Fall 2003 Issue

Featured Articles

Quality Time

Thousands of watches costing four, five and even six figures will be sold this holiday season even though they won't be any more accurate than a good quartz watch selling for a hundred dollars. Why do intelligent people do this? Glad you asked.

A Competiton in Elegance

Every year at the beginning of October, Orange County residents get to see several hundred of the most exquisite classic automobiles ever built. Each is lovingly restored and maintained by its owner to seeming perfection (by everyone but the judges). This amazing display is called the ATSC Newport Coast Concours d'Elegance.

Dana's California

In 1834 a 19 year old Harvard student named Richard Henry Dana shipped as a seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim for a two year voyage to California. The book he wrote about his experiences, Two Years Before The Mast, was an immediate best seller and in the century and a half since has never been out of print. This classic description of life about a merchantman in the first half of the 19th century is also a classic description of California before it became a part of the United States.

photo by Cliff Wassmann