Bob Filner had a difficult time with the micophone set up for his news conference, but with remorse, he again stated that he’s responsible for his conduct and will enter a therapy program in August. Read more at […]
[…]store at 1219 University Avenue in Hillcrest. Stop by any day from 8:30am-5pm. Visit their website for more details and for other […]
[…]Over the next twenty-eight years this professional seamstress designs clothes for San Diego’s upper crust with clients including the Marston, Spreckels, Scripps and Timken families. In 1907 she retires, selling her 75-employee dress and hat making enterprise. 1881 ~ A controversial yet effective activist for Indian rights, author Helen Hunt […]
[…]1994 ~ The sign is repainted and glass artist Christopher Lee adds finials of green glass balls capped with aluminum cones on the supporting poles as a public art project. August 1994 ~ CityFest expands with a second stage at Fifth and Brookes and 175 volunteers. Attendance reaches 55,000. August […]
[…]first location choice (west of Jimmy Wong’s) fell through, Alan & Mike learned of a better opportunity at their location in the Kahn Building. It was a perfect fit. Constructed in 1919 at the height of the Egyptian Revival its frieze originally featured pharaohs, but two years later following a […]
[…]Over the next twenty-eight years this professional seamstress designs clothes for San Diego’s upper crust with clients including the Marston, Spreckels, Scripps and Timken families. In 1907 she retires, selling her 75-employee dress and hat making enterprise. 1881 ~ A controversial yet effective activist for Indian rights, author Helen Hunt […]
[…]million visitors and succeeded in putting itself on the map as the first major port of call for ships passing through the newly opened Panama Canal. In 2015 San Diego is celebrating this centennial with a year-long party in Balboa Park and throughout the city. Learn your […]
[…]over the organ pavilion spelling out “World Peace 1917.” Now the question arose: what will happen to the buildings? Before an answer could be decided, World War I and the Great Depression shifted the city’s attention away from the park. Twenty years later the economy began slowing rebounding. In hopes […]
Tip your cap to Edwin Capps Perhaps the best-known “secret” in the neighborhood is the Spruce Street Suspension Bridge, engineered by Edwin Capps and built in 1912. The “wiggly bridge” as local kids call it was designed to provide pedestrian passage across a deep canyon, which isolated developing neighborhoods from […]
