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I Could Have Just Screamed

I Could Have Just Screamed

Thirty Years AgoWhen Weird Marvin screams, he means business. He says he once screamed from the top of Mount Helix and a friend over on Mount Miguel heard him. Now Marvin is screaming off Hawley Point ...

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The Grim Woozies

The Grim Woozies

Thirty Years AgoJack Ford, son of the former president, will soon make his home in San Diego. The 26-year-old Ford, who first visited San Diego during vacation breaks from Utah State University, where he majored ...

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Triumph of Hope Over Experience

Triumph of Hope Over Experience

Thirty Years Ago1. Why do you buy ink especially designed to come off all over me? I have to be careful not to read your issue wearing light-colored clothing! 3. Surely you get letters asking ...

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San Diego Confidential

San Diego Confidential

Thirty Years AgoThe cypress trees remain. So do the eucalyptus, pine, and groves of pepper trees. They are memorials to people who turned a dusty, ... More Post a comment

Love Is the Drug

Love Is the Drug

Thirty Years AgoSunday morning in the little desert pit stop of Burro Bend. Everything’s quiet. The sun has just risen over the Salton Sea; in ... More Post a comment

Radio Blabbermouth

Radio Blabbermouth

Thirty Years AgoThank you for your article on our boss, Lowell Blankfort (“Press Passes,” March 30). We commend Paul Krueger’s skill in capturing the personality ... More Post a comment

Roger Revisited

Roger Revisited

Thirty Years AgoA former alcoholic, Sister Winnie first immersed herself in rescue work 28 years ago when she took over the city’s oldest such haven ... More Post a comment

Hog Luv

Hog Luv

Thirty Years AgoLarry Remer’s first fundraiser for his weekly newspaper, Newsline, held in the stately Mission Hills home of Janed Casady, rallied 150 fellow liberals ... More Post a comment

A Quiet Street and an Old Hotel

A Quiet Street and an Old Hotel

Thirty Years Ago“Jacumba Hotel, Ida here.” “Hello, I’d like a reservation for this weekend.” “Sorry, honey, we’re filled up. We’ve got two groups coming in ... More Post a comment

End Without End

End Without End

Thirty Years AgoSunday, country music figurehead Johnny Cash makes his annual visit to San Diego at the Civic Theatre with his perennial partners, June Carter ... More Post a comment

Winter Storm

Winter Storm

Thirty Years AgoWhile I have permitted myself, the last week or two, to become hopelessly tangled up in writing about, or trying to, Wim Wenders’s ... More Post a comment

What Made Them Kill

What Made Them Kill

Thirty Years AgoIt’s 1:30 a.m. Standing beside a pair of pay phones and a silver train of piggybacked carts, you figure you’re ready for Mayfair ... More Post a comment

San Diego Confidential

San Diego Confidential

Thirty Years AgoDear Matthew Alice:How did the word “pot” come to stand for marijuana? Does it have anything to do with the old joke about ... More Post a comment

Fifty Miles of River

Fifty Miles of River

Thirty Years AgoI would not complain that Jeannette De Wyze’s story on nudists (“What You See,” February 2) was completely one-sided. But still, De Wyze ... More Post a comment

The Doctor Is Dead

The Doctor Is Dead

Thirty Years AgoEver since the Ocean Beach Planning Board has begun recommending how the beach community should grow, they have given fast-food franchises a cold ... More Post a comment

Mananimal

Mananimal

Thirty Years Ago Dear Jonathan Saville: I have read all your reviews since you began writing for the Reader, and I have hated them all. ... More Post a comment

Lakeside's Big Man

Lakeside's Big Man

Thirty Years AgoBallard Smith, executive vice president of the San Diego Padres, had a terrible day at city hall last week. Councilman Larry Stirling called ... More Post a comment

Duncan Hates Movies

Duncan Hates Movies

Thirty Years Ago Soon I will join the bulk of you in the suburbs. I can hardly wait. In my mind is a vision of ... More Post a comment

Mr. San Diego, Convoy, DUI

Mr. San Diego, Convoy, DUI

Fifteen Years Ago The death of shopping center czar Ernest Hahn last week got plenty of coverage in the San Diego Union-Tribune. There were three ... More Post a comment

Classifeds to Christmas Tree Fires

Classifeds to Christmas Tree Fires

Thirty Years Ago DENISE: How about going cruising sometime on ATCs?! We can go pick up Mike & Scott. I can dig it!! (Crown Point) ... More Post a comment

Susan Sontag, Helen Copley, J.Lo

Susan Sontag, Helen Copley, J.Lo

Thirty Years Ago Tom Gade stood up and told the assembly that he had voted against critical portions of Mayor Wilson's policy and then proceeded ... More Post a comment

Father Joe and Kevin Faulconer

Father Joe and Kevin Faulconer

Thirty Years Ago While San Diego County has grown sharply, this desert community of 1200 people has stood still. Today Borrego Springs has one auto ... More Post a comment

Dirigibles Were Banned

Dirigibles Were Banned

Thirty Years Ago Frank Curran is going to ride the issue of paving Horton Plaza until the opposition collapses under the sheer weight of his ... More Post a comment

