THE LIBRARY OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
GIFTA FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR A VACATION AT HOME
Let others delight ,mid new pleasures to roam,
But give me, oh, give me the pleasures of home!
A charm from the sky seems‘to hollow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere.
—JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.
Dedicated To
Father Junipero Serra And the Steadfast Pioneers whose courage and faith laid the foundation for the San Diego of today).2
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WE wish to express our deep gratitude to the people who have given
us much help in preparing our book; to Isabelle Spruse, who• designed our cover; to Tommy King, who made the cuts, and to our many friends who have given us their time and knowledge.
Further information was obtained from Smythe’s History of San
Diego, McGrew’s History of San Diego, Chamber of Commerce publications and maps, and San Diego Yesterdays.
8B CLASS, MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. May,. 1923.
Why don't you know your “Golden West/* Which in and out all states is best?
And learn to gaze with shining eyes Upon the land, our pearly prize.
Of parks and camps we well may boast,
Of ships, and bays, and winding coast,
And when you know, you then may say Other lands have a rival to play.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW	3
*"THIS little book contains impressions of San Diego, collected by many hands and minds.
It has been written in the belief that a guide book will be not only interesting, but valuable to many people who live in the land of sunshine, but do not know all of the beautiful places open to their enjoyment.
No attempt has been made to describe all unknown pleasure trips of San Diego. Only the best ones have been chosen for description.
We have tried to make all data correct and we hope it will lead to many pleasant days for those who read our little guide book.
The highways stretch across the land
Prom there to here, from here to there;
But right and left on either hand
Are crossways leadings everywhere.
They make you sort of want to know Where do the little cross-roads go ?
—BERT ON BBALEY,
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BALBOA PARK
*TO really׳ see a fairy garden that you have read and dreamed about so much, go to Balboa Park some morning when the sun has just come up and is shining on the dewdrops or the fog that has just lifted.
Spend one day at least at Balboa. Be sure to take plenty of lunch or you may get a light lunch at the Japanese tea garden, where you will enjoy every minute of your visit.
Walk west from the east gate until you come to the museum on the south side of the street. There is no charge, but if there were you would certainly get your money’s worth. You may see a wonderful collection of insects, shell fish, shells, animals, and plants. After leaving the museum, follow the walks southeast of the building to a beautiful lawn and eucalyptus grove.
After that interesting visit, go on west from the museum until you can see the pansies through the south side of the arcade. Keep walking until you come to some steps. Once up these steps and you have before you Montezuma’s Garden, one of the prettiest sights imaginable. In April the pansies are in bloom; in the summer there are zinnias, and later in the fall, asters. The lawn south of the garden is well worth a visit.
From there you can go to the Art Gallery. Walk west down the arcade until you come to some large doors and a sign: “Art Gallery.” The charge is 15 cents every day except Saturday. It is open from 10 to 5 and on Sunday 1 to 5. The collection of paintings is changed at intervals.
After you have seen all these interesting things it is probably time for lunch. If you have your lunch you may eat it in the Pepper Grove. Walk east until you come to a sign, “Pepper Grove Picnic Park.” Follow the path until you come to a grove of pepper trees; here you may find a table at which to eat your lunch. If you haven’t your lunch you may go to the Japanese Tea Gardens. Walk east until you come to a sign on the north side of the street that reads, “To the Botanical Building. ” Go up one of the paths and around the building and you will find yourself in a most beautiful garden. After you have finished your lunch in this fairy garden, go to the Botanical Building and there you will see many beautiful but curious flowers, plants and shrubs. If you have eaten your lunch in Pepper Grove, you will have to cross the street and go west a little way to see these curious things. Now for the zoo. Go out of the tea gardens to the road, then follow the road north until you come to the building. It will cost 10 cents for adults, but children are admitted free. It has many kinds of animals. Do not miss the seal, alligator, and bird ponds in the canyon.
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Organ Pavilion. If it is not time for the recital, walk around behind the organ to the beautiful dahlia, rose, or poinsettia garden.
׳' After the recital, go on west to the California Tower. When you are in the building, turn to your right. If you are sure you can climb, go up in the tower, but if you are not so sure, you had better not try it. There are Indian curios and relics of earliest American civilization in the building to look at instead. Do not leave this part of the park until you have seen the lawns and walks behind the California Tower. From there go to the Cabrillo Bridge cross it, taking a glimpse at the Lotus Pool below, and follow the first path to your right. This will lead you to the Rose Garden. There is no charge. From there follow Laurel street to the street car track. You will be on the zone line and it will cost only 5 cents to ride back to town.
Our lovely land of sunshine bright,
Of gilded towers and parks so fine,
Is beautiful, a wondrous sight,
A paradise, a dream divine.
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MISSION DE SAN DIEGO DE ALCALA
WE assure you great pleasure on a trip to the Old Mission. If this hike interests you, take No. 11 car at Fifth and Broadway. Ride to
Forty-seventh street, take the road that leads north under the bridge, street car bridge. Follow the path at the north of this bridge. When you reach the foot of the hill, continue north on the road that leads to the valley. Cross the bridge that spans the S. D. River. When the road forks, turn to the right. The mission is about two blocks ahead.
Be sure to see the olive trees and date palms which were planted by Indians in 1774-1775. Notice the hedge of giant cactus, which was once about twenty feet high. It was made to protect the mission from the Indians. If you like, search for the hidden tunnel which ran from the Priests’ House behind the chapel to the well, 400 feet away. This tunnel protected the Fathers from Indians when they secured water.
Be sure to ring the old bell which was brought from Spain. The gardens were protected by adobe walls, parts of which are still standing. The land was irrigated by water brought in ditches from a dam across the river gorge six miles above the mission. There were twenty miles of ditches and this was probably the first irrigation system in America.
