Florence Chadwick in and out of the water Many years earlier, on her return to San Diego from a trip abroad, Chadwick had been greeted by city officials with considerably more pomp - a jubilant …
July 1, 2023
Articles by Kathryn Phillips
Florence Chadwick wants to lose 50 pounds
Joe Nicholson flays San Diego's bayside look
Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. Seaport Village is a Walt-Disney solution Seaport Village is …
September 26, 2022
Where to park downtown San Diego, loiterers at the library, high-rise top floors
Adult Orphans A Wednesday afternoon, hot. Half the stools at the State Hotel Deli are taken. Talk is quiet, desultory. Mama Sofia perches on her stool near the cash register, her daughter — mending again …
August 23, 2021
Looking inside Padres lockers, Maureen Connolly, Ted Williams, spying on America's Cup rivals for the Kochs
Inside the Padres' lockers Caught looking. Tony Gwynn sat in a canvas-backed chair and peered into the wooden cubicle in front of him. “What’s in my locker?” he asked, repeating the question that had been …
January 9, 2021
Best Reader stories from 1982
What on earth am I settling for “Goddamnit,” said Jane one evening about six months ago when I answered the door of our apartment in Golden Hill and found her on the stoop, Jeanne sliding …
November 24, 2019
Stories hidden inside the San Diego Reader
Editor: The following feature stories appeared in the interior pages of the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s and have just been converted to digital form. Meditations while riding San Diego Transit “Yes, these people …
January 26, 2019
Minori Tanaka needs two million scallops and about $200,000
California’s history has proven, among other things, that it takes more than a slab of land and a network of irrigation pipes to succeed at the tenuous business of farming. It takes, above all, a …
March 10, 1983
Against the Current: Florence Chadwick in and out of the water
On a recent afternoon, after the museums had closed and the daytime tourists had deserted Balboa Park, about a hundred people gathered in front of the newly rebuilt Electric Building. Among the crowd were business …
June 17, 1982
Downtown San Diego oldsters trapped in Cathedral Plaza, Luther Tower, Westminster Manor
Six years ago I could visit Pat at Cathedral Plaza simply by walking into the building, taking the elevator to her floor. Now I call ahead and arrange for Pat to meet me at the lobby entrance.
April 15, 1982