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This
photo is actually Broadway looking east from
13th. This is near my childhood home so
I am familiar with this area in the 1950s. The
Lower center of photo is 13th and
Broadway. If you could see 12th St, you
would see Pearson Ford on the northeast
corner. The Pearson building is visible on the
bottom edge and their adjacent used-car lot is
seen at the corner of 13th St. You can see the
Oldsmobile and Rambler dealers. There were two
more car dealers at the corner of 16th and
Broadway -- the City Chevrolet dealership on
the northwest corner and Pontiac on the
southwest corner. In the 1400 Block of E
Street (first street on the right, next to
Broadway) was a bowling alley on the north
side and the famous Coliseum on the
south. Of course, San Diego City College
was built later at 1200-1400 B Street which is
just out of view on the left in the photo -- Lynn
Routt Swanson ’62
If my memory serves me correctly, Balboa
Oldsmobile was located at Broadway and 15th in
downtown -- Paul
Woolery '64
I do not recall the Davies Motors or the
Oldsmobile agency, but I am familiar with 17th
and Broadway. The Goodwill is at 17th
and Broadway, and I believe there was a
Chevrolet agency across Broadway. That is
where Bonanza Corvette resided.
Kitty-corner was a tall old rooming house
building with a Mexican bar/ restaurant in the
bottom floor. So, if I see the picture
correctly, Broadway being in the vertical
middle of the photo, then 17th is the top
horizontal street, and the two buildings are
on the left side of Broadway. Again, if
I see it correctly, we are looking down on
14th Street, which runs East-West, so we are
looking East toward 17th. I THINK the Balboa
Oldsmobile building bounded by Broadway, F
Street, 16th and 17th Streets, became the
Jerome’s Furniture store. Also in that
area, on the south (right) side of Broadway
there was a small boxing coliseum, long since
something else but you could always see the
arched roof where it stood. It has been
a couple years since I was in that part of San
Diego, but before that I was there virtually
every day for many, many years, so much of it
looks familiar, including the way the north
south streets (horizontals) obviously climb up
from Broadway to C Street. Thank you again for
posting this photo! Sharon
Cramer Sceper '68
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