The Lindbergh Field passenger terminal when it was on the east side of the runway, the size of a small auditorium. The Chuck Wagon buffet restaurant, at Midway and Rosecrans. The El Cortez Hotel on Ash St when it was the posh hotel in town. When US 395 was still part of San Diego, and you could drive on it thru Balboa Park, under "Suicide Bridge." When US 80 was routed right down the middle of Balboa Park. When Regis Philbin was a weatherman on old Channel 10.
My dad was stationed at Camp Pendleton MCB in the 1960s. We lived in Oceanside. I remember our family drives to San Diego, El Toro, Santa Ana and LA. Back then the drive was a piece of cake, not like today! It took about an hour and fifteen minutes to drive up to LAX from Oceanside back then. This is the San Diego of my youth that I recall fondly. Thanks for posting those wonderful images!
@@slightlycrafty Yes, I currently reside in the north county. I spent one year in Vegas and four years in Ohio but couldn't stay away from where I consider home!
@@slightlycrafty Thank you for the suggestion. However, I do not have a FB account and honestly I am not interested in having one. Not a big social media guy outside of RUclips. I really enjoy watching old home videos like yours. I was a History major in college and have a degree in History.
Wonderful to see such familiar places. Born at Mercy Hospital in 1949 and except for a couple of years away, lived in San Diego County nearly all of my life. Thank you for putting this together.
Thank you Elizabeth, and God bless you, I'm 60 but remember growing up in Golden hills, coming down to the embarcadero to fish, I could clearly see the bay from 28th street, sadly no more, all you see now is ugly high rises, and no view of our beautiful embarcadero, thanks Liz for the Awesome memories.
Brian I am glad you enjoyed it....I grew up in National city what fun times and wonderful memories.... To go downturn we would go down 8th Street to Harbor Drive for years while growing up there was no 5!! I am a tad bit older than you lol the first generation baby boomer 1946!!! Many of my videos are family events and outings today but I also have others from the 60's a couple from Hollywood area and a few more from San Diego check them out when you have time.... Some have music from my brother's group he is on the drums!!!
@@slightlycrafty wow was a good period to leave here i hope i can travel time and back to 50s-60s , so ur 76 yo i guess u have a big experience of the life ! did u live din the north or the south of usa ?
@@slightlycrafty oh 74yo sry! wow must be cool ! did u visit disneyland in this period ? must be awesome! , im happy for u u didnt grew up in the south anyway xD
@@synskyzoChannn we did go to Disneyland when we were young...haven't been there since 1986 ...it is so different today to commercialized. Where do you live?????
I was born in 1952 graduated in 1970 from Helix High school and I jumped for joy when I saw your video I was explaining to the kids in the house how colorful and exciting post WW2 for San Diego was, with no crime no graffiti everybody kept their doors open cars unlocked everybody knew everybody John Wayne once said that San Diego is the greatest Little Big Town he’s ever been in. Thank you so much Elizabeth you made this 68 year old man very very happy God bless
Hey there thank you for your nice words...I graduated from Catholic high in shhhh don't tell anyone lol '64!! I have a few more if you click on my name on this video you will see the list of videos... Most are personal wouldn't interest you but several with a few more San Diego even los Angeles memories..... Take care!!!
I am sad how San Diego has lost its sense of a paradise. I was born and raised there. When I left in 2004 I was heartbroken of all the mess going on there.😕🇺🇸
Its why hundreds of thousands of us ex Californians have fled the soon to be ghetto of California filled with poverty, drugs, crime and a government intent on doing absolutely nothing to help create jobs or prosperity ever again.
Its pretty cheesy now. And all the "high density" housing they keep building is only making it worse. I'm still here only because I don't want to keep moving like some vagabond always searching for the perfect place to call home.
We moved to Coronado in 1956 and we didn't want the bridge. We liked the ferry. The business leaders thought a bridge would bring customers to Coronado, so they got the politicians in Sacramento to vote on a bond issue to build the bridge. It turned out that more residents of Coronado could now shop in San Diego instead of the other way around and the Coronado Department store closed down.
