Here’s a relevant article in the LA Times about http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-05/business/fi-1545_1_first-time-buyers about San Diegans buying their first properties for under $100K in 1986. Del Mar Heights is mentioned as a place where an attached home could be found in that range.

Something just made me nostalgic about the big fat Sunday newspapers of the early 1990s. Remember when there were at LEAST 2 huge sections of the San Diego Union Sunday paper devoted to ads for new home developments? I would look at those ads, wondering how far away those new neighborhoods were, and looking over the floor plans, and pictures of smiling families…