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This is another community photograph from a photo album that we are trying to identify. If you know where this is, let us know! | ||
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This great picture shows an artistically designed commercial building in San Diego. In this case the picture is from a 1962-64 calendar, although the building was built many years before. | ||
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This picture was part of a photo collection found in a local antique shop. Luckily, the address was recorded to identify the home's location. These types of pictures are invaluable to present-day homeowners who are trying to restore their historical homes back to their original appearance. | ||
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Few people today would recognize Catalina Boulevard, south of where Talbot Street intersects, as it appeared around 1909. Vast orchards of citrus and mulberry trees, a tent city for visitors, and even a sanitarium for the inferm were associated with the Theosophical Society. Nearby, on Silvergate Avenue, near Gage Street, was one of the most exclusive neighborhoods of the time in San Diego - essentially Millionaire's Row. The focus was Alfred D. Robinson's famous gardens, Rosecroft Gardens, where incredible varieties of begonias were on display. Nearby was a little known enclave of artists who have yet to be researched for their full story to San Diego's history. | ||
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This view of the Botanical Building in Balboa Park, with the beautiful lily pond in the foreground, is one of the most photogrpahed views within the park. This picture was taken by visitors to the 1915-1916 Panama California Exposition, probably in 1916. | ||
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Another popular destination in San Diego was Mission Cliffs Gardens, at the end of Park Boulevard and Adams Avenue in University Heights. Most people reached there by the trolley line, and it was a well loved attraction, along with the Ostrich Farm next door. Today, houses replace the former gardens and the approximate area of the ostrich farm is a community park. | ||
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This was the view as seen from Mission Cliffs Gardens, in about 1916. | ||
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Ties to Coronado, the Railroad along the Silver Strand, and Marston Family Legacy 106, Inc. frequently scours old newspapers for interesting articles about San Diego's history. One such foray into the San Diego Union of October 10, 1927 yielded rich information about San Diego in the early 1880s. | |
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The article gives the following information: This photo shows Quon Mane and a friend taken in San Diego shortly after his arrival here. Quon Mane is at the left. Incidentally the proper mode of address is "Mr. Quon," the Chinese custom being to have the family name precede the given name. Mr. Quon is president of the Quon Mane Co., now located at 1159 Fifth Street. | ||
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Worked for Sing Yick & Co and Opened Store in Downtown San Diego "I arrived here in the early 80's and went to work for Sing Yick & Co., who had a contract to clear Coronado for a town and hotel site. "The whole island was covered with sage brush and we had to cross the bay in row boats. "The clearning of the island; the building of the Hotel del Coronado and the railway along the Silver Strand; and the great excitement over the successful sale of town lots, all stand out plainly in my memory. "After my work on Coronado I was with the Marston family. "To Mr. George W. Marston's mother I owe most of my early education, she having taught me the English language and given me practically all of my schooling during the following three years. "In 1888, about the time the San Diego Trust & Savings Bank was organized, I opened my first store on lower Fifth Street with a line of Oriental merchandise, mostly imported direct from my native land. My acquaintance with President M.T. Gilmore (then cashier) of the bank dates from those early years." | |
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Legacy 106, Inc. acquired a collection of photographs taken by Myer Keilsohn from the 1960s and 1970s during a number of trips he took to San Diego. | ||
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This picture postcard from D.C. Collier & Co. was copyrighted in 1910 by M. W. Folsom, San Diego, Cal. The captions read: San Diego's Back Country. That Territory Immediately Contiguous - The Products From Which - The Supplies To Which Must Always Be Handled Chiefly Through San Diego, Thus Forming The Foundation - It's Commercial Up-Building San Diego County, with the recently separated County of Imperial, is larger than the State of Massachusetts; and within their borders nearly every fruit, vegetable, grain and flower that is raised in any portion of the United States may be raised with success. San Diego has magnificent and fertile immediate back country consisting of over a million acres of level alluvial valleys - rolling hill lands; a variety of altitudes ranging from sea-level to six thousand feet, where all the products of temperate - semi-tropical climates are grown. With irrigation, vegetation grows every day in the year. In many cases yielding several crops a year. Ample water is now being developed by several great irrigation systems to supply this whole area. The phenomenally fertile Imperial Valley with soil hundreds of feet deep and limitless crop possibilities - is 100 miles nearer to San Diego than to any other Coast City. | ||
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We are always looking for old photographs that show San Diego's older neighborhoods. If you have pictures you want to share of your neighborhood, give us a call! | ||
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All postcards and photographs on this page are part of the Legacy 106, Inc. Collection. Permission to use these images is granted provided it is attributed as follows: Copyright © 2007 Ronald V. May and Dale Ballou May, Legacy 106, Inc., www.legacy106.com | ||
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