San Diego Yesterday

San Diego Today Is A Vibrant And Bustling Coastal City, But It Wasn't Always So. The City's Transformation From A Rough-hewn Border Town And Frontier Port To A Vital Military Center Was Marked By Growing Pains And Political Clashes. Civic Highs And Criminal Lows Have Defined San Diego's Rise Through The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries Into A Preeminent Sun Belt City. Historian Richard W. Crawford Recalls The Significant Events And One-of-a-kind Characters Like Benefactor Frank Booze Beyer, Baseball Hero Albert Spalding And Novelist Scott O'dell. Join Crawford For A Collection That Recounts How San Diego Yesterday Laid The Foundation For The City's Bright Future.