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Above San Diego

Author : Robert Cameron
Publisher : Cameron Books
ISBN 13 : 9780918684240
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Above San Diego written by Robert Cameron and published by Cameron Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above San Diego. This is the anchor of the west, a quiet metropolis that has learned to live in an enviornment of beauty without devouring it. In his Introduction, Neil Morgan invites us "to follow the city's meandering evolution from a Spanish pueblo to an insular, transplanted Midwestern town by the sea, to a Navy City, and on to its present rich diversity." Robert Cameron's lush photography shows that San Diego is of world class, and its surroundings are among the most gorgeous anywhere.

Above San Diego

Author : R. Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Above San Diego written by R. Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Good Night San Diego

Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602197628
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Good Night San Diego written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2006-10-28 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of San Diego, through a full day of sightseeing.

San Diego Then and Now®

Author : Nancy Hendrickson
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1910904104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book San Diego Then and Now® written by Nancy Hendrickson and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to its residents as "America’s Finest City," San Diego has a mild, inviting climate and stunning coastal scenery. San Diego Then and Now looks at how the city developed from a small village settled by early Franciscan missionaries and the Spanish military. It came under U.S. rule in 1846, but it was not until 1867 when San Francisco speculator and businessman Alonzo E. Horton acquired 960 acres of waterfront land and promoted it as "New Town" that San Diego really began to take off.San Diego Then and Now pairs archival photographs with modern views of the same scene to illustrate the city’s growth since these humble beginnings. It shows how the city’s architecture still reflects and preserves its Spanish heritage but also incorporates modern glass skyscrapers and Victorian mansions.Sites include: Horton Plaza, U.S. Grant Hotel, Stingaree District, Speckels Theatre, Fifth Avenue, Seaport Village, Embarcadero, Star of India, Coronado, Hotel del Coronado, Santa Fe Depot, Carnegie Library, El Cortez Hotel, Long-Waterman Mansion, Villa Montezuma, The Prado, San Diego Zoo, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego High School, Hillcrest, City Heights, Kensington, La Casa de Estudillo, Casa de Bandini, Whaley House, Junipero Serra Museum, Ballast Point, Point Loma, Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach.

Fodor's San Diego

Author : Fodor's Travel Guides
Publisher : Fodor's Travel
ISBN 13 : 0147546893
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Fodor's San Diego written by Fodor's Travel Guides and published by Fodor's Travel. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. With blockbuster attractions like LEGOLAND and the world-renowned San Diego Zoo, great beaches, outdoor activities, excellent food, and an ever-expanding list of breweries and brewpubs, San Diego has become one of America's top go-to cities. Fodor's San Diego has everything travelers need to make the most of a trip, whether they're looking for an all-out family vacation or a sophisticated adult getaway. This travel guide includes: Dozens of full-color maps with essential information Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and what's off the beaten path In-depth breakout features on the San Diego Zoo, surfing, and the best beaches Coverage of Downtown, Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo, Old Town, Uptown, Mission Bay, La Jolla, Point Loma, SeaWorld, LEGOLAND, and Coronado Side Trips to North County and Around with the coast, inland, the backcountry and the desert Planning to visit more of California? Check our Fodor's state-wide travel guide to California and also Fodor's San Francisco, Napa & Sonoma, and Los Angeles guides.

