. , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,S through T File names,Sales,SALES_003.pdf,SALES_003.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: SALES_003.PDF, SALES_003.pdf 1 Page 1