There had been indications, beginning with when the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom fell through the ceiling of the basement. Nobody was hurt, but it was an omen. Shortly after that fungus began growing on the basement walls.
December 9, 1976
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All the spots – Swami’s, Boneyard, ‘D’ Street, Beacons – were within walking distance
Black's Beach – who are these people?
A hang-glider cruises low over the beach, his huge shadow startling sunbathers, awakening sleepers. He finds a break in the bodies, swoops, and lands. He unstraps himself, takes off his helmet, then his clothes. Someone …
April 29, 1976
Inside the Self-Realization Fellowship
The temple sits on the bluffs at the southern edge of Encinitas, perched beside the ocean and the community like a kind of 25-acre transplant from India, uprooted halfway around the world and dropped here, …
April 22, 1976
Carlsbad's Army-Navy Academy - citadel of discipline
“I liked the Academy from the first. I like the challenge of promotions, and I'm getting a better education here. The classes are smaller than in a public school, and there isn’t any racial prejudice.”
April 8, 1976
She hires surfers to cut Leucadia eucalyptus
When she has a pickup truck full of them, she drives them up to her hill - the lot of them happy in the back, knowing they’re finally going to make a little money.
March 4, 1976
San Diego's bureaucracy for the jobless
While I sit there waiting for my name to be called. I nervously rehearse my lies to myself. Names. Places I've looked for work. Sad stories about getting there an hour too late ...
November 27, 1975