Years ago (1972-1979) we'd ride out motorcycles out to the desert to camp for the weekend(from SD) and on the way back the Desert Tower was 'the' stop. We'd climb the steps and gaze at the view to the desert floor. We'd normally camp near Ocotillo or in Anza-Borrego State Park. Great memories!
My parents and I used to go for drives together. Back when I was a kid, going on drives was like a little vacation. Even in my times, everyone having cars opened up places and experiences you couldn’t go to, or have, before then. We would go up Highway 1 on the Oregon coast and into California to see the Redwoods, etc. That was in the 1960’s (I’m old) so the roads were small and the trips were a lot of fun. They also had roadside attractions to visit. I am not sure people can ever really understand what road trips were like before the super highways and thats too bad. Thanks for some great old memories.
I have been on highway one, pacific coast highway it's called, many times. Takes almost 20 hours just to drive through Oregon. Course if you stop often, could take 2 days. But worth it!
Back in the 50s and 60s my parents took us on trips on 80. There was a restaurant in Alpine that had a tree growing up through the middle of it and I always wanted to stop and see it.
@@kurtweiand7086 Please note: Hwy 101 in Oregon was not built as close to the ocean because not as many mountains along the shore, so less chances to see the beach from the highway. But the parts you can see...are epic. My ex & I drove both CA & Oregon at various times and like many places you will have to get off and excursion over to some beautiful spots
This was the highway our family used twice yearly from when my parents married in 1957 until my grandparents died in the late 1970s. We drove from Atlanta to Shreveport Louisiana, using US 80 from Tuskeegee, AL to Shreveport (gradually alternating with Interstate 20). There were so many billboards, roadside businesses, and scenery. I loved it all. Was a big part of my childhood. I especially enjoyed US 80 in Eastern Louisiana.
Most of US 80 in Louisiana is all original routing except for where 80 crossed over the railroad (grade crossings were replaced with overpasses in the late 1940s and mid 1950s). And the Mississippi River Bridge at Delta, LA/Vicksburg, MS was closed in the early/mid 1990s and rerouted onto the adjacent I-20. Otherwise not much has changed over time.
Very well done. I just got back to Riverside Ca last night from a round trip West Coast from Santa Monica to the Canadian border on my motorcycle. I did a few youtube videos but nothing near the quality of yours
Your history and narration is outstanding as always. Can't say we've ever seen half these things ourselves but certainly makes one want to take the drive especially with the mixture of old ruins of towns mixed with thriving old business such as a century old candy store. 😁
Im from El Centro...One of my favorite spots in holtville I want to add is the hot springs. Holtville Hot Springs is a natural spring where you can lounge around this lil oasis.
Thanks again for sharing Steve as always your videos are excellent I am sitting here has my mom is passing away a lot of your videos so her old stomping grounds places her uncle and her mom used to like to go see storys I've heard all my life thank you for helping me see them it really means a lot it is good to know that there are still good people in this world I hope your family is doing well I hope this finds you in good health thanks again Steve
What a stud guide...determination as big as a mountain lion...kinda like a field mouse...he is going to cover the whole field...como una mosca he flies every where, pauses long enough to let you know what he is doing and talking about...and off you (we) go to the next adventure,,,down the Camino of hopes...
When in Holtville you may like the free hot springs. Just east of the 115 exit on Evan Hewes road. It's got a deep cement pool and is one of the hottest springs I have been to. There are cooler side pools and a cool palm oasis pond too. I swam in the pond but worried about snapping turtles as it looked lush and exotic. Paradise a stones throw from the freeway. Valley of the Moon West towards Jacumba is amazing. There are huge granite rocks shaped by the wind. If you make it to the top of the mining peak and shout you can get a dozen echoes if it's calm. A side loop leads to Pancho Villa's cave and there's a hidden miners shack out there too. Table mountain across the freeway leads to a view of the Carrizo gorge train trestles but it's serious 4wheel or moto. Thanks for getting me back out to these places virtually and filling in the history of places I took for granted and drove right by. Drive like there's no tomorrow!
