PC-000-709

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

 

1925

 

 

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 is D Street, later Broadway. The streetcars on D appear to be operating without wires because streetcar superstructure was routinely removed from enhanced postcards. The view is almost exactly the same as in postcard PC-000-711, which looks to have been taken on a higher floor.

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

 

California - San Diego - Downtown

 

 

MS-0008

English

Western Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-711

[printed in border at top, flush right]
4527. Portion of the Business Section, Coronado, North Island

[continuing at bottom in left border]
and Point Loma in the Distance, San Diego, Calif.

[Curt Teich number in border at bottom right]
104518 [1900-1908]

 

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