‘Sound of Music’ tour alive with pre-WWII politics, fleshed-out supporting roles
The former Old Globe artistic director Jack O’Brien’s latest interpretation of the “The Sound of Music” is in San Diego through this weekend, with a renewed focus on the political landscape of the family drama. You know the history behind the famed musical: Aristocrats were ready to capitulate to Ge
La Hermosa: A 1920s residential subdivision in early La Jolla
La Jolla coast, La Hermosa – aerial, date unknown. (Photo and caption info courtesy of the San Diego History Center) What is now part of the Bird Rock area in La Jolla was once mapped and marketed under early subdivision names in the 1920s. One of those names — La Hermosa, or the beautiful one — sho
Bankers Hill: San Diego’s layered rise above downtown
View of a large three-and-a-half-story colonial residence believed to be the Horace B. Day residence at 140 Walnut Street in Bankers Hill in about 1912. (Photo and caption info courtesy of the San Diego History Center) From the name Bankers Hill alone, you might expect to see bankers in three-piece
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