Squaremont

On September 21, 2018, the left-turn arrow traffic signal malfunction on north and southbound Morena Boulevard at Avati Drive was reported to the City of San Diego's Transportation Engineering Operations Division. (Report Number 02406253) At that time,...

My friend, Neale "Bobo" Henderson, was San Diego's last former Negro League baseball player. He passed on December 27, 2018 at age 88. Neale was preceded in death by former local Negro Leaguers: Johnny Ritchey, Walter...

When Christopher Columbus invaded the Western Hemisphere, the natives were not pleased to greet him as previously reported. Was it Machiavelli or Winston Churchill... or Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring who said, "History is...

In 1953, in response to fervent anti-Communist feelings that swept the nation, the Cincinnati Reds baseball club officially changed its name to the Redlegs. Porkopolis fans would have to wait until 1959 to call their team the Reds again. Later that...

"Who's Who in Clairemont" has a modest history. In 2015, a call for nominations resulted in... nothing. "Squaremont" was still a relatively new column at that time. It had not yet captured a base of...

In the 1950s, Clairemont was facetiously known as "wage monkey heaven." The term might seem indelicate to readers with contemporary sensitivities and hefty mortgages, but Clairemont was originally a place where a working stiff...

A big shout out and congratulations to “Squaremont” Columnist and contributor Bill Swank on his two awards from the San Diego Press Club at the 45th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. Swank, the local baseball...

To quote the great Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella, "You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too." This is...

It took a very long time for "moving picture shows" to find a niche in the Clairemont cultural scene. The community was "thrilled in anticipation of the grand opening of the Clairemont Theatre" scheduled...

They are known as "the mobile homeless" and are variously called campers, vehicular housed, vehicle residents and worse. Neil Donovan, former executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, noted, "They are still hanging on...