Holiday In San Diego & Tijuana - 1960

[@Dr.Pepper001]

At 2:10 is the USS Hopewell, DD-681 Destroyer. She saw action in WW2 and was decommissioned in 1947. When the Korean war started, she was recommissioned to support the war effort. She also was used in Vietnam and then sent to San Diego where she was decommissioned in 1970. In 1972 the USS Hopewell was used as a target and was sunk somewhere off the coast of California.

[@Harry-nn4px]

TF 84, the USS Cree saw action as far back as WWII. In 1978 She was hit by friendly fire (an airstrike) while positioning surface targets for training. She survived. Wikipedia has a pretty good write up.

[@johnjaco5544]

Thanks for that

[@lvsluggo007]

Ahhh... 1960, the year my family moved to San Diego from San Francisco.

[@rickyeligio1674]

Back when tijuana was safe to live and visit

[@Javier636]

Tijuana, still beautiful.

[@onefatstratcat]

I popped out at Mercy hospital in 1960! They didn't call it that until after they took one look at me!!lol...

[@darnellprice9396]

I also popped out at Mercy hospital in 1960!

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

Ha! Balboa Naval Hospital. That's where I was born in 1954 and almost killed by an inept Navy corpsman three years later in 1957. Mom made the switch to a civilian doctor when my dad's friend Dr. James Ketcham retired from the Navy and started a private practice in La Mesa. He was my doctor until I was an adult. Great guy.

[@tonewheeler1]

Thanks for posting these videos!

[@1154west]

28th street between A street and B street up the block from Starbucks in Golden Hills.

[@VintageSanDiego]

Yay!!! Thank you!!

[@brighidclaire]

Anyone know what or where the garment construction or upholstery factories in Tijuana in the mid-1950s? Was there a railroad going thorough Tijuana then, too?

[@tonewheeler1]

At 5:40 it looks like Golden Hills, but it's really hard to say, maybe it's Point Loma , given the rest of the footage is near the harbor?

[@lioneltalaro6352]

Was the Bali Hai around then? I think I spot it at 3:06

[@romo2517]

@ :26 USS Cree fleet tug

[@tonewheeler1]

What is the neighborhood at 5:45?

[@VintageSanDiego]

Don't know yet! Been asking...

[@Harry-nn4px]

I don't know but in 1960 the brick artwork in front of that one place would have been considered modern and trendy.

[@ecast9283]

at 7:22 old monument to the flag roundabout intersection which was near the border

[@biketothetop]

5:17 Please don't feed the pigeons!