1:16. Suicide Bridge. Highest place you could jump from. As little kids, we would be scared to go under it on the way from east San Diego to Grandma's house at 1st and Fir. Best memories!!!
I grew up in San Diego. We lived in Pacific Beach, but I remember so many of the places you show in the photos. My grandmother worked at Marstons, a big department store downtown for many years, when people actually "dressed up to go Downtown! I wonder if that building still exists. Anyone old enough to remember the ferry boats that took people back and forth between Downtown and Coronado before the bridge was built? What a different world it was! Thank you for posting these great photographs of the San Diego I remember from long ago. ❤
@@shaunesteele7813 I took the nickel snatcher to work at North Island in 1965-68 when I worked there some days the ferry and others drive around the strand when I lived in National City!! Good times
@@slightlycrafty, Although I mostly grew up in PB, we lived in Chula Vista during my kindergarten through third grade years. National City and Chula Vista were such small cities way back then!
I was born in the late 60s, but always felt that the early 1960s was peak America on most levels. Before the Vietnam war and before the counterculture got a foothold on the country. They threw it all away. At least I got to experience the 70s and 80s, that was pretty much the last hurrah for the middle class. The average person on the street was much happier back then.
"counter culture" took hold in the late 60s, yet didn't become mainstream culture until the late 80s. Two decades long incubation period, so two speak.
@@jitlv I went to Denver, Colorado for 5 days in 2019 and was amazed at how much less crowded it is there compared to San Diego. And I had a car in Denver so I was all around the city, including Downtown and is indeed much less crowded than San Diego. I thinks that's why people say that California is no longer a desirable area becuase it just SO crowded.
@@patr70 I surely agree with you. It's stressful to drive out there in Southern California, especially in the cities. I live in Salt Lake City, so I don't experience the insane traffic and the crowd.
Great montage of downtown San Diego. So many memories. I wasn't in the military, but remember all the sailors walking around in their white uniforms on Friday nights. Navy guys called payday "when the eagle shits"! Lots of tattoo shops and titty bars. The Balboa Theatre has been restored and the Spreckles building are still there. Thanks for posting this, Elizabeth ❤️🇺🇸💋
Thanks so much for the memories. I was born in Mercy Hospital San Diego. You did a great job creating an accurate time machine of my childhood and early adult college years there. Had to move to the Sierra to get a job with my Biology degree and at 30, settled in Santa Barbara forever after.
Was born at sharp hospital in 60. Lived in Navy housing until 64. Lived off of meadowbrook and skyline. We were transferred in 69. Some memories I still think of going to the Speedie mart store to buy Baseball, Football, and the Monkee cards. Would also travel around San Diego for mom’s Dog shows throughout the 60s.
Thank you for the nostalgic pics of San Diego. I was one of those cute sailor boys in 1963. I was only 17 then straight out of boot camp, and this was my first time in California. Seeing Broadway and all my old haunts like the locker clubs and the Plaza brought back so many memories. After seeing San Diego I knew then I could never go back to Long Island New York again. San Diego still has a special place in my heart, and yes, I did stay in California since way back then.
Hi there oh goodness I love it.... You have any photos of downtown back in the day ... My dad was a retired navy Chief signalman went to work as base police after retiring he loved to bring home for dinner " you cute sailor boy" I love that time!! I am glad you enjoyed it
Great video, I lived there for a short time in the late 1970s. Came back home to Texas in 1980. Sadly I have grandkids and Great grandkids living there.
Lived there in the '80s. Lots of great memories of a once beautiful city. Really sad what's happened there over the decades. Even the venerable Hotel Churchill is now a "homeless shelter" Thanks for posting this trip back into the halcyon days of San Diego.
Ahhhh my childhood home from from 1963 - 1978. Started in Imperial Beach, then downtown, moved to southern SD in Encanto then over to Del Cerro. Never realized how fortunate I was to grow up there until I left. It will always hold my heart.
