I love this. From 1998 to 2014 I was a DJ for 4 different clubs in the Gaslamp. Moose McGillycuddy's 1998-2008 Double Deuce 2008-2009 Jimmy Love's 2009-2013 Lucky Bastard Saloon 2013-2014. I always love the history of the Gaslamp!
Now go downtown and see things unfortunately has gotten worse and the businesses have left due to the homelessness and covid pandemic. It's sad but true.
I went to a little obscure museum in San Diego probably about 10 years ago. It was a Chinese museum. They don't mention it anywhere here or in any other place I know, but the Chinese immigrants were a big part of the growth and success of San Diego. It's like not giving blacks or Indians a note on the success of America. San Diego is my home and it's pretty interesting. ✌️😊
@@michaelbailey4164 yes, it's really too bad. We've got the trifecta of prop 47, unchecked illegal immigration and city officials unwilling to enforce and prosecute the weak laws that are left. I want to leave the state but my wife isn't quite ready to make the move and she's my boss.
I used to go with friends from Pacific Beach to downtown and play with electric track cars in the YMCA, and see the Star of India at the harbor. There were hookers and adult book stores all up and down 4th and 5th streets, but I was only about 16. They did the same thing they did to the beaches. we used to be able to drive along next to the boardwalk in PB between Thomas and Diamond St, lots of parking spaces, you could park and mingle with all the friendly people. But rich out of state folks built expensive multi-story condos and hotels, and the tourists in them didn't like people loitering around in front of their expensive digs, so they got the police to start closing it at night, then permanently, planting a bunch of grass there. About the only thing left unchanged is the Dennys restaurant on Mission and Garnet. Oops, just Street Viewed it on Google Maps, it's gone too. Now it's Head Lettuce? www.google.com/maps/@32.7967425,-117.255614,3a,46.1y,71.94h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sp-hOgikrSHlTJezpXprUrA!2e0!5s20230201T000000!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0
A San Diegan all my nearly 73 Years! of Spanish & Mescalero, (Apache), Descent and also one of my Greatgrands was The Last Pioneer To Die In America! … 1833-1936! Died in Walsenburg, Colorado known as, “ The Grand Old Man Of The Cuchara Valley” … fact check! Documented! There’s enough info! … My 10th Greatgrand-grandfather was born in El Valle, Jaen , Andalucia, Spain in 1579, (just to name one!), Died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1632 U.S.A. Spanish Settler! He was Juan de la Cruz … and so much more Rich History on both sides of who I am. My Great-grandfather Lalo Salazar, (they called him Lewis), was born in New Mexico in 1867 and passed in 1939 in San Diego, California! He was one of the Spanish Artisans Commissioned to do the finish work for The 1915 Panama-California Exposition built in San Diego’s Balboa Park! He did tile work on The Famous California Tower, carved from wood, the molds and cast the molds that Adorn and Ornate the Structures in Balboa Park! I can’t spout these facts without ridicule and being accused of having a Good Imagination! As afore mentioned in the comments, Blacks, Chinese & our Native Brothers too don’t get included in the settling and building of America! In 2015 was the 100 yr Anniversary of The Panama-California Exposition! No One tried to make contact and Over a Million in $’s was Absconded from the Celebration My Grandmother, Margaret de Jesus Manzanares, and I were Super Close! I spent countless hours with her daily for much of my Formative Years! (Mothers Mother!), and she was so informative of where we came from! She so love telling me and I love her memory so so fondly and those days! She saw her spirit in me! I know I was more to her than her Grandson because she was different with me very Subtley … she was a no nonsense Grandma! But I could raise the corner of her mouth for the beginning of a smile! that she would stifle and tell me to go outside and don’t go to far and I would Disappear! She loved my independence! I never brought troubles home no matter who was sitting with me, it is her spirit that permeates me and mine! but I digress! So my summation is: There are so many unsung Contributors to All that made America! I can honestly say I enjoy my Freedoms and feel blessed to be of America! We Breathe Bleed and Oops! Red White & Blue! Thank You Alonzo Horton!
at 8:17 that's my grandparent's restaurant and in the background of the restaurant is my dad. I was 4 in 81.
Awesome!
I love this. From 1998 to 2014 I was a DJ for 4 different clubs in the Gaslamp. Moose McGillycuddy's 1998-2008 Double Deuce 2008-2009 Jimmy Love's 2009-2013 Lucky Bastard Saloon 2013-2014. I always love the history of the Gaslamp!
I frequented those when I was based in Coronado 1999-2006. Good times.
I remember DOUBLE DEUCE
Double Deuce was the first club I snuck-into underage, and it kinda sucked lol
Buuuuuut, it did look like a good time; it just wasn’t really my scene.
Wow, I didn't realize how far back Stingaree was open 6:33
Hello Moose’s!
Did the sound in there Good times indeed.
I remember when Horton plaza was fun to go too.
Crazy how i still remember seeing that trolley in that restaurant when i was like 4 years old
Ye Ole Spaghetti Factory. It's back without the trolley and old furnishings.
Interesting. As a transplant, I don't know much about the history but this give me more of an idea of the transformation of San Diego.
I came down in ‘87 and opened Croce’s restaurant as a server and it was pretty rough but very entertaining.
I helped build that place!
As a teen in the early 90's I used to sit outside and listen to the music, well, just a couple of times.
