The Louisiana Purchase
Slick short-term rentals in North Park
Dryw Keltz 3:02 p.m., Sept. 17
Joe Applegate
Applegate wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1976 through 1990.
He is married to another former Reader writer, Jane Weisman Applegate.
Stories of note:
Dec. 2, 1976: Hillcrest (writing contest winner — Applegate's first story in the Reader)
May, 1978 Did Somebody Call a Cab?
July 13, 1978 Locked Up and Let Loose (TJ vs. San Diego jails)
Aug. 3, 1978 A Bump on the Head Could Kill Chris O'Rourke
May 24, 1979 Travels with My Father (author goes to Baja)
March 12, 1981 A Young Man A Troubled Life (a visit to the reformatory)
Aug. 6, 1981 Fire in the Valley (arson and a boy named Angel)
Dec. 10, 1981 Postcards from Western Civilization (tests of friendship)
March 4, 1982 Nobody Disturbs My Peace (on patrol with Sergeant Anderson)
June 3, 1982 Two by Two (author's wife gives birth to twins)
Dec. 2, 1982 What on Earth Am I Settling For? (reflections on domestic life)
April 14, 1983 Requiem for a Rebel (death on Encinitas train tracks)
Sept. 15, 1983 The Growl of Bulldozers Is the Sound of Money (boom in University City)
Sept. 29, 1983 They Oughta Be in Pictures (kids talent agency)
March 15, 1990 Everybody on Stage for the Forgiveness and Reconciliation Number (the story of Lamb's Players)
April 6, 1990 Plays in Words (interview with Neil Simon)
Articles by Joe Applegate
University City – UCSD's bedrooms
Trolley, Regents Road Bridge, San Clemente Canyon, Miramar jets, traffic
No trolley in my backyard A group of neighborhood conservationists in University City are hoping to put the brakes on a plan to extend trolley service from downtown San Diego's Santa Fe Depot to a ...
Stories hidden inside the San Diego Reader, part 2
San Diego's explosives man, Baja tragedy, rock art southwest of Jacumba, Chinese in San Diego
Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. My Triumph, my defeat Five years later I still ...
Stories hidden inside the San Diego Reader
Ventura Place, rock art, Brenda Starr, Vietnamese poets
Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. Meditations while riding San Diego Transit “Yes, these people ...
When Richard Henry Dana returned to Point Loma
As we round Point Loma .
On the 22nd of August, 1859, the little steamer Senator called at San Diego with passengers from Los Angeles. It rounded the point under the lighthouse and entered the harbor’s narrow channel at about 8:00 ...
The small airports of North San Diego County
Flaps down to Fallbrook
Harry Aberle died in the Pitts Special. He crashed after takeoff while Yvonne watched from in front of the hangar. "The only other witness said he was doing an aerobatic maneuver, but I know he wasn't.”
Books: Sandra Dijkstra, what teachers read, play scripts, baseball, airplane books
I felt like running to him and offering my support, shouting. “Neil! Neil Simon! Compadre!”
I’m Talking Monster Books Amy had a title on this book. She called it Wind and Water. She was using the theme of the I Ching. I looked at these synopses of the stories, and ...
Steinbeck, Bergman, Alan Ayckbourn as script writers
The suspense is gone the second time, but there’s twice as much pleasure.
Plays are short enough to allow for re-reading. The suspense is gone the second time, but there’s twice as much pleasure in interpretation once you know where the characters are going.
Lamb's Players Theatre – like a commune but...
Everybody onstage for the forgiveness and reconciliation number
One thing Robert Smyth likes about his used Merkur is that it's a turbocharged car with no sign on it saying "turbocharged." Power without show: that's Smyth (he pronounces it "Smith"). At 40, he is ...
Camp Barrett parolees comb Mt. Palomar for hunter
The unlikely rescue
For an hour and a half, 80-year-old Tony Carrasco had been waiting for a deer to pass within range of his old bolt-action Remington, but now he was getting bored. It was a splendid morning ...