My dad was Navy and I was born in San Diego in the late 60s and grew up there until the mid late 80s. It was truly Americas Finest City and I had the best possible child hood despite having parents with lower middle class income. From Padres and Sockers games to Balboa Park and going over to Grandmas house in the awesome down town area where I could just smell the ocean and enjoy the perfect weather. As with most places from back then, especially in California, its all just gone to crap thanks to too much immigration and violent crime. People now just arent the same and San Diego will never be what it once was. Still miss it though.
Superb photo montage. Moved here in 1981 for an aerospace job at Rohr Industries. Living in Chula Vista past 34 years. Also lived in Pacific Beach and North Park.
The payslip is fascinating. Im assuming it is a monthly, showing 147 hours worked for a net pay of $1173..around $7.98 an hour paid on Oct 10, 1964..I wonder whose?
That's my paystub when I worked at North Island as a keypunch operator....i think I was making less than $2. O0 an hour 1965i started worked till 1968.
I spent my youth in San Diego County. All I can remember is the poverty and brutality of a single parent home. The lock-step conformity of the late 50s/early 60s simply not my kind of livin. I moved to Las Vegas in 66. There is where I fell in love with Country Music. I would be out on TV service calls with the radio blasting with Johnny Cash, Merl Haggard, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette , and all of the greats. I have spent most of my adult life here in Nevada. I do admit Southern California is nice. Northern Nevada is free.
@@johnwilbanks3885 love these stories man but when people talk like those were good times "guess I'm jaded" people need to be reminded it wasn't for all "zoot suit riots" I love being American I love it but I imagine being there in those times sure not all would see me as one
@@djx64 Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, and China have contributed much more to technological advancements than Yt and blk ones. But keep crying wignat .
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Watching this after driving the length of El Cajon Blvd yesterday brought tears to my eyes.
Those were some fun times and memories growing up!
This material is priceless! It’s like going back in a time machine! Thank you Elizabeth Wood!❤
Thank you!!
The Lindbergh Field passenger terminal when it was on the east side of the runway, the size of a small auditorium.
The Chuck Wagon buffet restaurant, at Midway and Rosecrans.
The El Cortez Hotel on Ash St when it was the posh hotel in town.
When US 395 was still part of San Diego, and you could drive on it thru Balboa Park, under "Suicide Bridge."
When US 80 was routed right down the middle of Balboa Park.
When Regis Philbin was a weatherman on old Channel 10.
My dad was stationed at Camp Pendleton MCB in the 1960s. We lived in Oceanside. I remember our family drives to San Diego, El Toro, Santa Ana and LA. Back then the drive was a piece of cake, not like today! It took about an hour and fifteen minutes to drive up to LAX from Oceanside back then. This is the San Diego of my youth that I recall fondly. Thanks for posting those wonderful images!
Are you still in the San Diego area
@@slightlycrafty Yes, I currently reside in the north county. I spent one year in Vegas and four years in Ohio but couldn't stay away from where I consider home!
@@jchapman8248 if you are on Facebook you might enjoy a group "Growing up in San Diego" I am one of four admins!! Memories of growing up!!
@@slightlycrafty Thank you for the suggestion. However, I do not have a FB account and honestly I am not interested in having one. Not a big social media guy outside of RUclips. I really enjoy watching old home videos like yours. I was a History major in college and have a degree in History.
Now we are into collapse
That list of drive-ins sure brought memories. Wow
Wonderful to see such familiar places. Born at Mercy Hospital in 1949 and except for a couple of years away, lived in San Diego County nearly all of my life. Thank you for putting this together.
Thank you Elizabeth, and God bless you, I'm 60 but remember growing up in Golden hills, coming down to the embarcadero to fish, I could clearly see the bay from 28th street, sadly no more, all you see now is ugly high rises, and no view of our beautiful embarcadero, thanks Liz for the Awesome memories.
