San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn\'t always so.
Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like benefactor Frank "Booze" Beye.
Historian Richard W.
Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego\'s rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city.
The city\'s transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes.
San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn\'t always so