If you prefer to go in a machine, drive out Madison avenue to Forty-seventh street, take the road that leads north under the bridge and follow the same instructions as for a hike.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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OLD TOWN
OLD TOWN is the oldest town on the Pacific Coast. Our city has a more fascinating and romantic story than most cities have and this delightful trip out to Old Town will surely pay you richly for your time and trouble. If you drive your own automobile, drive out India street and follow the La Jolla boulevard to Old Town. If you go by trolley, take number 8 car at Third and Broadway and ride
to the end of the car line.
To your left is the old Estudillo House, known as Ramona’s Marriage Place. In the rooms and walk surrounding the beautiful garden are many interesting relics. The admission is 10 cents and a fine lecture is given about the early missions. This is worth the 10 cents.
There is Pat O’Neel’s water cart, from which water was sold at 25 cents a barrel in the same year that land sold for 26 cents an acre!
Then there are the first mill wheels used in California, along with an old filter brought from Spain in 1794. There are plenty of other relics belonging to Father Horton, which make you decide you will look for Father Horton’s picture and read up on Old Town when you get home.
Old Town was burned in 1872 in an immense fire which burned down all the business houses at the Plaza, and that aided the starting of the new San Diego.
Start from Ramona’s Home and go south on the paved highway a short distance and you will see the Whaley House, the first brick house ever built in Southern California.
The bricks were made in Old Town, thq plaster was made of ground seashells, and the lumber and hardware were brought around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel. A little farther on you will pass the old graveyard and jail. As you wander around, your mind will stray back to the quaint old-fashioned times and compare them with modern times.
Just across the highway is the first church in California. North again and west of Ramona’s Home is the headquarters of the Mexican Army of 1846, and again our imagination conjures visions of sedate old generals and commanders and a little thrill of appreciation runs over us that all around us now is peace.
Opposite Ramona’s Marriage Place is the Old Town Plaza. Here a great rock marks the end of the Kearney Trail. The old cannon, recently mounted by the Boy Scouts, was brought from Spain, and served the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. It was also once used as a hitching post for horses, and a whipping post for bad Indians. Then there is the flag pole on the same spot where the first United States flag was raised by Fremont in 1846.
Now, go a block northeast from Ramona’s Home, past the old Bandini House, and turn northwest. Go past the Old Mission Olive8
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Factory to the highway. Turn to the right and walk two blocks to the old palm, the first date palm ever planted in California. Upon the hill back of the palm is Father Serra’s cross, which is made of tiles from the first chapel. The hill east of the cross is Presidio Hill, where the Spanish built their “presidio.” To the left, as you stand looking towards the bay, is Fort Stockton. The Native Sons have just put up a United States flag and a Pear Flag there to mark the place where Fort Stockton was. That was where the American army built ' its fort when the troops came here at the time of the war with Mexico.
Spend a little time on this hill enjoying the wonderful view of. the bay, ocean, and Point Loma.
This will be a trip you will well remember and we shall not worry about your not enjoying it, for there is nothing to compare with Old Town’s beauty. Once out there you will never be sorry you went.
When you come to San Diego With a heart that’s sad, not bright, You will find our shady trees And cool, fresh, salty breeze Cure the sad in San Diego.
Come, we’ll make that sad heart go.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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POINT LOMA
IF YOU have a machine, you can ride to the point. If not, ride to
La Playa and walk to the point. ׳ Take Ocean Beach car at Fourth or Third and Broadway.
When you are about half way to the end of the point you will pass a monument on the left of the road. This is the Bennington Monument. It was put up in memory of the sixty boys who were killed when the Bennington exploded in the San Diego Bay.
A little farther on you will come to Fort Rosecrans. There are the soldiers’ barracks and the quarantine station. At present there are only thirty men stationed at the garrison.
About three-quarters of a mile from the fort you will be on the point. The first thing you may go to see is the old Spanish lighthouse. There are candy, cigars, cigarettes, and soft drinks for sale.
The old Spanish lighthouse was built about 1854 and it was first lighted in 1855. It was moved on account of fogs. The Native Sons of California are now planning to erect a splendid monument at this spot.	.	.
The new lighthouse is farther down. You may go down to the lighthouse if you can get permission at the gate.
I will tell you a little bit of history about Point Loma. About 1602 Point Loma was covered with many tall trees. They have disappeared because so many were cut for tanning hides and for firewood. Even the stumps have been cut out since Captain Bogart cut a road to La Playa and found many of them.
In 1850 the Mormons hunted for coal on the point.
The old Fort Guijarrios was on Ballast Point and it was built about 1780.
You may get the view of San Diego and the bay from the top of the point. This view from the point is as fine a view as people go way to Italy to see.
The Point Loma ,road has been opened again and thousands of automobilists are using the scenic driveway. On week days an average of 1800 machines •go over the road and on Sundays 3000.10
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MISSION CLIFF GARDENS
IF YOU want to see some beautiful views, go to Mission Cliff Gar-dens. Take number 1 car at Fifth and Broadway and go to the
end of the line. Take your lunch or buy it at the pavilion..
Follow the walk directly north from the car past the ostrich farm (admission 10 cents) to the edge of the cliff. Look down into Mission Valley. On clear days you can see the mountains, sometimes snow-covered, for about 100 miles.
Just before you get to the pavilion, you will see on the left an aviary. Be sure to see the birds.
Follow any path and you will see the most beautiful flower beds in San Diego or in any park in the United States.
If you wish to see the Japanese Garden, go to the pavilion and follow any path west along the edge of the cliff. Tou will have a wonderful view of Mission Valley. In front of the Japanese Garden is the wisteria vine that is over 200 years old. It was brought from Japan. Keep on the patch until you come to the View Path; a little farther on you can see the ocean and bay.
