San Diego history

Bumble Bee Seafoods Now headquartered in San Diego, this business produces canned seafood and actually began in Oregon in 1899 by a group of salmon canners.

Reformers organized and fought back beginning with the 1905 municipal election.

In 1906 the San Diego and Arizona Railway of John D. Spreckels was built to provide San Diego with a direct transcontinental rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in El Centro, California.

In 1907 he bought Presidio Hill, site of the original Presidio of San Diego, which had fallen into ruins.

After acquiring the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1912, the University of California (UC) built up a presence, with an emphasis on scientific research and cultural opportunities.

Meanwhile in 1915 San Diego held the Panama-California Exposition.

By 1920, there were about 700 boats in Southern California engaged in the tuna industry, and ten canneries in San Diego.

Naval Base San Diego was established in 1922, as was the San Diego Naval Hospital.

Businessman John D. Spreckels expressed the enthusiasm of San Diego's boosters in 1923, as well as the disappointment that it had not fully developed.:

Ryan Aeronautical Company, which built the Spirit of St Louis for the famous 1927 flight of Charles Lindbergh, also flourished.

In 1933 the Spreckels heirs sold it to the Southern Pacific Railroad.

The Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped fund the 1935 fair, which was designed by architect Richard S. Requa.

By 1939 the fleet's tuna catch exceeded 100 million pounds.

The University of San Diego, a private Catholic school, began as the San Diego College for Women in 1952, sponsored by the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Starting in 1953, the Urban League brought together black and white professionals and businessmen and encouraged white business owners to hire blacks.

In 1954 it was bought out and became the Convair Division of General Dynamics, a large aerospace conglomerate based in Texas.

The San Diego tuna fleet reached a peak of 160 vessels, and in 1962 employed around forty thousand San Diegans.

The Timken Museum of Art opened in 1965.

The transformation of the downtown areas from a zone of poverty and poor housing to a major tourist attraction with large numbers of jobs began in 1968 with the creation of the Centre City Development Corporation.

The San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge opened in 1969.

In June 1974 they launched the first Gay Pride Parade, which has been held every year since, and Hillcrest is well recognized as the focal point of the LGBT community.

Plaza Bonita opened in 1983.

The last cannery closed in 1984, with a loss of thousands of jobs.

San Diego Convention Center was built in 1989.

Based within their headquarters in San Diego, this development company was first founded in 1997 by the merger of companies 989 Sports and Red Zone Interactive.

The official San Diego Studio was founded in 2001.

In 2011 San Diego was the first city in the country in which active and retired military service members marched openly in a gay pride parade, in anticipation of the imminent removal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" rule for United States military personnel.

The following year, 2012, San Diego again made history when the United States Department of Defense granted permission for military personnel to wear their uniforms while participating the San Diego Pride Parade.