I feel like a *nerd* watching these videos about my *home state* 😂 But my mom took me to *a lot* of the missions when I was younger & it brings back memories
Just a quick correction: At 14:59 San Diego International Airport in the 1960s, was called Lindbergh Field (1928-2003) the airport was named after Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator and military officer. Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. His plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego in 1927 in the area then called Dutch Flats, near the area where the now San Diego International Airport is located.
I loved watching the planes fly by as we were training during bootcamp😂 I’m from LA but San Diego is a beautiful city with a lot of things to do. Barrio Logan and petco park when the dodgers play🤙🏼
Great information, photos and footage! Sometimes its the littlest things - for me, the fault lines drawn from La Jolla thru the bay was a nice setup for understanding the long formation of the bay. Thanks for all the work you put in😎
Great video Armando, it's of great interest to see how San Diego developed. There is a great history in aeronautics, especially in San Diego with the building of The Spirit of San Luis, and so many great companies that have made their home in this beautiful city.
Before San Diego was settled it was said that during the Gray Whale calving season there was so many whales that it was considered dangerous to row a boat across the lagoon.
Yes thanks for bringing that up. I didn’t mention it in the video - Unfortunately at the time they used bombs against the whales. It’s one of the surprising facts about the history here.
I've been in and out of San Diego starting in 1986 to the present 2024 , I really love being in San Diego, California it's So Awesome. Thank You For This SDCA Educational Historical Video.
There was so much covered in such a short time, I am certain this could be a 3 hour video given how much is truly in San Diego. As on of the Original Natives born in Balboa Naval Hospital, I have always enjoyed San Diego as my home and I grew to appreciate the diversity that has always been here in San Diego. It is one of the true multicultural places in the world and it saddens me to see how much politics and government even the news tries to divide the amazing people in San Diego. I love San Diego as the conservative town it grew up as with progression for expansion and usage, but I now despise our local and state leaders for their policies in how they have failed epically with their governance. I hope more of my fellow San Diegans see this video, appreciate the effort it took to research and develop it and then get out and tour San Diego for all the amazing places... I also hope that as you do so you are inspired to vote for better leadership to save and develop San Diego in a better fashion.
San Diego bay lacks the shipping industry -- thanks largely to the lack of an easy intercontinental railroad connection -- that powers the ports of Long Beach and Oakland. But the presence of the US Navy is an "industry" that is largely recession-proof. Too bad they occupy so much of the real estate around the bay. Well done documentary. Good selection of images -- and music. Thanks!
Thank you, doing the research for this video really reinforced to me how much of a military town we are. Considering Mira Mar and Camp Pendleton, it really is the foundation of the growth of San Diego.
As a San Diego native, thank you!! I found myself looking at Google maps to verify exactly where shelter Island was 😂 I'm in San Ysidro, just south of Chula Vista, 53 years. You'd think I'd know where shelter Island was.
@MK-su6eg asking the wrong guy. I only know of stuff down south by the border. I live in San Ysidro - gateway to Mexico. 🎉 Remember the McDonald's massacre? I had 2 birthday parties there when I was kid.
I like to imagine what the forest's of Missouri were like historically. More dirt was moved in our bootheel than the Panama canal. The Oak trees in that area, rivaled the giant Redwoods imo. Not typical Oak trees for sure
Nice video, though I wish you would have given some mention to Old Town, which was the city's previous center before being moved to New Town, which is the region we now know as Downtown.
Thanks for the suggestion. Heres a video we made about Old Town 🙂 Old Town San Diego’s Hidden Gems: The Best Things to See & Do th-cam.com/video/P9uW8P0To3w/w-d-xo.html
well made, informative post...would've added the naval battle in 1803 and the Whaling industry that actually caused a change in the migration of the Grey whale...but overall thank you sir...
