If you’re looking around the San Diego area for a camper shell for a pickup truck, it’s hard to avoid going to El Cajon. El Cajon has the greatest concentration of camper shell dealers in …
Thursday, April 24
Thursday, April 17
Don’t ask how I got into this situation. I’m driving an old VW bus, owned by a man who calls himself C.R. Gregory — the C.R. standing for “Credit Risk.’’ “The nicest thing about driving …
The only genuine fast-food outlet in Ocean Beach is the Jack-in-the-Box at the corner of Voltaire Street and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, a garish orange structure erected in 1956, a time when leering fifty-foot-tall clown heads …
Thursday, April 10
Sparks of light fly from the cluster of diamonds on Bill Drexler’s right hand whenever he jabs the air with his index finger. He does this frequently. “Taxation is theft" — jab! “You have a …
Talking fast isn’t a matter of choice for AM jocks; it isn’t rock and roll chic in the way working at Tower Records while you’re wearing your Grateful Dead roadie shirt and acting bored is chic.
Thursday, April 3
Scene: A Friday afternoon business luncheon. Helen Copley, publisher of the San Diego Union and the Evening Tribune , is speaking to 150 members of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. Time for questions. A …
Sometimes it seems as though the history of San Diego began with the invention of pastel stucco. The residential heritage of the city consists largely of rows of nondescript stucco boxes, with an occasional white-frame …