Ocean Beach was once ‘Wonderland’ — an amusement park by the sea
View of Wonderland Amusement Park in Ocean Beach at Lotus and Abbott in about 1913. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center) On a stretch of coastline where surfers now line up for morning waves, Ocean Beach once hosted an amusement park at the edge of the Pacific. Few traces of Wonderland
Review: Japanese classical sensation Hayato Sumino delights in San Diego
Hayato Sumino at The Conrad in La Jolla on Saturday. (Photo by Ken Jaques/La Jolla Music Society) The phenomenon that is Hayato Sumino descended for the first time on San Diego Saturday night, and his fans — 1.56 million follow his YouTube page Cateen — came out in force. Though the 30-year-old Japa
Opium dens and early Chinatown: Inside San Diego’s forgotten history
Image of a Chinese man smoking an opium pipe while seated in a chair outside a building in 1928. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center) A few blocks inland from San Diego’s early waterfront, near Third and J Streets, a dense cluster of buildings formed the core of the city’s original China
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