Feature Stories
Eleven-year-old Sylvia Benson could think of nothing better to do on a Saturday than take a dip in the surf. There was little extra money available for recreation—her father was a fisherman, and the family …
It is true that the trolley—especially on University Avenue—often caused a backup of frustrated motorists, since it traveled down the street’s center and allowed for little passing room on the sides.
“Somoza of Nicaragua wouldn't sign the cards I sent him. But he kept sending back signed letters saying that he wouldn’t.” LaPointe continued sending requests. “I wanted it on the card. It’s easier to file that way.”
The mood is generally optimistic, but there are also some pessimists who are already saying, “See you at the bar review course,” “I didn’t want to be a lawyer anyway,” and “Now I know how Jerry Brown felt.”
There are at least three themes which are utterly taboo: incest; a Negro-White marriage which is a complete and glorious success resulting in lots of children and grandchildren; and the total atheist who lives a …
In the fourth grade I took up the cello. I took it up with both hands, straining muscles, and eventual disappointment. When we were signing up for instruments, I thought I was being clever. We …
The freeways are crawling with animals. Colts, Stingrays and even Cougars abound. Pintos vie with Mustangs; Skylarks make way for Thunderbirds; and Rabbits hop from cloverleaf to underpass. Even the insect world is represented; German …
The first Mexico stories I ever heard were as a result of being dispatched to San Diego to undergo the trials and errors of bootcamp. In the first few days, even before they slipped us …
Dear Jonathan Savile: I know you will never allow this to be printed, but I am writing anyway, because if I didn’t I would go mad with rage. I have read all your reviews since …
The Jingler She is an elegant lady who has decorated all available parts of her body with pendant metallic jewelry. From her wrists there hand flurries of fine metal strips; around her neck, more of …
The television crisis of the 50s put an effective brake to theater construction. Not a single new indoor house was built in San Diego during the entire decade (nine were closed). Drive-ins, though, continued to flourish.
“When I first came here. I felt very lonely and sad. I always thought. I'm just a refugee. I ran away from the Communists. The kids here thought I was Japanese. Some didn't know what Vietnamese were.”
Construction of the gun batteries began in 1873, but Congress appropriated no additional funds for seacoast defense for about the next 20 years, so construction was not resumed until close to the turn of the century.
I had to defend all the notorious passages. Suddenly, Gutfleisch switched to yet another attack: “Would you allow your son to read such stuff?” I shot back, “How can he when he’s only six years old?"
If there exists a food which Southern California can call its own, it is the abalone. Subtly flavored, cloaked in mystery, and wildly expensive, this lowly muscle now ranks with Alaskan crab and Maine lobster …
The Plunge's exterior may be crumbling, but inside is a pool as lithe and graceful as it always was and as most of its ardent devotees hope it always will be.