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Understanding 9/11tv San Diego Driving Tour CSPAN January 8, 2017 8:46am-9:01am EST
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[applause] so much you, thank you for coming. >> you are watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. forow us on twitter information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. weekend, american history tv is featuring san diego, california. c-span cities tour staff recently visited the site showcasing its history. the san diego coronado bridge opened in august, 1969. ronald reagan was one of the first to drive across it. learn more about san diego all weekend here on american history tv. while in san diego, we drove around the city with a san diego host to learn more about the area history and growth.
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>> thank you for agreeing to show me around san diego. >> have you been here before? >> no. my first time in san diego. i know that san diego because everyone says it has the most perfect weather with beautiful scenery. but what is so great about the city outside of that? >> let's go left. we will drive through balboa park. this is a good example. i think people know that there is the navy and the zoo. and it is a egg safety and there are beautiful places that taurus would come. this is the gem of the city. a beautiful park. this park with the buildings that you see are the result of the 1915 panama expedition here and what that meant was that the panama canal was opening in 1915 and they thought about it and said, where is the logical place where the ships will come? they will come from the first
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port on the pacific ocean side. that would be san diego. let's make sure everybody knows about that. fair.y had a world >> so they built a lot of the buildings. what are we seeing? >> to the right is the largest outdoor organ in the world. there are free concerts every sunday. >> what is on the left? >> some of these are the buildings left over from the 1915 exposition. and when you think about it, putting on a world fair for a city that was in the tens of thousands of population back in 1915, this took a lot of chutzpah. now, the buildings are here. these buildings were considered to be temporary at first but as we come around the corner, this is one of the real iconic shots. the california tower.
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this showed off what california had to offer. you went in here and you showed up everything that it had to offer. , there's a segment ,n their about the interview the biggest monument a man has ever built to himself. but it was this. the buildings and things like this. this was the grand entrance way into the 1915 exposition. does that bring a a lot of people here? >> it did. it puts san diego on the map. we did things in our city to make it bigger at the time so we changed this street to broadway. every city has to have a broadway so we have a broadway. avenues,d streets to fifth avenue and 6th avenue, these little things as we attempted to become a big-time city.
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>> did people stay here after the exposition? >> they did and the military was a big part of the city. it became a military center. here, the military came you are assigned here or you worked here and you would say, i don't want to leave. >> we are leaving balboa park. what is next? to the gaslamp district. >> it is an area south of broadway. and places clubs with things to do. a very entertainment oriented place. in the old days, this is the area that you didn't go. andnow, it has been revived it really has a new kind of spirit about it which is great. the city was originally up in the mountains in san diego bay, two miles north of here. named alonso came here and he said oh, it just doesn't
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seem to lie right. it ought to be down here where you are closer to the water. so he brought up a lot of the property down here. that is now part of the gaslamp. he sold it off and developed .t and this became new town the city of san diego. >> i'm starting to see the signs that say gaslamp district. so this is the senior area town? >> yes. back in the day, it was. you didn't come down here. for family fun. now it is totally different. it is the development of different areas like horton plaza here. an open areae is with a fountain. it is across the street from the horton house hotel.
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to alonso. dedicated year did this start taking shape? >> in the early 1970's. that would have been a time when you couldn't come down here. as we got more into the 1990's, we sought the development of that shopping center. could be athat it trendy area and now it is. you come down here on a friday night or saturday and it is just jammed with millennials and everyone having a party with a good time. gaslampoing through the . you may notice that the blocks are short. the blocks are short. a smart guy. alonso. he knew that when he laid out the whole area and started smelling it for -- started
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selling it for development, he could get a lot more for a corner lot so he made a lot more corners. >> i think we need to go see some water. where can we go next? >> i think a place to see water from a little bit higher perspective would be to go out to the cabrillo national monument. there are poignant things along let'sy that are moving so go there. we are coming up on harper drive. this is an area where there is a lot of exhibits from the maritime museum. up here oncoming this ship here. this is the star of india. shrimphe oldest sailing -- sailing trip.
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you can go into san diego bay and have a great time with a dinner cruise or something like that. just a lot of fun. >> the water is a big part of life here in san diego. >> it is. there is an interconnection. .eople are aware you know what the surf conditions are. points atsurf all 11:00 on the news. it says the surf is three feet or whatever. so surfing is a big part of the city and water conditions and temperature, how trivial it is the water and what will it look like an visibility, things like that are part of nightly reports on the news. so yes, it really is a part of what people think about. right now.s are up they close at dark?
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>> correct. >> what happens here? >> they do research and they do military work that is beyond my canon. >> so you have to go through this to get to the cabrillo national monument. >> i do. i think where we are headed now is one of the most beautiful this does in the country. it is just gorgeous. on the one hand you can see the pacific ocean. on the other hand, you can see san diego bay and the ships come into this protected bay. and it is a place that when you bring tourists here, you want to come out and say, this is where you get the overview. this is where you get the take on where everything is. and you can get out if you choose to and you can point here and here and here, those are the neighborhoods. you just get a sense of how
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extraordinary this place is. and along the way, there are really poignant moments. >> we just passed a large graveyard. >> this is the national cemetery. and those who made the ultimate sacrifice are laid to rest here through world war ii and through korea. you can just see roe after row after row, each one loved. and they are the relatives also those who died. we are coming to the vista point now. do you see the lighthouse? that was the original lighthouse that kept ships running into the rock. the problem was that it was too high and you would get fog down below and you can see the light. it's another is another one down below. >> why was this establishes a national monument? >> it is so beautiful. it has a historic significance
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of cabrillo discovering the bay. at low tide, you can hike around down here and there is see life in the divots and ponds that are created by the receding tide. >> so we are ending our tour here on the beach. not a better way to end a driving tour of san diego. you have to think of maybe what is next in the city? what would you like to see happen in san diego in the future? around, we have seen have the natural resources, the sunshine and good weather. i think making decisions that take it vantage of the clean industry for the benefit of everybody, finding how we accommodate the increase in population. how do we build an of housing, affordable housing, for people to live here? and to come here? and still keep the quality of life the way it is?
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with more people wanting to come. for now, a population of 1.3 million in the city, that makes us the largest city and more people will be coming. how do we keep what san diego is and still know that more people want to come to take advantage of what it is? that is the challenge, going forward. weekend, we are featuring the history of san diego, california. together with our charter spectrum at cox communications cable partners. learn more about san diego and the other stops on the city tour at c-span.org. you are watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> when he became president, he appointed for to a job he did well. the director of the bureau of
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war insurance. he then became wrapped into the veterans bureau. raised up to become the director of the veterans bureau. stevens, a rosemary professor of history at the university of pennsylvania, discusses her book -- "a time of scandal." >> nobody had really looked at the veterans bureau scandal before and it was a big scandal in the early 1920's. so most people have heard of -- in the harding administration. at the time, the veterans bureau scandal at the center was equally important. and this man had come down as a crook. i got intrigued by this.
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>> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span skew monday. >> coming up next, a panel of thatts explore the ways china, germany, japan and the united states commemorate their involvement in world war ii. this roundtable was part of a conference at the national world war ii museum in new orleans. it's an hour and ten minutes. >> my great joy to introduce the last session today. we have something a little bit different and maybe something we want to do more of. to have the closing roundtable. it has always been a great success. and i think you can see who i have sitting across the table. dr. mueller, the president and ceo of the national world war ii museum.
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