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  • The area of Logan Heights was originally known as the East End, and the first Mexican settlers there arrived in the 1890s followed soon after ...

    The area of Logan Heights was originally known as the East End, and the first Mexican settlers there arrived in the 1890s followed soon after ...

  • Chicano Park is a 7.9 acre park located beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Logan Heights or Barrio Logan, a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican ...

    Chicano Park is a 7.9 acre park located beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Logan Heights or Barrio Logan, a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican ...

  • These murals are important to the culture of the neighborhood and important to the Hispanic population of San Diego.

    These murals are important to the culture of the neighborhood and important to the Hispanic population of San Diego.

  • Chicano artists wanted to paint murals in Chicano Park. They wanted to express their identity as Indian/Spanish/European/American.

    Chicano artists wanted to paint murals in Chicano Park. They wanted to express their identity as Indian/Spanish/European/American.

  • Chicano Park has the largest mural project in the city.

    Chicano Park has the largest mural project in the city.

  • Barrio Logan selected land beneath the bridge for Chicano Park.

    Barrio Logan selected land beneath the bridge for Chicano Park.

  • The Guild Restaurant on the corner of Beardsley street and Newton Ave. An Eclectic Dining Experience.

    sallyyu: The Guild Restaurant on the corner of Beardsley street and Newton Ave. An Eclectic Dining Experience.

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Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation

Baja | Chula Vista | City Heights | College Area | Coronado | Cover Story | Downtown | Fallbrook | Gaslamp | Hillcrest | Imperial Beach | La Jolla | Lemon Grove | Logan Heights | Midway | Mira Mesa | Normal Heights | North Park | Oceanside | Otay Mesa | Pacific Beach | Solana Beach
Published Jan. 23, 2008

Fancy wimmen are okay, but there's nuttin' like the real thing: a nice warm adobada taco on a nice cold night beside a nice hot grill outside a friendly taco catering truck, with that marinated pork ...

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Christ the King Catholic Church

Logan Heights | Sheep and Goats
Published Jan. 23, 2008

“I have no hands but yours,” read the plaque below the statue of Christ outside the church. No tengo mas manos que las tuyas. And it was literally true — Jesus’ outstretched arms ended at the ...

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The Rainbow Sign

Barrio Logan | Coronado | Downtown | Hillcrest | La Jolla | Little Italy | Mission Hills | Pacific Beach | Rancho Bernardo | Rancho Santa Fe | Restaurant Review | At Bite | BernardO's Restaurant | Brandt Natural Beef Prime | Cavaillon | Clay's La Jolla | Currant | Jack's La Jolla | JRDN | Mistral | Quarter Kitchen | Seasons 142 | The Guild
Published Dec. 27, 2007

We are a frazzled, worried country after seven years of every important decision being decided wrong by that "deciderator" and the awful gray eminences whispering in his ears. So do I dare to interpret the change ...

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Back When

Back When | Logan Heights
Published March 9, 2006

Thirty Years Ago "Logan Heights is divided up into territories. Shelltown, which stretches from 43rd and Highland to Wabash and National and from Division to Imperial. After that comes Logan and that goes from the stoplights ...

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Best of 2003: Best Religious Vittles

La Mesa | Logan Heights | Mira Mesa | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Shri Mandir Temple 9474 Black Mountain Road, Mira Mesa 858-566-5644 On Sunday mornings, the Journey Community Church in La Mesa serves up everything from tacos to pizza. And on Sunday mornings, the Buddhist Temple of San ...

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Best of 2003: Best Homemade Tortillas

Barrio Logan | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Las Cuatro Milpas 1857 Logan Avenue, Barrio Logan 619-234-4460 As light as a snowflake landing on your tongue, these tortillas are bagged by the dozen and kept on the front counter, tempting patrons with their fresh ...

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Best of 2003: Best Aztec Food In Town

Barrio Logan | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Tamale and Champorrado cart Outside Rancho Fresco Market 1852 National Avenue, Barrio Logan 619-338-9140 Tamales are about the most genuinely Aztec food you can get, virtually unchanged since Montezuma's time. And people vote the tamale cart ...

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What's Nick Inzunza Got That You and I Don't?

Cover Story | Logan Heights
Published May 1, 2003

Richard Russell makes no bones about it. He feels like an old man these days, though he won't say quite how old. The same goes for a lot of what Russell says about himself and his ...

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Best of 2001: Best Mexican Desserts

Barrio Logan | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

Panadería Nacionál 1701 National Avenue, Barrio Logan 619-239-4043 Outside, you're near the Coronado bridge. Inside, you might just as well be in, say, San Salvador, Mazatlan, or Tijuana. It's a little dark. Behind old varnished wood ...

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Best of 2001: Best Cuernavaca-Style Carne Asada

Logan Heights | Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 27, 2001

El Morelense 317 Dewey Street, Logan Heights 619-234-2750 Julio and Santos Arellano come from Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City, in the state of Morelos, the home of revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. The food's just as ...

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Hooky Raids

City Heights | Cover Story | Grantville | Logan Heights | Paradise Hills
Published June 28, 2001

On the morning of June 7, at least 25 police officers, social workers, and prosecutors, accompanied by a horde of television and print reporters, rolled out of a police substation in one of the poorest parts ...

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Best of 2000: Best Place To Study Graffiti

Balboa Park | Barrio Logan | Best of San Diego | San Ysidro
Published Dec. 30, 2000

Barrio Logan Some people admire the elaborate mural-sized geometric designs of former guerrilla tagger Saki, others prefer the primitive kinetic power of a simple bathroom-wall limerick. Sponsored graffiti -- wall paintings commissioned by civic groups and ...

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Good Old Boys

City Lights | Logan Heights
Published April 8, 1999

Stoorza, Ziegaus & Metzger, that politically well-wired downtown public relations and lobbying shop, is expanding its empire once again. This time, the Republican-based firm that has handled clients such as the Union-Tribune, Susan Golding, Pete Wilson, ...

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