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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

Broadway looking west, San Diego, California

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PC-000-672
Picture postcard of Broadway looking west, with US Grant hotel on right and Horton Plaza on left, San Diego
1913
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Curt Teich
This is a hand-tinted picture postcard depicting Broadway, looking west toward San Diego Bay, which appears to be at tne end of the street. The U. S. Grant Hotel is on the right-hand corner (later The US Grant hotel) at Sixth Avenue (530 Broadway), with Horton Plaza across the street with the electric fountain by Irving Gill (1870-1936). A streetcar is in the distance. The hotel was opened in 1910, the fountain in the plaza in 1909. The Curt Teich number on the back of the card is A-51192, decoded to the year 1913
US Grant hotel; U. S. Grant Hotel; San Diego; Broadway; Curt Teich
California - San Diego
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
I. L. Eno, San Diego, California, US
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
No
[printed superimposed on the photograph, starting top far left]
4535. Broadway, looking West, showing U. S. Grant Hotel and Plaza Park in foreground, San Diego, Cal.
  • San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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TIFF
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