San Diego City Council meeting minutes, May 22
Liz Swain 4:24 p.m., May 24
Unforgettable: Long Ago San Diego
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Six
Violence against free-speech activists.
San Diego’s chief of police denied mistreating free-speech activists. A state commission determined otherwise.
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Five
City Leaders Cracked Heads at the County Line
Prominent San Diegans in 1912 formed vigilance committees that escorted free-speech advocates to the county line. That wasn’t the worst of their enforcement efforts.
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Four
Free-speech protesters got the fire hose.
San Diego city officials turned the fire hose on free-speech protesters — not last year, but 100 years ago.
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Three
Way before Occupy San Diego, free speech activists got carted off to jail in 1912.
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Two
Joe Hill called them the “Starvation Army."
At the Free Speech Fight of 1912, soapboxes were kicked out from under speakers.
The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part One
Unforgettable: Long-Ago In San Diego
About a hundred years ago, the Wobblies labor movement boiled over in San Diego.
Unforgettable: A Great Escape, Part Four
Long-Ago in San Diego
Daylight The lights at Villingen shut off on schedule. Edouard Izac, Harold Willis, and 11 others would become the only Americans to try a mass escape from a German POW camp during World War I. ...
Unforgettable: A Great Escape, Part Two
Long-Ago In San Diego
Trial and Terror “Very few prisoners of war try to escape,” writes historian Dwight R. Messimer, “and very few of those who do, succeed.” When a German U-boat sunk his ship, Lieutenant Edouard Izac became ...
A Great Escape, Part One
Capture “I rather expected to be wounded or killed or even drowned,” writes Navy lieutenant Edouard Izac. “It was only natural that…the [USS President] Lincoln would finally be torpedoed….But never once had the thought of ...
Royal Raymond Rife: Into the Micro Beyond
Long-Ago In San Diego
On August 12, 1971, the San Diego Union printed an obituary: “Dr. Royal R. Rife, 83, an optics engineer who invented a high-power microscope, was buried yesterday at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Rife had worked on ...
The Death Ship Returns to Baja and Salvation
The Death Ship Comes Alive When the crew of the San Diego heard they were finally going home, relief erupted. “They thought they might have a few more days to live,” writes Father Antonio Ascensión, ...
Bitter Cold and Scurvy Dog Vizcaíno’s Ships
Toward the Freezing North As Sebastian Vizcaíno’s expedition prepared to leave San Diego Bay, a member of the crew struggled to board a launch. Stiff-legged, barely able to walk, he stumbled, struggled to stand up, ...
Exploring San Diego Bay
Long-ago San Diego
Fifty years after Columbus first set sail, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovered “a sheltered port and a very good one” on the California coast. Guarded by a steep promontory, dark green with vegetation, a channel doglegged ...
Vizcaíno Meets Storms, Natives, and, Finally, San Diego
Lost and Found Onboard the flagship San Diego, Sebastían Vizcaíno hadn’t seen the Santo Tomás in 41 days. Before his expedition left Acapulco to chart the California coast in 1602, the old Santo Tomás had ...
A Search for Water on the Sea
Long-ago San Diego
Water Everywhere Sebastián Vizcaíno began charting the California coast on May 5, 1602. Three ships crossed the Gulf of California, from Mazatlán to Cabo de San José. After several tries, they finally cleared the cape ...
