PC-000-711

Picture postcard of San Diego showing Horton Plaza and San Diego Bay

 

1921

 

C. T. Photochrom (Curt Teich)

On the horizon from the right is Point Loma, and in the middle of the visible San Diego Bay are the North and South Islands that were joined in 1943, making up the whole of Coronado "Island" (connected to the mainland by a "Silver Strand" of narrow beach). This picture postcard appears to be manufactured from a photograph taken from the U. S. Grant Hotel (later The US Grant). In the immediate foreground is Horton Plaza, built to accommodate visitors to the hotel, which was erected in 1910 in anticipation of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. The expansive street from right bottom to San Diego Bay Broadway. The streetcars on Broadway appear to be operating without wires because streetcar superstructure was routinely removed from enhanced postcards. This postcard is also in the collection of the San Diego History Center. The view is almost exactly the same as in postcard PC-000-709, which looks to have been taken on a lower floor. The Curt Teich number on the back ofthe card is A-85991

Broadway, San Diego; San Diego; Horton Plaza; D Street, San Diego; San Diego Bay; Point Loma

 

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

H. L. Christiance, San Diego, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-709

[printed superimposed on photograph from far left]
4527. Portion of Business Section of San Diego, California.

[signs on building]
Hartsook
Cabrillo Theatre Building
Turkish Baths

 

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