Unforgettable: Long Ago San Diego
Presidio Hill, the “Plymouth Rock of the West” is also the “cradle of golf in San Diego.”
At midnight, Rufus Porter heard footsteps on the porch, then a knock on his bedroom door. Frightened faces told all.
Letters from Tetsuzo “Tets” Hirasaki, an interned Japanese-American at Poston, Arizona, during WWII.
The letters of Testuzo Hirasaki, a Japanese American interned at the Santa Anita racetrack (dubbed “Santa Japanita”) following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Three years after San Diego’s free-speech fight began, vigilantes stood at the ready.
San Diego vigilantes against free speech were an expression of the city’s character.
San Diego’s chief of police denied mistreating free-speech activists. A state commission determined otherwise.
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.
San Diego city officials turned the fire hose on free-speech protesters — not last year, but 100 years ago.
Way before Occupy San Diego, free speech activists got carted off to jail in 1912.
At the Free Speech Fight of 1912, soapboxes were kicked out from under speakers.
About a hundred years ago, the Wobblies labor movement boiled over 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 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, …
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, …
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 …