San Diego Yesterday
San Diego Yesterday

Author: Richard W. Crawford

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1625840446

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San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn't always so. The city's transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego's rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W. Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like benefactor Frank "Booze" Beyer, baseball hero Albert Spalding and novelist Scott O'Dell. Join Crawford for a collection that recounts how San Diego yesterday laid the foundation for the city's bright future.

San Diego County Place Names, A to Z
San Diego County Place Names, A to Z

Author: Leland Fetzer

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780932653734

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Over 1,500 place names in San Diego County. Each listing gives general location and specific citation of place name origin.

The Way We Were in San Diego
The Way We Were in San Diego

Author: Richard W. Crawford

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1614234019

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San Diego, known for its perfect weather, naval ties and landmarks like the San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park, has a history as incredible as its stunning shoreline. In this collection of articles from his San Diego Union-Tribune column "The Way We Were," Richard W. Crawford recounts stories from the city's early history that once splashed across the headlines. Read about Ruth Alexander's aviation feats, the water pipeline carved from Humboldt County redwoods, the jailbreak of a man facing ten years in San Quentin for cow theft, a visit from escape artist Harry Houdini and the Purity League's closure of the Stingaree red-light district. These stories highlight San Diego's progress from a humble frontier port to the stylish city it is today.