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Best of 2000: Best Vestige Of Old Baja

Popotla Yearning for the laid-back Baja that Earl Stanley Gardner used to describe in the '30s? It's alive and well -- just. Best and nearest place: Popotla, a jerry-built squatters' fishing village on a rocky …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best View Of The Bay

First Street Bridge, Park West We've been to the Top of the Hyatt and to Cabrillo National Monument. We've even stood on the rooftop helipad of the Symphony Towers. All afford sweeping views of the …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Strip Mall For Bachelors

Strip mall next to Chevy Chase Apartments Intersection of Spring Street and Broadway, Spring Valley Let's say you're a single male in the Chevy Chase, an unremarkable enough apartment complex, except for its location next …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Street Performances

The Prado, Balboa Park Big Brother is everywhere, so even street performers have to be licensed by the city. On any summer day, along the walkways of Balboa Park, throngs of diverse show-biz startups compete …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Sidewalk Pastime

This you play heads-down because ... This you play heads-down because you're looking for something. You're an archaeologist of the fourth millennium, and you're looking for signs dating this coastal town they called San Diego. …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Shipwreck

The Monte Carlo, off southern end of Coronado Shores Okay, she's not Titanic. But you don't have to dive three miles down to find her either. The concrete-hulled Monte Carlo was one of the gambling …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best San Diego County Winery

Proprietor Alexander McGeary is 10 years into his 25-year project to hammer out a wine industry high on the eastern side of Mount Palomar, and things are progressing. Though frost -- a threat at 3500 …

December 30, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Study Graffiti

Barrio Logan Some people admire the elaborate mural-sized geometric designs of former guerrilla tagger Saki, others prefer the primitive kinetic power of a simple bathroom-wall limerick. Sponsored graffiti -- wall paintings commissioned by civic groups …

December 30, 2000
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