Take any path back to the pavilion. Before it is the lily pond with its lotus and papyrus plants. The tall feathery plant is the papyrus which the Egyptians used to make paper of.
Now take the main path leading north about one block and turn to the right. From the path near the cliff is a beautiful view of the Old Mission in the distance and directly south of the pergola are the deer, pheasants, and peacocks.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
ADOBE FALLS
A DOBE PALLS is a real surprise to everyone who sees it for the first time. Give yourself the fun of this hike some cool spring day. Take number 7 car at Fifth and Broadway and ride to the end of the line. Follow the paved road for about three miles until you come to a blackberry patch on the left hand side of the road. Turn to the left on the dirt road that runs west of the highway and walk for about three blocks. You will find a well-worn path. Follow this path until you come to two large sycamore trees. Then walk one-half block north over a little hill and you will find a deep canyon. At the base of the canyon you will find the falls and the swimming pool. A little farther down the stream is another pool, with many little fish. The fish are very good for bait for the larger fish up in
Murray Dam, where this stream comes from.
If you do not want to go back the same way, go to the middle
swimming pool and turn west. You will find a road there. Follow that road west until you come to a steep hillside. That is Devil’s Slide. Watch your step. Keep on the trail until you come to a crossroad. Turn to the left and there you find Young’s caves. Go around the hill or through it by the way of the tunnels. When you have gone through you come to a path down the side of a hill. Keep going'until you come to the road. Cross this road and keep on the path through the brush (it makes you think you are a woodsman in the days of old) and if your eyes are keen you may see birds and a nest or two in the lilac bushes. Walk until you come to a house on the right hand side of the road. Walk half a block and cut southeast across a lot. Turn directly east and you will find Kensington Park. You can. rest here until your car comes to take you back to town.
Another route to take to reach Adobe Falls is to take number 11 car on the southwest corner of Fifth and Broadway. Ride to the end of the line at Kensington Park. Cross the street and walk one-half block north. Follow a well-worn path across a vacant lot and then turn north again and walk a block and a half until you find a trail leading into the valley. Follow this trail until you come to the road. At the left is a bridge. Walk to the left of the bridge, up the hill, and there you will find caves. These caves were dug by Mr. Young for his health. All doctors said he would die. He packed up and came to San Diego to regain his health a few years ago. He is now 78 years old and is just as healthy as any man at the age of 40.
If you go to Young’s caves you will have a good time. Don’t forget to take plenty of lunch and water, because there are no stores there.
To get to Adobe Falls from here go through the main tunnel and you will find a trail. Follow this for one mile and one-quarter until you come to the top of a steep hill, called Devil’s Slide. Watch your12
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step. At the foot of the slide you will find a trail. Follow this for one-half mile and you will see many large boulders. Between them rushes, or trickles, the water (according to the season). Bands of sheep are often seen on the steep green hillsides.
Beautiful sycamores grow along the stream. Many flowering currants and other flowers, shrubs, and vines grow about and overhang the huge gray boulders. You will enjoy this beautiful spot.
WATER TRIPS—AN OCEAN TRIP
EVERY Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 9 a. m., a boat leaves the Star and Crescent boathouse at the foot of Broadway for Coronado Islands. The fare is $1.50. Take your lunch. On the way you may be lucky enough to see a flying fish. When you arrive at the island, the pilot will take you ashore in a smaller boat.
Follow the signs that lead to the Pirates’ Cave. The cave was so named because a lady found a few gold coins there that were believed to have been left by the pirates that once roamed the seas.
Climb to the top of the island. There you will see a stone monument that was put up by the Spanish when they took possession of the island. The only inhabitants now are many mice, gophers, ’rattlesnakes, and a few. rabbits.
Go back to the boat and wait for the row boat to take you out to view the submarine gardens, where you will see the beautiful sea mosses and grass and very large and small fish. The boat also goes over to the North Island, where thousands of sea gulls, pelicans and cormorants make their nests. The boat rounds the island and on the other side are many seal rookeries. The boat arrives at San Diego again at about 5 p. m.
A BAY TRIP
IF YOU would like to take a trip by boat, take an.hour’s trip on the * bay. The trip will cost you only 25 cents and you will enjoy every minute of the hour.
The Star and Crescent boats leave the wharf at the foot of Broadway at 10 a. m., 11 a. m., 2 p. m., and 3 p. in. daily.
On the trip you will see the warships all in a row. Also the United States naval repair base, fish canneries, industrial plants, wharves, Coronado, the giant log rafts, North Island, United States Naval Training Station, United States Naval Base, Naval Coaling Station, United States Quarantine Station, and Fort Rosecrans.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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BEACHES
La Jolla
'T'O GET to La Jolla, take the stage at Third and E streets or drive your own auto. Take your lunch or buy it at La Jolla. Take some money and a bathing suit. If you have a camera, be sure to
take it along, for one may take pictures of the caves and beach.
The thing I enjoy most at La Jolla is to watch the pools in the rocks at low tide. The best pools are in the low rocks south of the bathhouse. They contain little fish, snails, crabs, bright colored sea weeds, the curious sea-anemones, limpets, and other interesting sea animals and plants.
To reach the caves in La Jolla, follow the road northeast beyond the bathing cave. Go when the tide is low and notice the wonderful color in the rocks and their queer shapes. You will have to climb several hundred steps and pay 25 cents admission, but the cave is worth it.
Ocean Beach
can either take a street car or go by auto to Ocean Beach. It is too far to hike. Go. to the Monarch Drug Store and get a
round trip ticket for 25 cents.