Just a few omissions to assist in history: 1. Point Loma is called that due to the fact that when sailing up from the south the cliffy peninsula looks like a symmetrical rounded hump. 2. Any surfer of Sunset Cliffs can tell you of the clear strata disjuncts that occur, where you can see how it was tectonically raised - as if a layer cake was cut, with strata dislocations visible. As you go south along the cliffs from Ocean Beach, you can imagine how it was successively lifted up to Cabrillo. 3. Did you know that Gray Whales used to calve and nurture in San Diego Bay? They also did so in the Long Beach Los Angeles harbor, which was more open to south swells in summer, so SD Bay was more sheltered. Certainly that all ended in the late 1700s early 1800s, when the whalers really exploited the area - as the Gray Whale mothers were ferocious in their defense, whalers called them "Devil Fish" , as they hopefully did cause at least some casualties in those pathologically exploitative humans. 4. And, for a better understanding of the immense cruelties of the supposedly holly monks and priests, , read of the experience of the Tribal native peoples who were forced into enslavement in the Southern California missions , with those who escaped being hunted down and returned or killed. THAT history is WELL-known and now documented, and should be emphasized in any Southern California history. THe Kumeyaay and others were seasonally migratory, and during the years when ancient Lake Cahuilla would appear and remain for decades to the east of Laguna Mountains in Imperial and Coachella Valley of east County, the richest, most fertile seasons and escape from the mountain cold & snow, or the summer heat, determined the Native peoples' choice of habitat and different seasonal foods. Only modern sedentism deludes us into believing that people settled interminably all year long in a single place. (your very craving for vacations is an evolved and useful human trait. Novel environments and experiences make us both more affiliative and generous, but also keep us more intelligent than does sedentism.) The ancient La Jollan people had settlement at La Jolla Shores, and certainly around Soledad into the Estuarine Bays. The Cuyamaca and Kumeyaay, Pauma and others were really peaceable people with no tradition or even word for "war", and only upon having their fertile foraging areas arrogated, and being enslaved (pretty much NONE ever converted to the arrogant religion introduced by the Spanish slavers), did they attempt to organize for resistance.
Thank you for sharing. I’m researching for an upcoming video that goes into detail about the Kumeyaay people. Everything you said aligns with what I am reading.
You mentioned "reclaimed land" and "reshaping the bay" without yet mentioning how billions of tons of sand and mud were dredged to make it all possible. Dredging didn't begin with the creation of Shelter Island. It began as a way for Navy ships to use the otherwise naturally shallow bay. And because transporting the material long distance was prohibitively expensive, new land was formed all around the bay. This new land included the embarcadero, Naval Training Center, all of the airport and Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and much more. And how can you mention the USS Midway museum without saying anything about the pre-eminent San Diego Maritime Museum that restored, maintains, and sails the oldest fully operational ship in the world?
I feel the same way, but the plans have been approved by the port and city. I would relocate the village somewhere else on the bay and make it better. I'm not against the new hotels either as long as it's well thought out.
What surprised me about San Diego Bay is that half of it is too shallow to be considered for deep water anchorage-- the South Bay. It is literally a broad near-marshland, only six feet deep at most, during high tide. I understand that dredging has been attempted there from time to time, and also further north where deeper water made industry and shipping-- and the Navy-- workable.
It is interesting looking at a map with the water depth. There is a moderately narrow path all the larger vessels have to follow to enter and exit the bay.
@Voyagerhq Yes. I read about the dredging, but I can't recall the details as far as how far south into the Bay it was done. Definitely, in the areas that later became Naval Station San Diego, there's a big history of dredging the Bay to allow for draft of large ships.
San Diego bay use to be a popular whale calving location but because or the navy's use of weaponized sonar and acoustics, the coastline is de-natured and all that is left is a hollow ecosystem and billions is cold hard killing machines.
Now sadly, the entire greater San Diego area has become nothing more than a cesspool extension of LA where bums and junkies and rampant theft and shoplifting are the law of the land. It has become such a nasty place that you don’t want to take your family anywhere near downtown because it smells like urine everywhere and you have to dodge bum camps and sidestep human poop and needles nearly everywhere that used to be anything remotely attractive to tourists. When you do have to go downtown for something, you pray that your car doesn’t get broken into and you have to keep your head on a swivel to avoid all the scary mental ill drug addicts. And that’s how it is during broad daylight. Night time is a whole different story. Yay liberalism!
Thankful for the Spaniards! Otherwise we would be living in huts and awful infighting between tribes, which is what happened among the indigenous people.
@@Voyagerhq Yes, like many indigenous groups, there were instances of conflict among the tribes in the region. The Kumeyaay and their neighboring tribes, such as the Luiseño, Cahuilla, and Cupeno, had complex relationships that included both trade and warfare. Disputes over resources, territory, and cultural differences sometimes led to skirmishes or raids. However, these conflicts were generally small-scale and often resolved through negotiation, as intertribal warfare among the Southern California tribes did not typically involve large-scale battles. Alliances and rivalries could shift, with some tribes cooperating against common threats or engaging in trade to maintain peaceful relations.
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I feel like a *nerd* watching these videos about my *home state* 😂 But my mom took me to *a lot* of the missions when I was younger & it brings back memories
It’s great learning about these places and gives them a whole new meaning.