Betty Boop,,she,e from my time ,,so it's cool to see her painted on the side of a fast food place ,,sure enjoy your travels and tour,s of historic and interesting places ,,I've been across the United States twice and it was a lot of fun ,,thanks for the video,s Steve,,be safe out there
Thank so much for another outstanding video. This one brought back memories of my cross-country bicycle trip in 2010, starting in San Diego. I had overnights n Alpine, Pine Valley, and Ocotillo, before turning north at El Centro. Watching your video made me realize how many fascinating sites I missed! Next time.
Well documented. Great history. We have been to several of those locations, and your narration makes us want to visit the rest. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.Thank you for sharing.
Hello from Thailand 🇹🇭, it was great seeing my hometown of Holtville, CA. Haven't been back for almost 10 years. There was a couple of places you missed on your trip through the Imperial Valley. About 4 miles east of Holtville there was a wide spot in the road called Date City. On the east side of the valley was a place called Dixieland, I know this place because when I was 2 years old we lived there. Further on would be Plaster city where they make sheetrock and ship it all over the U.S. My wife and I almost bought the Desert vew tower in 1999 but backed off. The owners wanted to strip everything out and sell it and leave us with nothing to sell. We just backed out of the deal.
Living in South Orange County I have visited San Diego and it’s environs many times… but a lot of things you tell about in the eastern part of the county sound very intriguing. Gotta go visit! Thanks..
This is great! When I lived in San Diego, I'd much prefer driving Hwy 80 vs I-8 going to Yuma to visit my mom and grandma. My mom and I actually stood inside the pyramid at the "Center of the World". Your videos bring back many great memories!
I live in Midland, Texas located along the old Highway 80. It has been officially re-named Business I-20, but the locals all still call it Highway 80. I drive it going to and from work everyday. Thanks for another great video!
there was this place in pine valley called Majors Diner (it was a 50s diner) and was pretty good for breakfast...also, just up the street from majors was this place (that doesn't exist anymore) called Geezers, and my dad and i used to eat breakfast there after we went out shooting in Jacumba...Geezers used to have a ton of wooden carved statues of old men (and animals) all over the place...i mainly liked it because it had some arcades in it to play...
The Lafayette Hotel is in the middle of North Park the western part on the south side of El Cajon Boulevard Highway 80 . and the boulevard sign is just past the beginning of El Cajon Boulevard where it starts at the cross street Park Boulevard. Park Boulevard runs north and south through Balboa Park into downtown where its name is 12th Street. I have driven through this neighborhood so many hundreds of times.
I was atruvker during the late 50's and into the 60's' I spent from the fall of 60 to the early summer of 61 running across the old 2 lane 80 pulling doubles across that roadd.
I remember seeing those exact Auto Club signs in Holtville as a kid when my family traveled in Baja California, as they'd set them up along the peninsula's main roads during the 1920s, if I recall.
Love your videos, Steve (we're tocayos). I think what I enjoyed most about this episode was that pre-I-5/8/15 map...I love maps from that era and recently bought a Shell Road Atlas of the US published in 1960 with the intent of retracing our family's 1963 trip from Gainesville, Florida to San Francisco, CA to the Canadian border and then back to the Mexican border crossing at San Isidro. I want to stay on the old roads as much as possible, so maps like the one you show are the ones that really perk me up. That Shell Atlas is exactly what I'd been looking for as that was just as the interstate system was getting underway.
In remembrance of my dad, he went home with the Lord on Monday, May 27, 2012. Memorial Day. Him and I took a road trip along highway 80. He renamed this highway as, Old Lady Highway. It was comedy with him.
