Charlotte Cagan named SD History Center’s director
Dec 04, 2012
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Collaborative exhibition puts Charles Reiffel back in the spotlight
Nov 28, 2012
You have to wonder: Why is Charles Reiffel’s important 1939 masterpiece, “The Street at Night — San Diego,” hanging in the bedroom of Bram and Sandy Dijkstra’s house rather than in a museum?
Or for that matter, what about Reiffel’s luminous “Bit of Silvermine — The Old Farmhouse” or his dark, unsettling “The Haunted Tower,” which the Dijkstras also own?
Electriquette’ Returns to Service in Balboa Park
Nov 16, 2012
(See video of electriquette in action)
Nearly a century before Nissan’s all-electric Leaf and the Chevy Volt promised a new age of gas-free driving, Balboa Park had the “electriquette.”
It was a battery-powered people mover made of wicker that tooled about the Panama-California Exposition grounds in 1915-16.
History Center Digitizes, Makes Public its Edward H. Davis Collection of Indian Photographs and Drawings
Nov 13, 2012
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November 13, 2012
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(619) 232-6203 x 149, [email protected]
History Center Digitizes, Makes Public its Edward H. Davis Collection of Indian Photographs and Drawings
Grant-funded project connects Indians of today to their past, provides record for future
Lure of New Landscapes Brought Reiffel to California
Nov 05, 2012
Ariel Plotek sits with his cup of coffee on the shaded west side of Giuseppe’s Sculpture Court Cafe. With his fitted linen shirt, mustache, and shades tucked neatly into his collar, you might think he’s fresh out of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, or some hip arrondissement of Paris. But like Charles Reiffel, the artist he has been researching for the past two years, Plotek came to San Diego to make his mark in a community that’s far from the more concentrated artist circles in New York and Europe.
