Pretty close to the time of peak American perfection in the USA. San Diego thrived into the 70s and has now evolved into a hell hole. Glad I was born and raised there in a time where it was still Americas Finest City. I cant even stand to go back to see what has happened to my city.
Back in 1968 I saw my first Frank Zappa and the Mothers' of Invention at the hotel. They couldn't get any music venue in the city so they rented an empty part of the underground parking lot there. So you watched and listened while trying to avoid being behind the pillars. So Zappa.
Native San Diegan 4 years old when this film was shot. By 1985 when I left, the city had already changed a very great deal. Can't imagine what it is like now. Guess I'll have to make a pilgrimage home in the next few years before it's too late. San Diego was a wonderful place to grow up in the 60s and 70s, though I wouldn't live anywhere in California now.
I'am very familiar with that area .We came to sandiego to live way back 1973 .. We use to live at barrio Logan. For so many years I grew up in the hood so I know all of Down town.
My grandmother visit San Diego many times when the Balboa Park was open she was there in 1926 and many times mores, she like to travel from Los Angeles to San Diego whit all her girl friends
Beautiful memories born and raised in Americas Finest City SD. lil Italy was my town I lived in few blocks down to the harbor and it has changed over the years.😢
Changed way too much, the reason I grab all these proofs of what a beautiful city it was. I think it's not just San Diego that has changed for the worse... what's happening here, is happening in many US cities.
Vintage San Diego on Facebook You are absolutely right, unfortunately. SD is really going down the toilet and much of its pleasant beauty is almost lost by the congestion and urban problems we had never faced before. ☹️
I went to the Navy boot camp there in the 70s and I went back to visit in 2017 and it was gone! They turned it into a place where people shop and eat. There were a lot of homeless there! Dirty! 😷
Do you think the homeless were bad? Then, you should see it now! With the Democrats completely controlling this state, their policies have drawn 30% of the countries homeless. Every large city is being turned into a sewer.
Thanks for the film upload, it was already so beautiful back then, and those seaplanes at North Island, USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) still sailing.... My dad just bought his first black and white TV set, and you had a film camera already? :) impressive!
Those vagrants you refer to are UNhoused individuals. And the trash you refer to is simply a way for lower income people to dispose of their refuse until the City can come up with a more efficient recycling program.
8:08 I believe is the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bon_Homme_Richard_(CV-31) 8:23 USS Oriskany (CV-34) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)
Both the Oriskany and the"Bonnie Dick" are shown. The seaplanes are Martin Mariners used for coastal patrol. Two of them were based at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, from which they patrolled the Taiwan Straits off the coast of mainland China and serviced by the USS Pine Island, a seaplane tender that we joked couldn't move because it was stuck in the coffee grounds tossed over the side.
Jason Willis I know. My family always gets stuck in traffic on the way home because it gets super crowded in that area below the hill where the Air and Space Museum is.
I went through a little trouble to ADD the projector sound since this was scanned with a digital machine! Adding music sets mood, and I'm OCD enough with so much to do with out spending more hours looking for just the right music... It's more than I can do right now... I figured since the original format was silent home movies, the projector sound effect would be appropriate. Sometimes people add the wrong music... don't even want to accociate music with them... and youtube is so finicky about music and copyrights... It's better for me to not have the music. I can monetize them this way.
Pretty close to the time of peak American perfection in the USA. San Diego thrived into the 70s and has now evolved into a hell hole. Glad I was born and raised there in a time where it was still Americas Finest City. I cant even stand to go back to see what has happened to my city.
Yes, I'd say your memory of San Diego is better than it is now... but I think it's kind of 'this way' all over.
It’s still one of the nicest big cities in America
@@markhilsen2700 Thanks. I would think it would have to be.
Balboa Park always beautiful. Wow that sky elevator at El Cortez Hotel. Wish they still kept it. 😢
Back in 1968 I saw my first Frank Zappa and the Mothers' of Invention at the hotel. They couldn't get any music venue in the city so they rented an empty part of the underground parking lot there. So you watched and listened while trying to avoid being behind the pillars. So Zappa.
Native San Diegan 4 years old when this film was shot. By 1985 when I left, the city had already changed a very great deal. Can't imagine what it is like now. Guess I'll have to make a pilgrimage home in the next few years before it's too late.
San Diego was a wonderful place to grow up in the 60s and 70s, though I wouldn't live anywhere in California now.
You'll be disappointed. They demoed too much.
Its already too late.
The USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) and the USS Oriskany (CV-34). I was 13 when these films were shot. Great memories.
Mybdad served on The Bonn Homme1950...as a plane mechanic❤
I'am very familiar with that area .We came to sandiego to live way back 1973 .. We use to live at barrio Logan. For so many years I grew up in the hood so I know all of Down town.
