Name: San Diego Memories: A Photographic History of the 1800s through the 1930s
Brand: San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego History Center (San Diego, CA)
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ISBN: 9781597258128

San Diego Memories: A Photographic History of the 1800s through the 1930s

Looking east on Broadway at 2nd Avenue. U.S. Grant Hotel is pictured in the center of the frame. San Diego History Center (#Sensor 8-240)

The Acme Social Club aboard The Grant in 1917. The African-American group was celebrating the seventeenth birthday of Gathern Perry. San Diego History Center (#6227)

Tent City with Hotel del Coronado in the distance, circa 1904. It featured a grocery store, soda fountain, theater, police department, and a daily newspaper. The Coronado Shores condo towers occupy the site today. San Diego History Center (#858)

Construction of the Los Coches trestle of the Cuyamaca flume in El Cajon Valley in 1887. The flume was built by San Diego Flume Co. San Diego History Center (#13642)

Julia Clark, a student at the Curtiss Flight School, seated in an early Wright pusher plane with the propeller in the back, circa 1910. San Diego History Center (#6096)

Broadway looking east from 3rd Avenue in downtown San Diego in 1928. It was San Diego’s ceremonial street for parades, civic celebrations, and other big events. The U.S. Grant Hotel, the Holzwasser department store (later Walker Scott), and San Diego Trust and Savings Bank are seen in the left side of the frame. Horton Plaza is pictured at right. San Diego History Center (#2224)

Aerial view looking over downtown San Diego, the harbor, and North Island in 1911, the year voters approved bonds to develop the waterfront. San Diego History Center (#83:14740-34)

John Emerson directs The Americano, starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., in Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama, 1916. The movie industry made Balboa Park a frequent filming location after the 1915–16 Panama-California Exposition. Filming became so popular that the San Diego Board of Park Commissioners developed a formal procedure and schedule for the management of park sites and facilities. San Diego History Center (#S-K 97)

San Diego city firefighters demonstrate an 85-foot extension ladder on a $13,000 Seagraves fire truck, acquired in 1911. The truck also carried a searchlight, smoke helmet, 150-foot lifeline, and two life belts to lower unconscious people to safety. San Diego History Center (#3051)

Members of the Leonard Motion Picture Company pose in August 1917 at the Hotel del Coronado during filming of Princess Virtue, released later that year. The hotel stood in for a French seaside resort in a plot about suitors of a rich young heiress, who awaits her true prince. Robert Leonard’s company was also known as the Mae Murray Feature Film Company of Universal City. San Diego History Center, Union-Tribune Collection (#UT2086)

Men stand on a Navy seaplane in San Diego Bay off North Island Naval Air Station with JN-9 airplanes flying above. San Diego’s mild weather made it an ideal test ground for naval aviation, beginning in 1911. San Diego History Center (#6091)

Albert Einstein addresses a crowd of more than 8,000 at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, December 31, 1930. San Diego History Center, Union-Tribune Collection (#UT13306-1)

Japanese Tea Garden at the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park. Left to right: Tura Kobayashi, Fumiko Hattori, Osamu Asakawa, and Cordelia Barnhisel. San Diego History Center, Union-Tribune Collection (#UT3042)

Mission Beach Boardwalk, 1938. Courtesy San Diego History Center

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Title: San Diego Memories: A Photographic History of the 1800s through the 1930s
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ISBN: 9781597258128
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Title: San Diego Memories: A Photographic History of the 1800s through the 1930s
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ISBN: 9781597258128
176 pages
Size: 11.375" x 9.75" x 0.5"
Published by Pediment Publishing
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