San Diego Yesterday

SanDiego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn’t always so.The city’s transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to avital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civichighs and criminal lows have defined San Diego’s rise through the nineteenthand twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W.Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters likebenefactor Frank “Booze” Beyer, baseball hero Albert Spalding and novelistScott O’Dell. Join Crawford for a collection that recounts how San Diegoyesterday laid the foundation for the city’s bright future.