Take the car at Third and Broadway or at Fourth and Broadway. You may picnic on the beach or walk over to the caves and eat there. To get to the caves, walk south along the beach until you come to the plunge. There׳ is a sidewalk between the plunge and the other buildings. Walk across this and off the other end on the- rocks and keep on going until you come to a sandy place. Have plenty of lunch and a’ dandy time is assured you.
Sunset Cliffs
׳TAKE Ocean Beach car at Broadway on Fourth, on the west side of the street, or Broadway on Third, on the east side.
In fortv-five minutes you will come to the end of the line. Get
off and walk south on the naved road until you come to a large sign that reads. “Sunset Cliffs.”
One of the main places of interest is the cave. Before you go to
Sunset Cliffs, get some information about the tide, as the gate that leads to the caves is closed when the tide is high.
The fare to the end of the line is 25 cents round trip. You will need to take lunch or get off at Ocean Beach and get something to eat before you go to Sunset Cliffs.
Coronado
״"TAKE any car that goes down Broadway. Get off at Third and
Broadway and go to the Monarch Drug Store and get a round trip ticket for 25 cents. Take number 9 car at the corner and ride to the end of the line; then take the ferry across the bay.
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may rest a while and eat your lunch. Then walk straight ahead and if you care to go on the merry-go-round, you may, but if you just want to keep on walking, go until you come to Tent City. Here you will find many tents, where people come to spend the summer. Then, after you have seen everything there, turn back and go to the dancing pavilion, where you can dance for a while. Then walk around the hotel grounds and see the gardens. Then walk around the avenues and see the beautiful residences.
Del Mar
DEL MAR is a summer and winter resort, about twenty-two miles from San Diego. The only way to get there is by auto or train.
Follow the paved La Jolla road until you come to a forked road, take the paved road on your right, and drive through Old Town and then to La Jolla. . Go on past Torrey Pines to Del Mar with its wonderful seashore and cliffs.
The Silver Strand
IF YOU are a trap shooter or wish to see how it is done, take Ocean Logan avenue to the old salt works, where salt was once made in great quantities. A few yards further on you will enter Chula Vista, a small but pretty suburb. Most of the inhabitants raise citrus fruits. The orchards make a beautiful and attractive city.
The next town will be Palm City, a small summer resort. Turn to the right of the small store and follow the paved road to the Silver Strand. Years ago this was called Coronado Strand. The Strand has a beautiful picnic beach on the ocean side. On the bay side a beautiful view of San Diego may be seen.
On the way again we will enter Coronado, a summer and winter resort. In winter polo is the great sport and in summer there is dancing and swimming in pool, ocean, and bay, and horseback riding on the beach. See the many little cottages that people rent during the summer by the week or day.
In the distance is the Coronado Hotel, a beautiful structure, built in March, 1887. by Mr. Babcock. It was opened February 14. 1888. A special train from Los Angeles brought the first installment of help. There were 324 people in the party.
The beach at Coronado is a fine place to eat your lunch or, better still, is the Silver Strand. There you have the ocean all to yourselves. When ready to go home, go back by way of the ferry. Go through Tent City, follow the main road, and you will come to the ferry dock. On your way you will see many cottages decked in flowers of our California sunshine. We hope you will enjoy this trip as thousands of others have.»
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Torrey Pines
*"FAKE the La Jolla stage at Third and E streets and get off at La 1 Jolla. Take some lunch, for it is a sis or seven-mile trip. Follow the highway until you come to Torrey Pines.
The trees are in a park covering 369 acres. They were discovered in 1850 by two naturalists, who named them Torrey Pines for their teacher, Dr. John Torrey of New York. People have come from all over the world to see these pines, for they grow only here and on Santa Rosa Islands, off the coast of Lower California.
There is an Indian house there made of mud. It is very interesting and has a wonderful view of the ocean, San Bernardino mountains, and the Soledad Canyon Valley below. There are benches and tables where you can eat your lunch. In the house pictures of the pines and views are for sale, as well as many baskets made of the pine needles. There is a delightful Torrey Pines camping place.16	SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
A TRIP TO IRON SPRINGS
IF you would like to take an interesting trip, go to Iron Springs. * You can leave San Diego any time of the day. Take plenty of lunch or buy it at the Kenilworth Hotel at Ramona, because you will be very hungry. You do not have to take water, for at the springs you can have as much as you like.
Take the road southeast of the Ramona Sentinel office, keeping on the road to the left until you come to the San Vicente Ranch.
Then follow a little road not far from the house south about a quarter of a mile and then turn to the east, keeping on this road until you come to an old brick house in which Indians once lived.
You will there see a large grove of oak trees and a. large sign, saying: “Take a drink at Iron Springs.” Leave your machine at the oak grove and follow the signs directing to the springs. Around the springs are wild ferns which make it beautiful and many beautiful shade trees where you may eat your lunch, enjoying the iron spring water.
EL MONTE OAKS _
״TAKE the stage to Lakeside. Get off and take the road around the old hotel, then take the road going east. You had better take some lunch because it is a long walk of about five miles to El Monte
Oaks. It is one of the prettiest places near San Diego. You can wade in the San Diego River or climb the mountains behind the grove or walk up the road.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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ALPINE AND RETURN THROUGH DEER VALLEY
pOLLOW the state highway northeast through La Mesa, Grossmont, El Cajon, and Bostonia. When you come to Alpine, turn to your
right off the paved road.
Just beyond the cottages is a long grade. You will have to go down to your right and there you will see below you some pretty little streams.
Further along you will see a number of adobe houses that are very interesting. Then a small stream runs in at your left, which is very pretty in places. About three miles beyond, you strike the same paved road you came out on. Follow it back to San Diego.
