Eight Ball in the Corner Pocket You could smoke a joint so long as you kept it at a respectable distance from Mrs. Yamada. You could do most anything you wanted except fight, which brought …
February 20, 2022
Doc Webb’s special pride is a tattoo—a painting, really—he once did on a sailor’s back, an epic battle between a gigantic squid and an octopus.
Posted October 5, 1972
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Toughest block in the Gaslamp, Horton-Grand teeters
South of Broadway: The Pigeons in Horton Plaza
The street-level scene is familiar to any visiting sailor. The sleazy, slow-motion excitement of the card rooms. Hole-in-the-wall cafes with Jose Alfredo Jimenez on the juke box. Fundamentalists giving away checks from “The Bank of Eternal Life."
October 5, 1972