"We were catching a Navy ship, met them off the sub base. We pelted them with water balloons as a Coast Guard cutter turned the corner. The cutter impounded us for harassing a Navy ship.”
March 4, 1993
News & Stories
Life on San Diego's few and mighty tugboats
San Diego's highest tides
Dear Mr. Alice: When will the highest of high tides be? This enclosed article says March 8, 1993, and that it will not be matched for 1400 years. The high tide in San Diego on …
March 4, 1993
Lost Roads of San Diego: California St., Douglas St., Sorrento Rd., Camp Callan AVe.
When UCSD first opened, US 101 had not yet been replaced by the long-promised Interstate 5. Although 101 sliced the campus in two, in its early days, UCSD was mostly confined to the Revelle College area,
March 4, 1993
The wild pagan roots of Mission Valley's Jack Murphy Stadium
Its skeletal frame, with rectangles of empty space, gives it the half-ruined aspect of an ancient arena like that in Arles or the Coliseum itself, as if the architects had been unable to resist a pun.
March 4, 1993
How we got ketchup
Dear Matthew: Here's a question that started when I worked in restaurants ten years ago and still comes up once in a while, but I have yet to get an answer to. So I turn …
March 4, 1993