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The Zoo after dark, Dr. Seuss, prostitutes, Mormons, Somalis, Satanist hunters
Mary Lang
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical edition, which was once large enough to hold whole oceans of print. These stories will feature all the original illustrations and photos (plus easy-to-read typography).
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Mary Lang wrote feature stories from the late 1980s through the late 1990s, including a social column called On the Town by Liz Lang.
Some stories Lang wrote for the Reader
About 1935, the era of the beat cop ended. “When they put us in patrol cars, that personal touch was lost."San Diego prostitutes after the Stingaree shut down
- When Guthrie joined the police force back in ’29, his superiors explained to him that sex was “nice and necessary” but needed to be kept quiet. If it’s illegal, he reasons, you can hold the threat of jail over sex workers’ heads to keep them in line. You keep it discreet and low-key, you keep out pimps and organized crime, you keep the price reasonable, you control the spread of disease. (July 15, 1993)
Home before dark
- All their lives they’ve worked and provided for their families, and all of a sudden they’re here. They can’t do anything. They can’t get a job. It’s very hard for a Somali man to feel, ‘Yeah. You’re worthless. You can’t do anything.' " (Feb. 18, 1993)
Coronado bridge. The average call to CRISIS Team is from a woman and lasts 20 minutes.With a shotgun in one hand and the phone in the other
- “The unusual thing was that my last caller was referred by the Coronado bridge. She said the phone is out. The only other phone it can reach is this one." She points to a beige rotary-dial phone on a comer table beneath a framed photograph of a tropical beach. “Most bridge calls are from people who had a flat tire." (July 23, 1992)
In love 17 hours a day
- The romances of yesteryear, the old Harlequins, were all nurses and doctors and probably wouldn't have interested her in the least. She did read Forever Amber when she was 15 and thought that was a great book. Got into The Robe and The Silver Chalice — by Costain. Thomas Costain. (June 4, 1992)
Nobody doesn't like Mormons
- In Steve Andersen’s garage are four 50-gallon drums of fresh drinking water, 30-gallon canisters of wheat, some honey, sugar, salt, and dried prepared foods. “During the time in the church’s history when the nearness of the Millenium was a more potent part of our everyday feelings about life, it may have been the case that people were stockpiling food and clothing because they wanted to survive its arrival. (Oct. 31, 1991)
Rick Post: "I never met a Satanist who wasn’t into meth."Satan chasers
- San Diego County is crawling with Satanic cult groups, in Post’s view, including the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Order of Thelema, the Temple of Set, the Brotherhood of the Mind, the Rainbow Children, a group that meets in Balboa Park called the Knights of Satan, and a Satanic “enforcement arm” of a group of bikers in the meth trade known as the Crystal Circle (Dec. 5, 1991)
"They didn’t even have ladies' choice at the dances back then."We went to Hoover High School
- The pretty, popular girls, still fashionably dressed, coiffed, with lacquered fingernails, moving about the room in clouds of perfume and confidence. The forgettable girls, peripheral characters sitting quietly in their flower-printed knits — old-lady clothes. The girls neither popular nor unpopular, dependable on committees, good students, like Jean. (Nov. 2, 19890
Under the knife
- The man whose body lay pale and naked in UCSD Medical Center’s Operating Room 3 suffered from increasingly frequent attacks of pain, the result of gallstones. As in almost all cases of surgery for gallstones, the man’s entire gallbladder was to be removed. Cholecystectomy is considered a major operation but not a dangerous one. The mortality rate is less than one percent. (July 20, 1989)
The accident on 805, an overturned truck, is out of the road and not causing any problems.In the Time It Took You to Read this Headline, San Diego's Traffic Troubles Got a Little Worse
- The Cessna curves up and left, beginning a flight pattern that will encompass the southern half of San Diego County: I-805 south, from Clairemont to Mission Valley; east on I-8; a cut across Gillespie Field to torn highway 67 in El Cajon; a curve southward near the Route 125 connector to highway 94 at Grossmont Center; west to downtown; over Coronado and down the Silver Strand. (Sept. 14, 1989)
San Diego's Fertility Center and eugenics
The “quality” of any resulting baby is not assured, either; but repository literature states that "according to the best ‘guesstimates’ of genetic scientists, genetics accounts for 30 to 70 percent of intellect." Repository literature also cites studies indicating that criminality is an inherited trait. “Everything is hereditary!" Schneider insists. (December 7, 1989)
The Essenes--From the Dead Sea Scrolls to Tecate's Fat Farm
He lived most of his life in San Diego. When he died in 1979, Szekely left behind more than 80 books, a quasi-religious publishing firm called the International Biogenic Society, the First Christians’ Essene Church, and two multimillion-dollar health spas — the Golden Door in Escondido and Rancho La Puerta near Tecate — run by his ex-wife and son. (June 28, 1990)
Books about Seabiscuit, and Man o' War, and Mustang Annie – I read them all
I read them all. Then I divvied the books into stacks of horse stories versus pony stories, reshuffled them into Western saddle versus English saddle. I laid them out in rows on the bedroom rug and set atop each one the Breyer horse model (I had more than a dozen) most appropriate to the title. (December 20, 1990)
With Seuss on the loose, who would read Mother Goose?
Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel died Tues. evening – now all the questions come out.
By last Thursday the public was overfed with personal reaction stories of newscasters and reporters and five-year-old girls. I found out I wasn’t the only kid who once thought Dr. Seuss was the Cat in the Hat. (October 3, 1991)
Here's something you might be interested in.
