Photographic Essay of Hillcrest

The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Fall 2000, Volume 46, Number 4
Gregg Hennessey, Editor

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A Hillcrest Evening, 2001.
Journal cover photo by Chris Travers.
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[photo# 2000/100.17]

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A 1904 photograph shows early development three years before William Whitson bought forty acres between First and Sixth Avenues and created Hillcrest.
[photo# 668]

The Florence School assembles its staff and student body for a 1909 portrait.
[photo# 48]

A busy Park and Robinson intersection in the 1920s.
[photo# Sensor 8-125]

St Joseph’s Hospital at 6th and University.
[photo# 10906]

The Hillcrest fire station and San Diego’s first African American fire fighters.
[photo# 84-14866]

In the 1920s the intersection of 5th and University anchored two banks.
[photo# Sensor 8-205]

A San Diego Electric Railway stop at Cleveland and University in 1926.
[photo# 14017]

The Fifth Avenue Auto Wash in 1928 with the State Normal School dome in the background.
[photo# 6726]

Fifth Avenue loking north across Robinson in 1929.
[photo# 6853]

Aerial view of Hillcrest with Balboa Park in the upper right on April 25, 1928.
[photo# 20253-A-31]

The grey stone Castle on 5th and Juniper in 1918.
[photo# 4586-1]

This is a ca. 1895 mansion and part of its extensive grounds.
[photo# 22314]

6th and Olive in the 1920s.
[photo# 8159]

Egyptian Court Apartments on Park Blvd in the 1920s.
[photo# Sensor 62-29]

Marston Hills, near Balboa Park, in 1924.
[photo# 2089-3]

The intersection of Park and University was busy in 1932.
[photo# 18018]

The Fox Egytian Theatre (now the closed Park Theater) on Park near University in August of 1938.
[photo# 18018-15]

Ralph Elm’s new service station opened in 1938 at Park and University.
[photo# 18018-14]

1939/40 at Fifth and University.
[photo# Sensor 11-161]

10th and University in 1940.
[photo# Sensor 8-297]

This aerial view of Hillcrest was taken in 1945.
[photo# OP 6464]

Washington and 8th Street in February 1957Hillcrest.
[photo# 80-7075]

Stan’s Burger Bar and Burnett’s Furniture were anchoring the corners at 8th and University in 1962.
[photo# OP 16446-3]

The center of Hillcrest in 1990.
[photo# 95-19390]

The center of Hillcrest in 2000.
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The Uptown District today, site of the old Sears store.
Copyright Anne Garrison/David Hewitt.

Uptown has the quintessential coffee emporium of late 20th century renewal projects.
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The Ace Hardware Store and the Flame nightclub are Hillcrest institutions.
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