Archive for September, 2013

Mark you calendars for Wednesday night, Oct. 9, at 6:30 p.m.  I’ll be at the Clairemont Library for a talk and discussion about San Diego Yesterday. Lots of great stories and historical photographs to share. The library is at 2920 Burgener Blvd., San Diego.

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In Special Collections at the Public Library we come across lots of excellent photographs of early San Diego. Many are unfamiliar. How about the “Pipe Hospital” at 306 C Street in 1915?  Or the Grossmont Center Shopping Center when it was just a large excavation? And here’s a nice shot of the submarine S-33 in San Diego harbor.

Sartor & Spears, 306 C Street, in 1915.

The site of Grossmont Center in 1960.

USN submarine S-33, ca. 1940s.