Crystal Pier Hotel & Cottages 4500 Ocean Boulevard, Pacific Beach (858) 483-6983 You can't afford the cruise? No worries! Listen to the waves below your pillow! Feel the sway! You feel as if you're at …
December 28, 2000
Pacific Beach News & Stories
Best of 2000: Best Place To Sleep Over The Ocean
Best of 2000: Best Place To Be Pierced
Mastodon 4638 Mission Boulevard, Pacific Beach (858) 272-1188 Unlike tattoo parlors that do piercing as a sideline, this shop specializes in poking holes in places where God did not think holes necessary. The individual stations …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Counterculture Shop
High Road Psychedelic Shop 1465 Garnet Avenue, Pacific Beach (858) 273-7501 Many '70s survivors find it comforting that High Times magazine, Zig-Zag rolling papers, bongs, and glass pipes are available at head shops, while the …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Sushi
Sushi Ota 4529 Mission Bay Drive, Pacific Beach (858) 270-5670 Begin with the shrimp and vegetable tempura. Both the shape of the items -- a long, symmetrical oval of carrot -- and the close, clinging …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place To Wait In Line For Sunday Breakfast
Kono's 704 Garnet Avenue, Pacific Beach (858) 483-1669 By 10:00 a.m. the queue stretches out to the middle of the street. But Garnet Avenue ends here, at Crystal Pier, so there's little danger of being …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Place For Hawaiian Food
Da Kine's Plate Lunches 4120 Mission Boulevard, Pacific Beach (858) 274-8494 1635 Sweetwater Road, Suite H, National City (619) 477-8494 For a real Kalua pig, you have to cook it imu style -- in the …
December 28, 2000
Best of 2000: Best Free Meatless Meal
Hare Krishna Temple 1030 Grand Avenue, Pacific Beach (858) 483-0941 Hare Krishnas throw these free party-like vegetarian feasts at their P.B. temple because they want you on their home turf. Guys in bare feet and …
December 28, 2000
State Testing Programs
The expression "high stakes" is a favorite idiom among San Diego educators these days. It doesn't matter if you're talking to people at the local, district, county, or state level -- if the subject is …
November 30, 2000
Back to my grandparents' house on Crown Point
Almost every Thanksgiving, we drove to my grandparents. I remember the excitement as we neared Crown Point, the great arc and half-arc of the old two-lane bridges that carried Ingraham Street over Mission Bay.
November 24, 1999
Living on my own at 16 in a La Mesa house
We later drove up Mount Helix and paced around the cross in the mountaintop park, staring all around, and every few minutes one of us would offer a reason why Eric couldn’t possibly die.
September 15, 1994
P.B. Nights: Does Racism Reign?
Pacific Beach, some say, is becoming an increasingly racist place. White gangs like P.B. Vurmin (sic?) have sprung up in the western end of the community, as if to counter the growing presence of blacks …
January 27, 1994
Lost Roads of San Diego: Truckee Road, Ward Road, Fillmore Avenue
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.
April 8, 1993
Border cops raid immigrants on Grand Avenue
The recession that lingers over San Diego with more tenacity than El Nino’s storm clouds has another street-level manifestation that has P.B. residents thinking the “D” word. At the corners of Grand and Noyes, where …
February 20, 1992
Garnet Avenue between Mission Boulevard and Morrell Street – “Main Street U.S.A.”
It always pays to read the fine print. San Diego city planners learned this lesson the hard way last month, when they belatedly discovered that their two-year-old proposal to rezone the commercial center of Pacific …
April 21, 1989
Shortcut from La Jolla to I-5 rendered impossible
For years Pacific Beach and La Jolla residents trying to reach northbound Interstate 5 have used a short cut to avoid the congested intersection of Garnet Avenue and Mission Bay Drive. (Several blocks north of …
August 21, 1986
Cops in Pacific Beach blame Diego's
Diego’s nightclub in Pacific Beach may be all the rage with the disco/video set, but its popularity also extends to the nightstick/badge set. Officer Gary Hill, who patrols the beach on the late shift, says …
March 8, 1984
Mission Bay overnight camping penalties upped
Vacationers and the homeless have long been spending their nights inside campers or recreational vehicles parked along Mission Bay’s shores. In doing so these civic freeloaders have been ignoring the well-placed signs that warn of …
August 18, 1983
Pickering’s Pleasure Pier – the forerunner of PB's Crystal Pier
Dear Matthew Alice: The recent storms have uncovered what appear to be nine pilings just south of the Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach. Could they be the remains of another pier? Eddie ConnPacific Beach Lemons …
April 21, 1983
Winter storms affect Sail Bay
Jane Walton admits that the problem of abandoned catamarans doesn’t rank high on San Diego’s list of major concerns. It’s really not a problem, as much as it is a bother and a mystery: why …
February 3, 1983
The good life at Oakwood apartments
"Married men who were approaching middle age wished they were single again so they could move into Oakwood and start swinging, and many of them did. They were the envy of their friends,”
June 18, 1981