San Diego Adult Entertainment: San Diego cop, murder-scene artist, grand jury foreman: This resume is one of …

July 22, 2010 at 2:37 am | In San Diego adult entertainment | No Comments

… In the 1950s, it was very small-town, very much a good-old-boy syndrome,” he said. “Now it’s a big city, which has benefits. It’s more modern, but it’s also brought problems.”
He’s researching the varied career of Agoston Haraszthy, the Hungarian emigre who became the county’s first marshal in 1850, grew grapes in Mission Valley, built his own jail and entered deals with the Bandini family, Mexican landowners who had lived in San Diego for generations. Haraszthy later led a failed attempt to split California into two states — a true San Diegan, suspicious of the outside world.
In the early 1900s, San Diego was wide open with vice, corruption, murder and an occasional morality campaign. Some 136 prostitutes were rounded up and sent to Los Angeles on the civic theory that their trade would be welcomed in that sinful place.

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