… I remember my dad telling me about a gambling ship off Coronado when he was a young boy,” said Jan Ronis, a second-generation native San Diegan.Back in the dark and mostly dry early years of the Great Depression, the S.S. Monte Carlo was a controversial symbol that hope floats — as long as you [...]
Strippers Pine for Tiger WoodsA plane advertising a strip club had a message for Tiger WoodsUpdated 5:58 PM PST, Fri, Jan 29, 2010In a clever marketing move at Tiger Woods’ expense, an airplane flew over the Farmers Insurance Open Thursday with a banner that read “WE MISS YOU TIGER! DEJA VU SHOWGIRLS.”Joanne Arellano also saw [...]
Ex-Foster Child Hopes To Keep Program AlivePOSTED: 6:57 pm PST January 29, 2010UPDATED: 7:36 pm PST January 29, 2010SAN DIEGO — A young man recently released from San Diego County’s foster care system is trying to keep the program that saved him alive.At 16, Suamhirs Rivera was working at a restaurant in his [...]
TORREY PINES — A strip club hired a plane to fly banner above the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego with the message “We miss you Tiger!”The strip club company, Dreamgirls, paid for the advertisement in response to Woods’ absence from the PGA tournament.Woods is taking an indefinite leave from golf to work on his [...]
Strippers Pine for Tiger WoodsA plane advertising a strip club had a message for Tiger WoodsUpdated 7:58 PM CST, Fri, Jan 29, 2010In a clever marketing move at Tiger Woods’ expense, an airplane flew over the Farmers Insurance Open Thursday with a banner that read “WE MISS YOU TIGER! DEJA VU SHOWGIRLS.”Joanne Arellano also saw [...]
SAN DIEGO — He is leaner, bigger in the shoulders and no longer vulnerable to cracks about “man boobs” from Tiger Woods’ caddy. If anything, Phil Mickelson is in position now to laugh loudest about Woods’ marital and commercial crisis. How often has he resembled Charlie Brown in the shadow of Tiger the Bully, always [...]
A banner sign behind an airplane circles above the Farmers
Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Thursday in San Diego to promote
a local strip club at the expense of Tiger Woods.Advertisement
Today, I’ll let the above visual speak mostly for itself. As the action got under way for pro golfers in [...]
Tiger Woods Target of Humorous Advertising Prank In Skies Above Torrey PinesFriday January 29, 2010He may not be playing at this week’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, but even in absentia Tiger Woods is the center of conversation at the PGA tournament. Or more specifically, the center of chuckles because yesterday an airplane towing [...]
Tacky, tasteless? But kind of funnyFriday, January 29, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.K.C. Alfred / Union-TribuneA banner sign from an airplane promotes a San Diego strip club at Tiger woods’ expense.SAN DIEGO – Call it a sign of the times.Circling over Torrey Pines yesterday as the pro golfers competed in the first round of the Farmers [...]
Dawn Marie says she knows ten homeless people within a three-block radius in El Cajon. “I know one guy, 50 years old, he’s perfectly happy living like this. Another couple, they’re happy too, but I am unhappy living like this.”Despite the hardships she has endured, she maintains goals for the future. “I want [...]
