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Loved this! What year?

Thank you so much for this video. ❤

Does anyone remember when the entrance to the 5 Freeway (101 it was called then) from Palm Ave. (now Imperial Beach Blvd.) went underneath the freeway bridge when going north?

In 1964, the hill on Palm Ave., at 1.02 was much steeper and very narrow than what it appears in this video. I believe the city smoothed in down and widened it sometime in the late 1960s, because as the population grew, people were probably afraid to drive up it. The sight would knot your stomach. It literally looked like the hill went straight upward, and like you'd tip over backwards if you dared go up! The fear of another car blindly coming from the opposite direction intensified the fear. I was about 8 or 9 then, when my uncle had a pick up truck, and he'd let us kids ride in the back, then purposely drive up that hill to scare us all! He gunned it of course because he wanted to make sure we all got a thrill, and we did! Miss those days. Good times!

I took the bus there's nah!

I'm from Texas but spent the summer of '71 at the Pacifica Apartments...... .31 on the right

this nearly put me to tears. where has the time gone?

Glad we have this footage. Aspect ratio makes me want to turn my head and look to the left and right to really compare . But still grateful that such history has been published

I’ve lived in Mission Hills since 1992 and I can tell you it was much nicer back in the old days. Many of the best places shuttered and now it’s just overpriced restaurants and real estate agencies. And gas at 35 cents a gallon! 😂😂😂

They really ruined Hillcrest. It’s so bad now - congested and no parking. Sad to see how clean everything was back then.

OMG , Gulf, Texaco and Denny's ! I forgot!!

Looking at gas prices this was taken in about 1971-1972.

That is memory lane " One classical car after another , the guy coming off the fwy at 805&university ave with no helmet....and plenty of gas stations...no one had a cell phone in their hand everyone said "hello" when passing by Some of those bus stops are still there. people were social not anti-social. I had to be about 5 years old but still remember it being like this ....dad USMC coming back from Vietnam. Today I'm a healthy 56 year old fourth generation san diego native. Bloody cell phones !

Thank you for this footage, used to live at Ruffin Road ! This looks like 1960's or 70's. Lived there from 1983 to 1984, There used to be a shopping center with a 'Safeway' and 'Thrifty's' across the street from where I lived.....when was this footage filmed?

No strip malls, Pizza hut, Alpha Beta, rec center. Only Marian High School.

I grew up during these years.... such a simpler, quiet Navy Town. I grew up down the street from Southwest Jr. High...

Which road does it stop at in the middle of the video to turn around? Looks like it would have gone through old Carmel valley Rd if it didn’t turn around. What was old Carmel Valley Rd called back then? I think it was still called Black Mountain Rd. Someone let me know!

I believe S/B and N/B are mislabeled and should be swapped.

0:05 Ferris & Ferris on 5th and Market! I worked there in the mid 80s!

What year was this? Could have sworn that I saw myself at the playground at Brooklyn elementary School!!

That Tower record store is where me & my new girlfriend went to, still remembering when we raced across the street, dodging cars, just to reach Tower records, to buy a Led Zeppelin record. Now we are still happily married. What memories ❤

The Omega Man playing at the frontier drive in , my cousin after she graduated from Highschool took me to see the movie. The Nordic Inn Swedish smorgasbord, my friends and I when were 16yrs old used to go there all you can eat for $3.50 awesome place to eat food was great!! The Bonanza steak house my parents took me there countless times when I was 13yrs old. The same with the Bowl weivelle. Awesome times in the 70's with family & friends, beautiful times gone forever!!

Love Sambo's ...my parents used to take me there in the early 70's.

The house of PIES!! & Sears what landmark, Americana gone for good.

What a beautiful neighborhood, until the liberal gays took it over. Will never see that beauty again.😢

Literally every single Canary Island date palm is gone on that street. What a shame.

Is this before it turned into a freeway entrance at the end?

I told my parents to buy real estate over and over starting in about 1974. What did i Know. I was just 8 that year lol, born and raised in San Diego living the best life with all the other middle class(well lower middle lol) Navy/IBM kids and families. Safe public schools and neighborhoods. I miss home, but I just shake my head at what it has become. Still praying for a world series win for the Padres before I die. I dont care how nice Petco is, Ill take San Diego Stadium and Winfields Pavillion or good Plaza level seats any day of the week.

The canary island palms are so iconic and beautiful. What a shame that the palm weevil has been destroying all of them. San Diego without the canary palm is our future.

I did not know that Moonlite Market was a 7Eleven by in the 70's.

that 7/11 has been there for a VERY long time...

I'm so grateful for this! From about the :57 mark through the 1:04 mark, you can see the Al Bahr Temple on the right. My grandfather, Bill Rife, managed the Al Bahr Temple and was also the temple's Recorder. Throughout the 70s, I had the pleasure of working various events there with my grandparents - everything from an Ebony magazine fashion show, a Jerry Lewis Telethon, a statewide meeting of the Nation of Islam, an EST seminar and of course the bi-weekly antiques auction where I staffed a snack bar with my grandma. I've been trying to find photos and film footage of the Al Bahr Temple without much luck. So trust me when I say how grateful I am to the City Clerk for posting this!

There was so many Canary Island palms that are now gone due to the palm weevil.

It was a safe neighborhood in the early 60s.

You can see the air raid siren just before the Texaco station after 7-11. I remember hearing that when I was really little.

Good to see the history of these stores and there used be a lot of gas stations. Now we just have a shell up on east Washington and the Mobil / chevron down by the freeway.

I remember this

Back in the days when there were more American Cars and open space on Clairemont Mesa Blvd.

Why was the road literred with these concrete lines back then?

The street sign at 2:55 reads "Islands". I've never seen that sign before.

41 cent gas

i used to live there at 19th and market during he mid 90's 2:59

Alot has changed since 1971. My daughter was born that year and we were living in Linda Vista. Lived there for almost 35 years.

2:14 Guaranty Chevrolet Service (the car sales building was up on El Cajon Blvd) I was working there at this time , during the first gas crisis, new cars had only 5 gallons of gas , the pump had no gas for demos or even managers cars

Look what they did to our beautiful city now this just makes me sad Over development has taken what made this place so beautiful back in the good old days

1:14 what trip, a total hippy standing next to a 1958 Chevy Biscayne.

What year was this footage taken?

I literally broke down, in the back of my mind, when I found this. My dad used to drive this road every time we went to the beach, from PQ (moved to SD in 1987). I miss this view so much, and I remember passing those very homes that were shown on the right side (fucking housing developments). If I could go back in time, I would tell 4 year old me to tell mom to take as many pictures as she can, and film what she can, the next time we head to the beach, because construction will start in this whole entire area, within the next 5 years; in 20 - 30 years it will not even be recognizable. Once in a while I walk over to Adobe Bluffs school, and walk around the pathways of what’s left from my childhood. Thank you for making this available for all to see.

1972?

What year is this?