San Diego's Hysterical History: Fallout from the Skeleton's Closet

Here's where you can enjoy Lockwood's tales of eccentric kooks, and the many other oddball men and women, whose antics made America's Finest City the superior attraction it is today. Begin with Jaguarina who fought from horseback with a broadsword, consider piracy as a fine profession for the city's red-blooded youth, dodge noisy shot and shell of San Diego's only military battle in the bay, meet Saw and Hatchet, perpetually loathsome and eventually happy; flee the city in fear of bombardment, dive undersea for the Solana Beach galleon's gold doubloons, imagine San Diego's boom of 1887 when fresh oranges "grew" on cactus spines, duck the "Flying Whale" that was fright of the population, picture the Old Town jail that has not yet been paid for, or the Lyceum that was never built and join the Wobblies who wanted to found a new republic just south of the Mexican border. Plus dozens more amazing reports of history as it really was . . . and never taught in schools.