San Diego Magazine - August 1997 - San Diego, California

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Features
	The Romanov Jewels For 300 years, the Romanovs gloried in dazzling crowns, scepters and personal jewelry. Now these shining treasures are going on display at the San Diego Museum of Art. It’s an eye-filling,... By Virginia Butterfield
	Ocean Beach: A Lifestyle Frozen in Time Bleached-out surfer dudes, boomer Yuppies, beach rats, aging hippies and pink-kneed Midwest transplants coexist in one of the last of the old-time Pacific Coast beach towns By Rick Dower
	Last Man on Killer Hill It’s been 20 years since the fall of Saigon. But for one ex-Marine in the desert east of San Diego, the war never ends. By Jan Golob

Features

The Romanov Jewels

For 300 years, the Romanovs gloried in dazzling crowns, scepters and personal jewelry. Now these shining treasures are going on display at the San Diego Museum of Art. It’s an eye-filling,...

By Virginia Butterfield

Ocean Beach: A Lifestyle Frozen in Time

Bleached-out surfer dudes, boomer Yuppies, beach rats, aging hippies and pink-kneed Midwest transplants coexist in one of the last of the old-time Pacific Coast beach towns

By Rick Dower

Last Man on Killer Hill

It’s been 20 years since the fall of Saigon. But for one ex-Marine in the desert east of San Diego, the war never ends.

By Jan Golob

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