Cover Stories
Folks out on Warmlands Avenue in Vista were buzzing with excitement last week. Seems that Harry and Mary Bartell had brought in a gusher. Not oil, but water, just as highly prized in this neighborhood …
At four a.m. on Wednesday, September 7, 1977 a peculiar thing happened in the sky over La Mesa. Witnesses talk of flashing colored lights, loud humming and beeping sounds, and an “upside-down saucer in a …
Muhammad Ali, dressed in a bright red robe, reclines on the apron of a full-size boxing ring set up in the Regency Ballroom of San Diego’s Le Baron Hotel. From across the room a stocky …
They’ve got the only house in Escondido with both a gas stove and a wood stove. Grandma Cruz said the gas stove is fine. But if you’re going to cook enchiladas, you need a wood stove.
Bob Shepard, who trained animals at Sea World for 11 years and now works in its public relations department, relates a telling insight into the public’s view of sea creatures. Shepard travels all over the …
"There’s still some. People I went to school with in Coronado before the war, I see them at work; they still don’t speak to me. It’s like the fact that we were evacuated proved we were guilty."
An assortment of people chat quietly in a corridor of the Pasadena Holiday Inn. Suddenly, a conference room door opens. A young man with dark, friendly eyes peers out and smiles as he notes the …
“They said don’t get killed, you gotta work tomorrow,” said Jeanette Solis Blakely, the waitress in car number nine. She looks at the smashed instrument panel of her Cadillac, the old jukebox kind of car …
Disc jockeys don’t walk down hallways the same way television announcers do. TV announcers walk down halls like they’re off to an important meeting, staring at some memo in their hand; coiffured, rosy, manicured statesmen …
The cougar is not allowed on the tennis courts, but he likes to watch. At night when Bill Barton walks him along the fairways in Penasquitos, they sometimes pass the lighted courts; and there behind …
Jim Wilkins bought his van two and a half years ago, joined one van club, then formed one of his own. A few months ago he undertook to completely redecorate his vehicle, and now, inside …
Hair expresses culture. Before the Greek victories against the Persians, both men and women wore their hair long. Later, long hair was considered suitable only for boys and women. At puberty, a boy cut off …
It is one hour before take-off in the skywriting capital of the world, and Greg Stinis is tinkering with his airplanes. The smog of Long Beach glows brown overhead, but the sky above it is …
Roger Hedgecock, the youngest San Diego County Supervisor ever elected, sometimes has an excited vision of Idi “Big Daddy” Amin circling in a C-130 Transport 15,000 feet above the ocean just off the San Onofre …
My hands are a little clammy, and there is a marked beat at the temples. It is the last game of the night—a Blackout special—and on three of my four boards I have only three …
Joe Livingston planned his getaway perfectly. The day that he stopped being Joe Livingston dawned as brightly and ordinarily as any hot Chicago summer morning. As usual. Joe dressed for his job as an advertising …