EUCALYPTUS GROVE—SPRING VALLEY
pROM Lemon Grove follow the highway east. After you have walked the road four1 miles you will come to a gasoline station; there turn to the right and, leaving the paved highway, follow a dirt road. Walk about three miles until you come to the Spring Valley store. Turn to
the left and follow another dirt road.
Follow this until you come to a grove of eucalyptus trees. Walk
right down among them. Through the grove there runs a beautiful clear stream from which you can get wTater. This is a fine picnic and camping ground.
TIA JUANA RIVER
IF YOU want to go on a long auto ride to a quiet beach, follow these * instructions: If you have no auto, take the Sutherland Stage at Third and Broadway and get off at Nestor. You ־will have to walk about four miles from there.
On starting with an auto, take a large lunch and go through National City. Take the highway going to Tia Juana through Nestor. A little beyond Nestor the main highway turns east, but you keep on the road to the south or straight ahead on National avenue. After some distance the road turns west. Keep following until you come to a beach.
There will be only a few fishermen there, because not many people know of the place. If you want to go in swimming don’t go in the ocean, because there is a strong undertow. The place to go in swimming is at the mouth of the Tia Juana River or in the sluice. There is a deep place a little ways up the sluice.
If you want to fish, go to the mouth of the river. You can catch flounders and other kinds of fish.18
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A HIKE TO HARBISON CANYON
IF YOU wish to go for a long hike to a place where there is a cool * swimming pool, a small creek, a grove of oaks overhung by large pine trees (just the spot to eat your lunch), get up very early some cool morning and catch the 6 a. m. El Cajon stage at Second and Broadway.
When you get out at the little town of El Cajon that is surrounded with grape vineyards, walk east along the highway until it turns to your right. Here you will see large orange orchards. Walk along until the road turns again; this time you will see a sign “To Dehesa.”
Walk down a steep grade and take the road that turns to your right. Be sure to visit the small Sequan Indian Reservation on the right hand side of the road. From there walk past the small school and church and walk straight on the trail that leaves the road. Follow the goat trail across the creek and visit the goat ranch on the other side, then walk on up the wagon road, through a grain field where you are sometimes able to see a few deer. But you must be quick or you will only see a cloud of dust instead. Walk through the walnut orchard and you are there. This is about a ten-mile hike, but it is a pretty one. Harbison Canon was once the home ef many of the great bee colonies, which made San Diego county rank first in honey production in California.
FOR A DELIGHTFUL RIDE IN THE SPRING
I EAVING La Mesa, follow the highway down the grade past the
Grossmont store and take the first dirt road that turns to the right. Follow this road until you come to the Chase Ranch; still on the same road, taking turns to left and following the signs, you come to Jamacha. From Jamacha turn to the west. Follow the road until you come to the Imperial Valley highway. Drive toward San Diego until you come to a road on the left with a sign post directing to Sweetwater Reservoir which isn’t far off. The road skirts the base of San Miguel and follows the east shore of the lake.
From Sweetwater take road northeast to La Mesa. From there drive to Lemon Grove with its beautiful orchards and immense lemonpacking house. This is a beautiful drive when the spring flowers are in bloom.
Follow the highway from Lemon Grove to Encanto and return by the way of Imperial avenue to San Diego.
From Lemon Grove drive past the beautiful little Bancroft Lake and to La Mesa Country Club into La Mesa and then back to San Diego.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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RUNNING SPRINGS
\ZOU must have an automobile in order to get to Running Springs. A Start from Fifteenth and Broadway, go straight up from Broadway until the road turns to go through the park, and follow that road until it meets the main road. Go through East San Diego and from there on out. That road will take you through Grossmont, La Mesa, and part of the way to Lakeside. To be sure of finding this place, watch for “Running Springs” written on a large rock on the left side
of the road.
You should have a large lunch, for you will surely want to stay all day. There are beautiful trees and running water there. The stream is very good to wade in, especially under the bridge, where there is sinky sand. When you step, in it you sink about a foot. There are favorable places to eat your lunch and beautiful scenes to take pictures of.	'
UP THE MISSION GORGE
IF YOU have never been up the Mission Gorge, youdiave a real treat in store for you. A fine trip is to drive down any of the grades to Mission Valley, turn to your right and go straight up the valley, following the right fork of the river until you begin to climb the steep hillside. The road is steep and narrow and you are soon high above the bed with rocky peaks around you. Tf there is water in the river, you will see the stream winding down the sandy bed like a silver ribbon below you. Pretty soon you will come out on an open level space and there the road begins to go down again. Presently you
will come to the old Mission Darn.
This is where the Indians, directed by the Spanish Padres, built a solid dam of rock, adobe brick, and strong cement. It held back the water of the river and kept a supply for the summer so they could irrigate their gardens at the mission. Although that was about 150 years ago, much of the dam still remains. It is sandy and pretty about the dam and you may have a pleasant time picnicing.
When you are ready to go on, drive up along the river until you come to Santee. At the railroad crossing turn to your right onto the paved highway and then drive back to San Diego.
The gorge is more wild and rocky than you can imagine and you will be glad you took this trip. If you drive up the valley, you will have the “inside track” on the road. But if you go to Santee first and drive down the gorge you will have a wonderful view of the canyon down the valley to the ocean. It is especially lovely during one of our gorgeous California sunsets.20
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SAN DIEGO’S LAKES
A PEW vacation days spent in visiting some of San Diego’s water reservoirs will repay you with many interesting facts and much
beautiful scenery.
If you are fond of hiking, choose a cool spring day when the hills are green and the wild flowers are blooming and walk to Sweetwater Dam.
