San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter in 1974

March 21, 1974
The Gaslamp Quarter Association headed by Tom Hom, had big plans for the eight-block area south of Broadway in 1974. On this day, he asked the city council to create the district. Hom took Jim Gordon on a tour of the area. He said the eight square block area had more historical buildings than anywhere else in the city of San Diego. The plan was to preserve and upgrade and bring in smart shops, good shops, that would attract locals and tourists to the area. In this beautiful, newly digitized film, we see the Hotel St. James, the Sommer Building, the Nesmith-Greely Building, and interior shots of the original Old Spaghetti Factory.
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[@patr70]

The Gaslamp didn't turn into a "tourist destination" until 1991/1992 which was 17 years after this news report was done.

[@jordanjohnson9866]

Nah. /

[@nineteenoh4]

@@jordanjohnson9866yea

[@stvnd1]

If you were on shore leave after pay day it was a great destination to pick up syphillis during the '70s.

[@SeanDiego]

dope, I live here now 48 years later

[@elizalam5253]

Nostalgic

[@alexcasey351]

And the roads haven’t been paved/fixed since. They look the same now.

[@HAMMER_2.2]

I wonder if Tom Hom was related to Jim Hom ?

[@bruce92106]

Now we need to make to bring.back the County Work Farm we had in the 50s make living on the streets illegal