Joseph Jessop had also considered New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, after studying weather reports.. But some acreage in what is now Scripps Ranch had proved irresistible to him, even sight unseen.
May 6, 1999
News & Stories
Otay Watch Works and the famous Jessop clock downtown San Diego
Annie Dillard's For the Time Being
Dillard is one of those writers whose work I so admire that I dread interviewing them. I always think, before I dial up the telephone numbers, “I should leave them alone to do what they do so well.”
May 6, 1999
San Diego Union-Tribune wants to push circulation to 400K
The San Diego Union-Tribune has launched what its top brass is calling a "major initiative" to boost circulation at the paper, which serves America's sixth-largest city but barely makes the top-20 list nationally in terms …
May 6, 1999
Blue Door Bookstore in Hillcrest to be sold
For 38 years you knew where to look for Henrich Boll, Celine, Jack Kerouac, Jane and Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Gertrude Stein. Sometimes Jim Thompson and Stendahl would be there, or you could catch …
May 6, 1999
Byron Wear and Barbara Warden running for mayor. Christine Kehoe and Juan Vargas want assembly seats.
Word around San Diego's city hall has it that the city council will almost certainly pick the so-called ballpark site for a new central library. Why? According to sources both in and out of local …
May 6, 1999
Get springtime vistas of mountain green and desert brown on Mount Laguna's Desert View Trail.
It's barely a month after more than a foot of late-season snow fell on the 6000-foot-high Laguna Mountains. The forest atop these rarefied heights is responding in a sluggish way to the melted snow and …
May 6, 1999
Don Waybright II chronicles Desert Storm
Wow! It’s serious hammer time out there somewhere relatively near us. I don’t feel overly anxious, nervous, pumped, or fearful. I should say not yet, at least. I'm sure it’ll be one hell-of-a rush when …
May 6, 1999
Why don't they grow Atlantic lobster in the Pacific?
Matthew Alice: Considering the popularity and premium prices paid for Atlantic (Maine) lobster, one wonders why they can't be grown commercially on the Pacific Coast. I would guess that about every two years someone must …
May 6, 1999
What is the sand for on the Trolley?
Dear Matthew Alice: Can you tell me what the sand under the seats on the San Diego Trolley is for? -- Tracy, the Net Yes, I can. * * * Sorry, Tracy. Just an annoying …
May 6, 1999
Why don't cats react to their reflections?
To: Matmail: Our cat, Harley, always reacts to the presence of another cat. Why doesn't he react to his own reflection in a mirror? Your clarification of this question may save my marriage. -- dt …
May 6, 1999
What came first, the tortilla chip or the potato chip?
Dear Matthew Alice: What came first, the tortilla chip or the potato chip? -- kiyotei, Kiyotei's Den I think we have to go with the tortilla chip, based more on logic than direct evidence. Corn …
May 6, 1999