The Walking on Water Cafe on the Ocean Beach Pier has a brand new sign thanks to the local community.
The original completely blue sign on the cafe was installed in 1993. The plan was to put the sign up and have it changed not long after. That never happened.
“The old cafe sign was installed ‘temporarily’ and was in much need of replacement,” said Walking on Water Cafe operator Chuck Fisher.
Twenty-three years later, Johnny Fisher, a server at the Walking on Water Cafe, designed the new sign to be red, white and blue in time for the Fourth of July. There are plans to return the sign to the original blue letters at some point.
Pastor Carter Moss with the Newbreak Church in Ocean Beach helped bring the volunteers together who built and painted the sign in one day. Fisher and his crew then used a plank hung off the side of the pier to hang the sign in time for the 50th anniversary of the pier.
“Everyone just absolutely loves the new sign,” Fisher said.