Brian I am glad you enjoyed it....I grew up in National city what fun times and wonderful memories.... To go downturn we would go down 8th Street to Harbor Drive for years while growing up there was no 5!! I am a tad bit older than you lol the first generation baby boomer 1946!!! Many of my videos are family events and outings today but I also have others from the 60's a couple from Hollywood area and a few more from San Diego check them out when you have time.... Some have music from my brother's group he is on the drums!!!
@@slightlycrafty wow was a good period to leave here i hope i can travel time and back to 50s-60s , so ur 76 yo i guess u have a big experience of the life ! did u live din the north or the south of usa ?
@@synskyzoChannn still only 74 years old...I grew up in southern California San Diego area!!! Wouldn't trade it for anything!! Wonderful memories!!!!
@@slightlycrafty oh 74yo sry! wow must be cool ! did u visit disneyland in this period ? must be awesome! , im happy for u u didnt grew up in the south anyway xD
@@synskyzoChannn we did go to Disneyland when we were young...haven't been there since 1986 ...it is so different today to commercialized. Where do you live?????
I grow up in san diego in 70 I miss good old days
I was born in 1952 graduated in 1970 from Helix High school and I jumped for joy when I saw your video I was explaining to the kids in the house how colorful and exciting post WW2 for San Diego was, with no crime no graffiti everybody kept their doors open cars unlocked everybody knew everybody John Wayne once said that San Diego is the greatest Little Big Town he’s ever been in.
Thank you so much Elizabeth you made this 68 year old man very very happy God bless
Hey there thank you for your nice words...I graduated from Catholic high in shhhh don't tell anyone lol '64!! I have a few more if you click on my name on this video you will see the list of videos... Most are personal wouldn't interest you but several with a few more San Diego even los Angeles memories..... Take care!!!
Born there '58. Graduated '76. Left 2015. The party was over. Only visit now. Great memories!!
@@brianchisnell1548 u guys are so lucky
When it was Americas Finest City. I've been here 70 years, since I was 6 months old. I've seen the changes.💙
I am sad how San Diego has lost its sense of a paradise. I was born and raised there.
When I left in 2004 I was heartbroken of all the mess going on there.😕🇺🇸
Its why hundreds of thousands of us ex Californians have fled the soon to be ghetto of California filled with poverty, drugs, crime and a government intent on doing absolutely nothing to help create jobs or prosperity ever again.
@@billmeeker774 Yep! I agree.🇺🇸
Its pretty cheesy now. And all the "high density" housing they keep building is only making it worse. I'm still here only because I don't want to keep moving like some vagabond always searching for the perfect place to call home.
@Sputnick Spooner Problem is, you don't GET sunshine like San Diego unless you live in a hell hole like AZ.
It was a nice town until 10 or 15 years ago. By 2015 this city really turned ghetto.
Soy una persona q me atraen esos años d antes los encuentro tiempos hermosos y de una calidad inigualable
my earliest memory in SD (Pacific Beach), ice cream truck (1956-7) from when my dad was stationed at SD in the Navy...
Those were the days, my friend. Thank you.
I remember as a kid, riding the ferry to Coronado. Long before the "Coronado Bay Bridge".
Oh, and the old wooden Roller Coaster at Mission Bay too!!
Wonderful montage!!! I was 5 and I remember it like yesterday! It's so weird not to see the Coronado Bay Bridge in the background!!! Thank you!!!
We moved to Coronado in 1956 and we didn't want the bridge. We liked the ferry. The business leaders thought a bridge would bring customers to Coronado, so they got the politicians in Sacramento to vote on a bond issue to build the bridge. It turned out that more residents of Coronado could now shop in San Diego instead of the other way around and the Coronado Department store closed down.
1:16. Suicide Bridge. Highest place you could jump from. As little kids, we would be scared to go under it on the way from east San Diego to Grandma's house at 1st and Fir. Best memories!!!
Nice video. I grew up there. My kids were born there, and grew up in the same house so did. Thanks for thememories.
Where did you live??? I grew up in National City
I grew up in San Diego. We lived in Pacific Beach, but I remember so many of the places you show in the photos. My grandmother worked at Marstons, a big department store downtown for many years, when people actually "dressed up to go Downtown! I wonder if that building still exists.
