Before the Alibi Club, it Was Perry’s

By Martin Lindsay
Published on January 23, 2025.

Vacation Village Under Construction

By Martin Lindsay
Published on January 20, 2025.

Vacation Village resort under construction in Mission Bay, San Diego, 1962.

Polynesian Princess, Vacation Village

By Martin Lindsay
Published on October 29, 2024. Updated January 20, 2025.

Don the Beachcomber in its later incarnation as “The Polynesian Princess,” Vacation Village, Mission Bay, San Diego.

What Is Fassionola?

By Martin Lindsay
Published on October 17, 2024.

Learn the history of cocktails’ most mysterious ingredient, a passion fruit syrup from the 1930s that touched the lives of druggists, dancers, and dangerous mobsters.

Bowlero Bowling Alley Demolished for New Home Depot

By Martin Lindsay
Published on July 24, 2024. Updated January 20, 2025.

From the Archives: San Diego’s Neon Alley and Sailors’ Row

By Martin Lindsay
Published on July 23, 2024.

Along the downtown streets of San Diego during and after WWII, there were dozens of restaurants, clubs, bars, tattoo parlors — all vying for the enlisted man’s paycheck. A high […]

From the Archives: Ettore Boiardi

By Martin Lindsay
Published on November 23, 2022.

As far as food brand mascots are concerned, did you know that Chef Hector Boyardee was a real person? Born Ettore Boiardi (1897–1985) in Piacenza, Italy, he emigrated to New […]

Recipe: The Hurricane, 1930

By Martin Lindsay
Published on October 2, 2022.

THE HURRICANE James “Jimmy” Charters, CIRO’S, London, 1930 For a decade before the rum cocktail as we know it appeared in 1940, the Hurricane was a whisky-based drink! Variations appeared […]