Coronado, Orange Avenue 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Why Coronado? Because the town's small enough and the parade's big enough. And the grassy median's a perfect picnic spot. And the Navy and the SEALs and …
December 28, 2000
Coronado News & Stories
Best of 2000: Best 4th Of July Parade
Best of 2000: Best Midnight Cocktail
Babcock and Story Bar at the Hotel Del Coronado 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado (619) 435-6611 For years the Del's owners were in denial about their view of the ocean and Point Loma. They stuck tennis …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Dress Your Kids Like Royalty
Reruns Children's Resale Shop 1015 C Avenue, Coronado (619) 435-5444 The unique thing about Reruns is that, well, they're cheap and they're surrounded by rich folks. More admirals' grandkids grow up here than any place …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best-Dressed Thai Experience
Swaddee Restaurant 1001 C Avenue (at Tenth and C), Coronado (619) 435-8110 The waitresses whisk around in elegant ankle-length pha sin -- scarlet, indigo, blue, green, saffron skirts of cotton or silk laced with threads …
December 28, 2000
Through the Air into Darkness
As San Diego police sergeant Boyd Long stopped on the Coronado bridge to check a stalled car, he immediately noticed something was amiss. The stranded motorist stepped away rather than beckon for assistance. "Then it …
October 12, 2000
A Big Message
On concluding its December 6, 1999, session, San Diego City Council honored a community volunteer, but few people knew Janice Kay Loesel or how she died. Councilman Juan Vargas described her as a tireless member …
October 5, 2000
Coronado Was Once a Wedding Gift
He rode his horse south, from San Diego around the southern shore of the bay. “The beach bordering the Pacific Ocean offered him a smooth path northward,” and he rode along a “crescent-shaped peninsula.”
August 3, 2000
A walk on Coronado bridge's big blue catwalk
Cars have gone over twice. One with three drunk sailors somehow jumped onto the railing and then over into the water. Was there a moment, a second or two, when the car teetered on the railing?
March 16, 2000
Otay Watch Works and the famous Jessop clock downtown San Diego
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
Does Coronado train killers?
The headline that brought me to a Navy seal reunion in Coronado is simple and startling. "seal training caused murder, lawsuit says." The story was published in the Virginian-Pilot, a daily paper out of Norfolk, …
September 25, 1997
Coronado ripped apart by 1966 school board fight
“The rich school district gets the best teachers. That has not changed. Except here on Coronado we had a rich district with a poor tax base and citizens too mean to raise them."
August 10, 1995
Explosives planted in the Coronado bridge
Dear Matthew Alice: When I was serving a sentence in the Navy in the ’70s, there was a salty rumor floating around that I accepted as gospel. First: The Coronado bridge is designed to float …
April 13, 1995
Coronado Cays villages have a distinctly nervous feel
Gated communities are the coming trend in Southern California, ad although this isn’t really a gated community, it sort of has that feel. People here feel safe because of the security measures.
April 22, 1993
Hotel Del Coronado owner Leonard Friedman gives boats to Sail America
A decade of hustle and a $10 million investment may soon pay off for the local promoters of a seasick-proof ship. News stories about the “Small Waterplane, Twin Hilled” boats—Swath for short—are appearing more frequently, …
June 30, 1988
Artist paints mural for Hotel del Coronado; it disappears
Monette Kuplec and the Hotel del Coronado bring you, “The Case of the Covered-up Coverup.” In 1973 Keplec, a La Jolla artist, donated her services to a local charity auction. The successful bidder was the …
April 21, 1988
Meet a maid at the Hotel Del Coronado
These large first-floor rooms at the Hotel del Coronado overlooking the tennis courts and picturesque beach are some of the most expensive in San Diego. And they’re a mess. The bedding in them is rumpled; …
April 23, 1987
McMullen mansion in Coronado faces wrecking ball
One of Coronado’s architectural landmarks, the MacMullen House, has for years steadily deteriorated before the eyes of every motorist entering or exiting the island via the Coronado toll bridge. Tagged by history buffs as the …
March 12, 1987
Coronado Bridge lit up in middle of day
Dear Matthew Alice, The Coronado Bridge is an imposing structure, admittedly, and is pretty hard to ignore. That’s why I was wondering why in the dickens the lights were blazing away on it the other …
July 10, 1985
Hotel del Coronado buys Oxford Hotel
The Hotel Del Coronado’s plans to move the Oxford Hotel onto its grounds is actually the first step in a five-phase conceptual master plan completed by San Diego architectural firm Bradt Ackerman & Associates just …
September 6, 1984
Coronado casts cold eye on Glorietta Bay live-aboards
In the waters just off the Coronado Municipal Golf Course, from the clubhouse stretching south about half a mile, more than twenty boats are anchored year-round while their owners live aboard them, and another seventy …
August 2, 1984