The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Winter 1989, Volume 35, Number 1
Thomas L. Scharf, Editor
Prostitutes “mugging,” c. 1900. Turn-of-the-century San Diego prostitutes generally worked at “The Stables” located on Third Street in the Stingaree district.
Walter Bellon’s map of the Stingaree.
San Diego looking South from Fifth and Market, c.1888
Figure 1 (left) – Prostitutes in 1900
Figure 2 (right) – Prostitutes in 1910
The “remains” of the Stingaree (junction of Third and J Streets) as photographed on June 19, 1924.
San Diego Union
November 11, 1912, clippings of Stingaree raid.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS are courtesy of the San Diego History Center’s Title Insurance and Trust Collection.