Kearny Mesa Stories
Crab Hut advertises, "You'll swear you're in New Orleans." (They clearly don't mean the drowned, empty neighborhoods and the crack-dealer gangs, but the pre-"Brownie" foodies' paradise.) But you can't believe everything you read. Take Crab …
The Penetrators at Western Audio recording studios in Kearny Mesa, May 15, 1980. "Need good personality art," reads the photo assignment sheet. Standing in the back of the room are Gary Heffern, Chris Sullivan, and …
Fighting a two-front war with the Federal Aviation Administration over the too-tall high-rise he is building near Kearny Mesa's Montgomery Field and two towers he's proposing for Harbor Island near Lindbergh Field, Sunroad Enterprises' Aaron …
Denomination: associated with the Baptist General Conference Address: services held at Kearny High School, 7651 Wellington Way, Kearny Mesa, 858-268-2330 Founded locally: 2005 (as independent entity) Senior pastor: Matt Hammett Congregation size: 1600 Staff size: …
San Diego wants to build up, not out. Single-family detached homes will become historical artifacts. High-rises will mushroom out of the ground. But will it work? The infrastructure to support the population growth doesn't exist. …
At night, the exterior of Kearny Mesa Bowl is not inviting. Set toward the back of a big parking lot on the south side of Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, about a block west of Convoy, the …
When I was a kid, I saw a Shriner wearing a fez in Kearny Mesa. It reminded me of Tom Bosley's character, "Mr. C.," on Happy Days, who would sometimes wear those fuzzy hats. (And …
Polished pop filled the vast, low, pale-gray box that housed The Rock Church. On stage behind the band stood mock highway signs, highlighting the book of Numbers as a road trip: a caution triangle warning …
Thirty Years Ago The bare bottom of San Diego sport is epitomized by the face of Canadian entrepreneur and Sports Arena operator Peter Graham. This contemptuous double-dealer is the best case yet for confiscatory inheritance …
For decades, the Gibbs family and Montgomery Field, the city-owned airport on Kearny Mesa, have been joined at the hip. The family's concrete-block buildings and metal hangars, its gas pumps, taxiways, and tie-down areas, have …
ARMED ROBBERY Location: 9310 Kearny Mesa Road Time/Date: 12:30 p.m. on 1/30/05 Investigation: I was dispatched to the Best Western Motel on an armed robbery that had just occurred. The radio message said the suspects …
I asked the Cowboys fan if she was from Dallas or if she just jumped on the bandwagon when the team was winning in the '90s. She said she had been a fan since she was a kid.
Food = joy…guilt…anger…pain…nurturing… friendship…hatred…the way you look and feel.… Food = everything you can imagine. — Susan Powter Tim Klepeis, the chef at Adams Avenue Grill, spoke hesitatingly at first. “I think the greatest reward …
Volunteer San Diego 4699 Murphy Canyon Road, Kearny Mesa www.volunteersandiego.org 858-636-4131 In January 2002, San Diego Cares and the Volunteer Center of San Diego County merged to become Volunteer San Diego. Their entire purpose is …
TeaZone 4688 Convoy Street, Kearny Mesa 858-279-6888 They come from Taipei, from Seoul, from Asia's trendiest capitals. They carry walnut-size cell phones that twitter like sparrows. They drive sassy low-slung subcompacts with dazzling rims and …
San Diego Min Sok Chon 4620 Convoy Street, Kearny Mesa 858-560-8168 True aficionados of exotic nightlife head to San Diego Min Sok Chon, a self-described "Korean folk village" that is a cavernous bar/restaurant with thatch-roofed …
Road Runner Sports 5553 Copley Drive, Kearny Mesa 858-974-4455 All the used shoes on the shelves, and there are hundreds of pairs, are returns from catalog sales. The fit wasn't right or the arch didn't …
AmeriSat 7370 Opportunity Road, Suite P, Kearny Mesa www.digitaldishnet.com 858-505-1122 HDTV or TiVO? You want programs in Russian, Portuguese, or Arabic? Ask here and you'll get a knowledgeable answer. Although AmeriSat has specialized in commercial …
