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Everybody outside of South Mission was a hick.
The mudflats sometimes stank at low tide; it wasn’t really a bad smell, but a grassy, muddy smell that could be pleasant if you associated it with the kinds of things you did on the mudflats. When tourists or even people who lived in other parts of San Diego saw them , they usually called them sand bars, but nobody in South Mission Beach ever said anything but mudflats. They were very black mud, except for a few areas which never were covered by high tide; these, indeed, were made of sand, but they were still called mudflats, not out of ignorance but because one of the relationships we had with the mudflats was the clubby right to call them that.
Author Keith Robinson: When I put on my red trunks with the blue San Diego Lifeguard Service patch and went on my first day’s duty as a real lifeguard it was thrilling, but the kinds of joys the Beasels knew in the sand and sun that year were gone forever.
There were several things one did on the mudflats, so that a mention of them was a way of reminding ourselves that we were cool and everybody outside of South Mission was a hick. We called them all hicks and hickville was everything except the other parts of San Diego, which we called downtown; a person from the government project called Frontier Housing where the Sports Arena is now, was a hick from downtown, and so was a person from East San Diego, Mission Hills, Kensington, Loma Portal, or wherever. If there had been a Clairemont then, somebody from Clairemont who showed up in our section of Mission Bay would have been the archetypal hick from downtown....
July 11, 1974 The end of the cool life in South Mission
December 2, 1976 North Park from my window
December 2, 1978 Hillcrest – an after-dinner walk, cottages, a taxi ride
November 23, 1983 Miramar Marine pilot doesn't show for wedding
December 13, 1984 A first kiss
December 19, 1985 The Idealization of Jessica Trump
March 2, 2022 Changing of the guard
March 20, 2024 Everything in Hillcrest is fleeting
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Reader first-place writing contest winners over the years
Top contestants in 1974, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 2022, 2024
Reader first-place writing contest winners over the years
Top contestants in 1974, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 2022, 2024
Everybody outside of South Mission was a hick.
The mudflats sometimes stank at low tide; it wasn’t really a bad smell, but a grassy, muddy smell that could be pleasant if you associated it with the kinds of things you did on the mudflats. When tourists or even people who lived in other parts of San Diego saw them , they usually called them sand bars, but nobody in South Mission Beach ever said anything but mudflats. They were very black mud, except for a few areas which never were covered by high tide; these, indeed, were made of sand, but they were still called mudflats, not out of ignorance but because one of the relationships we had with the mudflats was the clubby right to call them that.
Author Keith Robinson: When I put on my red trunks with the blue San Diego Lifeguard Service patch and went on my first day’s duty as a real lifeguard it was thrilling, but the kinds of joys the Beasels knew in the sand and sun that year were gone forever.
There were several things one did on the mudflats, so that a mention of them was a way of reminding ourselves that we were cool and everybody outside of South Mission was a hick. We called them all hicks and hickville was everything except the other parts of San Diego, which we called downtown; a person from the government project called Frontier Housing where the Sports Arena is now, was a hick from downtown, and so was a person from East San Diego, Mission Hills, Kensington, Loma Portal, or wherever. If there had been a Clairemont then, somebody from Clairemont who showed up in our section of Mission Bay would have been the archetypal hick from downtown....
July 11, 1974 The end of the cool life in South Mission
December 2, 1976 North Park from my window
December 2, 1978 Hillcrest – an after-dinner walk, cottages, a taxi ride
November 23, 1983 Miramar Marine pilot doesn't show for wedding
December 13, 1984 A first kiss
December 19, 1985 The Idealization of Jessica Trump
March 2, 2022 Changing of the guard
March 20, 2024 Everything in Hillcrest is fleeting