Mary Lang – San Diego girl covers all the angles
The Zoo after dark, Dr. Seuss, prostitutes, Mormons, Somalis, Satanist hunters
Mary Lang – San Diego girl covers all the angles
The Zoo after dark, Dr. Seuss, prostitutes, Mormons, Somalis, Satanist hunters
Mary Lang
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical edition, which was once large enough to hold whole oceans of print. These stories will feature all the original illustrations and photos (plus easy-to-read typography).
^^^^^^^^^^^
Mary Lang wrote feature stories from the late 1980s through the late 1990s, including a social column called On the Town by Liz Lang.
Some stories Lang wrote for the Reader
About 1935, the era of the beat cop ended. “When they put us in patrol cars, that personal touch was lost."San Diego prostitutes after the Stingaree shut down
- When Guthrie joined the police force back in ’29, his superiors explained to him that sex was “nice and necessary” but needed to be kept quiet. If it’s illegal, he reasons, you can hold the threat of jail over sex workers’ heads to keep them in line. You keep it discreet and low-key, you keep out pimps and organized crime, you keep the price reasonable, you control the spread of disease. (July 15, 1993)
Home before dark
- All their lives they’ve worked and provided for their families, and all of a sudden they’re here. They can’t do anything. They can’t get a job. It’s very hard for a Somali man to feel, ‘Yeah. You’re worthless. You can’t do anything.' " (Feb. 18, 1993)
Coronado bridge. The average call to CRISIS Team is from a woman and lasts 20 minutes.With a shotgun in one hand and the phone in the other
- “The unusual thing was that my last caller was referred by the Coronado bridge. She said the phone is out. The only other phone it can reach is this one." She points to a beige rotary-dial phone on a comer table beneath a framed photograph of a tropical beach. “Most bridge calls are from people who had a flat tire." (July 23, 1992)
In love 17 hours a day
- The romances of yesteryear, the old Harlequins, were all nurses and doctors and probably wouldn't have interested her in the least. She did read Forever Amber when she was 15 and thought that was a great book. Got into The Robe and The Silver Chalice — by Costain. Thomas Costain. (June 4, 1992)
Nobody doesn't like Mormons
- In Steve Andersen’s garage are four 50-gallon drums of fresh drinking water, 30-gallon canisters of wheat, some honey, sugar, salt, and dried prepared foods. “During the time in the church’s history when the nearness of the Millenium was a more potent part of our everyday feelings about life, it may have been the case that people were stockpiling food and clothing because they wanted to survive its arrival. (Oct. 31, 1991)
Rick Post: "I never met a Satanist who wasn’t into meth."Satan chasers
- San Diego County is crawling with Satanic cult groups, in Post’s view, including the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Order of Thelema, the Temple of Set, the Brotherhood of the Mind, the Rainbow Children, a group that meets in Balboa Park called the Knights of Satan, and a Satanic “enforcement arm” of a group of bikers in the meth trade known as the Crystal Circle (Dec. 5, 1991)
"They didn’t even have ladies' choice at the dances back then."We went to Hoover High School
- The pretty, popular girls, still fashionably dressed, coiffed, with lacquered fingernails, moving about the room in clouds of perfume and confidence. The forgettable girls, peripheral characters sitting quietly in their flower-printed knits — old-lady clothes. The girls neither popular nor unpopular, dependable on committees, good students, like Jean. (Nov. 2, 19890
Under the knife
- The man whose body lay pale and naked in UCSD Medical Center’s Operating Room 3 suffered from increasingly frequent attacks of pain, the result of gallstones. As in almost all cases of surgery for gallstones, the man’s entire gallbladder was to be removed. Cholecystectomy is considered a major operation but not a dangerous one. The mortality rate is less than one percent. (July 20, 1989)
- The accident on 805, an overturned truck, is out of the road and not causing any problems.
In the Time It Took You to Read this Headline, San Diego's Traffic Troubles Got a Little Worse
- The Cessna curves up and left, beginning a flight pattern that will encompass the southern half of San Diego County: I-805 south, from Clairemont to Mission Valley; east on I-8; a cut across Gillespie Field to torn highway 67 in El Cajon; a curve southward near the Route 125 connector to highway 94 at Grossmont Center; west to downtown; over Coronado and down the Silver Strand. (Sept. 14, 1989)
San Diego's Fertility Center and eugenics
The “quality” of any resulting baby is not assured, either; but repository literature states that "according to the best ‘guesstimates’ of genetic scientists, genetics accounts for 30 to 70 percent of intellect." Repository literature also cites studies indicating that criminality is an inherited trait. “Everything is hereditary!" Schneider insists. (December 7, 1989)
The Essenes--From the Dead Sea Scrolls to Tecate's Fat Farm
He lived most of his life in San Diego. When he died in 1979, Szekely left behind more than 80 books, a quasi-religious publishing firm called the International Biogenic Society, the First Christians’ Essene Church, and two multimillion-dollar health spas — the Golden Door in Escondido and Rancho La Puerta near Tecate — run by his ex-wife and son. (June 28, 1990)
Books about Seabiscuit, and Man o' War, and Mustang Annie – I read them all
I read them all. Then I divvied the books into stacks of horse stories versus pony stories, reshuffled them into Western saddle versus English saddle. I laid them out in rows on the bedroom rug and set atop each one the Breyer horse model (I had more than a dozen) most appropriate to the title. (December 20, 1990)
With Seuss on the loose, who would read Mother Goose?
Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel died Tues. evening – now all the questions come out.
By last Thursday the public was overfed with personal reaction stories of newscasters and reporters and five-year-old girls. I found out I wasn’t the only kid who once thought Dr. Seuss was the Cat in the Hat. (October 3, 1991)