Someone else's trash in Escondido is not your treasure
Favorite spot: where the 15 freeway passes over North Nutmeg
Mike Madriaga 11:30 a.m., Aug. 19
Robert Houghton
Articles by Robert Houghton
My El Cajon Valley High School days with Lester Bangs
The Creem and Rolling Stone writer was not from the sticks.
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.
The Ginger Man led a San Diego artist down the road to self-destruction
Was it worth giving up everything to cop a literary pose?
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.