Take plenty of lunch. Board the National City car, ride to National City and get off at Eighth and National. Sweetwater Dam is six miles from the car line. Hike east on Eighth street until you come to the Paradise Valley grade, which leads through the hills. Follow it until you come to the first road leading to the right. If you are confused, watch the guide posts.
Follow this trail to the right until you arrive at the Sweetwater Dam. To the right of the dam there is a high cliff which was made by taking away gravel and rocks. The dam was completed in March, 1888, and the turning of water into the mains was celebrated on April 19, 1888. The length of the dam on top is 496 feet, and the lake contains 11,500,000,000 gallons of water. The total cost was $234,074.
There are many nice camping grounds in the valley, and you may enjoy fishing, hunting, and boating.
In the early days Sweetwater Valley and Rose Canyon were the favorite picnic places.
Another interesting trip is one to Upper and Lower Otay Dams. Go straight through Chula Vista toward the Country Club. Watch the sign posts. About a mile beyond the city, turn left on the dirt road, marked Otay Dams, and go through historic Telegraph Canyon, the route of the old Santa Fe trail. Follow the road through Cockatoo Grove, a small grove of beautiful bright-colored eucalyptus trees, and go about ten miles northeast.
You will ׳come to the Upper Otay reservoir about twenty miles from San Diego. Follow the highway south to Lower Otay reservoir. Lower Otay is our largest reservoir and was reconstructed in August, 1918, the total cost amounting to about $620,000. This year the reservoir holds 18.037,600,000 gallons of water.
Return to Cockatoo Grove, drive a little further, then take the road to the right through Long Canyon and Bonita to Chula Vista.
Barrett Dam is about forty-five miles from San Diego. Take the Imperial Valley stage and ride to the top of Dulzura grade, get off there and take the road leading left and go through superb mountain scenery about eight miles to Barrett Dam. Or better yet, drive toward Jamul, but just before reaching Jamul store take the road to the left of the one marked “Lawson Valley’’ (watch the signposts)SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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and then drive over a fairly good dirt road to the lake. This route goes through part of the Cleveland Forest Reserve and the distance to the dam is only about thirty-five miles.
One more trip which is enjoyed by all who take it is a trip to Morena Dam. Start from San Diego by way of Imperial avenue, go to Encanto, to Lemon Grove, and then follow pavement to Spring Valley. Turn to the right and follow main traveled road through Indian Springs, where there are nice camp grounds. From Jamul go past Spreckels’ Ranch to Dulzura, where you begin to climb over what is known as Dulzura pass, at the top of which you cross the flume line. There begin the descent of the Cottonwood Grade to Cottonwood. Then comes the big Potrero Grade, which is a long, hard climb, at the top of which is Potrero, on a mesa or tableland. Then comes the little Potrero Grade, which is quite steep, but much shorter than the big Potrero. It comes out on a fairly level tableland not far from Campo.
Follow the main traveled road about two miles, then turn to the left, traveling in a northwesterly direction for about six miles and you will arrive at Morena Dam. There are many nice camping grounds here.	f
In order to see Morena, Barrett, and Otay dams, you do not have to leave San Diego. You can see miniature reproductions of them in Balboa Park. They are constructed at the zoo to form pools for the seals, alligators, and birds.22	SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
SOME PERSONAL SUGGESTIONS
WZHEN Mayor Bacon was asked his favorite trip, he stated that he vv liked to take an auto trip around the city to realize its great extent. Following his idea, a good trip ■would be to go out India street to Point Loma boulevard, past the marine and navy bases, across Point Loma to Sunset Cliffs and the cave, through Ocean Beach and to the city limits, about two miles this side of Del Mar. Then drive back through Rose Canyon to the highway, up Mission Grade through Mission Hills, and back to Balboa Park. Go to the Municipal Pier, across the bridge to Mission Beach. Then follow the highway through
La Jolla past the city’s rich pueblo lands and past the famous Torrey Pines, which grow only here and on Santa Rosa Islands. Proceed turn to the right and drive along the bay front to see the fishing boats and the canneries. You will then realize the great extent of Sau Diego.
Mr. Nida suggested a trip to Del Mar up the San Dieguito River
Valley past Lake Hodges to Escondido and home again on the wonderful new paved Poway Grade past Miramar and Camp Kearny. This is a beautiful and interesting trip, although the road from Del Mar to Lake Hodges is rather steep and narrow.
When asked to tell his favorite trip, Chief Patrick said he didn’t care much for hiking—since he left the army—but he likes to drive out to Mission Beach, for it reminds him of beaches at Havana and in Porto Rico. Only the tropical shrubbery and the cocoanut palms are lacking.
When asked to tell his favorite trip, Mr. Johnson, city superintendent of schools, replied that he enjoyed the ride out to Torrey Pines best. There is a splendid variety of ocean, mountain, and valley scenes on the way and La Jolla is a typical summer resort. Probably there is no finer trip than this wonderful scenic drive over fine pave-meuts along our Pacific Coast.
Mr. Wetzell of Hazard-Gould says to reach a good close-in hunting place for rabbits, go out past Old Town and across the Old Town bridge, follow the paved road to the right for about two miles, park your car and cross into the brush to your left. There, at about 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning, you will find plenty or jackrabbits and cottontails.
Mr. Tilton, principal of Memorial Junior High School, suggested a trip to Coronado by way of the Silver Strand ־when a fleet is coming into the harbor.
Go by way of the paved highway through National City to Palm City. There take the first paved highway to the west and go across the Silver Strand to Tent City. When the fleet is coming in you can see it in the distance with a long line of smoke following it. This is one of the most beautiful sights in San Diego.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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SPORTS
San Diego Gun Club
IF YOU are a trap shooter or wish to see how it is done, take Ocean
*	Beach car at the Plaza and go any Saturday at 2:30 p. m. to the San Diego Club across the street from the Marine Base, Dutch Flat. Prices are reasonable. Take your own gun or you can obtain one at the Hazard & Gould Sporting Goods Company at Second and Broadway, where more information can be obtained.
