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California's Bee Man
Published Jan. 27, 2010
John Stewart Harbison, c. 1870s. The Pennsylvania beekeeper brought his first shipment of bees to California in 1857. He settled near Sacramento and had such success that many others tried their hand at honey production. “The ...
80-Year-Old Xmas Card
Published Dec. 23, 2009
Christmas card by J.M.F. Haase, 1929. “Joseph Malta Frederick Haase joined the Navy in 1911 and was chief photographer at North Island Naval Air Station for much of his career in the 1920s and 1930s,” according ...
Fro Brigham
Published Nov. 4, 2009
Froebel “Fro” Brigham, namesake of the Fro Brigham Preservation Band, 1981. In the 1950s, Brigham booked the Creole Palace in downtown San Diego. Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington may have performed paying gigs elsewhere ...
Tough Lit Guys
Published March 11, 2009
Author Max Miller (left) and Colonel Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, a Marine fighter ace who shot down 26 planes. In this 1952 photo, Miller prepares for ... More Post a comment
Builder at Home, 1953
Published Jan. 21, 2009
Robert Golden and family, 1953. The son of local construction magnate Morley H. Golden, Robert took over as company president in 1956. Though Robert Golden’s ... More Post a comment
Bones, 1960
Published Dec. 17, 2008
Anthropologists study ancient skeletal remains found at La Jolla Cove, 1960. No indexed information pertaining to this discovery is available at the downtown library, but ... More Post a comment
Founding Father?
Published Nov. 12, 2008
John G. Capron, c. 1870. When he died in 1914 at age 86, Capron’s obituaries credited him as “the last of the four men who ... More Post a comment
G&S, 1963
Published Oct. 8, 2008
Floyd Smith and Larry Gordon, 1963. The duo started Gordon and Smith Surfboards four years earlier. A local surfboard shaper, who did fiberglass work for ... More Post a comment
Beer Me! (1870s Style)
Published Sept. 24, 2008
Beer garden at City Brewery, circa 1870s. In 1868, the same year Austrian brew-master Christian Doblier established San Diego’s first brewery in Spring Valley (Chollas ... More Post a comment
SD's Youngest Mayor
Published Sept. 10, 2008
William H. Carlson in 1893, newly elected as San Diego’s youngest mayor at age 28. He’s credited with luring the Navy to town, raising money ... More Post a comment
Allen Glick, 1979
Published Aug. 6, 2008
Allen Glick, 1979. In the ’70s, Glick had a real estate office in San Diego near Banker’s Hill. Around the same time (according to Wikipedia), ... More Comments (2)
Fourth of July, 1923
Published July 23, 2008
Members of the Goodwin clan, Fourth of July, 1923. That’s Charles holding up his straw hat. He had a clothes-cleaning and dyeing business on 16th ... More Comment (1)
Peanuts, 1963
Published July 9, 2008
In 1963, District 5 county supervisor candidate Al Hogan posed with peanuts. Walnuts, celery, and carnations have all had their high-production years in San Diego ... More Post a comment
Fastest Gun in the West, 1964
Published June 25, 2008
Eldon Carl, “Fastest Gun in the West” and a San Diego County sheriff’s deputy. A 1964 Union article noted that “he has three times won ... More Post a comment
Spreckels Theatre, c. 1915
Published June 11, 2008
Spreckels Theatre, c. 1915. Signage also advertises “Vaudeville Hippodrome.” Clarence Alan McGrew’s 1922 book City of San Diego and San Diego County mentioned, “In 1915 ... More Post a comment
Del Mar Racetrack, 1936
Published May 28, 2008
Bing Crosby (left, in the white jacket and straw hat) at the Del Mar Racetrack’s setting of a memorial stone, 1936. (The track opened the ... More Post a comment
McGovern, 1972
Published May 14, 2008
Senator George McGovern (left of center), 1972. He swung through town that year in his presidential campaign against Richard “Dick” Nixon. A Democrat and WWII ... More Post a comment