Paradise Plundered

Author : Steven P. Erie
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804782180
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Plundered written by Steven P. Erie and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp decline in enlightened leadership and effective civic watchdogs, and dysfunctional political institutions have all contributed to the current governance malaise. Until recently, San Diego, California—America's 8th largest city—seemed immune to such systematic governance disorders. This sunny beach town entered the 1990s proclaiming to be "America's Finest City," but in a few short years its reputation went from "Futureville" to "Enron-by-the-Sea." In this eye-opening and telling narrative, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Scott A. MacKenzie mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego. Using untapped primary sources—interviews with key decision makers and public documents—and benchmarking San Diego with other leading California cities, Paradise Plundered examines critical dimensions of San Diego's governance failure: a multi-billion dollar pension deficit; a chronic budget deficit; inadequate city services and infrastructure; grandiose planning initiatives divorced from dire fiscal realities; an insulated downtown redevelopment program plagued by poorly-crafted public-private partnerships; and, for the metropolitan region, inadequate airport and port facilities, a severe underinvestment in firefighting capacity despite destructive wildfires, and heightened Mexican border security concerns. Far from a sunny story of paradise and prosperity, this account takes stock of an important but understudied city, its failed civic leadership, and poorly performing institutions, policymaking, and planning. Though the extent of these failures may place San Diego in a league of its own, other cities are experiencing similar challenges and political changes. As such, this tale of civic woe offers valuable lessons for urban scholars, practitioners, and general readers concerned about the future of their own cities.

San Diego

Author : Aaron Chang
Publisher : Aaron Chang
ISBN 13 : 9780692918845
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book San Diego written by Aaron Chang and published by Aaron Chang. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed surf and ocean photographer, Aaron Chang travelled the world for Surfing magazine in search of the Endless Summer. After three decades of capturing waves, beach lifestyle and exotic landscapes around the world, Aaron wanted to show the natural beauty in his own backyard, San Diego, through his eyes. Aaron¿s most recent book project, SAN DIEGO: Through the Lens of Aaron Chang captures the natural beauty of the San Diego beaches and its coastal communities. This 116 page book is in it¿s 4th edition and is a best seller at Aaron¿s two San Diego based galleries, one downtown and the other in Solana Beach: AaronChang.com/galleries From the stunning beauty of Torrey Pines to coastal charm of Encinitas and Solana Beach, Aaron¿s interpretation of San Diego captures its special allure that attracts millions of visitors every year. Aaron has been nominated San Diego¿s `Ambassador of the Arts¿ 3 years running by the San Diego Tourism Authority. ¿My goal is for people to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us on a daily basis, but gets lost in our busy lives,¿ Aaron explains. A stunning sunset in Cardiff, to a winter swell in Del Mar, to the glamorous roof top views of a city in bloom, these images inspire the viewer to take a break. Look around. Life is good right here in our beautiful city, San Diego.

I Cover the Waterfront

Author : Max Miller
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1632200023
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book I Cover the Waterfront written by Max Miller and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Distinctive, original, fresh in in tone and manner, with a quaint whimsicality of feeling and expression.”—The New York Times Life on the Western waterfront has always fascinated Max Miller, a special reporter for the San Diego Sun. Embraced by all the waterfront folk, he has joined them on their cruises, has learned the mystery of their crafts, and knows them like brothers. Max himself has become a part of the waterfront. Not a fishing boat ties up to the wharf without Max Miller getting the story. Not a submarine comes in nor an airplane soars out over the water without Max Miller’s being invited to go. He is one of the first men to climb up the ladder of the Pacific lines, especially when celebrities are aboard. A combination of newspaper reporter, philosopher, and poet, the author writes his charming sketches in his “studio” upstairs in the tugboat office, where he can look out over his domain. But reporting is not simply a job with Max Miller; it is the greatest pleasure of his life. He delights in setting down his impressions of the Western shore, where life is a constant flux and reflux, seasonal, immutable, and yet ever exciting—the departure of the sardine fleet, the hunt for elephant seals for the zoo, the sailing of the California fruit liners. I Cover the Waterfront was first published in the early 1930s and has since gone on to become a classic. It is as memorable for its unique stories as it is for its individual style—so keenly sensitive to the personalities of men and to the romantic environment of the harbor and deep-sea life.

