THE MOST REMARKABLE THING about the little girls who gather at the Chula Vista Woman’s Club is the way they don’t quite fit in. The pink crepe paper and plastic bunnies and gold-colored trophies splashed …
Thursday, March 31
Sixty cents seemed like an awfully hefty one-way toll when the San Diego Coronado Bridge opened back in 1969. So the bridge authority figured conservatively, estimating it could pay off the $47.6 million in bonds …
The beautification of Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach has begun creeping west. In the shadow of the spanking-new facelift at Pacific Plaza, workers have begun renovating the Safeway-owned shopping center on the northwest corner of …
One by one, they’ll be moved: the groceries stacked high along old, narrow aisles; the Disneyland collection of junk (everything from old golf clubs to underwear) dangling from strings tied to the ceiling, and the …
Thursday, March 24
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener; that is what I truly want to be. For if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener, everyone would be in love with me. 1972 WAS A …
Thursday, March 17
WE HAVE pulled over to the side of the road, primed for transgression. As usual on a Friday night, latecomers for “Laserium” at the Griffith Park Observatory are parking their cars further and further down …
Thursday, March 10
On May 14, the famed anarchist orator, Emma Goldman, arrived in San Diego. The mayor told her that the vigilantes were gathering outside the [U.S. Grant] hotel and that for her own safety she would have to leave.
Dear Matthew Alice, I’ve just moved here from San Francisco and have been told about the old Coronado ferries which ran from North Island to downtown. I always enjoyed riding them in the bay area …
Thursday, March 3
On paydays the route three bus from Camp Pendleton to Oceanside is jammed with marines. It leaves the base along Vandergrist Boulevard, then proceeds to the Mesa Marguerita housing area and North River Road, picking …
I had to defend all the notorious passages. Suddenly, Gutfleisch switched to yet another attack: “Would you allow your son to read such stuff?” I shot back, “How can he when he’s only six years old?"
There's a classic confrontation in Oceanside these days that should be interesting to watch in the months to come. It involves the city council, Camp Pendleton, the Western Surfing Association, the Army Corps of Engineers, …