September 15, 2020

I snagged this photo off the San Diego Lifestyle Facebook page.  It was taken by page administrator G L Brannock.  I guess this actually isn't Highway 101 anymore.

This photo kept appearing on Facebook with no accreditation, so I snagged it.  I suspect it was a newspaper photo showing the traffic heading to the San Diego County Fair in the years before the I-5 was completed.

Facebook regular Pernel Thyseldew has done a nice job colorizing the photo.  He says the photo is a "Chapter Head" in "San Diego Memories III" from the Union-Tribune Press and was taken in 1961.  I think we need to give photo credit to the San Diego History Center.

Circa 1952

If you add a zero to the population you'll come up
with the number of folks living in the city in 2024

Circa 1948

The sign on the right directs you to head east to the Sorrento Stock Farm. 

I assume you could size up some heifers at that location.

Circa 1941

Wonderful historic photos get posted on Facebook and I strive diligently to give credit, often to no avail. I can't remember who posted the above photo, taken at the bottom of Torrey Pines grade, but someone who goes by the name "Imbued With Hues" colorized it.  Quite striking, don't you think?

A postcard from the '30s courtesy of Pernel Thyseldew




Circa 1920