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Automobile Club of Southern
California, Map of San Diego, date unknown
Here's another undated map from
Willie Skinner. He was asking about Linda
Vista junction, where the soldiers got off
the train to be transported to Camp Kearny
during World War I. It was no where near
the current Linda Vista. It looks to be
what we called La Jolla Junction in the
1950s. Interesting that there was a
Hooters Street at Camp Kearny, where MCAS
Miramar is today.
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Automobile Club of Southern
California, Map of San Diego, circa 1920
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Automobile Club of Southern
California, Map of San Diego, circa 1913
Resident
cartographer Richard Cloward '60 thinks
the map at the top might be closer to
1923. He shares a similar map above,
which he thought might be around 1917.
He noted that the bridge connecting
South Mission Beach and Ocean Beach
isn't shown on his map. That bridge was
built in 1914, so I've adjusted his
estimate to 1913. He also notes that San
Diego High is still Russ High School and
suggests that the red lines were made
"by an agent showing folks that there
were new routes and a bridge." He
suspects they were using up old stock.
Richard also sent along the "Strip Map"
below, from the early 1930s -- a
forerunner to the "Trip Tik". I spy
"Pleasure Pier" at the foot of Garnet in
Pacific Beach, which was Crystal Pier
when it was first designed by Ernest
Pickering around 1925.
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(Above)
Number 12 is part of a 3 strip series, Los
Angeles to San Diego. Time frame
1917-1923. Later versions will be
updated and the address for the Club will be
“2601 Figueroa. #80 is fairly unique in that
the title is used only in the 1917-1920 time
frame. It continued to be published but the
title changes to simply “Coast and Inland
Route to San Diego’ On the 1926 edition I
have, Camp Kearny is nowhere to be
found. Of interest, on the reverse of my card
is an “Official garage” in Encinitas called
“Midnite Garage”. Pretty ominous, eh? -- Richard Cloward
’60
Below
is an image of the 1928 Jo
Mora Whimsical map of San Diego done
for George Marston and the 50th Anniversary
of Marston's. This is an iconic San
Diego pictograph. The rights to it belong
now to the SD Historical center which got
Marston's Estate. There were 2000 original
copies of this map done. For
some years the Center sold a scaled down
version as a souvenir. An original
with mailing envelope is in the
$2,000-$2,400 range in good condition. For
more on Mora and his work, visit the La
Jolla Map Museum web site
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