Anyone old enough to remember the ferry boats that took people back and forth between Downtown and Coronado before the bridge was built? What a different world it was!
Thank you for posting these great photographs of the San Diego I remember from long ago. ❤
@@shaunesteele7813 I took the nickel snatcher to work at North Island in 1965-68 when I worked there some days the ferry and others drive around the strand when I lived in National City!! Good times
@@slightlycrafty, Although I mostly grew up in PB, we lived in Chula Vista during my kindergarten through third grade years. National City and Chula Vista were such small cities way back then!
Very nice! Thanks for the memories!
I was born in the late 60s, but always felt that the early 1960s was peak America on most levels. Before the Vietnam war and before the counterculture got a foothold on the country. They threw it all away. At least I got to experience the 70s and 80s, that was pretty much the last hurrah for the middle class. The average person on the street was much happier back then.
Astute assessment. There were very definitely two different 1960s!
"counter culture" took hold in the late 60s, yet didn't become mainstream culture until the late 80s. Two decades long incubation period, so two speak.
When San Diego was still a great place to live. Not so any more.
Do you even live in SD? San Diego is still beautiful, way better than Los Angeles.
@@jitlv It much too crowded now. I've been here since 1979.
@@patr70 while I agree with you, I still think SD is beautiful compared to other major cities in California.
@@jitlv I went to Denver, Colorado for 5 days in 2019 and was amazed at how much less crowded it is there compared to San Diego. And I had a car in Denver so I was all around the city, including Downtown and is indeed much less crowded than San Diego. I thinks that's why people say that California is no longer a desirable area becuase it just SO crowded.
@@patr70 I surely agree with you. It's stressful to drive out there in Southern California, especially in the cities. I live in Salt Lake City, so I don't experience the insane traffic and the crowd.
Thanks Elizabeth... Great Job!!
I am glad you enjoyed!!
Great montage of downtown San Diego. So many memories. I wasn't in the military, but remember all the sailors walking around in their white uniforms on Friday nights. Navy guys called payday "when the eagle shits"! Lots of tattoo shops and titty bars. The Balboa Theatre has been restored and the Spreckles building are still there. Thanks for posting this, Elizabeth ❤️🇺🇸💋
I liked it when downtown was filled with sailors like a Raymond Chandler novel!
Nicely done! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for the memories. I was born in Mercy Hospital San Diego. You did a great job creating an accurate time machine of my childhood and early adult college years there. Had to move to the Sierra to get a job with my Biology degree and at 30, settled in Santa Barbara forever after.
Thank you for your nice words... Starting with me five of us were born at Balboa!!
Early college students are still teenagers, not yet adults in the full sense.
Was born at sharp hospital in 60. Lived in Navy housing until 64. Lived off of meadowbrook and skyline. We were transferred in 69. Some memories I still think of going to the Speedie mart store to buy Baseball, Football, and the Monkee cards. Would also travel around San Diego for mom’s Dog shows throughout the 60s.
OH, the memories. THANK YOU.
Thank you for the nostalgic pics of San Diego. I was one of those cute sailor boys in 1963. I was only 17 then straight out of boot camp, and this was my first time in California. Seeing Broadway and all my old haunts like the locker clubs and the Plaza brought back so many memories. After seeing San Diego I knew then I could never go back to Long Island New York again. San Diego still has a special place in my heart, and yes, I did stay in California since way back then.
Hi there oh goodness I love it.... You have any photos of downtown back in the day ... My dad was a retired navy Chief signalman went to work as base police after retiring he loved to bring home for dinner " you cute sailor boy" I love that time!! I am glad you enjoyed it
Where are you living now... Small world we had relatives from Long Island!!!
@@slightlycrafty I used to have a picture of downtown taken from Balboa Park. The El Cortez hotel was always in plain view. Quite different now!
@@slightlycrafty After many moves from Santa Monica to Palos Verdes, I now live in Palm Springs. The California desert has always intrigued me.
