Posts Tagged ‘U. S. Grant Hotel’
The great need of this town is about to be supplied by A. E. Horton, Esq., who will immediately erect, on the northwest corner of Fourth and D Streets, a palatial brick edifice, for hotel purposes. It is to contain a hundred rooms and to be fitted up with elegant furniture and all modern improvements. –The San Diego Bulletin, December 18, 1869
The story of San Diego’s first hotel, the luxurious Horton House Hotel.
The Horton House Hotel, circa 1870.
Raid on the Emerald Hills Golf Club.
Would illegal gaming now grow in San Diego? Police Chief George Sears assured the public that “the gambling lid was on.” But the “lid” was teetering. . .
Click here for the story of San Diego’s War on Gambling.
There unquestionably is a concerted move on the part of un-American and radical groups to bring about the overthrow of the United States government. We have endeavored to get to the bottom of all such moves. –Congressman Charles Kramer, August 5, 1934.
The story of San Diego’s right-wing radicals of the 1930s, The Silver Shirts.
William Dudley Pelley
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