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Transportation in San Diego

March 19, 2013 by admin in Articles

Early San Diego Transportation in and around Hillcrest

Transportation in San Diego
Early San Diego Transportation in and around Hillcrest
University Height’s Normal School
One of Uptown’s great architectural monuments once sat between Normal and Washington streets at Park Boulevard (B on 1955 aerial photo below). San Diego State Normal School, the birthplace of SDSU, was a fine expression of Beaux Arts classicism. While the old school has been demolished to make room for a parking lot, the teacher ...
Hillcrest’s Design Center
Tree-lined Fifth Avenue at Brookes Street is home to an architectural masterpiece designed by architect Lloyd Ruocco. Born in Maine in 1907, Ruocco moved to San Diego in the early 1920s. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Ruocco is widely credited with pioneering the post-war modern architectural movement in San Diego. Characteristic of ...