Downtown San Diego circa 1947

Looking northeast from Horton Plaza.  Two streetcars wait to go west on Broadway as a Yellow Cab heads north on 4th.  I think that is a Trailways bus, or something like that -- not a city bus.  At the left is the U S Grant Hotel.  I worked briefly in 1965-1966 at Washburn & Justice Advertising Agency, on the second floor of the Grant, behind the Palm tree.  I could stand out on the balcony with a cup of coffee and watch (and hear) the fellow who would Praise The Lord at the top of his lungs.



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