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Imperial Beach, Our Coastal Orphan
Published Nov. 2, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago [A] local symbol has almost gone up in flames. The hut at the base of Bonair and Neptune Place was damaged in a fire last week. Refurbished with new palm fronds each year ...
Back When People Had a Hard Time Avoiding Britney Spears
Published Oct. 26, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago A moist night wind whipped the crowd that waited patiently at the Southwestern College gymnasium. Some had been waiting since 1:00 p.m. Some had come from as far way as San Francisco. They ...
Back When: A Revolution in Mexico?
Published Oct. 19, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago “It’s gotten really bad in the last three years,” says Bob Moore, one of 45 Border Patrol agents patrolling the Chula Vista Sector. “Well, this is just hearsay, you understand, but I talk ...
Back When It Was Legal to Make PCP
Published Oct. 12, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago When the new penal statutes take effect January 1, we won’t be able to do what we didn’t know, until now, that ... More Post a comment
1991: You’re Gay, You Drive, You get Special Handling
Published Oct. 5, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago Since WWII, the emergent “East Coast” style has tended toward a simplified, even primitive, form and a more cerebral content.... The New ... More Comment (1)
Some Peeves Never Change
Published Sept. 28, 2011
Thirty Years Ago Tribune editor Neil Morgan will put an end to a “very strange and uncomfortable” situation next week when he turns loose his ... More Post a comment
The Hip List
Published Sept. 21, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>On the night of Tuesday, September 28, in a boxing ring constructed inside New York City’s newly renovated Yankee Stadium, a heavyweight championship ... More Post a comment
A 91X Rant
Published Sept. 14, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>Studio structures have been bemoaned for so long that it is almost an automatic reflex to greet the recent breakdown with cries of ... More Post a comment
What O.B. Were You Visiting, Mister?
Published Sept. 7, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>Being a life-long resident of Ocean Beach, I found your article last week on the O.B. Pier a little amusing. Maybe your writer ... More Post a comment
MTV Two Decades Ago
Published Aug. 31, 2011
Thirty Years Ago<br>San Ysidro embraces the new branch of the Main Attraction, a strip joint boasting more than $100,000 worth of lights and sound paraphernalia, ... More Post a comment
Be on the Alert for Marijuana
Published Aug. 24, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>San Diegans are meeting in churches, recreation centers, and living rooms, hoping that somehow, some way, they’ll make it through the night without ... More Post a comment
Rich Man in Heaven
Published Aug. 17, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are the best of the bunch, because they devote a reasonable degree of attention to the cinematic style ... More Post a comment
You Can't Fight Rose Lynne
Published Aug. 10, 2011
Thirty-Five Years Ago<br>I had two phone calls. The first caller, a woman, began plaintively, “I find your reviews depressing. You’re always writing about how to ... More Post a comment
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