Sandy Snakenburg, a homeless veteran known for bubble blowing in La Jolla Cove, was issued a citation by a San Diego park ranger. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.

French painters Jean Siméon Chardin and Édouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit painted more than a century apart.

Blowing bubbles is illegal in San Diego — or at least it was early Saturday evening at a public park in one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods. Sandy Snakenberg, who has been performing as ...