Thirty Years Ago Not that I'm putting Las Vegas down. Anyone is entitled to a descent into a neoned hell where women dressed in mink coats sit in air-conditioned Cadillacs counting nickels held in Dixie …
July 7, 2005
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Thirty Years Ago MALE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE seeks members. Learn from female counterintelligence how to protect against the Disapproving Female hell bent on humbling and humiliating the convenient male. Self-addressed, stamped envelope...for membership application. -- CLASSIFIEDS: …
June 16, 2005
Back When
Thirty Years Ago In each of the camps at Camp Pendleton, there are the bulletin boards. Vietnamese leaving messages for other Vietnamese -- lost friends and relatives -- and notes to "The Employees of IBM," …
May 12, 2005
Back when it was okay to pee at the beach
Thirty Years Ago For less than most athletic clubs (the Rowing Club is only S10 a month for students and military), one can use the club's boats (7 single wherries, 2 doubles, 2 four-oared; 3 …
May 5, 2005
Dear Michael Jackson
Dear Mr. Jackson: I would like to start off by saying how sorry I am about your childhood. I saw it all on VH1’s Michael Jackson program, so I am well versed on how the …
April 21, 2005
Throwing My Friends Away
Abraham Lim, a senior at Mt. Carmel High School, arrived in San Diego from New York in May 2003. How has your lifestyle changed? “When I first came to San Diego, I was actually extremely …
January 27, 2005
Abbey’s Barbecued Pinto Beans
By Athena Shlemon, Owner/Chef, Abbey's Real Texas Bar-B-Q — Mira Mesa I'm a rice person. Rice and beans are my favorite things to eat. I mix them up and eat them together. Anybody can make …
January 6, 2005
Best of 2001: Best Ethnic Jewelry Store
Byzantium 2607 Congress Street, Old Town 619-497-1848 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., closed Mondays This is the place to go for small quantities of reasonably priced burial amber or antique white agate from Africa. Two blocks away …
December 27, 2001
Best of 2001: Poll Results
Best Afghan Khyber Pass 521 University Avenue, Hillcrest 619.294.7579 Best After-Hours Club Club Montage 2028 Hancock Street, Midway 619.294.9590 Best American Corvette Diner 3946 Fifth Avenue, Hillcrest 619.542.1001 Best Antique Store Ocean Beach Antique Mall …
December 27, 2001
Reader writers tell funny stories about dead colleague, Steve Esmedina
Esmo’s phone manner was so hugger-mugger that I could be sitting four feet away and could not make out a single word. For all I could tell, he might have been laying fifty on a pony.
September 20, 2001
Reader readers tell Roommates from Hell stories
Jimmy wasn’t through with us yet. Still stunned from having our furniture ripped off, we started getting shutoff notices for everything. Seems we had trusted Jimmy to collect the money for the utilities and pay them.
June 16, 1994
Reader writers tell their favorite books
Reader Writers' Faves Worn, Solid, Absolute — Mary Lang Staying Power — Paul Krueger Babbittry — Joe Daley Hillerman’s Climb — Colin Flaherty Macabre Reminder — Ray Westberg My Adult Card — Eleanor Widmer Not …
December 20, 1990
Kalifornia girls: San Diego's dangerous women
Dangerous woman Kali, tie Hindu goddess, las been grossly maligned by Hollywood. Consequently, tie mention of her name among polite company most often conjures distasteful fancies of turbaned murder cults, devil worship. Yet she is …
August 16, 1990
Thirteen Reader authors on San Dieego at night
The guy in the middle rack next to mine was hard-timing it, sleeping 15 to 18 hours. This was standard among tweakers who had gotten busted after a five- or six-day binge of no sleep.
July 5, 1990
1984 young people's writing contest — 12 years old and younger
FIRST AWARD WINNER Morgan Rutberg Age 11 Fuerte Elementary School El Cajon I don’t know why, but for some strange reason I walked through the empty streets of downtown San Diego, my destiny not chosen. …
December 20, 1984
1984 young people's writing contest — ages 13-16
FIRST AWARD WINNER Kevin Alexander Age 16 Mission Bay High School San Diego I had experienced many of them in my eleven-year history of life, but I knew there was something beyond these gestures of …
December 13, 1984
Short takes: items of interest from 1983 in San Diego
Stout shoulders slump under the weight of 1983: war in Chad, war in Afghanistan, war in El Salvador, war in Grenada, war in Lebanon, war in Nicaragua. Mass murderers roam the highways, an airliner is …
December 22, 1983
Oneida invades San Diego, the Persian garden in Del Mar, jock befriends fattie, girl discovers boyfriend is perv
SECOND AWARD $250 Paul Cleary Del Mar TEN YEARS AFTER CLASS It was July 5, 1980, and about 150 self-conscious people drank and mingled at the Moose Club in Oneida, New York, for the ten-year …
October 16, 1980
1979: San Diego's year in review
Rape of the Earth Medal of Dishonor The year's most infamous award goes to the voters of San Diego, a majority of whom agreed to exchange 39 acres of prime canyonland in Balboa Park for …
December 20, 1979
1978 in review
Greatest Injustices George Mitrovich President, City Club The failure of the port commissioners to come forward with a single proposal to Improve air traffic safety at Lindbergh Field following the tragic crash of PSA Flight …
December 21, 1978
1976: San Diego politics, movies, music, fashion, architecture, books, business
Who 'da thunk? Carlos Bey, Reader contributor Free Sandwiches Peanut butter, cheese, or lunch-meat sandwiches given out every day at 3 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop, 634 4th, downtown. Just a Suggestion, …
January 13, 1977
San Diego in 1975 –sports, music, politics, food, movies
ALAN PESIN, FILM CRITIC, NORTH COUNTY LIVING High Lights and Low Laughs in San Diego Sports It was revealed that the San Diego Padres could have signed Catfish Hunter but for one stipulation in the …
January 8, 1976
1974 in review
Best bargains of the year John Goodman, CALPIRG 10-pound bag of potatoes for 69 cents in December. (Were $1.79 for 10-pound bag in May.) One pound of Farmer John bacon for $1.19 in December. (Was …
January 9, 1975