Last Saturday the sun was shining on the 5100 block of Cape May Avenue in Ocean Beach, and Red House at 5113 was in full flower. At the side yard gate, casually dressed visitors (mostly …
November 22, 1979
Ocean Beach News & Stories
OB Manifesto
Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, Pacific Beach decals work
You can still find that first inflammatory sign in the windows of a few homes in north Ocean Beach. Bright green on white, the letter “O” was a peace symbol which eventually changed into a …
June 29, 1978
O.B. unimpressed by promises of a “natural” Winchell’s doughnut
Ever since the Ocean Beach Planning Board has begun recommending how the beach community should grow, they have given fast-food franchises the cold shoulder; OB’s only existing such establishments either managed to circumvent the board …
February 2, 1978
76 people lined up for 56 Sea Colony units
We had been in Ocean Beach six years, five in a house too small for us, and the only possible alternative cost $65,000, and required a bigger down payment than we could handle.
May 12, 1977
O.B. People Like To Do Their Thing In O.B.
Things have gone full circle at the asymmetrical structure on the corner of Bacon Street and Newport Avenue. Ocean Beach’s first Bank of America branch. The structure later housed a Silvergate Savings and Loan Association …
February 10, 1977
OB Pier – longest fishing pier on West Coast
A ten-year-old kid perches atop the green wooden railing, his leg partially obscuring the “No Sitting on Rail” warning sign stenciled below. By late afternoon, this railing has become encrusted with fish scales and entrails, …
September 2, 1976
San Diego cops talk candidly
After a decade of thinking of cops as Mayor Daley’s favorite barnyard animal, I felt a bit odd strolling into the Central Police Station and looking ahead to a night of cruising around on the …
March 4, 1976