Cover Stories
1. Within one rainless week, nostalgia shimmered twice in the San Diego spotlight. Two aging stars spread their sparkling rays to delight their people. The King of Rock and Roll. The Godfather of Soul, Elvis …
Second only to the area downtown south of Broadway, my favorite place in the whole San Diego area is Tijuana. Go ahead and laugh. I've got my reasons. First of all, I think a walk …
When the public rejects a frustrated singer, comedian or disc jockey, he can either flee from the cold-hearted cynics, or try to edge his way in the back door of the sacred entertainment industry. If …
The war in Vietnam really touched San Diego. It was here in San Diego that the largest number of wives became West Pac widows and POW wives, where the most war-bound ships left from and …
Fifty years ago, San Diego was a small town with miles of pearly white beaches, and vast tracts of fine pastureland. The brae citizens who lived in this isolated town traveled to Los Angeles by …
The Duke of Mission Hills said to come over right away. The World Harmonica King was taking a bus up from Horton Plaza "and should be here any minute." The Duke's house, north of Washington …
"I laid David Bowie! I really did!" The titillated young woman descended a flat-lit escalator at concert's end. Her red and blue streaked hair swirled as she slashed the air with her green ostrich feather. …
The day started out in confusion. Nixon had ordered a stop to the draft two days before, and I was still going over my orders to report for a physical in Los Angeles. Would I …
At least the Ceylonese Dancers need not feel neglected. They sold 200 tickets in San Diego before cancellation. Last Saturday a 15-year-old boy set a world weight-lifting record in Balboa Park, and was cheered heartily …
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has a lot of power here. It holds the purse strings on a budget of $300 million dollars. And it controls the zoning of 90 percent of the …
I first heard about sensitivity groups when i was a junior in college. A friend of mine who had just returned from a weekend of "encounter" came up to me, grabbed men, stared intently into …
Fall 1969. Huntington Beach at the Pier. U.S. Surfing Championships: 50,000 people see Corky Carroll regain the title, Number One U.S. Surfer. Sunday, January 28, 1973. A typical Southern California beer bar and Mexican restaurant …
Tide, she explained, contained a high percentage of fillers and fluffers, and had to be used in relatively large amounts.
January 20 was no day, as it has been traditionally, of uniting behind the President. Counterinaugural parades and speeches were held in cities around the world to protest not only Nixon policy in Vietnam but …
"Marathons are really democratic. They run ya against King Kongs, studs, all kinds of people."
Why should the three letters, A R B, evoke such diverse and intense comments from the powers-that-be at these local rock radio stations? Because ARBs are the radio stations ratings; that's why. In radio, ARBs …