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
The lost restaurants of San Diego: Drive-ins, expansion, and the car-centered city
Keith’s Chicken in the Rough Drive-In Restaurant, 5th Avenue; two waitresses stand in front of the restaurant, a car is parked in the parking lot in 1939. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center) Part two in a four-part series In the decades following the early café culture of downtown San D
The other Coronado: 9 stories behind an island you think you know
A woman wearing a bathing suit and holding an umbrella. Behind the woman are three striped tents, two of which are numbered “322” and “324”; the tent at left has a striped canvas beach chair in front of it. Photo most likely taken at Coronado’s Tent City. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Cen
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