by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | PROFILES MAIN, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | PROFILES MAIN, Uncategorized
by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | PROFILES MAIN, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | PROFILES MAIN, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | PROFILES MAIN, Uncategorized
171 14th Street Southern California Baking Company/Wonderbread Building designed by Eugene Hoffman, The 1890s Factory, composed of four interconnected buildings (the brick part of the Wonder Bread building was built in 1924) The proposed thematic district as a whole...
