Tag archives: Charles Ward
The arts, entertainment, sports, and philanthropic worlds were hit hard along the South Coast this year, losing the likes of philanthropist Lee Luria, musician Peter Clark, beloved polo club icon Charles Ward, and the Metropolitan Theatres’ owner Bruce Corwin. It was a tough year, but also a reflective one that allowed us all to appreciate […]
On a deeply personal note, I remember Charles Ward, the longtime Texan publicist and promoter for the Santa Barbara Polo Club, who left us for more heavenly pastures at the age of 80 in his hometown of Dallas. We first met in 2007 when I moved to our rarefied enclave from Hancock Park in Los […]
Charles Lowell Ward, Jr., passed away peacefully on June 15, 2021, from complications of heart disease. The Houston native was preceded in death by parents Judy and Charles Ward, Sr., as well as brother Jeffrey S. Ward, Sr. He leaves behind nephew, Jeffrey S. Ward, Jr., grandnephews Tyler, Mason and Braden, and longtime business ally, […]
Dallas dynamo and former TV anchor Charles Ward, who has been promoting the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club for nearly two decades, is expanding his empire. Charles, who plays President George Washington with my King George III in the village parade each year, has forged a strategic alliance with the international luxury glossy Polo […]
Belmond El Encanto, the hotel aerie on the Riviera, hosted a polo party with Texan promotional dynamo Charles Ward and yours truly, which also welcomed the tony hostelry’s new manager, Colleen Huther, and sales executive Rob Roche, who has moved to our Eden by the Beach from the Peninsula in Beverly Hills. A model of […]
Football may have its large and impressive Super Bowl rings, but now the refined game of polo has its own equivalent. A unique 14-carat white gold ring, featuring the logo of the Santa Barbara Polo Club, with an eagle carved into the front and back of the ring’s mounting, and 109 hand-set natural fancy black […]
After “kinging” as George III for the sixth year in the village July 4 parade, with Dallas dynamo Charles Ward, Santa Barbara Polo Club promoter, as George Washington, in a $418,000 two-toned Rolls Royce Dawn convertible lent by the O’Gara Coach Company in Westlake, with former Miss Alabama Tara Gray and ex Miss California, Kerri […]
Karen Earp, manager of the Biltmore, hosted a media bash at the beachside hostelry’s Ty Lounge for local scribes to welcome the Four Seasons hotel’s re-opening after five months of closure due to the catastrophic mudslides in January. “It is so good to be back!” enthused Karen. “There was a lot of cosmetic damage, and […]
A new local TV show has launched – at the gallop. Santa Barbara Polo Life, co-hosted by former TV anchor Charles Ward, longtime Texan promoter at the SB Polo Club, and Tara Gray, who has spent more than 10,000 hours on air, started taping the weekly 30-minute series at the TVSB studios on Salinas Street […]
Italian carmaker Lamborghini is not normally noted for family-friendly vehicles, but following in the footsteps of other prestige marques such as Bentley and Rolls Royce the carmaker has launched the world’s fastest SUV. The $200,000 vehicle, which can go from 0 to 60 in 3.6 seconds and has a top speed of 190 mph – […]