@@Voyagerhq i enjoyed it. Please do more videos about Cali in the future 🤙🏼
Just a quick correction: At 14:59 San Diego International Airport in the 1960s, was called Lindbergh Field (1928-2003) the airport was named after Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator and military officer. Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. His plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego in 1927 in the area then called Dutch Flats, near the area where the now San Diego International Airport is located.
That’s right! Thanks for sharing that. It’s interesting that they changed the name.
@@richardharden4437 lol hold up… they changed the name?? Wow. I live here & I had NO CLUE. I guess that shows you how often I leave 🤣
Born & live in Denver but yo I love San Diego, is my favorite quick getaway and there are so many cool things to see/do I keep returning.
I loved watching the planes fly by as we were training during bootcamp😂 I’m from LA but San Diego is a beautiful city with a lot of things to do. Barrio Logan and petco park when the dodgers play🤙🏼
“Watching the planes” 😂 only Hollywood
Great video. 30+ year San Diegan and I learned a lot.
Thanks! I learned a lot too researching for this video. Glad it was helpful.
Great information, photos and footage! Sometimes its the littlest things - for me, the fault lines drawn from La Jolla thru the bay was a nice setup for understanding the long formation of the bay. Thanks for all the work you put in😎
I agree, visuals can be so helpful to share info difficult to describe. Thanks for watching! 🙂
Great video Armando, it's of great interest to see how San Diego developed. There is a great history in aeronautics, especially in San Diego with the building of The Spirit of San Luis, and so many great companies that have made their home in this beautiful city.
Absolutely I’d love to research and learn more about the history.
Great video. I love my hometown with a passion and this pays so much respect to it.
Your channel is olddd
@@jeremiahlumpiin4441 lol
Excellent job. I have lived in San Diego on and off my whole life. I'll always be back.
Before San Diego was settled it was said that during the Gray Whale calving season there was so many whales that it was considered dangerous to row a boat across the lagoon.
Yes thanks for bringing that up. I didn’t mention it in the video - Unfortunately at the time they used bombs against the whales. It’s one of the surprising facts about the history here.
Another excellent video. You do a great job. I always learn something too😊
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I've been in and out of San Diego starting in 1986 to the present 2024 , I really love being in San Diego, California it's So Awesome. Thank You For This SDCA Educational Historical Video.
Thank you I’m glad it was helpful!
Great video! Good job! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Good video man !!!!
Thanks glad it was helpful!
Very well put together doc. Thanks
Thank you glad it was helpful!
Imagine the paradise it must've been for indigenous people.
And for over 10000 years.
Excellent. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great content! Im glad u included the kumeyaay, how they shaped san diegos ecosystem and were here 10,000 years (longer depending who u ask)
USD was also constructed as a lookout by Catholics, there are many bodies still underneath waiting to be returned
Thank you! I have another video coming soon that will explore more about the Kumeyaay 🙂
I didn’t realize the history there. I’d like to learn more about that. Thanks for sharing.
Love the scene at 5:00 showing a sailor viewing an astrolabe with his patched eye. Brilliant!
It’s amazing what navigators were able to accomplish with those instruments!
Excellent and informative video. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks glad it was helpful!
There was so much covered in such a short time, I am certain this could be a 3 hour video given how much is truly in San Diego. As on of the Original Natives born in Balboa Naval Hospital, I have always enjoyed San Diego as my home and I grew to appreciate the diversity that has always been here in San Diego. It is one of the true multicultural places in the world and it saddens me to see how much politics and government even the news tries to divide the amazing people in San Diego. I love San Diego as the conservative town it grew up as with progression for expansion and usage, but I now despise our local and state leaders for their policies in how they have failed epically with their governance. I hope more of my fellow San Diegans see this video, appreciate the effort it took to research and develop it and then get out and tour San Diego for all the amazing places... I also hope that as you do so you are inspired to vote for better leadership to save and develop San Diego in a better fashion.
What an amazingly well made video. Thank you for your hard work. 🤝
Thank you, glad it was helpful!
San Diego bay lacks the shipping industry -- thanks largely to the lack of an easy intercontinental railroad connection -- that powers the ports of Long Beach and Oakland. But the presence of the US Navy is an "industry" that is largely recession-proof. Too bad they occupy so much of the real estate around the bay.
Well done documentary. Good selection of images -- and music. Thanks!
Thank you, doing the research for this video really reinforced to me how much of a military town we are. Considering Mira Mar and Camp Pendleton, it really is the foundation of the growth of San Diego.
