Last January the state transportation department (CAL-TRANS) added the Coronado Bridge to its list of eight toll roads that give carpools a discount on crossing fees. Since then, drivers carrying two or more passengers during …
December 1, 1977
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800 out of 3400 Coronado bridge crossers had passengers
Hare Krishnas move to Pacific Beach
Golden Arches would seem to fit in better than Hindu arches next to the driving shops on lower Grand Avenue, and Hare Krishna devotees in white and saffron robes somehow look misplaced strolling along the …
December 1, 1977
The dowsers of San Diego
Folks out on Warmlands Avenue in Vista were buzzing with excitement last week. Seems that Harry and Mary Bartell had brought in a gusher. Not oil, but water, just as highly prized in this neighborhood …
November 23, 1977
Of course San Diego leads in sea mammal research
Bob Shepard, who trained animals at Sea World for 11 years and now works in its public relations department, relates a telling insight into the public’s view of sea creatures. Shepard travels all over the …
October 27, 1977
Elite owners want to kill bike path for Sail Bay
Crescent Beach, the stretch of sand along the northwest shore of Mission Bay, doesn’t look much like a beach. Indeed, events there have instead called to mind one of those trick birthday candles, those which …
October 27, 1977
1977 San Diego guide to best walks
If walking muscles ever become vestigial organs, one can imagine it happening first in Southern California. The car reigns here, and we subjects buck its rule only timorously. We jog, we bicycle, we swim, but …
October 6, 1977
1977 San Diego guide to where you could drown
The most lurid harangue on drowning in the ocean that I ever heard issued from a young couple who were marshalling their children one morning at La Jolla Shores. “You kids haven’t been in the …
October 6, 1977
San Diego van owners go wild with paint
Jim Wilkins bought his van two and a half years ago, joined one van club, then formed one of his own. A few months ago he undertook to completely redecorate his vehicle, and now, inside …
September 15, 1977
Skywriting is perfect for San Diego
It is one hour before take-off in the skywriting capital of the world, and Greg Stinis is tinkering with his airplanes. The smog of Long Beach glows brown overhead, but the sky above it is …
September 1, 1977
Faking it: how to leave yourself behind
Joe Livingston planned his getaway perfectly. The day that he stopped being Joe Livingston dawned as brightly and ordinarily as any hot Chicago summer morning. As usual. Joe dressed for his job as an advertising …
August 11, 1977
How easy it is to penetrate San Diego high society
It was almost enough to squelch the story on the spot; sitting here in the livingroom of one of San Diego’s most powerful society matrons, facing an elegant uplifted eyebrow and a gaze that would …
June 30, 1977
De Anza wants to buy the Camperland lease
With two private recreational parks sprawling over the landscape, few San Diegans see much of the far northwest corner of Mission Bay. Just west of the Grand Avenue exit in Pacific Beach stretches De Anza …
June 16, 1977
What will happen to Coronado's ferry landing?
Walk down to the end of Orange Avenue in Coronado and you can almost imagine the ferries still running. The lot where they used to tie up still stands empty and undeveloped. The spot offers …
April 28, 1977
Coronado Shores beat deadline of coastal height limit
Now that the last two giant condominiums at the Coronado Shores development have begun to inch their way up into the Coronado skyline, there’s still discussion of the development. However, that discussion has a wholly …
April 28, 1977
Harpo's restaurant served eviction notice
Harpo sits in his bright little restaurant and tells how he dreams of turning the end of Ventura Place into a mecca of health. First, there’s his restaurant, where he’s served up healthy foods for …
April 14, 1977
Our Little Miss and Cinderella Girl compete in San Diego
THE MOST REMARKABLE THING about the little girls who gather at the Chula Vista Woman’s Club is the way they don’t quite fit in. The pink crepe paper and plastic bunnies and gold-colored trophies splashed …
March 31, 1977
The Coronado Bridge still a good bond to buy
Sixty cents seemed like an awfully hefty one-way toll when the San Diego Coronado Bridge opened back in 1969. So the bridge authority figured conservatively, estimating it could pay off the $47.6 million in bonds …
March 31, 1977
Pacific Plaza rent hikes taking their toll
The beautification of Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach has begun creeping west. In the shadow of the spanking-new facelift at Pacific Plaza, workers have begun renovating the Safeway-owned shopping center on the northwest corner of …
March 31, 1977
Harry's Market to move around corner to Ventura Place
One by one, they’ll be moved: the groceries stacked high along old, narrow aisles; the Disneyland collection of junk (everything from old golf clubs to underwear) dangling from strings tied to the ceiling, and the …
March 31, 1977
O.B. People Like To Do Their Thing In O.B.
Things have gone full circle at the asymmetrical structure on the corner of Bacon Street and Newport Avenue. Ocean Beach’s first Bank of America branch. The structure later housed a Silvergate Savings and Loan Association …
February 10, 1977
The beginnings of San Diego libertarians
The extra dining room in the Pacific Highway Sambo’s was empty, except for one harried waitress and me. As she set up tables for dinner, she asked me, almost conspiratorially, what was planned for the …
October 17, 1974
Sony lands in Rancho Bernardo – then there's Kyocera, Sumitomo, and Bank of Tokyo
If it weren’t for the foreign flag waving next to the American one and the few brightly colored abacuses ornamenting several executive desks, you might not even know that the Sony plant in Rancho Bernardo …
August 22, 1974