710 13th St

710 13th St

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...
Mark Hiss Lloreda

Mark Hiss Lloreda

Mark Hiss Lloreda is a writer and editor who has worked in and around San Diego arts and culture for many years. He began his career at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego REPertory Theatre and Broadway San Diego. He was then founding editor of two publications: WHERE...
Eyes of Picasso Murals

Eyes of Picasso Murals

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...
Mario Torero

Mario Torero

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...