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
Frank O. Gehry’s Italian Village In Thousand Oaks
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness,” Frank O. Gehry. Photo Credit: Cameron Carothers Frank O. Gehry’s Sirmai-Peterson House, is configured of seemingly random masonry and stucco structures that evoke memories of ancient Italian hill towns—but in a California
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