There are maps that indicate the western terminus of US 80 was actually at the entrance to the Cabrillo National Monument on Catalina Blvd. The routing was El Cajon Blvd., west to US 101 on Market Street. Co-signed with US 101 along Pacific Highway to Barnett Ave. Barnett Ave. to Lytton Ave. at the Naval Training Center entrance, across Rosecrans Street to Chatsworth Blvd. which turns into Catalina Blvd. at Canon St. There are also maps that indicate US 80 turned left off of Lytton St. at Rosecrans St. then made a right at Canon St. then a left at Catalina Blvd. The construction of these streets indicate that they were major traffic lanes from back in the 1940's
Absolutely fascinating. I thought the western terminus of US HWY 80 was Washington Street and Pacific Highway. I'd like to see some more detail of where the highway went as it entered San Diego from El Cajon. Also, there are some very interesting tidbits directly related to US HWY 80 between the city of El Cajon and the Desert View Tower that I haven't seen mentioned, so I'm not sure if you know they even exist.
So interesting! Am now trying to think of a friend who would be willing to do a road trip out to Jacumba, Boulevard, and environs. I just came across your channel today and your videos are fantastic. I grew up in SD (from 1966 on) and never knew about this area. For fun, I looked up property values at several points along old Highway 80 and it looks like absurd California property prices extend even into tiny communities that are located way, way off the beaten track. Pine Valley, of course, is much more well known town but I was still floored by the sky-high cost of homes there. Truly surreal. (Sad about San Diego having gotten on the bandwagon and removed those highway terminus markers because of "confederate references" - it's always a very bad sign when people attempt to rewrite or revise history. I guess it's a cheap and easy thing for city governments to do to gain approval from citizens while city government officials continue to collect their payouts from developers in back rooms. It's too lucrative to stop the never-ending home building even as the water runs out and bans on watering gardens loom on the horizon.)
Having grown up in San Diego during the 60's I really enjoy your videos. I left the area in the early 70's and don't care for what it has turned into Have you ever considered doing a video on the bridge that used to go from Ocean Beach to Mission Beach. Also the amusement park , Wonder World?
I lived in San Diego starting 1966 left for San Francisco during the school year 1981 to 1985. When I came back the summer of 84 and drove through Mission Valley I renamed it myself 'Misery Valley' for all of the construction especially one high-rise building right North of Highway 8 Loss of the Dairy remnants of farmland mobile home parks a few large ranch homes in the valley. People I know who lived in San Diego their whole lives that they rode horse horses you could rent from stables in Mission Valley. Much of the Farmland in Mission Valley was owned and operated by Japanese for World War II.
@@billofrightsamend4 . Japanese-American first generation and Nisei Japanese(second generation). They owned land in lots of places in California. Were. expert Farmers gardeners. All the Japanese had their land and positions taken for them were sent to concentration camps called Internment Camps. This is courtesy of that great white Liberal Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR. In San Diego Mission Valley was Farmland that they owned and operated or leased and operated. There's a famous Gardener Bruce Asakawa who was on the radio 30 years doing weekend gardening shows with his announcer sidekick John Bagnasco. After WWII his parents and he started Presidio Garden Center Morena Boulevard San Diego. He graduated from Mission Bay High School and Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in landscape architecture. Held many positions in The landscape architect in gardening community. He also served in the Navy post-World War II aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. I remember him wel;l got some of this detail from his obituary available online 1941 to 2022 died with Parkinson's disease. I had a girlfriend 1968-69 UC Santa Barbara who is sansei Japanese( third generation). Her parents and Grandparents were interred in the concentration camp WWII. She lived with their parents in Imperial Valley. While attending UCSB she lived with her grandparents in the central Santa Barbara City. I knew her grandparents. She showed me the books her family had of life in the internment camps. These books were just like high school annuals showing them where they lived the school stores Etc in their camp. Japanese-Americans resilient wonderful people.
Back when I was a kid, in the 50s, we lived in El Cajon on Broadway and would travel back east to visit relatives each summer. We didn't have air conditioning so dad would put a large tub in the back seat and fill it with a 50-pound block of ice. As we drove and the ice melted, we would stop at the icehouse in a towns along the way and by more ice. Almost every town of size had one and it was next to the railroad which still cooled the car with ice to keep fruit and vegetables fresh on their trip back east. In the summer the temperature was always between 105 and 115 degrees. Oh! how times haves changed. Interstate freeways, air-conditioning in cars and drive-thru restaurants. But now you have to put gas in your car and no checks the oil, tire pressure and washes the windshield. Self-service is no service.
no matter what ,even though i see hundreds of video about california whenever another video pops up on my screen when it says california .i just click it to watch .no matter even if i am pooping in bathroom using mobile along with it 😂
The instructor at a class I was taking had an original tax return for a plot of land for Alonzo Horton. Loved taking my daughters shopping there when there were SO many different stores.
