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Stories for July 1981

Thursday, July 30

Man asks Father's Aid of San Diego for help in custody fight

The new attorney had a downturned mouth and large, angular ears, the kind of face Walt Disney might use for the arch-villain in a children’s comedy film. Hollywood probably would have named him Hugo.

The cowboy of the Mission Beach boardwalk

Wes Alvens was decked out like a cowboy long before you ever slid your tender feet into a pair of citified cowboy boots, and he’ll likely be tucking his riding gloves under his broad leather …

July 30, 1981
The cast of characters at Villa Nova apartments

David Bowie was to Phil everything a great human being should be and he emulated him as much as he could in word, thought, and deed. According to Phil, my obsession with the Rolling Stones was antiquated.

July 30, 1981

Thursday, July 23

He escaped Russia into San Diego's open arms

It’s been a year and a half since Yurii Aleksandrovich Vetokhin leapt off a Russian cruise ship in the middle of the night and swam for twenty hours through the shark-filled Moluccan Sea. It’s been …

July 23, 1981
From Toro Peak to Fonts Point, barely

As they continued to descend, the temperature rose, and when they reached the Borrego Badlands, some three hours from the top, the temperature had risen to 106 degrees. “We were amazed at the mountain we came down.”

Thursday, July 16

San Diego in World War II: Crowds on Broadway, women riveters at Convair, new housing in Linda Vista, fear-gripped Coronado

"I was pregnant with our first child and we were remodeling the house, our first programming was interrupted and the announcer started saying Pearl Harbor was being bombed. At fi we thought it was just …

July 16, 1981
Lakeside Hotel – roughest nightspot in San Diego County

“Most of the fights are just fist swinging, but I’ve seen people get knocked down on that concrete porch out there and then someone comes along and just pounds their head open."

July 16, 1981

Thursday, July 9

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art and its zany director

Even by Texas standards it was a bold and daring exhibition of contemporary art. And while it had a lot to do with the firing of Lefty Adler from his job as director of the …

July 9, 1981

Thursday, July 2

Women body builders and their skimpy bikinis

On the evening of May 23rd, the occasion of the 1981 Mr. and Ms. California bodybuilding contest, I stood concealed behind the side curtains of Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD. In the center of the stage …

July 2, 1981
Elizabeth Cotten, adopted by the Seeger family, then discovered

“I was here about a year ago, I think they told me last night. It's kind of hard to remember. . . places I go to and how long it’s been, because I don’t think …

July 2, 1981
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