To agree with some of the folks talking about the growth of this region…
I was born here in an unspecified year in the early 60’s.
When I was in 5th grade, we heard a stat in some film that SD was like the 18th largest city in the U.S. We were so surprised and excited by that! Imagine! It was almost like we were a major city!
Now of course that’s silly and SD is like the 8th or 6th largest city in the US, and there’s no need to wish to be bigger and any illusions of small town-ness are long long gone.
Back in those days all of P.B. had like 5 bars.
Anyone remember Tugs Tavern? Organ Power Pizza? The Old Ox? Hmm, it was something before that…
I recall when what is now Mira Mesa was one huge open space.
I read that traffic flow at the merge TRIPLED between the 80’s and the 90’s. Try to picture that rate of change for a moment and all it implies…
Back in the day, SD was thought of as a “Navy town” down in the corner of the country. It was a place to get a tattoo (on your bicep not your butt). For some reason folks just didn’t grasp the desirability of the place.
The secret of desirability is out now though and I don’t expect the anonymity genie to squeeze back into the bottle any time soon. So in that respect SD/sdrealtor are correct in my book.
Is this a thread jack? Certainly it’s fun to talk about old time San Diego…
Really it’s hard to overstate how much P.B. (e.g. Garnet) has changed w.r.t. the number of bars. Evidently the city council there had a major change of heart in the early 80’s. They suddenly grasped where *revenue* (lots of it) might come from…
On a related note – I remember when driving up the 5, you’d know when you got to Orange County because you saw… Oranges! Big groves, bordering the freeway. Those days are also long gone…
