Hold the tomatoes:Word should have reached you...

Hold the tomatoes:

Word should have reached you by now that in the movie “The Lost World,” there’s a dinosaur attack on San Diego. In case you’re wondering, this isn’t the first cinematic calamity to befall “America’s Finest City,” as it calls itself.

In 1978, San Diego was besieged by an army of out-of-control vegetables in “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.”

That epic was produced by Steve Peace, who was later elected to the state Legislature but never lost his interest in tomatoes. A few years after the Chula Vista Democrat took office, he sponsored a bill to require markets to specify whether tomatoes in store bins are artificially ripened or vine-ripened.

We can’t remember which variety the villain was in the movie.

SCENIC CATALINA: The not-so-hard-sell approach of Antonio’s Original Pizzeria on Catalina inspired two shutterbugs. Rich Roberts of Wilmington photographed the unorthodox “open” notice. Scott Seomin of Sherman Oaks snapped a shot of a mock landmark sign proudly inviting passersby to “bask in the ambiance of the decaying 1950s.”

HIS OTHER BIRD (CONT.): When last we visited the peregrine falcon couple on a ledge of the 33rd floor of the United Bank of California building--visited them in print, anyway--we made the shocking disclosure that the male had been observed visiting a second female. No. 2 was on the Department of Water and Power building.

Since then, there have been big developments on the couple’s home front. When Union Bank put up a new sign in the vicinity of the nest, workers found an egg, which was carefully transported to UC Santa Cruz, where its development can be monitored.

Scientists, meanwhile, gave the falcon couple a young chick, which resembled “a white fluff-ball more than a bird of prey,” said spokesman Andrew Porterfield. The new chick “was a hatchling from another nest of falcons” on the Westside.

Now that the wandering male is a father, he seems to be staying home, Porterfield said. We hope the female on the DWP building learns a lesson from this.

TAKE ME OUT TO THE CONCERT: Michael Horowicz settled into his seat at Dodger Stadium before a recent game and noticed that city and county fire department helicopters “were landing at the water tanks in Elysian Park behind the stadium to fill up with water” to put out a brush fire in Eagle Rock.

“I said to my friend, ‘This looks like a scene out of a war movie,’ ” Horowicz related. Just then, he said, organist Nancy Hefley “started playing the theme from ‘MASH.’ Then she segued into ‘Happy Talk’ from ‘South Pacific,’ when she had to stop because the players took the field. Nobody in my section got the joke.”

We can’t blame the others. We’d be too busy tending to our hot dog and beer to notice, ourselves.

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A colleague saw an ad that showed a replica of a California driver’s license--for a dog. The authentic-looking ID, complete with space for photo, costs $10.95, plus $2 postage. Here’s the best part: All you have to do is send the Boulder, Colo. company the money. As the ad says, “No written test.”