The La Jolla resident once speared a black sea bass that weighed 376 pounds. He later managed a grocery store in Logan Heights, but when he wasn’t stocking shelves and helping customers, he was free diving, hunting fish and abalone. He started diving, using a crude mask with no snorkel, in the late 1940s. The place quickly grew on him - in particular the waters off Point Loma and La Jolla. His biggest legacy may be the mentoring he provided other soon-to-be giants in undersea photography - Marty Snyderman, Howard Hall, Nicklin’s son Flip, and others - after the store he helped open in San Diego, The Diving Locker, became a mecca for like-minded explorers from around the world. (John Gibbins / The San Diego Union-Tribune) His credits included assignments for National Geographic and camera work for “The Abyss,” “The Deep,” and two James Bond films, “For Your Eyes Only” and “Never Say Never Again.” Pioneering underwater diver and photographer whose work appeared in national magazines, Hollywood movies and television documentaries. Jones also founded New Heritage Theatre in the early 1970s, wrote several local history-inspired plays and musicals and served as an actor, stage director and props manager for many productions over the years.Īs Jones moved from reviewing theater to working as the newspaper’s critic at large in 1993, he began writing more stories about local passion projects, like the history of the city’s 20th-century faded movie palaces, the Zoro Garden nudist colony at the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park and a 19th-century female fencer known as “Jaguarina.” Chuck Nicklin, 95, Dec. He was also active in the historic preservation groups Save Our Heritage Organisation, the Balboa Park Committee of 100 and the Save Starlight campaign.ĭuring his years as a theater critic, Jones founded the first incarnation of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle served nine years on the board of the American Theatre Critics Association and was on the jury that awarded Neil Simon the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991. Jones was an arts editor, writer, theater critic and critic at large for The San Diego Union-Tribune, and its predecessor, the San Diego Union, from 1966 until his retirement in 2001. Theater critic, celebrant of the city’s arts scene and protector of San Diego’s cultural heritage. He played most of his six-year career with the Broncos. The Denver Broncos drafted him in the third round of the 2012 draft.
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