![]() ![]() Stone became a glass artist relatively late in life. Stone said Cohen sowed the seeds of most of the handful of professional glass-blowing artists active in the San Diego area today. Stone worked in Cohen’s private studio for several years learning the trade and took lessons from Cohen at Palomar College, where Cohen taught for 18 years before recently retiring. “James is a very hardworking, competent glass blower,” Cohen said. “He has just built himself a very nice deluxe studio,” said Garry Cohen, who helped teach Stone the craft and who Stone refers to as his mentor. On the day Stone & Glass reopened, 300 patrons came on a Saturday to celebrate during an event Stone dubbed “Rising from the Ashes of Adversity.” He designed a logo in the shape of a Phoenix with the slogan embedded in the design and made mugs and T-shirts featuring the sentiment. When you rent us the building, she can just walk across the parking lot for the lesson.’” Stone said. One of the people there instantly recognized the artist because he had purchased a glassblowing class for his wife that she had yet to use. He and Stone went over to Hawthorne’s, which owned the building. The owner said in fact he was planning on moving out in just a few months. He mentioned to the metal store’s owner how much he liked the space and said if he was ever thinking of leaving to let him know. ![]() To refurbish much of the metal that was damaged in the fire, he went to a metalworking refinishing business in town and while delivering the material looked around. ![]() Stone had good insurance that covered most of the damage costs. Last week, Stone & Glass reopened - better than ever, Stone says - in a building that has a Grand Avenue address right next to the famous Hawthorne Country Store where farm animals and supplies are sold. It destroyed the business’s air compressor and ate away at everything that was glued together, which was a lot of his artwork made of glass, metal and stone. “It etched every piece of raw metal and worked its ways into every tool cabinet. “There was a lot of acid in the soot,” Stone said. Stone learned that firewalls that should have contained the smoke and soot to the mattress factory were never extended all the way to the ceiling. The three-alarm fire, one of the biggest in recent memory in the city, burned for hours. ![]()
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