PC-000-702

Picture postcard of San Diego, with Point Loma and North Island in San Diego Bay

 

circa 1915

 

 

One of the official seals of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 is in the message section of the reverse of this postcard, giving approximately the latest date it would have been distributed. It is hand-tinted, showing point Loma along most of the horizon, with North Island (Coronado) shown just below it on the left, and a couple of ships in the Bay between it and the mainland. It seems likely that the building with the prominent word "Owl" on it just to the left of the center of the card is advertising the Owl Room, upstairs from the Manila Cafe at 515 Fifth Avenue. If that is the case, the viewer would be looking at the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego, and the sign would have been on a taller building next door, perhaps at 523 Fifth. If this is the case, the only visible street (from the right toward the middle around the vertical center of the card) would be Fourth Avenue. Another possibility is that this building could be Owl Drug at Sixth and Broadway.

Gaslamp Quarter; San Diego; San Diego Bay

 

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

San Diego Curio Co., San Diego, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

see Journal of San Diego History, Spring 1977, v. 23, #2, Michael Stepner's "San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter."

Portion of Business Section of San Diego, Cal., Showing the Bay.

 

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