Tennis
TF YOU like to play tennis, you may go to the public tennis courts
*	at the foot of Broadway at the Y. M. C. A. Athletic Field. There are also public tennis courts at the Golden Hill playground, Golden Hill. There will soon be some fine new courts just south of the Indian Village in Balboa Park.
Golf
ARE YOU a lover of golf? If you are, here are some places where you may play:
You may go to the municipal golf course, where fees are 50 cents and golf sticks may be rented. Take car number 2, get off at Twenty-sixth and B streets and walk north on Twenty-sixth street to the Golden Hill playgrounds. The Golf Club house is just north of the playgrounds.
To go to the Point Loma course, take 0. B. car and get off at Lvnton street, walk to the golf links to the right.
Chula Vista Country Club or the San Diego Country Club has a fine eighteen-hole course, and is about one mile and a half from Chula Vista. You can get there by taking the National City car and getting off at the end of the car line. The street car stops by the packing house. Turn to your left and follow the dirt road for half a mile and you will find the club. It has a wonderful course.
To get to the Coronado Country Club, take car number 9. After crossing on the ferry, take the path on your right or if you are driving a car, take the road that goes to North Island. You will come to a monument. Turn to your right and you will see the large gate of the polo grounds. You may see some polo games there every spring. Just beyond the polo grounds is the golf course. The green fees are one dollar; caddies for 30 cents an hour.24
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GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES
THE United States government has spent many millions of dollars in San Diego to make permanent stations for its air, land and sea forces. Official tests have proved that San Diego is a fine place for these stations.
Among the government establishments of San Diego, there are naval training stations, marine barracks, United States marine corps, and the naval hospital, which is now under construction and will he the largest hospital in the country.
Owing to the growing importance of San Diego as a government station, the eleventh naval district was created and headquarters were established here in 1920.
A Hike to Destroyer Repair Base
If you would like to take a hike to the destroyer repair base, take number 12 car at Fifth and Broadway and ride to the end of the line; get off there and walk one block south. Turn to your right and follow the street to the end and you will see the guard gate. A marine guard will meet you. Ask permission and he will let you in to visit the destroyer repair base of Southern California.
POINTS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE CITY
PLAN to spend a day visiting the old interesting buildings and his-
toric spots in San Diego.
Father Horton came to San Diego in the early sixties. At that time everything was a wilderness here, and Old Town was the city of San Diego. After he arrived some of the people of Old Town sold him the land which is now known as Middletown, New Town, and Horton Addition, for less than a dollar an acre.
When he was laying out the town of San Diego, people called him a fool and he was the laughing stock of all Old Town. But he kept on with his own ideas and laid out the New Town Park and the Plaza. He built the Horton House and the Horton Bank that used to stand where the Union building now is. He helped with all public works and gave lands for charity purposes or whatever he thought was of public benefit.
The last home Father Horton built is located on State and Olive streets. It is a large white house on the hill, where there is a grand view of the bay.SAN DIEGO. OLD AND NEW	25
Father Horton’s first office was located on Sixth street, below J street. It is still standing and is now being used by the Jim Lee laundry.
Where the Grant Hotel now stands the Horton House once stood. The Horton House was built in 1870 and was famous throughout the Southwest.
Opposite the hotel is our beautiful Plaza. When Father Horton died he was a poor man, but he had a thousand dollars a year which the city paid him for the rest of his life to give up all rights to the Plaza.
At first Father Horton had no idea of selling the Plaza, but people began to talk about buying it for the city. A number of men bargained for it, but before any payments were made by the city, a man from Massachusetts offered $50,000 for it. But Father Horton had promised it to the city for $10,000 and he kept his promise.
About 1897 the beautiful cocos plumosas palms were planted by Miss Kate Sessions, a woman who has done much toward making San Diego a garden city. The wonderful fountain was given by former Mayor Wilde.
Many, people think that the city wastes ״water in the fountain, but it is the same water pumped over and over again.
The two oldest school buildings in San Diego are the old B street building at Sixth and B streets and the Sherman school on J street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth.
The Spreckels building, erected in 1912, is the largest office building in San Diego. It contains also the Spreckels Theater, which is one 'of the finest in America. It is 'large and well-equipped and the stage is large enough to show the biggest plays.
Our first park was the one called New Town Plaza, down by the postoffice at F and India streets. It was set aside in 1850. It was first plowed in 1869 and a 125-foot flagpole• was brought from Washington by a steamer and set up in the plaza. The base of the pole rotted away and was cut off, so the pole is shorter now.
And look on the broad-faced sun—how he smiles On the dewey earth that smiles in his ray,
On the leaping waters and gay young isles—
Ay, look; and he ’ll smile thy gloom away!
—Bryant.26
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SAN DIEGO’S INDUSTRIES
CAN DIEGO is growing so rapidly that we wish to mention a few of our leading industries.
For instance, take a trip to the Municipal Pier. Both at the south and north of the pier are fish canneries, where you can see how fish is treated and packed. At the water front you will also enjoy watching the ships sailing in the harbor.
Another important industry that is close in is the Savage Tire Company on Twenty-sixth and Main streets.
Still, we haven’t mentioned Gifford’s olive works at 1304 Imperial avenue, where olives are canned and olive oil pressed out.
Another interesting adventure is a trip to Bishop’s factory, where you can see how candy and crackers are made.
