Pity the Chinaman. He left the China of the Manchus and the Mandarins and the longfingernailed dowager empresses to find life in California. Coolie labor, they called him in California. And labor he did. "Nowadays, …
March 22, 1973
Articles by Kevin Mallory
Wong Lee's hand laundry on Broadway – they started in the Gold Rush
San Diego's go-go bars: Les Girls, the In Spot, Barbary Coast, King's Club
In North Beach in 1962 if you weren't 21, you slipped a fake driver's license to the bouncer and hoped to get into the bar. A TOPLESS bar. Two dollars a drink to look at …
December 14, 1972
Loma Portal lawyer wants to oust San Diego's airport
You have just been subjected to aural pollution: the sound of a 707 landing at Lindbergh Field. According to San Diego International Airport Manager M.A. McDonald, this kind of pollution-air traffic noise-is falling off. Two …
November 16, 1972
Vietnamese, Living Here
I got these orders to Vietnam, you see. They said to report to "Coronado, San Diego" for training. I was afraid, and full of doubts (am I really going to kill innocent peasants?) But I …
October 19, 1972