Spreckels Theatre, c. 1908
Published May 7, 2008
Excavation of the Spreckels Theatre building at 121 Broadway, c. 1908. Sugar millionaire John D. Spreckels is said to have had it constructed to coincide ... More Post a comment
Roping Dogs
Published April 16, 2008
Dogs’ Beach in Ocean Beach, 1974. The city council got tough on dogs that year. In two weeks’ time, 232 citations were issued to owners, ... More Comments (2)
Cavalryman at the Reins, 1876
Published April 2, 2008
Jacob Bergman, 1876. In 1937, the Tribune noted that “friends affectionately called him ‘Dutch’…. [He] held the reins in 1858 on the first westbound Butterfield ... More Post a comment
The Too-Late Shift, 1972
Published March 26, 2008
Gail Jones at the downtown Woolworth’s store, 1972. Jones and a friend, waitresses at the store’s café, were in the dressing room changing their clothes ... More Post a comment
Teen Tamer
Published March 19, 2008
Beth Bennett, manager of local Department of Motor Vehicles, 1965. She began working at the DMV in 1946. Bennett left San Diego in 1961, when ... More Post a comment
Power Fighter, 1966
Published March 12, 2008
Protest at UCSD, 1966. That’s Lowell Bergman onstage (with sunglasses). A student of philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse, Bergman went on to become a ... More Post a comment
Chinchilla Lover, 1972
Published March 5, 2008
Virginia Casey with chinchilla pelts at Graf’s Firs, Fashion Valley, 1972. In 1940, the daily paper interviewed a local retired druggist who was raising chinchillas. ... More Comment (1)
Methodist Church, c. 1890
Published Feb. 27, 2008
Home of the first Methodist church in San Diego, c. 1890. Located on the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Broadway, the church was first ... More Post a comment
Disowned Bicycles, 1960
Published Feb. 20, 2008
Abandoned bicycles in police possession, 1960. That year, the police began a drive to get owners to license their bikes — to “thwart thefts,” according ... More Post a comment
Log-Roller, 1963
Published Feb. 13, 2008
Jay Curia and his surfboard trailer, 1963. A 1963 editorial in our local daily stated, “Our tired shanks are a little too flabby to allow ... More Post a comment
Murder Suspect, 1961
Published Jan. 23, 2008
In August of 1961, a homicide detective (left) brought in a suspect to face murder charges after a woman's body was found in the Mission ... More Post a comment
Before the Chargers Girls, 1961
Published Jan. 16, 2008
Before the Charger Girls, the team and fans had Chargettes. Here they are in 1961. According to a posting on glorifythepast.com, in 1970, "A lot ... More Post a comment
You Go-Go, Girl!
Published Jan. 9, 2008
Tamzon Feeney outside the Box Office nightclub, 1965. According to our local daily, she and "a band of teenagers have attempted what may be the ... More Post a comment
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 1963
Published Jan. 2, 2008
Four years ago, usgennet.org issued a report on the cemetery located in Nestor off Saturn Boulevard, near Coronado Avenue. The report indicated that the 20 ... More Post a comment
Guns Dumped At Sea, 1968
Published Dec. 27, 2007
Mayor Frank Curran (left) and detective William Gore display guns to be dumped at sea, 1968. The mayor had instituted a voluntary gun turn-in program ... More Comment (1)
Low-Rider, 1959
Published Dec. 20, 2007
Phil Bateman holds a yardstick up to his bumper to show off the clearance of his low-rider, 1959. The previous year, San Diego hosted its ... More Post a comment
World Surfing Championship, 1966
Published Dec. 13, 2007
Corky Carroll at the 1966 World Surfing Championship contest in O.B. (Australia's Nat Young won.) In recognition of the contest, the mayor proclaimed it "World ... More Post a comment
Lucky Waller Park, 1974
Published Dec. 6, 2007
Shnops and Sheriff Don Amos at Lucky Waller Park in National City, 1974. San Diego County sheriffs have employed dogs for 40 years. The San ... More Post a comment
