There's a new sign adorning the windows of the Ocean Beach Target that has taken some residents aback. It's a Public Notice announcing an application to sell alcoholic beverages within the giant corporate store. Given the store's controversial opening 6-7 years ago, the intent to sell alcohol is just one more slap in the face…
Part 1 By Frank Gormlie (Updated version of original published 10 years ago) It's been 60 years since the end of Camelot and we are told it was the end of the "idealism of the Sixties". Well, it has been sixty years, and it's been 60 years of the Big Lie - the Big Lie…
Here is the first part of a 2-part series about the assassination of President John Kennedy written 10 years ago. By Frank Gormlie originally posted Nov. 22, 2013 Fifty years ago this Friday, the 22nd of November, I walked out of my English class at Point Loma High School and full of disgust threw…
Part 1 By Frank Gormlie (Updated version of original published 10 years ago) It's been 60 years since the end of Camelot and we are told it was the end of the "idealism of the Sixties". Well, it has been sixty years, and it's been 60 years of the Big Lie - the Big Lie…
by Doug Porter In 1966 the cultural revolution that was sweeping the country washed up on the shores of Ocean Beach. Somewhere in the mists of that long ago upheaval, OB resident Norman Lamssies began to print the Liberator, an underground newspaper.