• The world comes to Comic-Con Museum: New exhibits announced at WonderCon,Debbie L. Sklar • Times of San Diego

    The world comes to Comic-Con Museum: New exhibits announced at WonderCon

    The Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park had a soft opening (2021). (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego)At a WonderCon panel, the Comic-Con Museum previewed two upcoming exhibits, one highlighting the artistic world behind the Mexican pro-wrestling form, lucha libre, and the other celebrating 20 yea

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  • In Beverly Hills, The Legendary Chimorro House, $22M,Philip Ferrato

    In Beverly Hills, The Legendary Chimorro House, $22M

    We’re not exactly sure who Mrs. Chimorro was (or even her first name) but in 1926 she commissioned this house from Roy Selden Price, one of LA’s most successful architects of the period—referred to in David Gebhard and Robert Winter’s magisterial An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles as “one of

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  • Carlsbad’s ‘miracle water’ and the birth of a resort town,Debbie L. Sklar • Times of San Diego

    Carlsbad’s ‘miracle water’ and the birth of a resort town

     Six people are standing on the railroad platform in front of the Carlsbad Hotel, near a sign advertising mineral water. A large home is directly behind them, with the multi-story hotel slightly behind the platform. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center)Water isn’t always just water.For in

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