When people dig into the history of 2025 a hundred years from now, what will they find? Possibly — maybe even likely — little to nothing. For me, the timing of this question is notable as a state effort to preserve California’s newspaper heritage comes to Encinitas to preserve the archives of the Coast Dispatch.
The historic list of the American vice presidents is riddled with “forgettable” politicians who have made little or no contribution to United States history other than taking up space on dusty pages that are not much of scholarly interest.
This was the first editorial published in the Encinitas Coast Dispatch on Feb. 12, 1925, written by founding editor and publisher G.S. Breidford. It is reproduced here in full from the North Coast Current's Coast Dispatch archives in celebration of the newspaper's 100th anniversary.
One of the great friendships I made during my half-century of covering entertainment personalities was with Hall of Fame song writer Hugh Martin, who lived for many years in North San Diego County, including Encinitas. His most memorable work was for the 1945 Warner Brothers’ Judy Garland film “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
Today’s anticipated Christmas booty would never appear on the dreamscape of most youngsters during the 1940s or early ’50s. What toy land wonders we didn’t know about in those days weren’t missed. Comparatively speaking, post-World War II vintage toys were, at best, primitive.
For those of you who think the upcoming election of 2024 is going to be a real donnybrook, you probably didn't read about the Election of 1800, which came close to tearing our nation apart. The election, which was held from Oct. 31 to Dec. 3 of that year, was sometimes called the “Revolution of 1800.”
The Pacific View Arts Center, located in the buildings once occupied by an elementary school of the same name, opens Tuesday, Aug. 6, with a ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. and open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A second open house is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 10.
The 2024 Olympics opened last week in Paris, but a lot of history has taken place during the last century that is worthy of note. Here are two stories I told you about in past columns.
Captain Keno’s restaurant owner Gerry Sova reflects on more than 50 years in business as the local spot prepares to close by the end of August to make way for new development.
There’s a good deal of obscure city names scattered across America that are derived from either native inhabitants or from early 17th and 18th century French explorers and trappers. Here are two more examples: Truckee and Des Moines.
