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JOHN MAYBURY'S COVID CHRONICLE: LOCKDOWN LIFE

op-ed

{John Maybury opinion column from the Pacifica Tribune, March 23, 2021}

BERNIE SANDERS: SMITTEN WITH MITTENS

(fake, of course)

SANITIZE THE WHITE HOUSE BY JANUARY 20

GHOSTBUSTERS: MOSS BEACH DISTILLERY GHOST MAY BE FAKE

news story

Dan Stegink archives

UPDATE: AirBnB party pad in Pacifica riles neighbor

Julie Re op-ed

Julie Re update

red dots = AirBnB guest vehicles parked all over

guests' overflow trash

Darwin Awards to Highway 1 looky-loos

photos posted on NextDoor Pacifica

Who knew!

Under New Management?

 

Sign posted at Oceana High School swimming pool (Jefferson Union High School District), which has evidently converted to private status.

 

Bill Collins

 

Unwitting Ohlone scouts led Portola to SF Bay overlook: beginning of the end for the natives

Carl Nolte op-ed

San Mateo County Historical Association

Spaceman Spicy

Pacifican's BART adventures

op-ed

Ordering pizza at the Tower of London

From an interview with the head Beefeater at the Tower of London:

Q: What’s the worst thing about the job?

A: Sometimes it’s hard to get a pizza delivered because when you say “Can you come to the Tower of London?” they think you’re joking.

(Chief Yeoman Warder Pete McGowran, quoted in Britain Magazine, March/April 2019)

How San Francisco broke America's Heart

True Confession

Chronicle columnist calls Pacifica "friendliest" Bay Area town

Chronicle column

Cover boy

Poster at Oakland supermarket

Buy on eBay

HOW 75 BAY AREA PLACES GOT THEIR NAMES

NEWS STORY

ALAN WALD PUTS ON THE RITZ

Many years ago, when Pacifican  Alan Wald learned that the new Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay would need to fill more than 300 new jobs, he not only applied for a job but also applied to the DMV for personalized license plates for his two cars: RITZ HMB and HMB RITZ. As it turned out, Wald didn't get the job. ("Too old," they said.) Wald muses, "I guess you could say I applied for a job at the Ritz, and all I got were these crummy license plates."

SOCAL SCHADENFREUDE

Alan Wald's brother-in-law and sister, Jerry and Lynne Shaw, enjoy coffee and a view of Catalina Island from the deck of Starbucks in Palos Verdes, California. "Does this beat your Taco Bell?" they quipped.

DRINK OF THE DAY