We’ve created the History Hub to keep you up to date on the San Diego History Center and our locations in historic Balboa Park and the Junipero Serra Museum in Presidio Park.
This is the place to find the latest information on our exhibitions, public and educational programming and interactive events.
This is the place where you can find our news releases, TV appearances, newspaper and magazine stories. When we make the News, you’ll find it here!
Feb 24, 2011
The man who revolutionized 20th century retailing with discount warehouse clubs will be honored as one of San Diego’s history makers.
The late Sol Price, the man behind FedMart Stores and later Price Club, was as important to the world of retail sales as Henry Ford was to the auto industry, according to David Kahn, Executive Director of the San Diego History Center.
Feb 18, 2011
Members of San Diego’s African-American community were notably captured in thousands of photographs taken by photographer and Logan Heights resident, Norman Baynard.
Baynard was a portrait and event photographer who documented African-American life here from the 1940s to the 1970s. His photographs, referred to as the Baynard Collection, include more than 12,000 negatives and over 1,000 prints.
Feb 11, 2011
Last summer, while many soon-to-be high school seniors were relishing their last few months of freedom, Emily Hogue was painstakingly compiling oral histories of senior citizens at the Gary & Mary West Senior Wellness Center, part of the Senior Community Centers of San Diego….
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Feb 08, 2011
BY PETER ROWE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011 AT 9 P.M.
1649 El Prado, Suite 3, Balboa Park, San Diego; (619) 232-6203
Open Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $6 adults; $4 seniors (65 and older), students and military with identification; $2 children (six through 17).
Free for children under six; and for everyone on the second Tuesday of the month; Feb. 8.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with legalese where appropriate.
