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OLD SAN DIEGO

OLD SAN DIEGO. San Diego Downtown in 1886. 1898 - Old Town looking west. The airport would soon be in that marsh.. Also MCRD and the Midway area to the right…. Looking toward Corondo and Pt. Loma from downtown - 1890’s The Hotel Del Coronado is visible in the distance.

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OLD SAN DIEGO

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  1. OLD SAN DIEGO

  2. San Diego Downtown in 1886

  3. 1898 - Old Town looking west. The airport would soon be in that marsh.. Also MCRD and the Midway area to the right…

  4. Looking toward Corondo and Pt. Loma from downtown - 1890’sThe Hotel Del Coronado is visible in the distance..

  5. Looking into El Cajon from Grossmont Summit 1909

  6. Down town  San Diego- 1911Shows the bay before it was dredged by and for the Navy in 1934

  7. National City High School Baseball TeamDate Unknown

  8. The Encinitas Train Depot date unknown

  9. You can see the underlying wood construction of the Cabrillo Bridge that led to last year’s fire inside.

  10. City Workers laying water pipe… and the same pipe is probably still down there serving you right now!

  11. SDPD Officers - 1915 Note they wear “Stars” except one who has a “Shield”

  12. SDPD “Mary” Unitsdate unknown

  13. Mission Brewery (still standing @ Washington and Kettner) - 1916

  14. 8 east thru Jacumba - 1918

  15. Laurel  Street  Bridge- 1920s

  16. North Island & Point Loma - 1920s

  17. U. S. Grant Hotel- 1920s

  18. Mission Beach -1926  Looking southeast from over the oceanThat's the Big Dipper roller coaster, and The Plunge was there! People used to be able to splash and cannonball instead ofonly swim laps, and there was algae along the edges of the pool

  19. 4th and D St DowntownYou may notice we no longer have a D St…It’s now Broadway

  20. Aerial of the roller coaster 1927Notice the absence of “W Mission Bay Drive” going off to the east

  21. CONVAIR - Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Co.Lindbergh Field Plant - 1930sConvair- was relocated from  Buffalo, NY to San Diego in 1935.At the time, seaplanes were thought to be the future of the aircraftindustry. In 1953, the company became a part of General Dynamics.Convair was finally sold off in 1992 and later dismantled.

  22. San Diego police officers testing a still in 1930

  23. Sweetwater Dam - 1930dam failure

  24. Lane Field - 1937 The original downtown baseball park at the foot of Broadway

  25. Lane Field, Broadway & Pacific Highway - 1937Lane Field was in use from 1936 to 1957.  It had green wooden bleachers.In 1958, the Padres moved to Westgate Park  (now the site of Fashion Valley Mall).In 1967, they moved to Jack Murphy Stadium (now Qualcomm) and an amazingwinning season helped them get Petco Park built.

  26. Broadway,  San Diego-1940sThe  U.S.  Grant  Hotel  is still there and recently underwent anextensive remodeling.  Across the street Horton Plaza was justa nice fountain with grass all around, where the whores hung out.The streetcars were replaced by the bus system in 1949.

  27. Oscar's Drive-In, University Avenue  - 1940sOscar's was a true drive-in with car hops on roller skates.

  28. 5th & Broadway, San DiegoVJ Day - 1945

  29. San Diego, CA - 1947… No freeways!No freeways, just Pacific Highway and Hwy 80 going East.The San Diego river emptied into Mission Bay,but now the channel goes to Ocean Beach. Also notice the water-filled gap between North Island and Coronado!

  30. San Diego - 1950  There is nothing north of Mission Valley but Linda Vista, Mission Beach, Pacific Beach and La Jolla.  Linda Vista was a Federal Government Housing Project, built in 1941 to house aircraft workers who were building war planes to support our European allies. The U.S. was not yet involved in WW II.

  31. Chula Vista, National City, Imperial Beach, San Ysidro and Tijuana 1950There was NOTHING on either side of Chula Vista; today it is the secondbiggest city in SD county, and Tijuana now has over 1 million inhabitants!

  32. 1952 Popular Mechanics magazine'Let's all go to work at Convair...  You'll make more money there!'(1950s radio jingle.)

  33. Oscar's Drive-In Menu – 1963 Oscar’s later became Jack in the Box Check out the prices!!!

  34. San Diego City Limits - U.S. Highway 101 - 1961Look at the lines of cool-looking cars backed all the way up Torrey Pines. See, they had traffic jams then too, but gas was 19 cents a gallon! 

  35. Early San Diego scenes.Many changes since then.

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