Martial Arts Class, 1971
Published Nov. 29, 2007
Local martial arts class, 1971. Karate schools multiplied in the 1970s, but in the mid '60s the discipline began getting attention from our local daily. ... More Post a comment
Actress Lita Milan, In A Phone Booth, 1958
Published Nov. 21, 2007
Actress Lita Milan, in a phone booth on Harbor Drive and Market Street, 1958. An aide to Dominican general Rafael Trujillo Jr. seems to be ... More Post a comment
Crewman And Dog, 1958
Published Nov. 15, 2007
Crewman and dog of Rafael Trujillo Jr. (son of the Dominican Republic dictator), 1958. When his yacht docked in San Diego, news-gatherers and about 5000 ... More Post a comment
350-Foot Yacht Angelita, 1958
Published Nov. 8, 2007
In 1958, looky-loos tried to catch a glimpse of anyone aboard the 350-foot yacht Angelita, owned by Dominican general Rafael Trujillo Jr. (whose given first ... More Post a comment
Cop Demonstrates Unsafe Riding, 1966
Published Nov. 1, 2007
A cycle cop demonstrates unsafe riding in a parking lot, 1966. Same year, a columnist at our local daily observed that, "If you have a ... More Post a comment
Administration Of Rubella Vaccine, 1970
Published Oct. 25, 2007
In the years 1963 and '64, an outbreak of the disease affected 12 million people in the U.S. When the virus caught up with expectant ... More Post a comment
La Jolla Cove, December of 1969
Published Oct. 18, 2007
Our local daily used a helicopter to photograph the waves pounding our shores. "No one rode [the waves because they were so big]," says surfer/shaper ... More Post a comment
Food Authority George Mardikian, 1958
Published Oct. 11, 2007
Local Rotary Club member Mrs. Homer Peabody talks steak thickness with food authority George Mardikian (1958). As a teen, Armenian-born Mardikian escaped from a Turkish ... More Post a comment
Balboa Park Carousel, 1957
Published Oct. 4, 2007
The ride arrived in the West from New York in 1910. The operator of Coronado's seasonal Tent City bought it from an L.A. owner soon ... More Post a comment
San Diego High, 1958
Published Sept. 27, 2007
From the Evening-Tribune photo assignment sheet: "Get a shot or two of a policeman chatting informally with four or five students -- girls and boys, ... More Post a comment
Lorna And Three Teen-Age Friends, 1965
Published Sept. 20, 2007
In June of 1965, the Evening Tribune sent a photographer to 3535 Tomahawk Lane in Clairemont. The angle of the story isn't clear today, but ... More Post a comment
Excavation Of 5000-Year-Old Man, 1968
Published Sept. 13, 2007
Ten years earlier, plans got under way to develop the 780-acre Sorrento Valley Industrial Park -- "one of the greatest industrial parks in the nation," ... More Post a comment
Tavern Owners Bartenders School, 1971
Published Sept. 6, 2007
Carole Manning at Tavern Owners Bartenders School on Union Street, 1971. In May of '71, the state supreme court decided it was unconstitutional to prevent ... More Post a comment
Mother of 15 Girls and 8 Boys, 1960
Published Aug. 30, 2007
Mrs. Jerome Garcia and some of her children in their Logan Heights home, March 1960. "She was glad her latest child was a boy," according ... More Post a comment
Car Trouble On SR 163, 1958
Published Aug. 23, 2007
It only looked like car trouble on SR 163, near the Laurel Street bridge, in July of 1958. A newspaper reporter was dispatched to the ... More Comment (1)
Controversial Author Erica Jong, 1978
Published Aug. 9, 2007
She was in town to promote How to Save Your Own Life, the follow-up to Fear of Flying, "a book that shocked some with its ... More Post a comment
Lindbergh Field's New Control Tower, 1941
Published Aug. 2, 2007
John Croft in Lindbergh Field's new control tower, 1941. The article that accompanied this photo noted that Croft and another air-traffic controller were on loan ... More Post a comment
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