by David Helvarg reader
Internees in San Diego, Poston, Arizona, mostly old and young.
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During World War II, the Japanese escaped from San Diego by rail.
- “There are still some. I saw people I went to school with in Coronado before the war working. They still don’t talk to me. has been proven guilty” (October 20, 1977).
Evacuation from Warner Ranch to Parra. “We’ll always be here. We don’t care where else. It might be better, but it’s not ours. There’s no other place for us.”
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Survivor
- She stops at the Tomb of Yellow Sky, a legend among Barona’s Indians. He walked through the desert between Yuma and San Diego wearing nothing but a bleach cloth, trading firewood for food.(April 21, 1977)
About 30 of the 250 known shark species live in and around San Diego waters.
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I’d rather eat with you dear!
- July 25, 1975, Peter BenchJey movie chin While performing to a packed audience in Mission Valley, Brian Hawthorne, owner of the 60-foot San Diego swordfish vessel Heather B., pulled a 12-foot, 6-inch, 12-foot, 6-in I was harpooning my jaws, a great white shark. Diego County (January 20, 1977)
SDG&E OB protest at the corner of Voltaire and Sunset Cliffs. About 50 local demonstrators chanted “No, I won’t pay you” at three of the four local TV news cameras.
Rocket boosters, along with missile warheads, are attached to the vehicle to create a “fully encapsulated bird” under heavy military security in the Conveyor Factory’s Sycamore Canyon area.
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bird of war
- Last month, December 14, the San Diego-based nuclear submarine USS Guitaro It lay in the deep waters northwest of here, near San Clemente Island. One of her torpedo tubes was loaded with a 22-foot giant Cigar, a stainless steel capsule resembling her humidor. Captain Scott Van Hoften ordered the fire. (January 7, 1982)
The Starlight Night Viewing Scope is around $75,000.
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If they want war, Marines want to fight it
- We are sitting on the bar rail of the officers’ club at Twentynine Palms. Crowded with desert-tanned Marines in camouflage utility and combat boots. “Take This Job and Shove It” by Johnny Paycheck is playing. (May 29, 1980)
David Helberg Journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the Blue Frontier Campaign, a marine conservation lobby group.
He is the author of Golden Shores – California’s Affair with the Sea, Saved by the Sea – A Love Story with Fish, Rescue Warrior – US Coast Guard, America’s Forgotten Heroes, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Fighting the Green , Blue Frontiers—Shipping from America’s Marine Wilderness, Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide.
he wrote a story reader It was held intermittently from the late 1970s to the 2000s.
