Address: 10th Avenue between E & F Streets 843 Tenth Ave. Built in 1933   Click on images for full view. Photos taken by Wayne Buss around Oct 1992 [gallery columns="4"...

Housed in the Tenth Avenue Garage/ Jacaranda Established in 1990 as City Moves!, a children's dance program of the San Diego Foundation for the Performing Arts, the organization became independent in 1992 when the Foundation closed. It changed its name in 1997 to the...

We are currently working on Bob Sinclair's profile, in the mean time you can read a great article by the San Diego Downtown News:   Photos by William Keller, click on images for full view:  

San Diego's oldest civic meeting place. Constructed by Col. Manuel Ferrer,  in 1870 at the corner of Arctic and Fifth streets downtown (now Kettner Boulevard and F Street) then moved in the early 1900s to 12th Avenue and K Street. Bob Sinclair bought the place in 1999...

675 G Street In 1968 Bob Sinclair opened up a little store on Prospect, which primarily sold cookware and wooden spoons and things like that, the beginnings of gourmet products. He bought a peanut roaster and just as an experiment tried roasting some coffee, he also...

1245 J Street. During the 1920s, many San Diego businesses flourished in the Centre City East area. In 1921, the San Diego Broom Works Building was constructed on J Street... Click on images for full view. Images by Jorge Moreno [gallery columns="4"...

171 14th Street Built in 1924

Built in 1925 The Ratner (The Ratner Family)  which established its highly successful men’s clothing company in the building in the 1920’s, manufacturing men’s suits and sport coats. Ratner Clothes operated in the building until 1989. The Art Center

“The Eyes of Frida Kahlo,” a mural he painted in 1985 for San Diego’s first ArtWalk by Artist Mario Torero.  

Click on images for full view. Photos taken by Wayne Buss. Almost ten years after our first exodus from the Gaslamp, we artivists, reestablished our selves around the old abandoned Carnation Building led by visionary architect, Wayne Buss who had been a witness and...

After my involvement as one of the pioneering founders of the Chicano Movemenet in San Diego by establishing the Centro Cultural de la Raza and the Chicano Park open air museum, I proposed that it wasn't enough to liberate our barrio but that we needed to apply our...

Candice López This neighborhood has been our home and place of work for thirty years. It's been fascinating to watch this community grow as we grew our careers and family. There is an edge, an energy to the East Village that made us stop and take notice. Here we've...

Rafael López. I'm an artist and illustrator originally from Mexico City. In the late 80's my wife Candice and I moved downtown. We ended up at the Pioneer Warehouse Lofts as I did a series of large paintings in trade for 6 months rent. We connected with the...

A collection of street posters, etc. Layers and layers of paper and paint. East Village San Diego. Click on images for larger view.

Doug Simay has been actively involved in San Diego's art world for three decades. He started presenting public art exhibitions in 1982 when, along with Mark Quint, he developed the arts space at San Diego's 9th and G streets (a combination of Quint Gallery and...

Tom came to Sushi Gallery out of San Diego’s poetry world, where he had begun in the late 70s to emphasize the performative aspects of poetry readings. He has continued in this emphasis and made his place among poets based on it. He has also always emphasized an...

Photos by Wayne Buss. Click on images for full view.  

Photos by Wayne Buss 1980's-200's    

Photos by Wayne Buss. Click on images for full view.

Click on images to enlarge. Photos by Wayne Buss

San Diego's Ball Park (Petco Park), opened in 2004. Located between 7th and 10th Avenues, south of J Street. Constructed by San Diego Ballpark Builders, a partnership with Clark Construction, Nielsen Dillingham and Douglas E. Barnhart, Inc. Photo by Christian...

A native of Yokohama (San Diego’s sister city), Japanese artist Rocco Satoshi has been creating graffiti art in San Diego since the 1980’s. Started exchanges with muralists in San Diego after he produced a wall painting at the Yokohama Exotic Showcase in...

Street Scene: Beginning in 1984, a San Diego native created Street Scene which consisted of two events the first year; one in May and the other in August. The event was held on historic 5th Avenue, between J & K Streets, for the first few years, with two stages....

