San Diego's Hilarious HistoryCoda Publications, 2004 - 176 pages The wacky world of San Diego history that's never been taught in school. Where General Kearny Got Licked by the Californians, Galleons in the Sand, how a ladder put the Mayor in office, camels carrying mail across the desert, how California was really named, the zoo scamps, Those Naughty, Naughty Books, Dora, San Diego's last slave, how Dough Boys emptied the bank, a happy-ending duel, where Butterfield Mail passengers shot back, Chief Iodine and the taking of San Diego and dozens more of Lockwood's fine tales of San Diego. |
Contents
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The Hon J Fortescue | 31 |
The Dough Boys | 100 |
Ursus Horribilis | 102 |
A Fiery Oration | 104 |
Trolley Car on a String | 106 |
Vintage Police Brutality | 108 |
The Passing of Davy OConnor | 110 |
Sing Yee Faces Life | 112 |
Pauma Massacre | 115 |
Van Dykes Bad Boy | 33 |
Jamul Swings | 36 |
The Bandini Donnybrook | 38 |
TwoBits Tebbetts | 41 |
A Real ShootOut | 44 |
Bicarb Anyone? | 46 |
Where Kearny Got Licked | 48 |
A Grocery History | 56 |
A Doctors Dilemma | 58 |
The Abominable Monster | 61 |
Califia | 64 |
Ham and Eggs Etc | 67 |
Our WellOiled Hero | 70 |
Chief Iodine and Company | 73 |
Where the Wobblies Wobbled | 76 |
The Bennington Disaster | 79 |
The Fruit of the Martini | 83 |
Those Naughty Naughty Books | 86 |
Zoo Scamps | 89 |
The Triple Whammy | 92 |
Chinatown | 94 |
Chicken a Go | 96 |
Rattlesville | 98 |
Galleons In The Sand | 117 |
A Very Deliberate Suicide | 119 |
Municipal Machinations | 121 |
Battled In Bond | 124 |
A Murderous Business | 126 |
That Wilde Man | 129 |
Dora San Diegos Last Slave | 132 |
Steamer Days | 137 |
Ramona | 139 |
Call Me Mister | 141 |
War On Poverty 1913 Style | 144 |
Our Posseless Past | 146 |
Tough Old Bird | 148 |
Border Shenanigans | 151 |
Baseball Comes To Town | 153 |
Time Marches On | 156 |
Hollywood Eat Your Heart Out | 159 |
Arguellos Epigram | 163 |
Spasmodic School Days | 166 |
Call Me Ahab | 169 |
Acknowledgements | 172 |
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Page 25 - You would have laughed had you been here when the gentlemen from your quarter made their appearance. All the people moved into the presidio, except thirty women, who went bag and baggage on board the Funchal. The two parties were in sight of each other for nearly two days, and exchanged shots, but at such a distance that there was no chance of my assistance being needed. About thirty have passed over to this side. The general appears to be perplexed what to do with them. He seems as much frightened...