Now, New York Street is full of feathered nods to the Big Apple, such as ostrich versions of the Statue of Liberty and the Rockettes. It is a call back to when the area was an ostrich farm. Each one has a cartoon ostrich on it, her own design.
She lives in a small cul-de-sac on New York Street and started creating wooden holiday panels six years ago. Her magical touch goes way beyond lights, stretching into whimsy.
Jacobsen is the holiday glue that holds the small neighborhood in San Diego together, although she will humbly deny it every time. “And then more people decided they wanted their trees wrapped, so that’s how this goes.” “We wanted to wrap our trees and not die,” she said.
What started with Jacobsen’s one tree has now evolved into her renting a lift and doing the whole block. SAN DIEGO - Ask anyone in the tight-knit community of University Heights, and they’ll tell you it isn’t the holidays until Edie Jacobsen is hanging lights on palm trees.