Sam Woo Bar-B-Q Restaurant In the 99 Ranch Supermarket 7330 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard #A103, Kearny Mesa 858-505-9888 The Chinese say jok, Chinese porridge, is the healthy, gentle way to start the day. Jok is made …
Crown Bakery 4690 Convoy Street, Suite 104, Kearny Mesa 858-499-0067 Every morning, Korean-owned Crown Bakery produces the city's freshest and tastiest green, red, and white bean paste buns at its Convoy Street storefront. Bean paste …
Carley's Magical Garden/Oncology Gardens, Children's Hospital 3020 Children's Way, Kearny Mesa 858-576-1700 www.chsd.org Carley died of leukemia when she was three. Her parents wanted to do something in her memory. They came up with a …
Contec Video And Audio 4425 Convoy Street, Suite 212, Kearny Mesa 858-277-2641 With the low price of VCRs and the imminent dominance of DVD, not many places repair VCRs anymore, but Contec still does. They …
Lynn's Nails of Kearny Mesa 4411 Mercury Street, Suite 109 (Mercury and Balboa), Kearny Mesa 858-495-0816 Lynn's Nails doesn't appear to be anything more than another nail salon sporting a fruit shrine worshipping Buddha. But …
Olhausen Pool Tables 5620 Kearny Mesa Road, Kearny Mesa 800-570-7665 The law says you can't buy one-armed bandits that require coins unless they're genuine antiques, i.e., 1940 or earlier. No problem, says Sheila Roesink, the …
Brad Burt's Magic Shop 4204 Convoy Street, Kearny Mesa 858-571-4749 This is a one-stop source for bendable keys, flying coins, dove pans, vanishing bottles, magic ropes, die cyphers, and other tools of the conjurer's trade. …
Panda's Domestic Service 7677 Ronson Road #202, Kearny Mesa 858-292-5503 Panda's offers reliable housecleaners who will clean to your specifications and stay out of your way. When Pam Thompson started Panda's in 1986, she was …
99 Ranch Market 7330 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, Kearny Mesa 858-974-8899 A zillion live rock crabs, each the size of a woman's hand, are sitting on a bed of ice. Luckily, they're not as crabby as …
Dumpling Inn 4619 Convoy Street, Kearny Mesa 858-268-9638 It's hard to find good jellyfish this side of the ocean. Most jellyfish served in the U.S. are rubbery or totally tasteless. Or maybe it's been cooked …
Its influence was not as far-reaching as Oprah’s Book Club, but its consequences were likely far more devastating. Though we smirk at its mass appeal and its seeming insincerity, all Oprah’s list does is make …
Davis Dance School 8303 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard #205, Kearny Mesa (858) 467-0557 www.sdsalsa.com Davis Dance School's bimonthly salsa dance parties from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., following an hour lesson at 7:30 p.m., are the site …
Darlena's Turning Point at 94th Aero Squadron 8885 Balboa Avenue, Kearny Mesa (858) 259-6166 www.singlesinsandiego.com More than a hundred singles show up each Tuesday for this dance party geared toward thirtysomethings. Guests shell out $10 …
Software and Such 4411 Mercury Street, Kearny Mesa (858) 627-9700 The facilities aren't much to look at, and the selection of games at first glance may not appear abundant. But this place seems to have …
“What you have are all the Asians hanging out with each other in the cafeteria and with each other after school. We are thought of as the Asian clique, not Koreans or Filipinos or Vietnamese or Chinese.”
It's not easy to take on the likes of San Diego Unified School superintendent Alan Bersin. Subject of endless rounds of favorable coverage in the Union-Tribune and the darling of its editorial board, son-in-law of …
Murphy Canyon was named for Jack Murphy. Not the 1960s sports columnist who led the fight for a new ballpark, but a pioneer rancher who acquired about a hundred acres of the San Diego Mission land grant.