San Diego History

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I'm on vacation and I decided to be a tourist in my own city today. I started off in Balboa Park and actually discovered things I had never noticed before. Did you ever notice that the California Tower has a ship spire (?) at the top?...

Many San Diegans celebrate Memorial Day, aka the unofficial start of summer, with beach barbeques, day drinking, and camping trips. The sand in Pacific Beach and ...

Some homeowners inside downtown's El Cortez created a web site to explain their battle to stop construction on a building 40 feet away. From Save the Historic El Cortez: There is no right to build anything on the El Cortez block because of a covenant that protects it until ...

While planning another trip, I stumbled onto Roadside America. It's tagline reads Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions. Of course San Diego has a few entries. Some of the highlights include: World's Largest Lemon (Lemon Grove) Shoe Tree on Frisbee Course ...

INC Magazine wrote a great piece on Buck Knives, which is now available on their web site.  The Buck Stopped Here tells the story of a successful San Diego company that was driven from California due to the high cost of doing business here.  Buck Knives relocated ...

Here is a link to a video I shot of the Hotel San Diego implosion this morning. I could say the video was shaky due to the explosions, but the truth is I had 4 shots of espresso prior to the event. ;)

The Hotel San Diego will be demolished on Saturday morning. Dynamite will reduce the 92-year-old Hotel San Diego to dust and rubble Saturday, making way for a new federal courthouse.

San Diego Serenade: Tom Waits High School Yearbook Sells for $288.24 Tom Waits High School Yearbook Sells for $288.24 Got any of this Idyll High School Class of 1966 yearbooks lying around the house? Well now's the time to dust them off and turn them in to straight cash homie! One ...

JeSais noted the end of the telegraph a few posts back, which made me interested in when San Diego got a line to be able to send those telegrams. According to the San Diego Historical Society website, it was 1870. The year 1870 opened with business brisk and real ...