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In San Diego, it’s illegal to shoot jackrabbits from the back of a streetcar.
There are fines issued for leaving your Christmas lights up past February 2nd.
The Hotel Del Coronado is not only the oldest wooden structure in the USA, it was the first to feature an electric lit outdoor Christmas Tree in 1904.
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- 1542 - September 28 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
historyorb.com - 1769 - July 16 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
historyorb.com - 1854 - San Diego
San Diego, a post-town, port of entry, and capital of San Diego county, California, on a buy, and on the main road from Sacramento City, about 470 mil...Read MORE... 
Fifth Street, San Diego, California
Postcard- 1895 - San Diego
San Diego, a city and port of entry, the capital of San Diego co, Cal, and the second city in population and wealth in southern California, is situate...Read MORE... - 1897 - March 13 - San Diego State University is founded.
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San Diego, a city, health-resort, and port of entry, the capital of San Diego co., Cal., is situated on a beautiful bay of the Pacific Ocean, 127 mile...Read MORE... 
1911 - January 10 - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
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January 10, 1911- 1915 - ARMY AVIATOR FALLS 1,800 FEET AND DROWNS. LIEUT. TALIAFERRO, WHO HELD RECORD FOR LONG FLIGHT, LOSES LIFE AT SAN DIEGO.
San Diego, Cal., Oct. 11. - Lieutenant WALTER R. TALIAFERRO, stationed at the United States army aviation corps school at North Island, fell 1,800 fee...Read MORE... - 1916 - October 2 - San Diego Zoo founded
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Inner Court, Ramona's Marriage Place, San Diego, Cal.
"In 1906, businessman and sugar magnate John D. Spreckels acquired the c. 1825 hacienda of Spanish aristocrat and important early San Diego citizen Don José Antonio de Estudillo and funded a... Read MORE...
Postcard- 1927 - BLAST RAZES PLANT, 5 HURT. ACETYLENE WORKS WRECKED; FIREMEN, BOUND FOR SCENE, HURT IN CRASH.
San Diego, Aug. 8. - (AP) - Five persons are in hospitals as the result of an explosion of acetylene gas that wrecked the plant of the Pacific Acetyle...Read MORE... - 1928 - FIVE ARE DEAD AS HOME MADE PLANE CRASHES.
San Diego, Cal., March 5 - Five men were killed Sunday afternoon when the home made experimental monoplane in which they were traveling nose dived 300...Read MORE... - 1928 - March 27 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
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Bennington Monument, San Diego, Cal.
Postcard- 1937 - March 21 - The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Aerobile, makes its initial flight.
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March 21, 1937 
Boggs Bros
"The 'Diner' is part of an actual train that operated between San Diego and Old Mexico years ago," and that it is "Famous for Steaks - Chicken - Seafoods." Located at the "Corner" of "Pacific Highway and Laurel Street, San Diego," the... Read MORE...
Postcard- 1949 - March 16 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
historyorb.com - January 10, 1949 - Snow was reported at San Diego, CA, for the first and only time since 1882.
Snow was noted even on some of the beaches in parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Burbank reported 4.7 inches, and Long Beach and Laguna Beach...Read MORE...
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Fifth Street, San Diego, California
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"In 1906, businessman and sugar magnate John D. Spreckels acquired the c. 1825 hacienda of Spanish aristocrat and important early San Diego citizen Don José Antonio de Estudillo and funded a restoration of the building that was supervised by architect Hazel W. Waterman. Operating under the name "Ramona's Marriage Place," it opened as a tourist attraction along Spreckel's streetcar line in 1910, and was influential in increasing the popularity of both Mission Revival architecture and the legend of "Ramona," a character from Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel of the same name. The only problem with that scenario is that in Jackson's novel, Ramona was married not in the Estudillo House, but at another building in Old Town, the Adobe Chapel.
Now a museum, the Adobe Chapel, located at 3950 Conde Street, is still the perfect setting to make any wedding a historic occasion..."
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Inner Court, Ramona's Marriage Place, San Diego, Cal.
"In 1906, businessman and sugar magnate John D. Spreckels acquired the c. 1825 hacienda of Spanish aristocrat and important early San Diego citizen Don José Antonio de Estudillo and funded a... Read MORE...
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Bennington Monument, San Diego, Cal.
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"The 'Diner' is part of an actual train that operated between San Diego and Old Mexico years ago," and that it is "Famous for Steaks - Chicken - Seafoods." Located at the "Corner" of "Pacific Highway and Laurel Street, San Diego," the diner was across from Lindbergh Field (the San Diego Airport), and was also known as the Boggs Brothers Airway Diner, that was said to be "two railroad cars end-to-end with a streamlined locomotive nose," with one of the cars "set up as a 'coffee shop,' with a counter and stools," and the other with "table and booth service." After 1942 the drive-in restaurant portion were added. The Boggs Brothers (Herb and Ray) owned several restaurants in San Diego."
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Boggs Bros
"The 'Diner' is part of an actual train that operated between San Diego and Old Mexico years ago," and that it is "Famous for Steaks - Chicken - Seafoods." Located at the "Corner" of "Pacific Highway and Laurel Street, San Diego," the... Read MORE...
History, News and Stories of San Diego, California, USA
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1542 - September 28 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
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1769 - July 16 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
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1854 - San Diego
San Diego, a post-town, port of entry, and capital of San Diego county, California, on a buy, and on the main road from Sacramento City, about 470... Read MORE...
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1895 - San Diego
San Diego, a city and port of entry, the capital of San Diego co, Cal, and the second city in population and wealth in southern California, is... Read MORE...
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1897 - March 13 - San Diego State University is founded.
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San Diego, a city, health-resort, and port of entry, the capital of San Diego co., Cal., is situated on a beautiful bay of the Pacific Ocean, 127... Read MORE...
1911 - January 10 - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
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January 10, 1911
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1915 - ARMY AVIATOR FALLS 1,800 FEET AND DROWNS. LIEUT. TALIAFERRO, WHO HELD RECORD FOR LONG FLIGHT, LOSES LIFE AT SAN DIEGO.
San Diego, Cal., Oct. 11. - Lieutenant WALTER R. TALIAFERRO, stationed at the United States army aviation corps school at North Island, fell 1,800... Read MORE...
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1916 - October 2 - San Diego Zoo founded
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1927 - BLAST RAZES PLANT, 5 HURT. ACETYLENE WORKS WRECKED; FIREMEN, BOUND FOR SCENE, HURT IN CRASH.
San Diego, Aug. 8. - (AP) - Five persons are in hospitals as the result of an explosion of acetylene gas that wrecked the plant of the Pacific... Read MORE...
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1928 - March 27 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
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1928 - FIVE ARE DEAD AS HOME MADE PLANE CRASHES.
San Diego, Cal., March 5 - Five men were killed Sunday afternoon when the home made experimental monoplane in which they were traveling nose dived... Read MORE...
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1937 - March 21 - The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Aerobile, makes its initial flight.
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March 21, 1937
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January 10, 1949 - Snow was reported at San Diego, CA, for the first and only time since 1882.
Snow was noted even on some of the beaches in parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Burbank reported 4.7 inches, and Long Beach and Laguna... Read MORE...
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1949 - March 16 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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