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Classic San Diego

Baja | Coronado | Cover Story | El Cajon | Fallbrook | Gaslamp | Hillcrest | Inland Border Towns | Julian | La Jolla | Lakeside | Pala | Potrero | SDSU | Vista
Published April 12, 2007

Most-Filmed Wild West Main Street Don't look yet. Turn off Woodside onto Maine and behold a li'l old Wild West street that'll knock your spurs off. It huddles beneath a perfect movie-set backdrop of towering granite ...

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Reservation Blues

Blurt | Pala
Published Sept. 8, 2005

Twenty years ago, concert promoter Bill Silva predicted that there would eventually be two concert markets in San Diego County: North County and metro San Diego. In other words, the same artist could play both ends ...

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Hive Mentality

Cover Story | Imperial Valley | Pala | Valley Center
Published Sept. 16, 2004

I love honey. I love honey! Like the bears. All day long my coffee has honey instead of sugar. My cereal has honey. My toast, honey on it. Always honey." David Rojas of San Marcos has ...

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Steer Your Bike around the Rainbow-Pala Route Through Rural Northern San Diego County and Southern Riverside County

Pala | Roam-O-Rama
Published April 22, 2004

For a taste of some fast-disappearing rural serenity in inland North County, try the following looping bicycle route through hills and valleys straddling the San Diego�Riverside County line. You'll gain and lose about 1300 feet of ...

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Explore the Easy-Going Trails of Wilderness Gardens Preserve near Pala in North San Diego County

Pala | Roam-O-Rama
Published Jan. 1, 2004

Wilderness Gardens Preserve, a 676-acre jewel of county parkland near Pala in north inland San Diego County, encompasses the grounds of an old ranch -- the former retreat of Manchester Boddy, owner of a Los Angeles ...

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Best of 2003: Best Place To Reach For The Stars

Pala | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Palomar Mountain Observatory 35899 Canfield Road, Palomar 760-742-2119 Palomar, which means Pigeon Haven in La Jolla Indian dialect, is not an outing for those prone to carsickness. Once you exit I-15, curves are the norm. But ...

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Follow the trace of the Elsinore Fault through San Diego County's mountains and desert.

Pala | Roam-O-Rama
Published July 31, 2003

Like a subterranean knife-wound, the Elsinore Fault slices across the heart of San Diego County's backcountry, promising an earth-shaking jolt or two during the next few centuries. Sputtering movements over geologic time along its opposing sides ...

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Native Bytes

City Lights | Pala
Published Jan. 3, 2002

San Diego's Indian tribes hope Internet technology will bring back the old days, the pre-Cabrillo days, when they traded and traveled among themselves. They believe technology could help them preserve their culture. Up until now, San ...

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Best of 2001: Best Scottish Hamburgers

Pala | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Nessy Burger at Highway 76 and Old Highway 395, near Pala Mesa Village Up on the windy heights inland from Oceanside, where Route 76 meets Old Highway 395, a little piece of Scotland survives. Alistair, an ...

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San Diego Is No Place for Cows

City Lights | Pala
Published Dec. 7, 2000

Pete Verboom built his dairy in the Pala Valley in 1966. Ever since, the 100-acre farm straddling the San Luis Rey River has been his home and workplace. Over the following 34 years, over 100 dairies ...

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Nobody Doesn't Like Capital Gains

City Lights | Pala
Published Oct. 2, 1997

Mayor Susan Golding has filed a personal financial disclosure statement showing she has invested well in the pharmaceutical business. The mayor, who's seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer, is required by Senate rules ...

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