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on Obama & Hillary. Maybe a Photo Shop of Barack on Fried Chcken Day or Hill as the Wiked Witch on Hollow- een or Congressman Ellison on Bacon & Pork Day. You guys are hilarious. — John Deluna


Central San Diego before 1930 The San Diego trolley in the early 1900s, the elusive Putnam sisters, and someone who remembers the Marstons, Klaubers, and Colonel Fletcher


Clang, clang, clang In the summer you could get a fi fty- cent pass for the whole week. She recalls passing her ticket out the window to a friend to squeeze two rides for the price of one, joining others in rocking the vehicle back and forth until the motorman became angry, and using the trolley to ride to San Diego High in the morning or to music lessons in the afternoon. BY COLEMAN WARNER, FEB. 15, 1979


How Minorities Settled Here Harris looked at census fi gures and at the movement of African-American churches. In the late 1920s, most had shifted to the Southeast portions of the city. As had “Negro housing,” which “shifted from the downtown and waterfront areas to ‘Southeast San Diego.’ ” It became “confi ned to the area lying south of Market Street and west of Wabash Boulevard. As the community spread east, Helix Freeway [now Highway 94] became


the northern ‘boundary.’ BY JEFF SMITH, JUNE 18, 1998


India Street and Beyond: A history of the Italian Community of San Diego,


Return of the Native The fi rst thing she did upon her arrival was to purchase a little apartment building near Balboa Park, which she christened “The Wallraven,” Once it was occupied by her tenants of choice, Grandmother instituted her Sunday Salons, glorifi ed afternoon-tea parties, to which she invited her newly adopted neighbors, among them the Marstons, the Klaubers, and Colonel Fletcher and kin. Some of these founders-to-be took part in the Salon’s entertainments — recitations, musicals, plays — often


offered in the garden. BY JOAN DURYEE HAMILTON WELLS, NOV. 21, 2001


Mystery of the Putnam Sisters In 1900, still dividing their time between New York and Vermont, Anne turned 33, Irene 31, and Amy 26. They were still not married. Perhaps spinsterhood did not look ignoble to the three Putnams. They had lively Aunt Amy Bishop as a happy example (the maiden aunt whose letters urging the youngsters to learn taxonomy, botany, biology, are preserved in the fi les). One of their female cousins, a physician, never


married. BY JUDITH MOORE, MARCH 25, 2004


1850-1980 Pietro Lusardi came to San Diego with his brother, Francesco. They ran sheep on Mt. Palomar, then built a 3000-acre sheep ranch in the Black Mountain area of Rancho Santa Fe (iHenry Lusardi, Francesco’s son, stated that “his father and Uncle Pietro accumulated a good portion of their ranch by having their Basque shepherds, who cared little for owning land, fi le on the land, then


sell the acreage to their employers”). BY JEFF SMITH, AUG. 17, 2000


On First Looking at San Diego “The three villages that make up the great city of San Diego are the Playa, Old Town, and New Town. At the Playa [the southern shore of Point Loma from Ballast Point to the old Naval Training Center] there are but few buildings at present, and these are not remarkable for size or architectural beauty of design…. It is not at all improbable that should the great Pacifi c Railroad terminate at San Diego...the Playa must be


the depot.” BY JEFF SMITH, JULY 29, 2004


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City Lights “SDG&E Takes Another Shot at Picking Your Pocket” Posted November 23 Brilliant reporting, Don. Make sure to enter this for investigative prizes. — Hil Anderson


keep publishing the pictures of the jerks responsible for this, maybe some of us will get a change to tell them what we think of them in person. — Mike Murphy


yep i m a native san diegan sdge always gets their money jerks now they r pissed about all the solar now so they will jack rates on us who dont have solar.


— Alpine Mike


As an insider I can tell you, yes. Power lines may have caused the problem the way a match strikes fire; but the real culprits were telecommuni- cations wires. What? Yes. As they strung high-strength


steel messenger wires from pole to pole, their only guid- line was ground clearance. This meant tension between co-occupied poles was unbal- anced. Look to the Telecom- munications Act of 1996, where SDGE was forced to accommodate, and you’ll see what happens when govern- ment stirs with big fingers. — Jack Wilhelm


Under the Radar “Charity Starts at Home” Posted November 24 If someone works and as part of their compensation they receive a pension what is wrong with that? $41k or even $86k is not a large pen- sion in relation to what they were making.


— AlexClarke


I couldn’t agree more with you on this one, Alex. I think these two may have been a tad over served at the salary bar, but all things considered, their pensions seem slim. Some people just have a lot of resentment about folks who get good pensions — especially those employed in the public sector, where they still have unions and good pay with benefits,and a decent pension package. I have no sympathy for those who decided they didn’t want a union, or worse, had one and voted it out. Now they’re whining about those “overly generous” public employee


pensions. They waved good-bye to the union rep and then watched as the executives salaries went from 20 times theirs to 400 times theirs, and their raises slowed to a crawl while their pensions went into the stock market and pretty much evaporated. Now they point and wail about those who were smart enough to hang on to their union contract and think that if they can’t get themselves up, maybe they can at least bring some others down. And the big dogs go laughing all the way to the bank.


— Javajoe25


Still, there’s that confusing first paragraph... It seems to suggest that KPBS presents news only when it doesn’t offend its advertisers. I might add that certain insiders in the city and county get pref- erential treatment too. The result is that citizens are not informed, but advertising takes up a huge percent of my radio hour. Myrland and management are responsi- ble for this fraud and don’t deserve a penny from donors or taxpayers. That’s why I’m here at the


Reader — I expect to see the news that mainstream media is covering up. RIP Gloria Penner, who irritated more scammers than anyone since at KPBS.


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