They keep updating this article from over two years ago with more cool stuff.

This is a fascinating article with lots of cool graphics and photos from the sixties and seventies offering a lot of insight to the “Gaslamp Quarter” before it grew up.

Book length history of downtown’s grindhouse theater row in the ’60s thru ’80s

BEFORE IT WAS THE GASLAMP – Balboa’s Last Stand

The Reader’s June 21, 2007, cover feature “Before It Was The Gaslamp” detailed the local life and turbulent times of Vince Miranda. In the ’70s, Miranda ran a string of downtown grindhouse movie theaters and owned several flophouse hotels (as well as the Hotel San Diego). He was also co-owner of the Pussycat Theatre adult movie chain.

What I didn’t mention in the article was that I worked for Miranda’s theaters in the late ’70s/early ’80s. This didn’t seem integral to anything being recounted in the article, which was mainly a profile of Miranda and his various local businesses.

I have, however, written a separate account – LAST OF THE ALL-NIGHTERS – of my own memories and experiences while working the downtown theaters. I offer it here, as sort of a DVD-extra, at the bottom of the Gaslamp article, which appears below in its original “War & Peace” director’s cut draft.

Also in this blog, OVER 100 PHOTOS AND GRAPHICS that did NOT appear with the published article, most of which have never been seen outside of Miranda’s family and his closest associates!

I keep expanding this entry, thanks to terrific material being sent to me from folks who’ve read it all over the globe. This newest draft includes many new graphics (some courtesy myspace.com.sandiegocinerama), and lots of additional information regarding the individual movie theaters operated in San Diego by Walnut Properties in the ’70s and ’80s.

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Balboa’s Last Stand: Balboa Theater circa 70s/80s

CORAL GABLES, FL.- On July 9th, the Americas Collection will present the complete collection of twenty-nine lithographs from the Suite entitled Imaginary Portraits by Pablo Picasso. This exhibition will be on display for cultural and educational purposes only. After a two week presentation at The Americas Collection, the show will embark on a two year traveling exhibition around Central and South America. The gallery will showcase works of Pablo Picasso

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The Americas Collection to Show Picasso Suite Entitled Imaginary Portraits

Found on the Wellington Scoop :

David Carson is a graphic designer from San Diego, California.

Surfer Magazine, in their July ‘09 issue calls Carson the most influential graphic designer of our times.

Carson splits his time between the Caribbean, Zurich and Del Mar California where he keeps a small, mobile studio.

He recently re-branded the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, designed a line of products for Quiksilver, a brochure for Bark paddleboards and assorted other projects he will no doubt show us.

Carson is a featured speaker at the “World Design Congress” in Beijing, China in October of this year.

Read more about the New Zealand event here.

Check out Dave Carson online at http://davidcarsondesign.com

ARLES.- One way of celebrating 40 years of such a vulnerable enterprise might be to invite all those who have so generously put their work on show here. Yet nostalgia and extolling the great deeds of the past might not to appropriate for the Rencontres, whose history is made up of ongoing creative ventures, photographers pushing back the boundaries of the still image, and uncertain periods of transition. A history that has never been so effervescent. Even so, the temptation to invite back some of the moving spirits was too strong, and the programme for 2009 falls into two parts:

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Rencontres d’Arles: 40 Years of the Rencontres, 40 Years of Ruptures to Open in France

LONDON.- C6 and Steal From Work launch an assault on the art market middle man, taking street art out of the galleries and on to the streets with new innovative QR code technology. Street Art Dealer is one of six commissions by Media Sandbox which aims to bring a new dynamic into public art, and with the help of renowned artists will bypass galleries and allow a new type of mobile interaction. This innovative use of QR code technology in the arts will be showcased during an exhibition on the streets of Bristol on July 9th where

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Internationally Renowned Artists Help Put the ‘Art’ Back into Street Art

LONDON.- Photographs of the Scottish landscape inspired by Daguerre’s dioramas , a film that visits the self-declared King of the British Eccentrics, an art exhibition inspired by Funhouses, a 1950s tea party followed by a 1980s wedding reception, a glamorous, metallic leather driving set and a collection of design objects based on lost British craft techniques; these are the results of the six commissions from the Vauxhall Collective , and arts initiative from Vauxhall Motors, based on the theme of the Great British Road Trip. The Vauxhall Collective members

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The Vauxhall Collective: The UK’s Most Talented and Exciting Creatives Exhibit their Commissions

MADRID.- Matthew Buckingham’s exhibition, Time Proxies, brings together a wide range of works in a variety of media that address how we use memory, both personal and public, to define the present moment. In each of these sculptural, photographic, aural, and moving-image works, Buckingham exploits a different experience of time while inviting us to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions. Among the most fundamental of these is the notion of “Universal Time,” a term adopted internationally in the 19th century to denote the temporal

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Wide Range of Works in a Variety of Media by Matthew Buckingham at Museo Reina Sofia

OTTAWA.- This installation from the National Gallery ’s Collection of Photographs comprises 26 colour panoramic views of empty baseball stadiums across North America, from Exhibition Stadium, the home of the Toronto Blue Jays, and Montréal’s Olympic Stadium to the Houston Astro’s Astrodome. Taken in 1982, Jim Dow, a respected American photographer as well as a sports enthusiast, imparts through these images both a passion for the monumentality of the architecture and its abstract geometry and his love of baseball. The emptiness of the stadiums simultaneously evokes memory and a sense of anticipation.

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Ball Parks: Jim Dow’s Photographs of Baseball Stadiums Opens at the National Gallery Canada

BILBAO.- The Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts presented its 27th guest work, the piece is titled “Boy with Cherries” by Edouard Manet (París, 1832-1883). This is a simply composed portrait, but of great quality and shows the artist’s expression. Manet was a fundamental figure in the transition between Realism and Impressionism. Manet knew how to introduce new themes and techniques which confronted him with academic art. The Boy with Cherries hides the tragic destiny the model had. Alexandre, a humble youngster, who helped Manet clean brushes and occasionally posed for him, ended up committing suicide at age 15, in the painter’s studio on Lavoisier

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Edouard Manet’s The Boy with Cherries Visits Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts as Guest Work

Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008 (45 new pics added 7-4-09!)

Classic San Diego Drive-In Movie Theatre Shot

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Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008 (45 new pics added 7-4-09!)