Walter Pomeroy is a retired, modest salaried General Dynamics employee who built an amazing 400 work art collection. He has quietly lived in a suburban apartment (actually, now, three adjacent apartments) for many years beneath the views and under the radar of wealthier and supposedly more culturally inclined La Jollans of Mount Soledad. The grand collection includes early works by John Altoon, John Baldessari, and Billy Al Bengston that most museums would hawk what remains of their souls to acquire. Pomeroy recently gifted fifty-two important artworks from his collection to the City of San Diego Civic Art Collection and to…