OLD SAN DIEGO

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OLD SAN DIEGO
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San Diego Downtown in 1886

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1898 - Old Town looking west. The airport would
soon be in that marsh.. Also MCRD and the
Midway area to the right
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Looking toward Corondo and Pt. Loma from
downtown - 1890s The Hotel Del Coronado is
visible in the distance..
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Looking into El Cajon from Grossmont Summit 1909
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Down town  San Diego- 1911  Shows the bay before
it was dredged by and for the Navy in 1934
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National City High School Baseball TeamDate
Unknown
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The Encinitas Train Depot date unknown
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You can see the underlying wood construction of
the Cabrillo Bridge that led to last years
fire inside.
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City Workers laying water pipe and the same pipe
is probably still down there serving you
right now!
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SDPD Officers - 1915 Note they wear Stars
except one who has a Shield
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SDPD Mary Units date unknown
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Mission Brewery (still standing _at_ Washington and
Kettner) - 1916
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8 east thru Jacumba - 1918
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Laurel  Street  Bridge- 1920s
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North Island  Point Loma - 1920s
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U. S. Grant Hotel- 1920s
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Mission Beach -1926  Looking southeast from over
the ocean That's the Big Dipper roller coaster,
and The Plunge was there! People used to be able
to splash and cannonball instead of only swim
laps, and there was algae along the edges of the
pool
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4th and D St DowntownYou may notice we no longer
have a D StIts now Broadway
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Aerial of the roller coaster 1927 Notice the
absence of W Mission Bay Drive going off to
the east
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CONVAIR - Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Co.
Lindbergh Field Plant - 1930s Convair- was
relocated from   Buffalo, NY to San Diego in
1935. At the time, seaplanes were thought to be
the future of the aircraft industry. In 1953, the
company became a part of General Dynamics.
Convair was finally sold off in 1992 and later
dismantled.
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San Diego police officers testing a still in 1930
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Sweetwater Dam - 1930 dam failure
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Lane Field - 1937 The original downtown baseball
park at the foot of Broadway
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Lane Field, Broadway  Pacific Highway - 1937
Lane 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 amazing
 winning season helped them get Petco Park built.
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Broadway,  San Diego-1940s The   U.S.   Grant  
Hotel  is still there and recently underwent an
extensive remodeling.  Across the street Horton
Plaza was just a nice fountain with grass all
around, where the whores hung out. The streetcars
were replaced by the bus system in 1949.
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Oscar's Drive-In, University Avenue  -
1940sOscar's was a true drive-in with car hops
on roller skates.
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5th Broadway, San Diego  VJ Day - 1945
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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!
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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.
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Chula Vista, National City, Imperial Beach, San
Ysidro and Tijuana 1950  There was NOTHING on
either side of  Chula Vista today it is the
second biggest city in SD county, and Tijuana now
has over 1 million inhabitants!
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1952 Popular Mechanics magazine 'Let's all go to
work at Convair...  You'll make more money
there!'  (1950s radio jingle.)
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Oscar's Drive-In Menu 1963
Oscars later became Jack in the Box
Check out the prices!!!
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San Diego City Limits - U.S. Highway 101 - 1961
 Look 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! 
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Early San Diego scenes.Many changes since then.
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