Taken by a SharkState game wardens began hunting the beast by trailing cattle blood in the water, from their patrol boat, between Bird Rock and the Scripps Pier. They found no shark of the magnitude …
September 1, 2025
Articles by Ed Davies
Real San Diego 1950s stories
Dick Nixon in San Diego, Joseph McCarthy in La Jolla
When Dick Nixon Came to Town San Diego entrepreneur Arnholt Smith, one of Nixon’s earliest supporters, remembered a melancholy evening in the early ’60s when Nixon was holding a meeting and asked him to get …
November 8, 2021
San Diego in the '50s and '60s
The Polio YearsI began to wonder whether I would just be a cripple the rest of my life or permanently stretched out in an iron lung. While I lay moaning in the back seat on …
July 30, 2017
Blood flows in La Jolla Cove: the mysterious tale of Robert Pamperin
"On that Sunday of the attack, we had gone to the Bird Rock area to dive for abalone. But the surf was too rough. We decided to go to the cove to see if conditions were any better."
June 15, 1989
Salvaging scrap from San Diego bay: valves, shafts, propellers, heat exchangers, fire-fighting nozzles, running lights, bells, plumbing fixtures, pipes
There was one new mark off the ocean side of Silver Strand, which Tex had told them was a big, bad one. Gowdy made a dip on it, came up, and yelled, "Jesus, Frank, it's a submarine!
May 12, 1988