Lost History

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Article by Allison Morgan: Update: Since this article was written the Villa Surf has been completely demolished.  Nothing remains in its memory. If you visit Sunset Cliffs Natural Park in Point Loma, […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. About De Anza Cove De Anza Cove has sadly been demolished. The residents put up a grand fight, but the very slow death has come to an end. I read that it […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.   About the Buena Vista Cemetery   This sadly isn’t the first time we’ve written about a cemetery being bulldozed over by the city.  Pioneer Park in Mission Hills, for instance, still […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Lost History of Wonderland Park: Although Belmont Park has been open for almost a century at this point, it isn’t San Diego’s first amusement park. Nope, San Diego’s first amusement park was […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Backstory of Lucy the White Deer The story of Lucy the White Deer and her eventual fate was thankfully before my time.  If I had known about her when I was alive […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. About Spalding Park Since our original posting of the Rum Runners Cave there have been a number of comments seeking to prove it was a Prohibition-era booze smuggling center and others refuting that claim.  […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. About the Thrasher House It breaks my heart having to automatically add this spot to my Lost History section, but unfortunately by the time I visited this spot, the Thrasher House was […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Lost History It sounds like something straight out of a movie and in a sense it is: a man who could make it rain by mixing and burning various chemicals into the […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Article by David Johnson The mid-air collision of a small private plane and a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) jetliner in the skies above North Park September morning in 1978 shattered San Diego […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Article by David Johnson: As this is being written in January of 2021, San Diego Stadium is being torn down in Mission Valley. In its infancy, it was a tangible symbol of […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This article is part of our Lost History section where we cover significant sites in San Diego in which all physical evidence has been erased.  There are a handful of rumored cults […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. About the Alpine Mud Huts: Status: Destroyed I was fortunate enough to visit the mud huts back in 2015 before they were destroyed.  At the time, the owner Joseph “Isseppi” Diliberti, was battling […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. In 1890, the city built a trolley railway going through University Heights. Once the railway was up and running, John D. Spreckles anticipated ways to encourage people to use it.  One of […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Article by David Johnson: It had all of the elements of an unspeakably wrenching tragedy. An adorable three year old girl fell into a dry, abandoned well in a Los Angeles suburb […]

This page may contain affiliate links, If you make a purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Until the late 80’s, Scripps Ranch was considered nothing more than an out-of-the-way town. Before the suburban boom, Scripps Ranch was originally a 400 acre ranch owned by E.W. Scripps whom later […]