Exactly!!
As a San Diego native, thank you!!
I found myself looking at Google maps to verify exactly where shelter Island was 😂
I'm in San Ysidro, just south of Chula Vista, 53 years. You'd think I'd know where shelter Island was.
I’ve been here my whole life and only recently learned about its history! 😂
@@SuperScottCrawford was there a restaurant on shelter island called Bali hai ? This was late 70s. It was a fun place.
@MK-su6eg asking the wrong guy.
I only know of stuff down south by the border. I live in San Ysidro - gateway to Mexico. 🎉
Remember the McDonald's massacre? I had 2 birthday parties there when I was kid.
Very interesting. No mention of Lindbergh Field.
Thanks for the suggestion
I wonder how the surf has changed over the centuries. I can imagine some of the waves that must have gone unseen
Interesting to think about that. It looks like the silver strand may have been a good point break as it was forming.
with mans input or not, the surf is constantly changing in many areas. SD will always have good waves
@@MikeOlin-f3uand sharks.
Probably less crowded 😂
@@droneshots6192 the surf is more square shaped than it used to be centuries ago
So beautiful ❤❤
Yes absolutely beautiful place to explore.
I will forever reflect on the guy at 9:03. One mistake on a casual walk and people are laughing at him 110 years later.
🤣
I like to imagine what the forest's of Missouri were like historically.
More dirt was moved in our bootheel than the Panama canal. The Oak trees in that area, rivaled the giant Redwoods imo. Not typical Oak trees for sure
Nice video, though I wish you would have given some mention to Old Town, which was the city's previous center before being moved to New Town, which is the region we now know as Downtown.
Thanks for the suggestion. Heres a video we made about Old Town 🙂
Old Town San Diego’s Hidden Gems: The Best Things to See & Do
th-cam.com/video/P9uW8P0To3w/w-d-xo.html
17:32 anybody else get the heebie-jeebies seeing him lean on that bridge traffic barrier?!😮
Made my gut feel weird
That’s a long way down - I wouldn’t want to stand there.
well made, informative post...would've added the naval battle in 1803 and the Whaling industry that actually caused a change in the migration of the Grey whale...but overall thank you sir...
Thank you for the suggestions. Those are good topics for a future video!
Just a few omissions to assist in history:
1. Point Loma is called that due to the fact that when sailing up from the south the cliffy peninsula looks like a symmetrical rounded hump.
2. Any surfer of Sunset Cliffs can tell you of the clear strata disjuncts that occur, where you can see how it was tectonically raised - as if a layer cake was cut, with strata dislocations visible.
As you go south along the cliffs from Ocean Beach, you can imagine how it was successively lifted up to Cabrillo.
3. Did you know that Gray Whales used to calve and nurture in San Diego Bay?
They also did so in the Long Beach Los Angeles harbor, which was more open to south swells in summer, so SD Bay was more sheltered. Certainly that all ended in the late 1700s early 1800s, when the whalers really exploited the area - as the Gray Whale mothers were ferocious in their defense, whalers called them "Devil Fish" , as they hopefully did cause at least some casualties in those pathologically exploitative humans.
4. And, for a better understanding of the immense cruelties of the supposedly holly monks and priests, , read of the experience of the Tribal native peoples who were forced into enslavement in the Southern California missions , with those who escaped being hunted down and returned or killed.
THAT history is WELL-known and now documented, and should be emphasized in any Southern California history.
THe Kumeyaay and others were seasonally migratory, and during the years when ancient Lake Cahuilla would appear and remain for decades to the east of Laguna Mountains in Imperial and Coachella Valley of east County, the richest, most fertile seasons and escape from the mountain cold & snow, or the summer heat, determined the Native peoples' choice of habitat and different seasonal foods.
Only modern sedentism deludes us into believing that people settled interminably all year long in a single place. (your very craving for vacations is an evolved and useful human trait. Novel environments and experiences make us both more affiliative and generous, but also keep us more intelligent than does sedentism.)
The ancient La Jollan people had settlement at La Jolla Shores, and certainly around Soledad into the Estuarine Bays. The Cuyamaca and Kumeyaay, Pauma and others were really peaceable people with no tradition or even word for "war", and only upon having their fertile foraging areas arrogated, and being enslaved (pretty much NONE ever converted to the arrogant religion introduced by the Spanish slavers), did they attempt to organize for resistance.
Thank you for sharing. I’m researching for an upcoming video that goes into detail about the Kumeyaay people. Everything you said aligns with what I am reading.
