Old Town • 1955
More great color photos from the Stephen Grooms Collection, photographer Joe Courtney -- with a special thanks to Pea Hicks
Pea Hicks
Ken Kramer interviews the man who has saved so many photos.
The South Seas Cafe • 3877 Pacific Highway A colorful 1950s shot of San Diego's first "Tahitian-themed Tiki Restaurant
Parkway Bowl
1280 Fletcher Parkway
Convair Plant 2 • April 1957
Check out Jeannie's Pedal Pushers
Lemon Grove Denny's
6936 Federal Boulevard
Lemon Grove • 1961
A colorful photo of the intersection of Golden and Imperial Avenues
Mission Valley picnic • 1959
A large get-together at an area west of Kenmore Stables and Westgate Park
Downtown San Diego as seen from the back of the Ford Building • 1959
Looking North on 7th Avenue from Broadway • 1959
Looking East on Broadway from Harbor Drive • 1959
Lower Broadway • 1958
Cinema 21 Theater • 1964
Baranov's Jeweler's • 5th and Broadway • 1957 Sparkletone Photo • 3024 El Cajon Blvd • 1945
Balboa Park Arboretum • circa 1915
Aerial photo of downtown San Diego and Coronado • April 1972
Laguna Mountain Lodge circa 1960
A wonderful winter shot with fabulous automobiles from the 1950s San Diego State College Homecoming Parade • November 7, 1953
Torrey Pines Beach State Park • 1946
The Colonial Inn • La Jolla • 1932 and 2020
El Cajon • 1946
Art Huebner Texaco • 1810 El Cajon Blvd • Circa 1956
Lloyd's Furniture • 4275-4283 El Cajon Blvd • Circa 1956
View of the desert and a brand-new 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air station wagon
San Diego State College Commencement • June 8, 1956
The Fine Arts Museum in Balboa Park
Color photos taken in 1926, 1949 and 2020
"La Verne at Borrego 1952"
A cool car and a hot babe
San Diego Skyline from Coronado circa 1960
23rd and Broadway in the 1940s
Stardust Motor Hotel • October 1964
Seaside Gasoline • 2959 Upas Street • circa 1954
Horton Plaza May 1956
Horton Plaza 1972
Reformed Presbyterian Church • 3495 College Ave • 1950s
Brown Military Academy 1950
Pacific Plaza Drug King 1968
Santa Fe Station 1955
Mission Valley 1916
Looking East from the Railroad Tracks on Broadway 1948
Santa Fe Engine at Broadway 1967
8th and Broadway 1967
Downtown San Diego 1953
Horton Plaza 1956
Pacific Highway at Taylor Street 1946
Torrey Pines Beach 1919
Rolando Village Sales Signs 1940
El Cortez Hotel 1958
Fun Map of San Diego 1977
Spreckels Theater 1952
Mission Beach, circa 1968
4th & Broadway circa 1947
University Avenue Car Washes circa 1956
Aerials of Mission Valley circa 1967
Aerials of Mission Bay circa 1967
Downtown San Diego circa 1953
Pacific Beach aerials circa 1970
Lerners, North Park, circa 1948
Hotel del Coronado circa 1952
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