Was the WPA a Boondoggle or Saving Grace? It's hard to look around San Diego and not see evidence of the WPA: the city library, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the dredging of Mission Bay (and …
October 7, 2017
!["I went to a CCC camp [at Cuyamaca Rancho] in November of '37. First they taught me to dig holes."](https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/photos/2016/09/23/sdreader-19870917_t670.png?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d)
"I went to a CCC camp [at Cuyamaca Rancho] in November of '37. First they taught me to dig holes."
Posted September 17, 1987
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History of San Diego, 1930s
San Diegans remember their days in the Civilian Conservation Corps
""At Pine Valley, the guy who owned the store put up a wooden dance floor with lights, and on the weekends all the gals would come up from Imperial Valley, 'cause it was so hot down there.”
September 17, 1987