The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Winter/Spring 2009, Volume 55, Numbers 1 & 2
Iris H. W. Engstrand & Molly McClain, Editors
Colin Fisher, Theodore Strathman & David Miller, Review Editors
- Front and Back Matter
- Before Qualcomm: Linkabit and the Origins of San Diego’s Telecom Industry
- Joel West
- The Beatles Live! At Balboa Stadium 1965
- Chuck Gunderson
- Everything Old is New Again: A History of San Diego Junior Theatre, 1948-2008
- Darlene Gould Davies and Lizbeth Persons Price
- Rita Sanchez: An Oral Interview
- Rudy P. Guevarra
- Roundtable Discussion
- Fossil Exhibition
- Book Reviews
- Complete Journal Issue 4.4Mb
Publication of The Journal of San Diego History has been partially funded by generous grants from the Joseph W. Sefton Foundation; Quest for Truth Foundation of Seattle, Washington, established by the late James G. Scripps; and an anonymous friend and supporter of the Journal.
Publication of this issue of The Journal of San Diego History has also been supported by a grant from The Journal of San Diego History Fund of the San Diego Foundation.
Front Cover: Irwin M. Jacobs, wearing a HBO shirt, displays the circuit board for the VideoCipher, an encryption system for satellite TV broadcasts. Courtesy of Irwin M. Jacobs.
Back Cover: In this picture taken by a Life magazine photographer, JPL scientists review data from Explorer-I after the January 1958 launch of the first American Satellite. Andrew Viterbi, center is looking at a printout of telemetry data. Courtesy of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Cover design: Allen Wynar
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Articles appearing in The Journal of San Diego History are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life.
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