Hey man. Thanks for the video. We're tentatively planning a coast to coast trip end of next year in one of our 100+ year old Fords. We are starting on historic 80 at tybee Island. Looks like we can realistically stay on it until Dallas-Fort Worth or el paso depending on the map/ person that we ask. We'd greatly appreciate any help with planning our route. Bonus points if we get on 66 for a while. Thanks Todd
I haven't been able to explore much of Highway 80 in New Mexico, but you can still drive a lot of it in Arizona, and I think that's one of the best states for it. In AZ it travels through historic towns like Bisbee and Tombstone (both the OK Corral and Boot Hill are right on Highway 80) and major cities like Tucson and Phoenix. It never gets very close to Route 66, but if you head north at Phoenix its about 2 hours away. That's a hard choice though because Route 66 in AZ and NM is great too.
@@SidetrackAdventures yeah. I'm seeing that we're not going to get on 66 this time. I should have mentioned that our top speed is 36. Lol. So we need to stay off the major roads.
@@toddtouchberry I'm not sure about NM, but in AZ you can stay on 80 from the NM border to Benson, but then you'll run into Interstate between Benson and Tucson. From Tucson you can retrace the old 80 up through Phoenix and all the way to Gila Bend without touching interstate. From there to the California border there is a few streches of highway but you'll run into a lot of Interstate again. Interstate can't be completely avoided in California either unfortunately.
I had to abandon this one because it looks like ads keep trying to come up about ever 2 minutes, but nothing ever plays. I get a 30-second black screen. Hope you can chat with CZcams and get this fixed. Hopefully, I'll see your next one.
Always love your shows. Spent lots of time out on 80. Good job. Ever thinking of doing warner springs? Jefferson davis highway. Tearing down monuments to such will make history disappear. Im not pro slavery that would be ridiclous. Hiding history will have unintended consequences. Last i checked a war was fought and many died. Usually years after a war the pain of the soldiers is respected in context of war. Im not suggesting glorifying the politics. Notable military men who b4vthe warvdid some notable act get erased because ofvtge war politicians and activests want division as a distraction or a way to generate votes. Forgrt the gov we all are here now reach out and get along. We all will be better off.
The Highway system was created in 1926 and the lower numbers were in the north and east but when they started the interstate system in the 1950s they did it in reverse with lower numbers in the south and west so that people wouldn't confuse the highways and the interstates (that's why there is no Interstate 50, because it would be too close to Highway 50).
Great video, but the ending spoiled it for me. I lived in beautiful San Diego from 1982-91 and I'm saddened to hear that PC cancel culture has San Diego digging up and removing historical markers. That is so sad 😢
Years ago (1972-1979) we'd ride out motorcycles out to the desert to camp for the weekend(from SD) and on the way back the Desert Tower was 'the' stop. We'd climb the steps and gaze at the view to the desert floor. We'd normally camp near Ocotillo or in Anza-Borrego State Park. Great memories!
My parents and I used to go for drives together. Back when I was a kid, going on drives was like a little vacation. Even in my times, everyone having cars opened up places and experiences you couldn’t go to, or have, before then. We would go up Highway 1 on the Oregon coast and into California to see the Redwoods, etc. That was in the 1960’s (I’m old) so the roads were small and the trips were a lot of fun. They also had roadside attractions to visit. I am not sure people can ever really understand what road trips were like before the super highways and thats too bad. Thanks for some great old memories.
Thanks for sharing! I can remember rides with my dad, even minor breakdowns where locals helped us out! Clear even 50 years later ha. Take care!
I have been on highway one, pacific coast highway it's called, many times. Takes almost 20 hours just to drive through Oregon. Course if you stop often, could take 2 days. But worth it!