Fodor's San Diego

Author : Fodor's Travel Guides
Publisher : Fodor's Travel
ISBN 13 : 1640971572
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Fodor's San Diego written by Fodor's Travel Guides and published by Fodor's Travel. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a limited time, receive a free Fodor's Guide to Safe and Healthy Travel e-book with the purchase of this guidebook! Go to fodors.com for details. Ready to experience San Diego? The experts at Fodor’s are here to help. Fodor’s San Diego travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of San Diego, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to find the perfect beachfront hotel, visit the San Diego Zoo, or spend the day in Coronado, this up-to-date guidebook will help you plan it all out. This new edition has been FULLY-REDESIGNED with a new layout and beautiful images for more intuitive travel planning! Fodor’s San Diego includes: • AN ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE GUIDE that visually captures the top highlights of San Diego. • SPECTACULAR COLOR PHOTOS AND FEATURES throughout, including special features on the San Diego Zoo, Cabrillo National Monument, La Jolla’s Beaches, and Surfing. • INSPIRATIONAL “BEST OF” LISTS that identify the best things to see, do, eat, drink, and more. • ITINERARIES for various trip lengths to help you maximize your time. • MORE THAN 10 DETAILED MAPS to plot your itinerary and navigate confidently. • EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS with options for every taste. • TRIP PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including guides to getting around, saving money and time, beating the crowds; and a calendar of festivals and events. • LOCAL INSIDER ADVICE on where to find under-the-radar gems. • HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL OVERVIEWS that add perspective and enrich your travels. • COVERS: San Diego Zoo, Cabrillo National Monument, LEGOLAND, Carlsbad, Coronado, La Jolla, Balboa Park, Gaslamp Quarter, Mission Beach, Old Town and more. ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. Planning on visiting Los Angeles or the rest of Southern California or Los Angeles? Check out Fodor’s Los Angeles or Fodor’s Southern California.

100 Things to Do in San Diego Before You Die

Author : Maria Desiderata Montana
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681060221
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 100 Things to Do in San Diego Before You Die written by Maria Desiderata Montana and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sprawling over forty-five hundred square miles, San Diego is the second most populous county in California, and fifth largest in the United States. Boasting seventy miles of coastline and one of the most moderate climates in the world, it’s no wonder more than three million residents have settled into this corner of the nation. Whether you like to surf the ocean waves, cruise the coastal highways, hike through arid canyons, snowboard in the mountains, or enjoy a cool desert evening, everything is within a day’s drive. First discovered by Spanish explorers in 1542, the region waited over three hundred years to become an official state. Today, it’s home to a large military presence, including major bases for the US Navy, US Marine Corps, and US Coast Guard. It’s also a magnet for cutting-edge technology and science, including some of the most renowned educational institutions in California. The temperate climate is also a major contributor to the top-tier agriculture and tourism industries. So whether you’re a Southern California native or just dreaming you are, 100 Things to Do in San Diego Before You Die is packed with obvious and not-so-obvious opportunities to discover the best that San Diego has to offer.

The Way We Were in San Diego

Author : Richard W. Crawford
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234019
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Way We Were in San Diego written by Richard W. Crawford and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County

Author : G. Pat Macha
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467118362
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County written by G. Pat Macha and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear weather and a natural harbor made San Diego an early aviation hub, but success in flight came with devastating tragedies. The remains of more than four hundred aircrafts lie scattered across the county's deserts and mountains. Experts estimate that dozens more are on the ocean floor off the coast. In 1922, army pilot Charles F. Webber's DeHavilland biplane went missing over Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. In 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 178 collided midair over San Diego and crashed in the residential North Park neighborhood, claiming the lives of 144 people in what was the worst airline disaster of the era. Author and aircraft accident research specialist G. Pat Macha recounts these and other stories of astonishing survival, heroism and heartbreaking fatality.

