On Wed. April 28, 2021 Richard Carrico presented the Women of the Presidio, a wonderful Zoom Lecture. The Ocean Beach Historical Society presented Women of the Presidio, Stories rarely told of Colonial and Indigenous Women on the Frontier, with San Diego Historian and OB Favorite, Richard Carrico. Thank you Richard, and all those that logged onto the lecture.
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The Spring of 1924 was an exciting time in Ocean Beach. The San Diego Electric Railway opened their new “High Speed Beach Line,” the #14 train to OB, on the first of May. The commute time from OB to downtown was cut in half! The community responded with a four-day celebration. Read about it at: Rapid Transit Comes to the Beach
Photo: Replacing the old OB Loop of the Point Loma Railroad, San Diego Electric Railway ran one of the first bus lines in San Diego along Voltaire Street. June 1924. SDER
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