San Diego Adult Entertainment: HISTORY COMES ALIVE AT STUDENT’S WALK…

August 25, 2009 at 6:14 pm | In San Diego adult entertainment | No Comments

The historical tours were all part of a project prepared by Karissa Valencia (photo, left, in white flapper dress), a Helix Charter High Graduate and incoming freshman at the University of San Diego, to earn her Gold Award in Girl Scouts.  
We started our tour at the old railway depot, next to the former Lemon Grove Company. Built in 1894, the store with lemon warehouse behind is now home to a sign company, the brick façade covered in stucco. We strolled across Spring Street and up La Mesa Boulevard, once known as Lookout Avenue and later, part of historic Highway 80.
Where Cosmos Coffee and Hoffers Cigar shop now stand, there was once a hotel—until a fire leveled half the building. “Rumor has it, La Mesa Hotel was once a brothel,” our guide whispered. Next door, produce was once cultivated for the hotel—an urban garden, long before urban gardens became popularized anew.

See the full article from “East County Magazine”

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