None Darker Than Me Racial obsession in 19th-century San Diego People of color were beginning to move into Sherman Heights and Golden Hill. There were colored Civil War veterans who lived in Golden Hill — ...
October 31, 2020
Articles by Robert Houghton
Race in 19th century San Diego, Marilyn Monroe in Coronado, early drive-in theaters
My El Cajon Valley High School days with Lester Bangs
He made the front page of the Daily Californian. The paper ran a large photograph of Lester sitting on a bus bench reading a newspaper, his pile of record albums, magazines, and books beside him.
July 13, 2000
The Ginger Man led a San Diego artist down the road to self-destruction
Back in Portland, he kept making frantic telephone calls, begging for his share of the family estate. When the will was closed, I called him to be sure he received his inheritance check, a hefty sum.
March 11, 1993