I was working at Wahrenbrock's Book House then and really enjoyed walking through The Gaslamp Quarter during my lunch breaks.
For all the seediness that was going on there. I felt so safe as a kid moving around downtown. It was way cleaner too.
By the 1990's to 2000 the Gaslamp district was active. and some restaurants were so small you were bumping other patrons there.
Amazing!
I was born there at mercy hospital during war.
So was I, 1989 lol
5:45 was Devine in town filming a movie? That's some straight John Waters stuff there.
Wasn't she pretty? 😨
Great video. I don't k now why this bothers me so much, but at 8:25, the guy gets his food from the waitress and salts it before even tasting it lol.
Now go downtown and see things unfortunately has gotten worse and the businesses have left due to the homelessness and covid pandemic. It's sad but true.
It's busy what u talking about. I go every weekend
I used to be station in san Diego😃
petco park made that area a world class destination
1:38 - Looks like Wyatt Earp, 2nd from right front row. Edit - oh and then he is mentioned later haha.
West Broadway... lots of bars, strip clubs, Henry's Cafe for breakfast. And who remembers the Funland Arcade?
4:41 George Benson
05.45 that's my uncle jack Jones.
0:30 Where the water tho?
The sax player has my hairdo from 1981
I went to a little obscure museum in San Diego probably about 10 years ago. It was a Chinese museum. They don't mention it anywhere here or in any other place I know, but the Chinese immigrants were a big part of the growth and success of San Diego.
It's like not giving blacks or Indians a note on the success of America.
San Diego is my home and it's pretty interesting. ✌️😊
i was building high rises back then!
PPL with no cars made those buildings. ok.
The place is ruined now a days,,,,SAD.
So wrong. You must be lost in some other city.
@@michaelbailey4164 It's so bad now. Speaking as a 25 year resident of the County. You really have to be careful where you go downtown.
@@DSC800 Your right. I went dwn there for the first time in many years to take some pictures and was amazed how ruined it truly is.
@@michaelbailey4164 yes, it's really too bad. We've got the trifecta of prop 47, unchecked illegal immigration and city officials unwilling to enforce and prosecute the weak laws that are left. I want to leave the state but my wife isn't quite ready to make the move and she's my boss.
I used to go with friends from Pacific Beach to downtown and play with electric track cars in the YMCA, and see the Star of India at the harbor. There were hookers and adult book stores all up and down 4th and 5th streets, but I was only about 16. They did the same thing they did to the beaches. we used to be able to drive along next to the boardwalk in PB between Thomas and Diamond St, lots of parking spaces, you could park and mingle with all the friendly people. But rich out of state folks built expensive multi-story condos and hotels, and the tourists in them didn't like people loitering around in front of their expensive digs, so they got the police to start closing it at night, then permanently, planting a bunch of grass there. About the only thing left unchanged is the Dennys restaurant on Mission and Garnet. Oops, just Street Viewed it on Google Maps, it's gone too. Now it's Head Lettuce? www.google.com/maps/@32.7967425,-117.255614,3a,46.1y,71.94h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sp-hOgikrSHlTJezpXprUrA!2e0!5s20230201T000000!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0
A San Diegan all my nearly 73 Years! of Spanish & Mescalero, (Apache), Descent and also one of my Greatgrands was The Last Pioneer To Die In America! … 1833-1936! Died in Walsenburg, Colorado known as, “ The Grand Old Man Of The Cuchara Valley” … fact check! Documented! There’s enough info! …
My 10th Greatgrand-grandfather was born in El Valle, Jaen , Andalucia, Spain in 1579, (just to name one!),
Died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1632 U.S.A. Spanish Settler! He was Juan de la Cruz … and so much more Rich History on both sides of who I am.
My Great-grandfather Lalo Salazar, (they called him Lewis), was born in New Mexico in 1867 and passed in 1939 in San Diego, California!
He was one of the Spanish Artisans Commissioned to do the finish work for The 1915 Panama-California Exposition built in San Diego’s Balboa Park! He did tile work on The Famous California Tower, carved from wood, the molds and cast the molds that Adorn and Ornate the Structures in Balboa Park!
I can’t spout these facts without ridicule and being accused of having a Good Imagination! As afore mentioned in the comments, Blacks, Chinese & our Native Brothers too don’t get included in the settling and building of America!
In 2015 was the 100 yr Anniversary of The Panama-California Exposition!
No One tried to make contact and Over a Million in $’s was Absconded from the Celebration
My Grandmother, Margaret de Jesus Manzanares, and I were Super Close! I spent countless hours with her daily for much of my Formative Years! (Mothers Mother!), and she was so informative of where we came from! She so love telling me and I love her memory so so fondly and those days!
She saw her spirit in me! I know I was more to her than her Grandson because she was different with me very Subtley … she was a no nonsense Grandma! But I could raise the corner of her mouth for the beginning of a smile! that she would stifle and tell me to go outside and don’t go to far and I would Disappear! She loved my independence! I never brought troubles home no matter who was sitting with me, it is her spirit that permeates me and mine! but I digress!
So my summation is:
There are so many unsung Contributors to All that made America! I can honestly say I enjoy my Freedoms and feel blessed to be of America! We Breathe Bleed and Oops! Red White & Blue!
Thank You Alonzo Horton!
"Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means 'a whale’s ........'"
It's free real estate.