When Dick Nixon Came to Town San Diego entrepreneur Arnholt Smith, one of Nixon’s earliest supporters, remembered a melancholy evening in the early ’60s when Nixon was holding a meeting and asked him to get …
November 8, 2021
Articles by Ed Davies
Dick Nixon in San Diego, Joseph McCarthy in La Jolla
Blood flows in La Jolla Cove: the mysterious tale of Robert Pamperin
"On that Sunday of the attack, we had gone to the Bird Rock area to dive for abalone. But the surf was too rough. We decided to go to the cove to see if conditions were any better."
June 15, 1989
Salvaging scrap from San Diego bay: valves, shafts, propellers, heat exchangers, fire-fighting nozzles, running lights, bells, plumbing fixtures, pipes
There was one new mark off the ocean side of Silver Strand, which Tex had told them was a big, bad one. Gowdy made a dip on it, came up, and yelled, "Jesus, Frank, it's a submarine!
May 12, 1988