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.
Circa 1961
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 20204
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