In the 60's, I remember a barge anchored out in the kelp Beds and you could be ferryed out to it and fish all day.
Enjoyed living here since 1981. Recognize most of these places!
My grandmother visit San Diego many times when the Balboa Park was open she was there in 1926 and many times mores, she like to travel from Los Angeles to San Diego whit all her girl friends
Beatriz Godinez .....? Whit ? Whuuuuut .?
You have a very beautiful first name.
@@Dr.Pepper001 thanks
@@andreamurphy1126 WITH
@@andreamurphy1126 why you think it's important?
Thanks for letting folks get a memory buzz.
FYI - there was no University of San Diego in 1960. At the time this was the San Diego College of Women and the San Diego College for Men.
AE Collins Huh, never knew that! USD looks like it's been around a while because of the Architecture style.
Thanks!
I remember the fountain
Beautiful memories born and raised in Americas Finest City SD. lil Italy was my town I lived in few blocks down to the harbor and it has changed over the years.😢
Changed way too much, the reason I grab all these proofs of what a beautiful city it was. I think it's not just San Diego that has changed for the worse... what's happening here, is happening in many US cities.
Vintage San Diego on Facebook
You are absolutely right, unfortunately.
SD is really going down the toilet
and much of its pleasant beauty is
almost lost by the congestion and
urban problems we had never faced
before. ☹️
I went to the Navy boot camp there in the 70s and I went back to visit in 2017 and it was gone! They turned it into a place where people shop and eat. There were a lot of homeless there! Dirty! 😷
Do you think the homeless were bad? Then, you should see it now! With the Democrats completely controlling this state, their policies have drawn 30% of the countries homeless. Every large city is being turned into a sewer.
This is awesome footage!!
Thanks for sharing - I currently live just a couple blocks from the El Cortez :)
this is amazing, how camera technology has changed in just the past 50 yeas.
5 points?????
Great video.
Thanks for the film upload, it was already so beautiful back then, and those seaplanes at North Island, USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) still sailing.... My dad just bought his first black and white TV set, and you had a film camera already? :) impressive!
El Cortez famous exterior elevator.
Fantastic, fantastic video!!
The 5 downvotes are people who wished they'd visited San Diego in 1960 - but had gone to San Francisco or Los Angeles instead.
8:07 The USS Bon Homme Richard, commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1971.
And to think the 3rd USS BonHomme Richard will be decommissioned in 3 days (14 Apr 2021) after the fire damage.
4:40 WOW don't see that today around the bay.
Robert Holding You do I just saw them a few weeks ago they just come and go. It was the San Fransisco one if I'm not mistaken.
yes you do, me and my high school actually got to tour a submarine last week on a field trip.
Everything was so orderly back then... no trash on the street or vagrants
Those vagrants you refer to are UNhoused individuals. And the trash you refer to is simply a way for lower income people to dispose of their refuse until the City can come up with a more efficient recycling program.
Moved here in 78. Population was 950k, 2022 3.5 million.
the cars
wow.
Oh, look at that, the elusive Cleveland Palm
Ahhh Sandiego the land of Freedom , Opportunity and..... Hey Where is my Daughter ?!!?!?!
8:08 I believe is the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bon_Homme_Richard_(CV-31)
8:23 USS Oriskany (CV-34) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)
Cool!
Both the Oriskany and the"Bonnie Dick" are shown. The seaplanes are Martin Mariners used for coastal patrol. Two of them were based at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, from which they patrolled the Taiwan Straits off the coast of mainland China and serviced by the USS Pine Island, a seaplane tender that we joked couldn't move because it was stuck in the coffee grounds tossed over the side.
Im doing research for a film that takes place in 68. Anywhere i can see footage of market street or mountainview park at that time?
Was that the Balboa Park, Hillcrest area at the beginning?
Balboa Park
University of San Diego
Downtown, Horton Plaza
El Cortez Hotel
Harbor Cruise
2:10 looks like a man on the floor of that boat having a medical problem.
Too many cars in Balboa Park.
Walk, take the bus, ride a bike.
Jason Willis I know. My family always gets stuck in traffic on the way home because it gets super crowded in that area below the hill where the Air and Space Museum is.
It was be really nice if you could set this to music and remove the projector sound.
I went through a little trouble to ADD the projector sound since this was scanned with a digital machine! Adding music sets mood, and I'm OCD enough with so much to do with out spending more hours looking for just the right music... It's more than I can do right now... I figured since the original format was silent home movies, the projector sound effect would be appropriate. Sometimes people add the wrong music... don't even want to accociate music with them... and youtube is so finicky about music and copyrights... It's better for me to not have the music. I can monetize them this way.
I enjoy the projector sound!
@@VintageSanDiego This person is dead wrong. The projector sound is SO MUCH BETTER THAN MUSIC. Nice video.
@@davidb3271 Thank you!
@@davidb3271 Thank you!