San Diego, CA
They work on San Diego’s smog
UCSD’s science bent, Nationwide College brash about cash, shipfitter damage at NASSCO, how SD Transit will survive, is Mira Mesa wretched?
San Diego steadily has an onshore breeze that sweeps the smog inland. That is nice, until you occur to stay in Alpine.
San Diego beginning to cope with its smog
The pure broom sweeps the smog into the pure dustpan of Alpine. On days when the smog is especially dangerous, you may drive east on Interstate 8 past Alpine and watch your self climb proper up out of the inversion layer. Immediately, the air is evident; mountains on either side of the freeway now stand out.
By Gordon Smith, Aug. 28, 1980 Learn full article
Richard Atkinson: “Sixty p.c of the nation’s analysis is finished within the universities. The Soviets don’t do it this manner, however I believe it’s extra environment friendly.”
The downsides of San Diego’s principally science faculty
She informed me that UCSD is a socially fragmented faculty, “and not using a tie to deliver college students collectively. It’s not a pleasant college. Seventy-five p.c of the scholars stay off campus, and there’s no housing shut in. There’s no industrial district close by, both. You possibly can’t stroll to La Jolla!”
By Gordon Smith, Nov. 13, 1980 Learn full article
David Chigos: “We like folks to make cash as a result of a whole lot of them donate it again to the college and that enables us to maintain the schooling down.”
Nationwide College’s totally different concept of scholarship
Too usually, says Chigos, college students at conventional universities waste their time on frivolous pranks similar to dropping watermelons from buildings or staging bicycle races within the mud — actions higher suited to elementary faculty kids, in his view. Nationwide College, he declares, affords a “no-nonsense” training “for large individuals who have been round on the planet.”
By Larry Keller and Linda Rocheleau, Jan. 15, 1981 Learn full article
Gene Nooner noticed the 200-pound metal hatch slam full power towards his face and cranium.
From one accident at NASSCO to a different
Nooner was standing within the stairwell. Nooner’s associate stood beneath him on the ladderlike stairs, prepared at hand up any needed instruments. Unknown to the 2 males intent on the hatch hinges, the fixed pounding of the close by chipper was inflicting the 2 locking pins within the help stanchions to straighten out.
By Mark Orwoll, March 20, 1980 Learn full article
Lee Hultgren: “probably the most important act for transit in San Diego,” is when the legislation prolonged gross sales tax to gasoline.
Photograph by Robert Burroughs
Finish of subsidies for San Diego buses
The subsequent two years will see main additions to San Diego’s transit system. Freeways shall be expanded to incorporate “Excessive Occupancy Automobile lanes” on Interstate 8 between Jackson and El Cajon Boulevard, and alongside Interstate 15. The Santa Fe practice depot shall be restored and shall be a significant heart for buses.
By Gordon Smith, April 24, 1980 Learn full article
Mira Mesa’s downside is not only that there isn’t a lot for its children to do….
Photograph by Robert Burroughs
San Diego’s most wretched neighborhood
Pardee Building Firm, the only largest developer of properties there — gained notoriety as early as 1970, one 12 months after development started. when Time journal ran a photograph of a typical Mira Mesa road of Pardee properties as an instance a narrative entitled “Housing: The Swing Again to Ticky Cheesy.”
By Larry Keller, June 12, 1980 Learn full article