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Category Archives: Looking Back in Time
St. Diego
Why isn’t this blog called Travels in San Miguel? That’s what Juan Cabrillo named the big bay and the place around it when he landed here in 1542. But 60 years later, when explorer Sebastian Vizcaino arrived, he renamed everything San … Continue reading
Itchy Camouflage
One of the more prominent landmarks along I-5 as you pass Old Town heading south toward downtown San Diego is the jagged-roofed complex that now houses the Navy’s SpaWar (Space and Naval Warfare) center. Today the Navy works on tactical and non-tactical … Continue reading
Dead Man’s Point
One of the most grisly historic sites in downtown San Diego is also one of the least known. Even worse, the inconspicuous plaque that marks the location of Punta de los Muertos (Dead Man’s Point) is almost certainly wrong. That’s too bad; the true … Continue reading
Ft. What?
Ask a dozen randomly chosen San Diegans the location of Ft. Rosecrans or — tougher still — Ft. Guijarros, and if more than one could come up with the answer, I’d be surprised. The irony is that anyone who’s ever gazed out over … Continue reading
Our Plymouth Rock
The locations where the first English immigrants settled on the east coast of North America are a big deal in Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts. But the site where the first Europeans settled on the west coast of North America gets no respect. Anyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Looking Back in Time, San Diego Sights
Tagged first settlement San Diego, Presidio Park
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Marshall South Online
Few of us have had as flamboyantly romantic a vision as Marshal South. Around 1930, with the US sinking ever deeper into Depression, South and his young wife Tanya packed their few possessions into their Model T Ford, drove to … Continue reading
Posted in Desert Life, Free and fun, Looking Back in Time, San Diego Sights, The Natural World
Tagged Ghost Mountain, Marshall South
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Time Travelers
Alright, alright. We’ll concede that the San Diego Inside Tours Time Travel Adventure probably isn’t as… cinematic as Will Ferrell’s latest flick. But we think it’s at least as entertaining. And it did get us a spot on one of … Continue reading
100 Years of Positive Spin
We’re still a half-dozen years from the celebrations that will doubtless erupt in Balboa Park to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition (the influential event that, among other things, made the park what it is today). But … Continue reading
Posted in Balboa Park, Kidstuff, Looking Back in Time, San Diego Sights
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Black History, SD-style
Think of American cities with robust African-American communities, and San Diego probably doesn’t spring first to mind. But maybe it should. The Black Historical Society of San Diego boasts of being the largest such society in the US, judged by their collections, special … Continue reading
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The Landing Place
Juan Cabrillo’s September 28, 1542 landing in San Diego has some historic heft. It was the first time any European set foot on the western coast of what’s now the United States. It took place 78 years before the Mayflower … Continue reading
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