Archive for December, 2012
Chris Boyd’s superb documentary on “The First Padres” is now available on DVD. Check it out on this link: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thefirstpadres. Chris includes great archival footage of the Lane Field days and interviews with players and local historians. The film premiered on KPBS back on October 8. It’s well-worth owning.
Come July or thereabouts, I should have a new San Diego history title on the book shelves. Tentatively titled, San Diego Yesterday (same as the blog name) this will be another collection of articles from the Union-Tribune column I wrote from 2008 to 2011. The History Press from Charleston, South Carolina is the publisher. There are 38 chapters; here’s a brief sampling of the contents:
On the Border
San Diego Union, Aug. 22, 1960
The Hole in the Fence
Frank Booze Beyer and Tijuana
The Heist on the Dike
The Revolutionaries
Disorderly Conduct
A Ruined Woman
Death of the Butterfly Dancer
The Royal Coach Affair
The Bribe
Dragsters on the Boulevard
Fear and Intolerance
The Student Strike
The Young Communists
The Silver Shirts
A Textbook Controversy
The Last Temptation of the Book Censors
Amazon is waiting!
Admit it. You all hated history in high school but now you know better. History really can be fun. Or, you still hate history but you gotta find an inexpensive book for gift giving. That’ll work too.
The “Great Thirst” of Prohibition officially ended in December 1933 with the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Some states were a little early. Here’s how drinkers celebrated the arrival of retail beer in San Diego, 90 years ago today.
San Diego Union, April 8, 1933.
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