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Stingaree's red-light rules, early Horton Plaza, Lomaland

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Women at the Elephant Bar, Carlos Murphy’s, the Belly Up Tavern helped my career as doctor

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Harry Partch, Gustavo Romero, Diamanda Galas

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The Copley family and the Nixons, Dr. Seuss, San Diego Magazine

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Stingaree's red-light rules, early Horton Plaza, Lomaland

Murder in Mission Valley There was a history of immigrants to the area penning Indians up in reservations after throwing them off Mission lands. Indians tried to regain their lands, ...

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Women at the Elephant Bar, Carlos Murphy’s, the Belly Up Tavern helped my career as doctor

Show Me Your Saphenous Vein, James! I had wanted to be a doctor since graduating from elementary school; I never seriously considered anything else. I did not have any doctor ...

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Harry Partch, Gustavo Romero, Diamanda Galas

San Diego Grand There are several grand pianos in San Diego County that are more than 100 years old. I visited Mrs. Paul Ringler to examine and play her 1883 ...

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The Copley family and the Nixons, Dr. Seuss, San Diego Magazine

Dear Dick: The San Diego Union, Evening Tribune, and Nixon: A Romance in Letters Nixon to Copley: “The ride down and back in your spic-and-span new plane, the superb dinner ...

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The 1930s Depression in letters from San Diego, early hunting in Mission Valley

Depression Letters “He had been working since May at Balboa Park, cutting wood, gardening, cleaning up ravines, canyons, etc. When he was put on the Federal work card, a foreman's name was on the card. ...

October 11, 2021

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John Brizzolara looking forward and backward

John Brizzolara wrote for the Reader from 1989 to 2013, including a weekly column, TGIF. John died in his sleep at Father Joe’s Villages on October 11, 2016. He was 65. John Brizzolara’s Last Column ...

October 10, 2021

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October 9, 2021

Missing body parts of Napoleon, Peron, Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa’s head — the story behind its disappearing One of Pancho Villa’s sons, 21-year-old Pancho Augustin Villa, had just been declared “violently insane” by an L.A. judge and was confined to a psychiatric hospital. ...

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October 4, 2021

Truth about TJ taxis, cut-throat upholstery competition

I am my own queen "Once, a guy, a drunk guy took my taxi from downtown. He wanted to go to this particular colonia, this neighborhood. It was raining, I remember. When I got there, ...

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October 3, 2021

Every free-roaming cat kills 50 to 100 birds annually

Save the songbirds! Of 9000-plus bird species, 6000 are in decline, 1000 heading for extinction. Urban Wisconsin has 1295 free-roaming cats per square mile. Cats kill 1 to 3 million birds each day in the ...

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October 2, 2021

Sole survivor of fishing accident, the bitch of being 5'5", tried Morningstar for my schizophrenia

Nightmare of the New Hope A little cry of relief burst from him, lost in the shriek of the wind. His hands scrambled, searching for the inflate cord. The sea bounced him. Spray lashed the ...

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September 27, 2021

The ugly war housing of Midway-Rosecrans, San Diego's Japanese imprisoned in Poston, Arizona

The Frontier They Want Us to Forget By the late 1960s, the only Frontier structures that still remained were two war-era public schools, Barnard Elementary and the Midway Continuation High School. The city council had ...

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September 26, 2021

See's chocolates vs. Whitman's, how they make round M&Ms

Whitman's Samplers vs. See's An unmarked lid allows Mrs. See and her customers to free-associate, sweets-wise, and put whatever they like into a box. If this idea seems frivolous or frightening, here’s another solution. Make ...

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Betty Broderick's version of killing her husband

Three Bullets and Nine Years Later She said Brad Wright, her former boyfriend, had once gotten her a subscription to the San Diego Business Journal—a choice she thought was insane. She hadn’t read it when ...

September 25, 2021

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Subs off Imperial Beach, Yamamoto's killer, a kid in WWII San Diego

Lie Down in Darkness The submarine had been discovered by two San Diego State students who were financing their educations by salvaging objects. They had located S-37 about 300 yards off the coast and in ...

September 20, 2021

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September 19, 2021

Dahmer's Diner, Nico, Deadheads, Paul Williams

Eating people is the ultimate control You won’t find Dahmer’s Diner on the bill at the Cannibal Bar in Mission Beach. In fact, DD has been banned from all but two venues in town, SOMA ...

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September 18, 2021

Motherhood unvarnished: Andrea Yates, Prozac, Pine Valley

Men in overalls When I was in junior high, we lived at Tamarack Lodge in Mammoth Lakes. My parents managed Tamarack and a couple of other mountain lodges that sat high in Mammoth's Upper Lakes ...

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Stingaree's red-light rules, early Horton Plaza, Lomaland

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