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San Diego midgets vs. dwarfs, our runaway kids, how illegal farmworkers feel about us, inside Southeast San Diego

Sadanand Singh. Maybe if he had better sized up the emergency exits that night in Bombay, he and his family could have sneaked out of one. - Image by Craig Carlson
Sadanand Singh. Maybe if he had better sized up the emergency exits that night in Bombay, he and his family could have sneaked out of one.

Return flight

There were men, several uniformed men, screaming, waving guns, ordering everyone to freeze. Somehow they had managed to sneak onto the airfield, then had leaped out and clambered up the entry ramp, weapons blasting. The Singh family, in the first few seats of the economy class, sat petrified.

By Jeannette DeWyze, July 9, 1987 Read full article

In her shoes, Judith Wilson measures four feet, no inches. When she was two, her parents’ physician diagnosed achondroplasia.

Two kinds of little people in San Diego

Vella speaks of achondroplastic dwarfs as “achondros” and midgets, or pituitary dwarfs, as “pituitaries” and says a certain standoffishness had always existed between achondros and pituitaries. “And,” he added, “Achondros don’t tend to marry pituitary types.”

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By Judith Moore, Feb. 12, 1987 Read full article

On Twelfth Avenue between C and Broadway, the Storefront property was a topless bar called the Tropicana Club. Now, every day from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., it shelters runaway and throwaway kids.

Wasted

Crystal is named in recognition of her daily habit. The girl wearing the Mickey Mouse sweat shirt has a tattoo on her left arm. It says “Baby I.” Some guy from Twelfth Avenue tattooed her, she says. “Because Baby l’s my street name. Don’t get me mixed up with Baby 2. I’m Baby 1. See,” she points to it proudly. “It’s right next to my knife scar.”

By Sue Garson, July 28, 1988 Read full article

Encinitas Town and Country Shopping Center, one of the biggest “open staging areas” in the county.

Fear, sweat, and profit

By the time the caravan once again pulled out onto Black Mountain Road, only twenty-seven Mexicans had been captured — fewer than, two per agent. But it was still early in the morning, and now we headed west toward Interstate 5. I asked Connell what would happen to the money owed the field hands we had arrested.

By Jeannette DeWyze, July 12, 1984 Read full article

Ben Tufuku: “San Diego’s black community gets its key from Los Angeles. If we go to L.A. and see a truck painted up five, six different colors, the next thing you know, you see trucks in San Diego bein’ painted multicolor."

At the corner of poverty and crime

“You may not have a clear picture of why a youngster gets into a gang,” said Tukufu, his voice spiraling upward once more. He listed reasons — a desire for identity, need for protection, camaraderie. “Ever’body wants to claim something, wants to be a part of something. Gangs offer that. They also offer opportunities for advancement within the neighborhood and recognition.”

By Judith Moore, Sept. 18, 1986 Read full article

“One thing about youngsters, if you explain it and at the same time offer a replacement, they’ll go for it."

At the corner of poverty and crime, part 2

Bennie lives in the area claimed by 5/9, a group sometimes called 5/9 Brims or Brimsters. They wear red and call each other “Blood.” Bennie does not call his group a gang. He speaks of it as “the set” or “the family.” He also calls his neighborhood “the set.... It’s like a family,” he said. “I don’t think of it like a gang, but like protecting my neighborhood."

By Judith Moore, Sept. 25, 1986 Read full article

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Sadanand Singh. Maybe if he had better sized up the emergency exits that night in Bombay, he and his family could have sneaked out of one. - Image by Craig Carlson
Sadanand Singh. Maybe if he had better sized up the emergency exits that night in Bombay, he and his family could have sneaked out of one.

Return flight

There were men, several uniformed men, screaming, waving guns, ordering everyone to freeze. Somehow they had managed to sneak onto the airfield, then had leaped out and clambered up the entry ramp, weapons blasting. The Singh family, in the first few seats of the economy class, sat petrified.

By Jeannette DeWyze, July 9, 1987 Read full article

In her shoes, Judith Wilson measures four feet, no inches. When she was two, her parents’ physician diagnosed achondroplasia.

Two kinds of little people in San Diego

Vella speaks of achondroplastic dwarfs as “achondros” and midgets, or pituitary dwarfs, as “pituitaries” and says a certain standoffishness had always existed between achondros and pituitaries. “And,” he added, “Achondros don’t tend to marry pituitary types.”

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By Judith Moore, Feb. 12, 1987 Read full article

On Twelfth Avenue between C and Broadway, the Storefront property was a topless bar called the Tropicana Club. Now, every day from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., it shelters runaway and throwaway kids.

Wasted

Crystal is named in recognition of her daily habit. The girl wearing the Mickey Mouse sweat shirt has a tattoo on her left arm. It says “Baby I.” Some guy from Twelfth Avenue tattooed her, she says. “Because Baby l’s my street name. Don’t get me mixed up with Baby 2. I’m Baby 1. See,” she points to it proudly. “It’s right next to my knife scar.”

By Sue Garson, July 28, 1988 Read full article

Encinitas Town and Country Shopping Center, one of the biggest “open staging areas” in the county.

Fear, sweat, and profit

By the time the caravan once again pulled out onto Black Mountain Road, only twenty-seven Mexicans had been captured — fewer than, two per agent. But it was still early in the morning, and now we headed west toward Interstate 5. I asked Connell what would happen to the money owed the field hands we had arrested.

By Jeannette DeWyze, July 12, 1984 Read full article

Ben Tufuku: “San Diego’s black community gets its key from Los Angeles. If we go to L.A. and see a truck painted up five, six different colors, the next thing you know, you see trucks in San Diego bein’ painted multicolor."

At the corner of poverty and crime

“You may not have a clear picture of why a youngster gets into a gang,” said Tukufu, his voice spiraling upward once more. He listed reasons — a desire for identity, need for protection, camaraderie. “Ever’body wants to claim something, wants to be a part of something. Gangs offer that. They also offer opportunities for advancement within the neighborhood and recognition.”

By Judith Moore, Sept. 18, 1986 Read full article

“One thing about youngsters, if you explain it and at the same time offer a replacement, they’ll go for it."

At the corner of poverty and crime, part 2

Bennie lives in the area claimed by 5/9, a group sometimes called 5/9 Brims or Brimsters. They wear red and call each other “Blood.” Bennie does not call his group a gang. He speaks of it as “the set” or “the family.” He also calls his neighborhood “the set.... It’s like a family,” he said. “I don’t think of it like a gang, but like protecting my neighborhood."

By Judith Moore, Sept. 25, 1986 Read full article

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