You mentioned "reclaimed land" and "reshaping the bay" without yet mentioning how billions of tons of sand and mud were dredged to make it all possible. Dredging didn't begin with the creation of Shelter Island. It began as a way for Navy ships to use the otherwise naturally shallow bay. And because transporting the material long distance was prohibitively expensive, new land was formed all around the bay. This new land included the embarcadero, Naval Training Center, all of the airport and Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and much more. And how can you mention the USS Midway museum without saying anything about the pre-eminent San Diego Maritime Museum that restored, maintains, and sails the oldest fully operational ship in the world?
That’s true and I appreciate you mentioning those details. I could write a list of many things I wanted to but didn’t cover in this video.
Good job----your voice sounds like you did one of these on Pt. Loma HS??Correct??Eric Awes
Thanks! I’ve made another video on this channel about Point Loma although I didn’t cover Pt. Loma High 🙂
Original native Americans, SD, looks so much like the native polynesian people! Aloha from westside Oahu Hawaii
Yes the similarities are incredible.
Lived in California for 25 years , but never visited San Diego. I regret not visiting .
You can visit many of the cities highlights in just a few days. I have a video about it on the channel 🙂
dust, homeless, & overfishing, mostly
23:02 I think the future looks AWEFULL !! Leave Seaport alone! No more high-rise on the coastal tide lands.
It’s hard to believe how much it has changed.
I feel the same way, but the plans have been approved by the port and city. I would relocate the village somewhere else on the bay and make it better. I'm not against the new hotels either as long as it's well thought out.
What surprised me about San Diego Bay is that half of it is too shallow to be considered for deep water anchorage-- the South Bay. It is literally a broad near-marshland, only six feet deep at most, during high tide.
I understand that dredging has been attempted there from time to time, and also further north where deeper water made industry and shipping-- and the Navy-- workable.
It is interesting looking at a map with the water depth. There is a moderately narrow path all the larger vessels have to follow to enter and exit the bay.
@Voyagerhq Yes. I read about the dredging, but I can't recall the details as far as how far south into the Bay it was done. Definitely, in the areas that later became Naval Station San Diego, there's a big history of dredging the Bay to allow for draft of large ships.
a little san diego lore, pause the video at 12:10 and try to find the swastika. growing up we always told stories about those buildings
I wonder why it was designed that way.
@@Voyagerhq probably just a coincidence.
ya big nationalist presence
Enjoy seaport village before the new "hotel" village breaks ground. The bay is great however there is still much we can do.
Used to work at a shop in liberty plaza with my ex, like working at amazon everyone cheats lmaoo
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San Diego bay use to be a popular whale calving location but because or the navy's use of weaponized sonar and acoustics, the coastline is de-natured and all that is left is a hollow ecosystem and billions is cold hard killing machines.
It’s tragic what happened to the whales there.
one day our beloved home town of san diego will become some what of how LA is today now with videos like these… sad :(
This is about the history of San Diego Bay.
Now sadly, the entire greater San Diego area has become nothing more than a cesspool extension of LA where bums and junkies and rampant theft and shoplifting are the law of the land. It has become such a nasty place that you don’t want to take your family anywhere near downtown because it smells like urine everywhere and you have to dodge bum camps and sidestep human poop and needles nearly everywhere that used to be anything remotely attractive to tourists. When you do have to go downtown for something, you pray that your car doesn’t get broken into and you have to keep your head on a swivel to avoid all the scary mental ill drug addicts. And that’s how it is during broad daylight. Night time is a whole different story. Yay liberalism!
Thanks for sharing
I hate San Diego. Worst city in California.
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Man Diego is over rated. Tons of shallow people.
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But you, on the other hand, are deep......ly disturbed.
Thankful for the Spaniards! Otherwise we would be living in huts and awful infighting between tribes, which is what happened among the indigenous people.
I’d like to learn more about the indigenous tribes and how they interacted with each other.
@@Voyagerhq Yes, like many indigenous groups, there were instances of conflict among the tribes in the region. The Kumeyaay and their neighboring tribes, such as the Luiseño, Cahuilla, and Cupeno, had complex relationships that included both trade and warfare. Disputes over resources, territory, and cultural differences sometimes led to skirmishes or raids.
However, these conflicts were generally small-scale and often resolved through negotiation, as intertribal warfare among the Southern California tribes did not typically involve large-scale battles. Alliances and rivalries could shift, with some tribes cooperating against common threats or engaging in trade to maintain peaceful relations.
@@jairbro right on well describe it! congrats!
@@jacobt4520 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
wtf