San Diego may soon be getting a new city hall. Not just any city hall, but a “Capitol on the Hill,” beckoning its citizens with glamour and expense, equal to, say its planners, the city …
August 17, 1989
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A city hall to match Horton Plaza
A Geography of San Diego Murders
Mob Jobs Tamara Rand, 54Bandini Street, Mission HillsNovember 10, 1975 The victim, a real-estate broker and the wife of a wealthy physician, was found sprawled on the floor of her kitchen, a cup of tea …
June 22, 1989
Mayor O'Connor, Joan Kroc, Helen Copley, and the Faberge eggs
It's ten minutes before one o'clock, Thursday afternoon. The crew of the Today show is in Seaport Village about to begin taping a two-hour program on which the hosts will pretend that it is actually …
June 1, 1989
San Diego's ugly, awful, and pointless points of architecture
Ernest Hahn’s contribution to North County commerce is uninspired aircraft hangars surrounded by automobiles. North County Fair makes plenty of money and makes it with as little concession to aesthetics as it can get away with.
December 15, 1988
E.W. Scripps, newspaper magnate, leaves stamp on San Diego
In 1968 the three trustees voted to sell what remained of Miramar to a developer for $4.2 million. The decision to sell raised the ire of their sister, Nackey Loeb, who threatened to sue her brothers.
April 7, 1988
John Davies and his Boalt Law classmate Pete Wilson
This is a story about John Garfield Davies, a wealthy and influential man known vaguely, if at all, by the public. It is also a story about some of his friends, one a powerful land …
April 8, 1982