Photos by Wayne Buss. Click on images for full view.   ArtWalk '87   ArtWalk '89 [gallery columns="4"...

San Diego promoter Rob Hagey started Street Scene in 1984 as a two-stage community event that featured roots acts like Los Lobos, The Neville Brothers, The Blasters, Robert Cray and X. The event doubled as a marketing campaign for downtown San Diego. Although Street...

Lower Left, Collective-in-residence at Sushi Performance & Visual Art. My Hands Are Dirty: Performed by Margaret Paek, Andrew Wass, Rebecca Bryant, Jane Blount, Colleen Phillips and Karen Schaffman. Director: Nina Martin. April 18-28 2002   Director Nina...

1994 Lower Left Co-Founder Click on image to visit WEBSITE:

Created as a network of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects among non-profit and public institutions, inSite explored public or contextual art practice in the specific context of the San Diego-Tijuana border region. In 1980, Installation Gallery was...

I feel grateful for the support I received from Vicki Wolf (Sushi Performance and Visual Art Space) and Debra Owen Gallery in the late 1990s. I enjoyed conversations with Scot McDougall who was very present and wonderful in so many ways. I lived in Golden Hill near to...

Sledgehammer Theatre. Started in 1985 then-artistic director Kirsten Brandt Co-founders Ethan Feerst and Scott Feldsher Performance Art Theatre, Non Profit Organization. http://www.sledgehammer.org/ From the owner: Over the past 25 years, Sledgehammer_ has emerged as...

Head On Off Dancetheater Ensemble Performing and teaching at Sushi Performance and Visual Art

"In 1988, building on his extensive career in dance and theater, John Malashock founded Malashock Dance in San Diego, California. The Company’s impressive track record includes the performance of 100 original dance works, annual performances, and workshops, and...

Karen Finley / We Keep Our Victims Ready Sushi Performance & Visual Art 1989 Finley and three other solo performers became known as the NEA Four when the National Endowment for the Arts yielded to political pressure and, in an unprecedented reaction, denied grants...

More info to be posted soon.     San Diego East Village Project

I was first introduced to the east village through the Susht Performance Space in I believe 1999. A recent transplant from Washington DC, I had been invited to participate on an advisory panel for an upcoming performance series on mental health issues. As an avant...

I owned and operated a Flashpoint Pictures photography studio at 311 8th Ave. from 1997 to 2000, where the Park at the Park is now. I lived there too, and it was next door to the historic Candy Factory building. The East Village had a raw, industrial, artsy feel at...

Interior images of BlackBox Studios, located at what was formerly 311 Eighth Avenue. This building was originally an annex to the Candy Factory building next door. These pictures are circa 1998. Information and Images provided by Christian Michaels. [gallery...

Founder, Richard "Dick" Herrman, who started operating as a niche distributor in 1972 for delis and independent shops in San Diego, California. He felt that the name Monterrey Provision Company, reflected the appeal and flavor of it's proximity to the Mexican border....

Designed in 1909-1910 by Architect Henry Lord Gay, four story brick and heavy timber, 51,400 square feet. Commissioned by Bernard McKenzie. Originally located at Fifth Avenue and K Street. Corner of Seventh Avenue and K Street. Western Metal Supply Company established...

Built in 1925 as a warehouse Morris Trepte & Sons Bledsoe Company furniture warehouse: The building was found to be the "Bledsoe Company Warehouse," which was constructed by the firm of M. Trepte and Sons in 1925 in a "Transitional Industrial" architectural style....

TR Produce 808 J Street Photos by Wayne Buss

441 Tenth Avenue housed Fresh Produce Wholesale. Photos by Wayne Buss, click on images for full view.

The Artplex building, on the corner of 9th and K. Home of The Very Bess Family greeting card company, art studios of Jim Bess, Cecilia Stanford, Bill Schlinder, and others. 1981-1999

947 E St San Diego, CA 92101 currently used by Pokez Mexican Restaurant.  

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Studio in the church lofts located 10th and E street from 1983 -1987. Exhibit at Sushi gallery and City of San Diego public art project mural around the construction of Horton Plaza.

Owner: Alfred Pagano  

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