At
the right, Highway 80 enters the picture, traveling west on El Cajon
Boulevard, then south on Park Boulevard to what looks like 12th and
Market, where it intersects with Highway 101. Did you notice
the turnoff to 395 way back on Fairmount Avenue?
Highway 80 continues all the way out to the "Old Spanish Lighthouse" on
Point Loma. On Coronado, the 4th Street bridge takes you across
Spanish Bight to where North Island was almost an island. That inlet was
filled in around 1943. On Mission Bay you can spot the bridge
that took you from Ocean Beach to South Mission Beach between 1914 and
1950. This is the first map I've seen that actually says "Mission
Bay Causeway" for the route, containing two bridges, that took you from
Midway Drive to Ingraham Street in Crown Point. The "Cherry on the
Sundae" is Allison Street, the "A" in the alphabetical streets in
Pacific Beach, that existed only on paper. Mission Boulevard, in
Mission Beach, was extended northward when the streetcar tracks were
installed in 1924, and Allison never happened. There used to be,
and maybe still is, a curb on Mission Boulevard with "Allison St"
stamped in it. In my youth folks still talked about "6th Street
Extension" and it's on this map. It goes all the way to Linda
Vista Road and we call it Ulric Street today. The area where
today's Clairemont is was simply Morena.
(Somewhere up in heaven (I assume) map expert
Dick Cloward '60 is hopping up and down in the back of the room with his
hand raised -- "I know -- I know!" He could have told us the year
AND probably the name of the publisher)