Wonderful! Thank you.
Great video, I lived there for a short time in the late 1970s. Came back home to Texas in 1980. Sadly I have grandkids and Great grandkids living there.
Lived there in the '80s. Lots of great memories of a once beautiful city. Really sad what's happened there over the decades. Even the venerable Hotel Churchill is now a "homeless shelter" Thanks for posting this trip back into the
halcyon days of San Diego.
Ahhhh my childhood home from from 1963 - 1978. Started in Imperial Beach, then downtown, moved to southern SD in Encanto then over to Del Cerro. Never realized how fortunate I was to grow up there until I left. It will always hold my heart.
Thank you!
My dad was Navy and I was born in San Diego in the late 60s and grew up there until the mid late 80s. It was truly Americas Finest City and I had the best possible child hood despite having parents with lower middle class income. From Padres and Sockers games to Balboa Park and going over to Grandmas house in the awesome down town area where I could just smell the ocean and enjoy the perfect weather. As with most places from back then, especially in California, its all just gone to crap thanks to too much immigration and violent crime. People now just arent the same and San Diego will never be what it once was. Still miss it though.
You grew up in National City??? SUHI! ALTHOUGH I went to Catholic high school grew up on Palm Avenue
my teen years 64 and on
Yep, I remember!!😀
Superb photo montage. Moved here in 1981 for an aerospace job at Rohr Industries. Living in Chula Vista past 34 years. Also lived in Pacific Beach and North Park.
I grew up in National City
@@slightlycrafty , thanks for the vintage photos!
The payslip is fascinating. Im assuming it is a monthly, showing 147 hours worked for a net pay of $1173..around $7.98 an hour paid on Oct 10, 1964..I wonder whose?
That's my paystub when I worked at North Island as a keypunch operator....i think I was making less than $2. O0 an hour 1965i started worked till 1968.
Wow my mom worked on North Island then,she was a dispatch for the trash trucks.
@@slightlycrafty Punch cards used in computers, I suppose.
Ai que saudades dos anos sessenta wue eu nao vivi!!!!
It's a very small world after all
San Diego was much better back then. Less buildings and parking meters.
So clean
North chapel in the thumbnail!
I lived in San Diego 50 years. Had to get out in 2004. It makes me sad to see what San Diego has become. I miss the good old days.
*BRASIL- SAN DIEGO - CALIFORNIA*
I was told sandiego. Has lots of spirts. Errrrrie. Beautiful town
Good
03:13 City Heights had some nice buildings. That area screams for gentrification.
Born and raised,left because it got ruined,sad.
I spent my youth in San Diego County. All I can remember is the poverty and brutality of a single parent home. The lock-step conformity of the late 50s/early 60s simply not my kind of livin. I moved to Las Vegas in 66. There is where I fell in love with Country Music. I would be out on TV service calls with the radio blasting with Johnny Cash, Merl Haggard, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette , and all of the greats. I have spent most of my adult life here in Nevada. I do admit Southern California is nice. Northern Nevada is free.
Sooo great with the racism too
I hope I deleted that comment I muted him and I don't see it now
My Filipino Grand Father served in a segregated US Navy, retired,and bought a brand new house in Clairmont…. He truly loved being American.
@@johnwilbanks3885 love these stories man but when people talk like those were good times "guess I'm jaded" people need to be reminded it wasn't for all "zoot suit riots" I love being American I love it but I imagine being there in those times sure not all would see me as one
60's was hella racist time.. remember when white folks thought they was indigenous the the USA
We still do. We built this place.
If it wasn't for us you would have no technological advancements, fact. We invent, create and manufacture pretty much everything you use.
@@tristanwwsd believe whatever you want, WigNat.
@@djx64 Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, and China have contributed much more to technological advancements than Yt and blk ones. But keep crying wignat .
"when white folks thought they was indigenous the the USA" Most still do.
Redondo Beach here. However this does bring back haunting memories of the 60's in California during much simpler times.