Cover Stories
An automobile moving at fifty-five miles per hour requires twenty-one minutes to travel up Interstate 5 from downtown San Diego to the Carmel Valley Road exit. Two gas stations and a Sambo’s restaurant are the …
Inside the Armed Services Y.M.C.A.: a hotel, an old swimming pool, a coffee shop, a television room, family counseling, a friendly game of eight ball, chaperoned dances, the largest servicemen's center in the world, more …
Even if you don’t have the slightest interest in classical music, would you turn down the chance to meet Mozart? Say you could go back in time and talk to the young Mozart, nine years …
Tuned In
– how not to start a magazine in San DiegoChapter One The year was 1974, and J .C. Turner was a man with ideas, lots of them, and each new idea led to the formation of a new business — a practice commonly known …
It’s a Sunday morning in Mission Valley and perhaps 200 well-dressed adults and a smattering of children are enjoying all the champagne, orange juice, and coffee they care to drink, and gorging themselves with omelets, …
“See that skinny cow there?’’ he asks, pointing to a thin, gray cow that eyes us steadily as she chews. “There’s something wrong with her — probably ate some nails or wire or something.
The long view Here is frenetic Golden Hall on an otherwise placid evening, the first Tuesday of June, 1980. It is the scene of election central for the first primary of the decade, and San …
People criticize Raoul Marquis for many things They criticize him for being overbearing and authoritarian; for operating the Marquis Public Theater chiefly on government money; for taking advantage of his employees; for running his theater …
Last February, when 1 answered a ringing phone and was greeted by a satin-smooth voice that oozed charm and a disquieting sort of familiarity, glad tidings arrived from five seasons past. The voice identified itself …
Vomhof calls it The Case of the Too Many Skids and says it went.like this: Kid was on his way to the beach. Drove his folks’ 1970 Mercury from his home in El Cajon to …
Last summer I awaited eagerly the arrival of Larry and Anna Marie Allen. They had never seen Southern California before, and this was to be the second half of a cultural exchange program that began …
He is a tall, bespectacled, grandfatherly with a mischievous laugh. His hands are large, as befits someone who was a football receiver in his college days. On the wall of his office in UCSD’s Bonner …
High in the grandstands at Agua Caliente, in one of the line of small, plain officials’ boxes that look down on the dog track and the larger horse track that surrounds it, Paul Hartwell drew …
“I have designed for [the stewardesses] pink micro-miniskirts to be worn with strawberry hot pants and red boots and they're darling." The color scheme caught on, and by November, PSA began changing the color of its airplanes.
“What! An Arab in this house? You’ve got to be kidding.” Startled expressions all around the card table made me forget what was trump. I had not expected to break up the game when I …
SECOND AWARD $250 Paul Cleary Del Mar TEN YEARS AFTER CLASS It was July 5, 1980, and about 150 self-conscious people drank and mingled at the Moose Club in Oneida, New York, for the ten-year …