Feature Stories
He got on the phone and started calling his neighbors to see if someone could take him to the doctor, but nobody was home. He didn’t want to drive himself in that condition.
A neighbor across the way coaxed a male German Shepherd into her car and turned him loose in Flynn Springs, several miles away. Her own dog, she explained, was in heat. The German Shepherd had tags.
san diego, lyrics: mr. history looks down on the city i don’t want you to think san diego sounds funny. i don’t understand why the most powerful feeling this city evokes, at sunset, a sort …
The hub of the social activity is the pool area. Driftwoodites sit poolside and murmur where else could we find all this without paying an arm and a leg? The hot sun, the manicured grounds….
I didn’t buy the car just because it was cute. These are the best cars the English ever made, no matter what anyone may say about how much that is saying. (Some would have you …
Toni Toni needs to get well real bad. He’s had the shakes all night, he’s sweating profusely, and he hasn’t slept in almost a week. The day before, a dealer named Eddie burned him with …
A hang-glider cruises low over the beach, his huge shadow startling sunbathers, awakening sleepers. He finds a break in the bodies, swoops, and lands. He unstraps himself, takes off his helmet, then his clothes. Someone …
“I liked the Academy from the first. I like the challenge of promotions, and I'm getting a better education here. The classes are smaller than in a public school, and there isn’t any racial prejudice.”
Downen's duties include upkeep of the area; watching for offshore accidents, and transporting children to and from the school. When a water rescue is needed, a call goes to the Coast Guard cutter at Ballast Point
During the past year I have written about baseball, basketball, boxing, football, and horse racing. Today I am writing about a real sport: Jerry Lewis. On September 4, 1972, I was at a Padres baseball …
The San Diego Reader really got started last summer (1972) when the editor, Alex Farnsley, left his job at a racing car shop in National City. It was then that Farnsley (who was also known …
San Diego has a lot of good community clinics which have been formed because of a growing dissatisfaction with more expensive and inaccessible traditional health care systems. Each clinic is unique in an attempt to …
In San Diego one can't use the excuses for not exercising regularly that one can in other U.S. urban areas (that the weather is too bad or that there is no place for exercise). Here, …
San Diego Bookstores, like food stores, range from supermart to gourmet shop. This somewhat subjective guide to a dozen or so notable San Diego book stores is compiled with hopes to satisfy every book-buyer’s taste, …
1 The Alessio Family — Mt. Helix — Owners of Mr. A’s and representative of the noveau-riche in San Diego. 2 Desi Arnaz — Del Mar — Lucille Ball's ex-husband and patient of Silverado Avenue …