Inside San Diego’s hidden underworld: The reign of Madam Ida Bailey
Cotheret Building, 1903 Marker. Throughout the Gaslamp, this is the only building with an original second-story balcony. The upstairs has operated as rented rooms under the names of the Cotheret, Ardmore, and Gaslamp Hotel. The Canary Cottage, run by San Diego’s most notorious madam, Ida Bailey, was
‘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
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