Cove Theater, Diane Arbus

Cove Theater, Diane Arbus

Thirty Years Ago I met Diane Arbus in 1967 shortly after her first major show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. ... More Post a comment

Dr. Spock

Dr. Spock

Thirty Years Ago WEEKEND NATURE LOVER, Cuyamacas, deserts, etc. Seeks paying passengers to diminish car expenses. At destination we split. Come return time, my Magic ... More Post a comment

Keep Market Street Initiative

Keep Market Street Initiative

Thirty Years Ago You've got a good weekly newspaper. One way to make it even better would be to fire that ignorant pseudo-intellectual, Duncan Shepherd. ... More Post a comment

Bulimia, Talking Heads

Bulimia, Talking Heads

Thirty Years Ago This is not a mañana neighborhood. Its people are tillers of the soil, hard workers even unto the ripening of years. Grandpa ... More Post a comment

Sheriff John Duffy v. Mike Aguirre

Sheriff John Duffy v. Mike Aguirre

Thirty Years Ago COUSINS MICHAEL and Andrea, met you 22 September Mission Playhouse, please contact Mickey, PO Box 1093, San Diego 92112. KEARNY HIGH is ... More Post a comment

Helen Copley and Vince Miranda

Helen Copley and Vince Miranda

Thirty Years Ago Vince Miranda, king of the Pussycat Theaters, had blown into town and was visiting his new venture, the Backstage. It was past ... More Post a comment

Cañon Zapata Soccer Field

Cañon Zapata Soccer Field

Thirty Years Ago The phone is answered, and the voice I hear is Mort Sahl's. "In an article in the Los Angeles Times [August 8, ... More Post a comment

Tijuana is a Wonderland

Tijuana is a Wonderland

Thirty Years Ago BOB CLARK: What are you up to? I'm cut off from civilization up here in hicktown with no Reader. "Charlie Mansoneer." YOU ... More Post a comment

To Be Hip One Must Be Square

To Be Hip One Must Be Square

Thirty Years Ago Shotgun Tom Kelly, voted the nation's number-one Top-40 DJ last year by Billboard Magazine, is almost a parody, a flesh-and-blood caricature of ... More Post a comment

The Frozen Carcass of Ted Williams

The Frozen Carcass of Ted Williams

Thirty Years Ago Your surrealistic story on me was taken far too seriously by some of your readers (if the vehemence of some of the ... More Post a comment

Punta Prieta to the Western White House

Punta Prieta to the Western White House

Thirty Years Ago The tall blonde who sits on a barstool in front of the Princess Rap Parlor on lower Fifth reacts warily to questions ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago When Winchell's Donuts first cast its corporate eye on the intersection of Sunset Cliffs and West Point Loma Boulevard, company officials doubtless ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago The last remaining farm in Mission Valley has come to look almost invincible over the years. The farm is the one east-west ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago Roger Hedgecock, the youngest San Diego county supervisor ever elected, sometimes has an excited vision of Idi "Big Daddy" Amin circling in ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago PENNSYLVANIA natives: Re-incarnate as groundhog, coal, smokestack at America's Finest City picnic, Saturday, August 27, 3--7 p.m., Balboa Park, near Sixth, Upas. ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago The attraction tonight -- as it has been for the past seven and a half months -- is Rocky Horror Picture Show, ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago The Abominable Leitmotif Man He sits behind you at Wagner operas, with his girlfriend, who cannot tell Wagner from Pink Floyd but ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago I was amazed that you would print your whitewash of the 7-Eleven Corporation in this week's Reader ("It's a Pretty Good Deal," ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago Otto Bos, Mayor Pete Wilson's new, young press secretary, was leaning back, telling a reporter about how he had been the head ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago For over six months staffers in the newsrooms of Mrs. Copley's Mission Valley papers have been chattering about their boss's affair with ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago LADY BLUE -- Personal computing? Origami? Tolstoy? Underweight? Lack of skill at chess? Large feet? Colorblindness? Wait a minute, I'm not colorblind. ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago I'd kill them. I'd do whatever was necessary to get the hostages free, and then put the terrorists on trial and give ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago Ruby Yamada was born in Omu, a village of northernmost Japan, in May of 1903, and then came to the United States ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago When we reached Interstate 30's exit 104, just east of Dallas, Blue Diamond pulled off and minutes later the King's Kid pulled ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago A psychiatry department whose founder personally recommends valium to come down from LSD and once took a year off to be team ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago TO ALL MY male "friends" who stood me up at my stag party (Dennis Johnson excepted): You'll pay for this! Katherine George ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago "These guys complaining ought to get down on their hands and knees and thank God that they have a job that pays ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago Newcastle disease is not limited to our feathered friends; it affects people too -- at least when the new castles are moderately ... More Post a comment

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Thirty Years Ago Terry Judkins would seem perfectly at home in Mission Beach, where he remembers "hanging out" as a high school kid. He has ... More Post a comment

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