The details published here are just a fraction of what Plumlee knows about U.S. government actions in Central America. He can rattle off names of pilots and the secret, illicit missions they flew until the listener’s eyes glaze over.
April 5, 1990
History
San Diego pilot Tosh Plumlee flew narcotics for contras and other warlords - maps, names and dates
Why would Mayor O'Connor call Fabergé eggs exhibit artistic coup?
Carl Fabergé did have one crucial thing in common with the Soviet realists who followed him and with the people putting on this exhibition: he worked for the government, and the work he did was “government work."
October 19, 1989
When early filmmakers zoomed in on San Diego
Disappointingly, the movie shows no scenes of recognizable Lakeside streets or structures that I can compare with the town as I’ve known it during my lifetime. But it does show something more evocative: vistas of wild grass and brush…
September 7, 1989
Was Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona real?
“I there was such a woman as Ramona, the odds are that she was married not here but in a little chapel on Conde Street. Father Yubach said he seemed to remember marrying a woman by that name.”
September 29, 1988
Mexican revolution and the role played by Tijuana
Consider first a fiery Mexican revolutionist who refused to travel a mere hundred miles to be at the scene of his greatest victory. Add an army of several hundred men, mostly American and European revolutionists …
When the USS Bennington blew up in the San Diego harbor
Lee Strobel did not die in the steam blast as he thought he would. The force of the steam had carried him forward until he hit a bulkhead almost fifty feet from where he had been standing.
November 12, 1987
San Diegans remember their days in the Civilian Conservation Corps
""At Pine Valley, the guy who owned the store put up a wooden dance floor with lights, and on the weekends all the gals would come up from Imperial Valley, 'cause it was so hot down there.”
September 17, 1987
Billy Carlson, the boy mayor of San Diego
He had the eager devotion to San Diego of Pete Wilson, the unswerving optimism of Mike Gotch, and the bounce-back ability of Roger Hedgecock. He was possessed of such energy that his chroniclers wondered when he slept.
July 9, 1987
Under William Walker Americans invade Baja
Some historians have questioned whether Walker was interested in bringing slave states into the Union. But Walker had stated that he had no intention of merging into the American Union. He wanted to rule a country.
Basic teachers’ examination from San Diego, 1891
I teach at one of San Diego’s high schools,,,, I was shocked to find that if I had applied for a teaching credential a century ago, I wouldn’t have been hired to teach even the primary grades.
February 20, 1986
When dinosaurs roamed and volcanoes roared in San Diego
The flexible joints allow a twenty-story skyscraper to sway one or two feet during an earthquake, but ask anyone who was in the Cuyamaca Club on the afternoon of April 8, 1968, how much two feet is.
April 5, 1984