San Diego History

Straight from the Hip by Matthew Alice | www.sdreader.com So by the excruciatingly exacting standards of the Matthew Alice Center for More or Less Correct Information, we declare Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm, to be the former lead Trekkie of the Star Fleet Club of La Jolla. We don't have ...

America's Finest City? Not any more. Faced with all that ill repute, the city has quietly dethroned itself and dropped the self-proclaimed title "America's Finest City" from its official Web site. The San Diego Union-Tribune recently asked readers to coin a new slogan, saying "America's Finest" had ...

San Diego is perhaps the most haunted city in the United States. Grab your GPS receiver and download an eXchange (.gpx) file format GPS Map to a haunted Halloween. It contains some haunted waypoints from the ghosts and gravestones tour of Old Town San Diego.

Giant panda Bai Yun gave birth to a new panda cub last night at the San Diego Zoo, the third cub to be born at the zoo.

David Moye sent us: Roll Another Number For The Road: The taquito (not the 'rolled taco') turns 65: El Indio taco shop is turning 65 in August and that means it's also the 65th anniversary of the taquito, possibly the greatest culinary invention in San Diego history, rivaled only by ...

route66 was there at UCSD twenty-seven years ago to see the gonzo man. Fear and Loathing on the College Lecture Circuit: If that is the title of the next book by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, few of his readers will be surprised. Wearing a red baseball cap, with a half-smoked ...

Last night KPBS TV showed a documentary called "Cul du Sac: A Suburban War Story." Made in 2002, it talks about the infamous "guy who stole a tank and ended up shot dead by the San Diego police." It was an odd documentary. On the one hand ...

I bet some of you didn't know that San Diego at one time hosted a professional basketball team (well, perhaps professional is being generous with the San Diego years for the Clippers). As I recall their hallmark was poor attendance at the San Diego ...

I remember this news from when I was in High School. 1986 was the year Highway Patrolman became a term of fear for San Diegans -- especially women. "Don't stop for a cop unless you're under a light or there are people around" was the advice I remember being given ...

Is Old Town's Whaley House haunted?

Next Monday (Aug 30) the Republican National Convention begins in New York. Thirty-two years ago in 1972, the RNC was supposed to take place San Diego. Souvenir matchbooks depicted San Diego as the site of the convention that never happened here. More......

Da Goddess remembers the legendary Country Dick Montana, he of the great San Diego band The Beat Farmers. Read more about Dick here. And here's an awesome tale. I saw the Beat Farmers once at The Del Mar Fair. They rocked.

In Anchorman, supposedly set in San Diego there's this exchange: Ron Burgundy: The Germans discovered it in 1904, and they called it "San Diego", which in German means "whale's vagina". Veronica Corningstone: No, I don't think that is what it means. No, it doesn't mean that. RB: I ...

Before I read this SDUT article, I had no idea there was a San Diego Black Historical Society. And check this: Hotel for Colored People: The first building to ever be designated an African American landmark in San Diego County was the Clermont/Coast Hotel which was ...

Whoa. San Diego at one time -- at the turn of the century (19th-20th) had a *wink wink nudge nudge* area downtown called the Stingaree

Whatever Happened to Izard Street? Pacific Beach and Its Street Names The majority of Pacific Beach streets have had more than one name. It seems as if, through the years, the city fathers couldn't make up their minds. But the changes were not born of caprice; there were good ...

Ever get a goofy forwarded email from a dopey but well-meaning friend? Well, snopes.com does factchecking on those emails. Some of them turn out to be true. Here are some remarkable facts about San Diego discovered to be true:

Many people don't know that San Diego was the site of a terrible airline crash in 1978 -- PSA Airliner Crash On Monday, September 25th, San Diego was the scene of the worst air disaster, to date, in the United States. A mid-air collision between ...

The San Diego Historical Society has some cool stuff. Browse around it.

So the Super Bowl is on now. And last year, it was here in San Diego. I know it's been here in San Diego several times, so I was curious to know how many, exactly. Super Bowl Summaries hooked me up. The results? Super Bowl XXII, ...