Too Outrageous for La Jolla Beach People say old surfers never die. They dry up like some sunbaked seaweed and are blown away by the offshore breeze. Before their end, they may move the knotty …
June 3, 2023
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Stories by Jane Weisman
Tom Wolfe absorbs Windansea subculture
1973 Reader guide to jogging, bookstores, cheesecake
1973 San Diego guide to cheap eats How to eat on a dollar a day 1973 San Diego guide to rock music Best clubs 1973 San Diego guide to movies Grim harvest 1973 San Diego …
September 12, 2022
Crazies at Moonlight Beach, tyrants of San Diego lifeguards, lover of the Mission Beach plunge
The Spectacle at Moonlight Beach Not so many years ago the spectacle at Moonlight Beach was strictly a limited engagement, running approximately from Memorial Day to Labor Day. After that the set was dismantled, the …
April 18, 2021
La Jolla – a shoreline and a mountain
What Windansea surfers said about Tom Wolfe Eight summers have drifted by since Tom Wolfe (author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) traveled to California to write a series on “The New Life Out There” …
July 20, 2020
Best Reader stories from 1973
Serious witches in San Diego Force claimed he had played a role, witch-wise, in the indictment of San Diego's former Mayor Curran and his staff, in the Yellow Cab Scandal. “A friend of mine, Jodi …
October 26, 2019
What was thought hot 45 years ago
1973 San Diego guide to San Diego guidebooks What Neil Morgan never told you. 1973 San Diego guide to the San Diego Reader Who are these people? 1973 San Diego guide to cheesecake Supermarket, specialty …
January 5, 2019
San Diego via Gray line, de Touring, Cush, California Student, Carey Limo, or San Diego Transit
If your sister, brother, aunt, uncle or favorite mother-in-law is coming to San Diego, and you don’t have the time or patience to show them around, for $5 to $10 per person local tour services …
May 16, 1974
1973 San Diego guide to bookstores
San Diego Bookstores, like food stores, range from supermart to gourmet shop. This somewhat subjective guide to a dozen or so notable San Diego book stores is compiled with hopes to satisfy every book-buyer’s taste, …
October 4, 1973
1973 San Diego guide to cheap eats
With food prices rising, the problem of creating good, economical meals at home seems to grow beyond the normal tattered pocketbook. Now, some possible solutions to this problem might include free-loading meals from wealthy friends …
October 4, 1973
San Diego big names face inflation grimly
While the average San Diegan does without his new car or his new stereo, or cuts his entertainment budget down to buying popcorn for television movies, it may be comforting to know that inflation is …
September 27, 1973
San Diego City Council moves to ban billboards
Whatever happened to San Diego's ordinance banning billboards? Has it faded into a dim memory since the City Council adopted the measure in February of 1972 that was to banish billboards from the city limits …
August 9, 1973
Tom Wolfe wrote too much about WindanSea surfers
“Tom Wolfe really was a jerk when he was with us, and when the story came out, we knew he was a jerk. After it came out, someone wrote ‘Tom Wolfe is a dork’ on the Pump House.”
July 19, 1973
Card players have an excellent inter-city grapevine in San Diego
"Card room are given a black eye by the public and they shouldn't be!" The woman's police-issued identifcation badge, complete with a photograph, says her name is Helen. Helen has been a "housewoman" in card …
June 28, 1973
Cheap Eats: San Diego on $5 a week
With food prices rising, the problem of creating good, economical meals at home seems to grow beyond the normal tattered pocketbook. Now, some possible solutions to this problem might include free-loading meals from wealthy friends …
May 24, 1973
RCA's advance man pushes B.W. Stevenson at San Diego State's Backdoor
When the public rejects a frustrated singer, comedian or disc jockey, he can either flee from the cold-hearted cynics, or try to edge his way in the back door of the sacred entertainment industry. If …
April 19, 1973
Proposition 20: Who Really Won?
Fifty years ago, San Diego was a small town with miles of pearly white beaches, and vast tracts of fine pastureland. The brae citizens who lived in this isolated town traveled to Los Angeles by …
April 5, 1973
Zoned just like the human cemetery
A twisting Jane ends at the bottom of the hill, and nearly an acre of the hill, and nearly an acre of dormant brown grass stretches to the water's edge. Ducks create trails in the …
February 1, 1973
Writer infiltrates Mission Bay Marathon
"Marathons are really democratic. They run ya against King Kongs, studs, all kinds of people."
January 25, 1973