Letters

SCORE!

Your May issue was one of the best San Diego Magazines ever. I rate it a 10 on a scale of 1-10. Of course, the sexy cover got my attention right away. Is that a computer image, or is that a real, live person’s great shape?

I must say, I wondered how a family magazine was going to handle the question of “Sexy in our City” [by Julia Spalding], but you kept it readable and tasteful——and welcomingly titillating. Still, I’m betting you’ll hear from a few old fogies. And thanks for the part about sexiest neighborhoods. I’m planning a field trip straight through from Del Mar to South Park.

It was also interesting to read the deep background on the team that wrote the book on dishonored Congressman Duke Cunningham [“Some Kind of Hero” by Eilene Zimmerman]. They definitely earned their Pulitzer.

Thanks for San Diego Magazine.

CHIP NORQUIST
LA JOLLA

Thank you. And yes, cover model April Vasquez is a real, live person with a great shape.——EDITOR

AND NO THANKS

I was disgusted at the cover of your magazine, both title and graphic portrayal of a woman’s naked body, in your recent “Sexy in the City” issue. I was shocked when I saw it sitting on my own coffee table and snatched it up, wondering who had brought that inappropriate magazine into my home.

So now we need to use sex to even sell America’s Finest City? You can’t see a way to sell San Diego Magazine without making it look like a “hot” sex issue? This is not the type of content I want laying around my home.

You have crossed the line. This magazine will no longer be welcome in my home.

SUSAN WILCOX
DEL MAR

DOCTOR’S PRESCRIPTION

San Diego Magazine has published a list of “Top Docs” in orthopedics for many years. It has been my privilege to be on the list many times. However, the face of orthopedics in our city has changed, in keeping with the national trend of specialization within the specialty.

Very few orthopedic surgeons practice a full spectrum of the specialty. For this reason, when considering doctors in San Diego, I would suggest you refer to specialized areas, such as joint replacement, spine surgery, hand surgery, pediatric orthopedics, sports medicine and orthopedic foot surgery. This specialized approach will direct your readers to learn about specific areas of orthopedics and to refer themselves, or significant others, to the correct channel for treatment.

We are now a specialty with several full and contributory areas of subspecialization. I believe acknowledging this change would make your annual presentation more meaningful to readers.

RICHARD M. BRAUN, M.D.
HILLCREST

CREDIT DUE

In your April Front Pages section, you took a poke at KUSI reporter Rod Luck in good fun, which is fair enough. But we at the station take exception to your describing Rod’s work as “innocuous.” Often ignored by you and the other print media is how instrumental Luck has been in helping charities raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for important causes.

While the list of charities Rod has supported cannot fit on one page, here is an abbreviated list of organizations to which he has devoted significant time and news coverage: MADD, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Lung Association, San Diego Food Bank, Salvation Army, Make-A-Wish Foundation, San Diego Blood Bank, American Cancer Society, San Diego Center for Children, Cardiovascular Disease Foundation, San Diego Rescue Mission, Meals on Wheels, Goodwill, Father Joe’s Village, San Diego Epilepsy Foundation, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Alzheimer’s Association, Arthritis Foundation, American Heart Association, Autism Speaks, Easter Seals, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Helen Woodward Animal Center, Veterans Village of San Diego, Head Start, Burn Institute, San Diego Children’s Hospital, ACCION San Diego, Bread of Life Rescue Mission, America Supports You, San Diego City Shelter and the ALS Association of San Diego.

Rod is also fiercely dedicated to the military community in San Diego. Every month he organizes a “KUSI Shopping Spree” for military. We would like to see San Diego Magazine acknowledge these altruistic efforts.

DOUG FRIEDMAN
KUSI NEWS
SAN DIEGO

A FAN LETTER

Thanks to San Diego Magazine for Deirdre O’Shea’s article——and Gary Payne’s outstanding photographs——about my Feller residence in your March issue [“Glass Act”]. I was particularly pleased that you had chosen this house because although it was more than 50 years old, it had never been photographed or published until recently.

I have been a fan of San Diego Magazine since I first arrived in San Diego in the mid-1950s. Those were the days of publishers Ed and Gloria Self, Elizabeth and Tom Robertson, Jim Britton, Harold Keen, Deborah Szekely, Neil Morgan, Paul Layton and others, such as Debra Kent and Bob Peterson.

Every couple of months, the Robertsons would put together one of their “young people” parties, and everyone would come. I was 31 at the time! We would all get together in the Robertson home——designed by Lloyd Ruocco with that splendid concert hall living room——and discuss the local political and cultural scene. I took advantage of the opportunities there to learn how the city and its government worked.

City council elections were coming up, and there was a dearth of candidates to run for the empty council seats and mayor. After a great deal of discussion, the group decided to form a political action group and invite various candidates to come and be interviewed. We called ourselves Citizens United.

San Diego Magazine was often the only voice in the wilderness; the liberal voice of those days. We would endorse the candidates——those who appeared to be the most qualified at the meetings. I always arrived early; I wanted to sit near Ted (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, so I could watch him draw caricatures of the candidates——sketches that never saw the light of day! I particularly remember a drawing of a lady candidate who looked suspiciously like Helen Cobb with an egg on her head. She was later elected to the city council.

Thank you again, San Diego Magazine, for encouraging my involvement in these processes, as well as for your interest in my work!

HOMER DELAWIE, FAIA
POINT LOMA

BOFFO RESTAURANT

Thank you for your great coverage of San Diego’s restaurants. When I helped at the box office of the Sunshine Brooks Theatre, I would run to Mary’s Family Restaurant for change. That began my regular eating at Mary’s in Oceanside seven years ago.

The other day I had a chance to speak with the owner, Jose Hernandez. It seems the restaurant has become a tourist attraction. The Chamber of Commerce recommends his establishment. Visitors come for the famous breakfasts dished out——300 people a day during the tourist season.

What I especially like are the portions served——the hash browns and cinnamon rolls. Also the friendly, good-looking waitresses who serve with a smile.

Whenever Oceanside has a parade, I make it a point to sit outdoors at the restaurant and have a sandwich or burger and watch the floats go by.

WILLIAM HART
CARLSBAD

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