San Diego Then and Now (Then & Now

by Nancy Hendrickson, Thunder Bay Press

San Diego was founded when Sebastián Vizcaíno entered the bay in 1602 on the feast day of San Diego de Alcalà and named the place accordingly but it was not until 1867 when San Francisco speculator and businessman Alonzo E Horton acquired 960 acres of waterfront land and promoted it as New Town that San Diego really took off. The arrival in the 1920s and 1930s of the aviation and maritime industries, and regular income from naval and military bases helped San Diego get through the Great Depression. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the headquarters of the US Pacific Fleet was moved to San Diego. The metropolis's wartime role and the associated publicity finally marked San Diego as an important city. San Diego Then and Now looks at how the city developed from a small village into a beautiful beach city.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Travel

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Nancy Hendrickson is a non-fiction author who writes about diverse industries for books, magazines and the web. Nancy has recently turned her writing talents to fiction, and is currently working on a cozy mystery as well as an historical time-travel novel. Nancy lives in San Diego, California and is available to give talks on all facets of non-fiction writing.

When not writing, you can find Nancy somewhere in the frontier west - delving into the people and events of a bygone era, all while listening to the tales spun by the resident ghosts. Nancy is the one with the Canon DSLR, the little Canon Elph and the digital recorder!

Catch up with Nancy at http://nancyhendrickson.com

Reviews

[Pat Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I visited San Diego this September (2020), and have been there about 3 or 4 previous times in the last ten or 12 years. I thought after this last visit that it would be good for me to get to know the city a little better. So I bought this book and a Fromm's guide book to San Diego as well. This book, as it's title says, is a then and now book. It has photos from back in the day, (Anywhere from about 1860 to about 1930) and modern photos, and little blurbs about each photo. So it wasn't really all that great a learning experience. It did however have some nice photos, and the tidbits of history of the photos were interesting, if not thorough. It had only 143 pages, and about 200 or so paragraphs to read. The book is fine, I just wish I had thought about the title a little more before I ordered it.

[Louise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Intéressant, explique l'histoire de la ville à travers des images (then and now). Je l'ai lu chez Duncan à San Diego.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love books that show you a city centurys ago and then compare those pictures to pictures of today. What I especially liked about this book, and I guess San Diego itself, is that it has changed so little over the years. As you look through the pages, even without today's pictures, you know pretty much exactly what you are looking at. The pictures and descriptions are clear and concise. I feel like I am going back in time through the pages of this book.

[Austen to Zafón · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun photos and trivia about San Diego at the turn of the 20th century.