A trip which is very interesting is one to the San Diego Spice Company, where you may interest yourself in watching spices from many lands being prepared for market.
I will mention the Globe Flour Mills, as they, too, are very interesting.
On a hot summer day, when you are at leisure, visit the Union lee Company, where you can see how ice is made, and enjoy yourselves by making artistic figures on frosted windows; or go down to the Benson Lumber Company and see the giant log rafts that have been towed down from the northern forests.
During the war, the Hercules Powder Company established a large plant on the bay at the south end of the city. Since the war the plant has been taken over by the San Diego Oil Products Company, which is now one of the largest industries in the city. Cottonseed from Imperial Valley and the surrounding country is manufactured into many products.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW	27
OTHER FOLKS AND OTHER DAYS
A HOT DAY when it is too hot for hiking and you don’t feel like walking around town, why not go to the library, select an interesting book, look for a cool, inviting spot on the lawn, or go home to the hammock and read? Why not read about your own California, for you have its sunshine all around you? We have selected a few
very interesting books for you to enjoy:
“Ramona,” Jackson.
“California, Its History and Romance,” McGroarty.
“In and Out of the Old Missions,” James.
“Father Serra and the Mission Indians,” Jackson.
“Spanish Pioneers,” Lummis.
“The Smiling Hilltop,” Sloane (La Jolla).
“Spanish in the Old Southwest,” Rose Winterburn.
“History of California,” Bandini.
“California the Golden,” Hunt.
Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast” (chapters on San Diego).28
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DON’TS FOR DRIVERS
DON’T turn corners too fast.
Don’t turn corners without sounding your horn.
Don’t drive in rainy weather without chains.
Don’t forget to signal when turning or slowing down; also give
the correct signal.
Don’t drive with glaring headlights.
Don’t park at night without having your dimmers on.
Don’t exceed speed limits'
Don’t try to cross a railroad crossing when a train is coming. Don’t fail to sound horn when passing anyone.
Don’t fail to have good brakes.
Don’t drive fast in a fog. '
Don’t pass street cars when stopped for passengers.
Don’t take the right-of-way from people to whom it belongs. Don’t race with another auto on a public highway.
Don’t try to see how close you can come to a person when pass-
ing him.
Don’t go fast past a fire station.
Don’t try to go on when you hear a fire engine or ambulance coming down the street.SAN DIEGO, OLD AND NEW
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HINTS FOR HIKERS
DON’T forget your lunch or your pocketbook.
Don’t walk on the right hand side of the road; walk on the left. Wear comfortable low-heeled, high-top shoes, to escape dirt, burrs
and thorns.
Blisters on heels can be prevented by putting a piece of adhesive tape on the sensitive spot.
Don’t carry a very heavy pack.
Don’t carry your gun loaded.
Don’t weaken!
Don’t give up hiking if you are tired; get your “second wind.” Don’t drink too much water.
Look out for snakes and watch your step!
Don’t ask drivers for rides, because this is a hike.
Don’t build a fire near trees or brush.
Don’t leave a campfire burning.
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DO YOU KNOW THAT
In 1602 Point Loma was covered with tall oak trees?
While Father Serra was on his way from Mexico to settle at San Diego, the Virginia assembly met and passed resolutions against the Crown of England?
When San Diego, the first settlement in California, was first established, Plymouth Colony was nearly 150 years old?
The Mission was built at Old Town in 1769 and moved up the valley in 1774?
the date palms at the foot of Presidio Hill were the first ever planted in California?
Of the last three palms surviving from those planted at Old Town in 1769, by Father Serra, one was taken to the World’s Fair at Chicago, one blew down in 1916 and the other is still standing at the foot of Presidio Hill?
״׳ In 1836 ships came from Boston for hides of cattle raised in San Diego?
The first United States postoffice on the Pacific coast was established west of Ramona’s home in 1848?
There were then four great hide houses at La Playa and a big tannery in Rose Canyon?
In 1870 jackrabbits were thick in the brush around what• is now Fifth and Broadway?
The old Mission was occupied by United States soldiers in 1850?
Father Horton first came to San Diego by boat in 1867 and was carried to shore on the back of'an Indian?
The first newspaper was printed in 1851; from 1860 to 1868 there was no publication of any kind.; then in 1868 the San Diego Union? The Grant Hotel is on the site of the Horton House?
The Military Reservation on Point Loma was established in 1870?
San Diego’s first street car, a mule car, was run in 1886?
The Plaza was sold to the city by Father Horton for $10,000?
The first wharf was built at the ׳foot of Fifth street?
Father Horton’s first office was the Jim Lee laundry at Sixth and I streets?
In 1906 San Diego was all excited because a steam schooner came into port at night by the aid of ■Its‘ Searchlight ?
In 1911 we had only one fish cannery, valued at $10,000, producing 5000 cases, but in 1920 we had fourteen canneries, worth $2,500,000, producing 256,000 cases?
In 1917 San Diego became the greatest military rendezvous ever created west of Chicago? All branches of the service were represented.
There is a grove of young redwoods on the west side of the road and about 200 yards north of Cabrillo bridge?
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MAP OF OLD TOWN
A—Ramona’s Home.
B—First Church, 1769.
C—Old Jail.
D—Whaley House.
E—Headquarters Mexican Troops, 1846. F—First U. S. Postoffice on Pacific
Coast.
G—Old Town Plaza.
H—Bandini House.
I—Old Date Palm.
J—Presidio Hill, 1769.
K—Father Serra’s Cross. L—Fort Stockton, 1846. M—Hills.
# Street Car Line.
= Paved Highway.*THE flush of life may well be seen
* Thrilling back over hills and valleys.”
—Lowell.Memorial Junior High Scbool Printing Department.