Feature Stories
1956 $64,000 Question it’s a real muscle of a show. No reason I couldn’t be on it. I can grow sideburns, change my name to Elvis Meltzer, wear a leather jacket and pointy-toed shoes.
Looking west from the corner of Newport Avenue and Cable Street in Ocean Beach, the hard angular marquee of the Strand Theater is the dominant landmark. The Strand has also been pilloried of late – …
There is nothing that can compare with the feeling of tiring yourself out bodysurfing, then lying in the sun, letting the sea salt bake across your shoulders, and finally rinsing yourself with the garden hose.
“We love the view. Particularly over fogbanks, you get subtle violets, rose, and gray tinged with blue. Concentrated on the water as this city is, it’s one of the great sunset cities of the world.”
A Chinaman was fishing for abalone off Pt. Loma and it clamped on his hand and he didn’t have sense enough to take a rock and break it and he drowned. They found him clamped to a rock there.
For thirteen years, from 1946 to 1959, famed mystery writer Raymond Chandler lived and wrote in La Jolla, the small community that proudly juts outward into the Pacific. He had a love-hate relationship with the …
Your view of the world is unique if you live in Imperial Beach, just five miles north of the Mexican border. If the street where you live is on a narrow corridor of land between …
Imperial Beach. A bonanza: twelve lots remain here, though their prices are escalating rapidly. An upland, California, couple owns two 30x100-foot lots assessed at $90,000 each. A comparable improved lot next door sold in August of 1979 for $486,000
The sea-launched cruise missile is designed to be fired from submarine torpedo tubes or from armored box launchers on surface ships such as the soon-to-be recommissioned battleship New Jersey.
During my early childhood and through the onset of my teens, after which I covertly rebelled by feigning asthma attacks, Thanksgiving meant an hour and a half trek on the Belt Parkway to the outer …
Hubbs and a few others sampled the meat of the whale. It was “of good flavor and tender when roasted or fried,’’ Hubbs reported. “About one hundred pounds were eaten by local residents.”
The day I drove out to look at the Loma Citas water tower the weather was hot and hazy. I had never been to see the tower before, but I didn’t have any trouble finding …
About five months ago I heeded years of pleadings from my mother and removed from her garage the baseball cards I had collected as a child. The cards, about 2000 of them, dated back to …
The January, 1968 opening of the In Between, a youth-counseling center originally sponsored by the Point Loma Methodist Church, didn’t help matters much; it seemed to attract as many troublemakers as it did those in search of help.
David Bowie was to Phil everything a great human being should be and he emulated him as much as he could in word, thought, and deed. According to Phil, my obsession with the Rolling Stones was antiquated.
As they continued to descend, the temperature rose, and when they reached the Borrego Badlands, some three hours from the top, the temperature had risen to 106 degrees. “We were amazed at the mountain we came down.”