San Diego County, California

Author : Theodore Strong Van Dyke
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230024561
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book San Diego County, California written by Theodore Strong Van Dyke and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... not touch the plant or tree, or come near enough to make the. nil bake around it. Third, The water should be '.111'! in small streams for two or three days, and not in large streams for a few hours. ADVANTAGES AND BEST METHODS OF IRRIGATION. 31 Fourth, The ground should be cultivated as soon as dry enough, and be constantly stirred until the roots have sapped out most of the moisture. Cultivation is almost as important as irrigation, and the water should be used no oftener than is necessary, and never used again as a substitute for the plow or cultivator to prevent baking. If properly done, five times a year is the utmost required for oranges and lemons, and about.three times for all deciduous fruits, corn, potatoes, etc. And on all sections not extremely dry, once less will generally do. Such shallow-rooted and thirsty plants as strawberries must have more, but for all trees and vines the above will do. ' The modes of irrigation are various, but all of any value may be reduced to three. First. Running a small ditch from tree to tree without any basins around the tree. This is about the only survivor of the old Mexican times. Considering the fact that it wets little of the ground and only gives the tree drink, its results are wonderful. Even the olive and the native live oaks and cactus that seem to need no water will double their growth and yield under it. But it should never be used where the Second, or basin system can be used. Here a large basin is made around the tree and filled several times. Where the basin is large enough and is refilled often enough and the ground well mulched, this does fairly well but should only be used where water is scarce. It trains the tree to roots like a brush instead of sending them out laterally...

The Cabrillo National Monument

Author : James Robert Moriarty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Cabrillo National Monument written by James Robert Moriarty and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

San Diego and Arizona Railway

Author : Reena Deutsch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738581484
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book San Diego and Arizona Railway written by Reena Deutsch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) "The Impossible Railroad" because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier and driving force behind building this binational 148-mile rail connection to the east from San Diego, California, was businessman John D. Spreckels. Because of his perseverance, the jinxed 1907-1919 construction overcame a series of disasters, including the Mexican Revolution, a prolonged lawsuit, floods, World War I, labor shortages, a tunnel cave-in, and a lethal pandemic. Once up and running, the line was intermittently in and out of service and later sold and renamed the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. While "The Impossible Railroad" still faces constant challenges and partial closures, freight and trolley service currently operate on its right-of-way, and tourist excursions are offered at its Campo, California, depot.

The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940

Author : Matthew F. Bokovoy
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826336442
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940 written by Matthew F. Bokovoy and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. The Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16 celebrated Southwestern pluralism and gave rise to future promotional events including the Long Beach Pacific Southwest Exposition of 1928, the Santa Fe Fiesta of the 1920s, and John Steven McGroarty's The Mission Play. The California-Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36 promoted the Pacific Slope and the consumer-oriented society in the making during the 1930s. These San Diego fairs distributed national images of southern California and the Southwest unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest. In tracing how the two fairs reflected civic conflict over an invented San Diego culture, Bokovoy explains the emergence of a myth in which the city embraced and incorporated native peoples, Hispanics, and Anglo settlers to benefit its modern development.

City of San Diego and San Diego County; the Birthplace of California

Author : Clarence Alan McGrew
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230366777
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book City of San Diego and San Diego County; the Birthplace of California written by Clarence Alan McGrew and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I THE SPANISH DISCOVERERS Sailing from Natividad in Mexico, then already a substantial unit in the vast colonial empire which had been put under the proud flag of Spain, Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo brought two little ships into San Diego harbor in September, 1542. And these two clumsy little boats, as far as the pages of history reveal, brought to the shores of California the first white men, the first Europeans, to set foot on the soil of what is now the Golden State of the Union. Columbus had made his discovery of America just 50 years before; the proud Balboa had waded into the waters of the Pacific and claimed the ocean for the king forty-two years before; Cortez had long before started his conquest of Mexico; more than a score of vears had elapsed since Magellan had pushed through the straits which bear his name; the Dominion of Spain had been extended over a vast expanse of a continent new to Europe; gold-seekers, soldiers of fortune, hardy mariners had pushed on for new conquests. As Cabrillo's little craft struggled against wind and sea on their way into the unchartered waters to the north, the tattered, hungry, discouraged survivors of the proud band that had set out with De Soto and had crossed to the Mississippi in search of a new El Dorado were fighting their way back to Mexico. Such were some of the settings of the period. Cabrillo, like Magellan, was a Portuguese, but in the service of Spain, whose rulers hired whom they best could to do the work of carrying on further the flag of that proud nation, then at about the zenith of its power. The little ships which he commanded were the San Salvador and the Victoria. It seems almost a miracle in these days that men could conquer the perils of the sea in such craft as...