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San Diego in books - FBI in Tijuana, George Plimpton conducts SD Symphony, SEAL training

WITH A LOW WHINE the plane began its descent toward San Diego, skimming in over the roofs of the highest buildings. Graves didn’t much like San Diego. It was a ...

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San Diego in books - UCSD, Market Street, mobs in San Diego

IF YOU SEEK ROGER REVELLE'S MONUMENT, take a walk around the campus which has spread on the mesa. Looming near and over the center is the very good Central Library. ...

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Before City Heights

Barely two minutes after we leave the airport and pick up our rental car, a minivan with Ohio plates cuts us off and my husband curses at the driver. “Stay ...

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USNS Harvey Milk to be christened November 6

This Saturday, November 6, a little after 9 am at the General Dynamics/National Steel and Shipbuilding dry docks here in San Diego, a champagne bottle will break across the double-hulled ...

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San Diego in books - Henry Miller, Rick DeMarinis, Max Miller, Alfred Alcorn

THE MOST IMPORTANT ENCOUNTER of my life was with Emma Goldman in San Diego, California. She opened up the whole world of European culture for me and gave a new impetus to my life, as ...

October 18, 2021

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San Diego in books - first Datsun dealer to sell 100 cars in a month, Bob Woodward on Belushi

IN ANTICIPATION of the start of Datsun sales, Nissan in March 1958, before a selling agreement had been reached, sent Mr. Uno, General Manager of the North American Department, Mr. Hara, General Manager of the ...

September 20, 2021

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August 25, 2021

Hot times at the Honeysuckle

Okay, I’ll tell you about how I almost went to jail dressed as Tonto the Indian. But fair warnings: it’s the most 1970s tale you’re likely to hear this week, and it’s definitely NSFW (for ...

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August 16, 2021

San Diego in books - Cross-border escape, Jedediah Smith, Charles Bukowski

I HAVE THE 1953 PLAYBOY magazine with Marilyn Monroe's famous nude centerfold. I purchased this copy new in the 1950s. What is its value today? A.R. Evans Billings, Mont. The price of your Playboy, which ...

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July 28, 2021

Mom carried him into Escondido's Learning Jungle

The day the baby boy was born in 2016, the hospital made a call to CPS. “They had them involved since the boy was born,” his father Jared testified in court five years later — ...

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July 28, 2021

So many grey whales killed off Point Loma

On February 16, 1856, George P. Tebbets, the third mayor of San Diego, killed a right whale off the coast of Oceanside. In the course of his efforts to profit off some 28 tons of ...

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July 5, 2021

San Diego in books - the first sheriff, Mayor O'Connor, O'Henry prize story

DESPITE LEGAL RESTRICTIONS or bans in all states but Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana, cockfighting “has never been bigger,” according to HSUS [Humane Society of the United States] investigator Eric Sakach. An estimated 1,000 ...

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June 7, 2021

San Diego in books - border task force, GOP convention, San Ysidro mass murder

I WAS TOLD OF GOD to rent a certain apartment and to have Charles live with me. We rented a place in Chula Vista, a town not far from Tia Juana, Mexico. While the two ...

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Can you eat fish caught in San Diego Bay?

Theresa Talley, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, looks for ways to reveal to San Diegans our connections to the Pacific Ocean and San Diego Bay. Much of her research ...

May 19, 2021

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San Diego in books - DEA infighting, horseback adventure, William Manchester's WWII

I WAS SITTING RADAR. Actually doing nothing. We had been up to 75,000 to give the afternoon some jazz. I guess we were still in Mexico, coming into Miramar eventually in the F-14. It doesn't ...

May 17, 2021

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February 17, 2021

Nothing friendly about Hillcrest's Friendship Hotel

The untold stories about Hillcrest’s Friendship Hotel would probably read like William Burroughs’ dream journal. Once a nurse’s dorm for the nearby hospital, by the turn of the 21st century the two buildings across the ...

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November 4, 2020

San Diego's real census

It’s been a hell of a year, and it’s not over yet. First, in San Diego County as elsewhere in these Divided States, we’ve been treated to a masquerade ball, courtesy of a generous host. ...

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USNS Harvey Milk to be christened November 6

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