Back in the 50s and 60s my parents took us on trips on 80. There was a restaurant in Alpine that had a tree growing up through the middle of it and I always wanted to stop and see it.
I remember that! Hadn't thought of it in years! @@u4riahsc
@@kurtweiand7086 Please note: Hwy 101 in Oregon was not built as close to the ocean because not as many mountains along the shore, so less chances to see the beach from the highway. But the parts you can see...are epic. My ex & I drove both CA & Oregon at various times and like many places you will have to get off and excursion over to some beautiful spots
Highway 80 has so many fascinating things to see. It’s a great weekend drive in San Diego/Imperial counties.
This was the highway our family used twice yearly from when my parents married in 1957 until my grandparents died in the late 1970s. We drove from Atlanta to Shreveport Louisiana, using US 80 from Tuskeegee, AL to Shreveport (gradually alternating with Interstate 20). There were so many billboards, roadside businesses, and scenery. I loved it all. Was a big part of my childhood. I especially enjoyed US 80 in Eastern Louisiana.
I haven't had a chance to drive much of 80 east of New Mexico yet, but am planning on a trip in the future. So much to see!
Most of US 80 in Louisiana is all original routing except for where 80 crossed over the railroad (grade crossings were replaced with overpasses in the late 1940s and mid 1950s). And the Mississippi River Bridge at Delta, LA/Vicksburg, MS was closed in the early/mid 1990s and rerouted onto the adjacent I-20. Otherwise not much has changed over time.
Very well done. I just got back to Riverside Ca last night from a round trip West Coast from Santa Monica to the Canadian border on my motorcycle. I did a few youtube videos but nothing near the quality of yours
WOW! Did that bring back a lot of memories! Thanks for a great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
YES! Grew Up Around the "80" In East County, San Diego
Thank you again for roads in and out of San Diego...I lived-in San Diego too.❤you're great👍👋🪶
Your history and narration is outstanding as always. Can't say we've ever seen half these things ourselves but certainly makes one want to take the drive especially with the mixture of old ruins of towns mixed with thriving old business such as a century old candy store. 😁
Thank you!
Im from El Centro...One of my favorite spots in holtville I want to add is the hot springs. Holtville Hot Springs is a natural spring where you can lounge around this lil oasis.
I'm from Brawley and the Oasis is still there and more visitors everyday....
Good reveals thanks for taking us along on the road trip.
New subscriber from Savannah Georgia here! I can’t wait to see the West in of 80 someday!
Excellent video. Brought back memories as I have lived in several locations along old highway 80 since 1969.
You are great fun.
Thanks again for sharing Steve as always your videos are excellent I am sitting here has my mom is passing away a lot of your videos so her old stomping grounds places her uncle and her mom used to like to go see storys I've heard all my life thank you for helping me see them it really means a lot it is good to know that there are still good people in this world I hope your family is doing well I hope this finds you in good health thanks again Steve
Sorry to hear about your mom. Glad I could be of help.
Great job, Steve! Your videos are always enjoyable and informative
What a stud guide...determination as big as a mountain lion...kinda like a field mouse...he is going to cover the whole field...como una mosca he flies every where, pauses long enough to let you know what he is doing and talking about...and off you (we) go to the next adventure,,,down the Camino of hopes...
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When in Holtville you may like the free hot springs.
Just east of the 115 exit on Evan Hewes road. It's got a deep cement pool and is one of the hottest springs I have been to. There are cooler side pools and a cool palm oasis pond too.
I swam in the pond but worried about snapping turtles as it looked lush and exotic.
Paradise a stones throw from the freeway.
Valley of the Moon West towards Jacumba is amazing.
There are huge granite rocks shaped by the wind.
If you make it to the top of the mining peak and shout you can get a dozen echoes if it's calm.
A side loop leads to Pancho Villa's cave and there's a hidden miners shack out there too.
Table mountain across the freeway leads to a view of the Carrizo gorge train trestles but it's serious 4wheel or moto.
Thanks for getting me back out to these places virtually and filling in the history of places I took for granted and drove right by.
Drive like there's no tomorrow!
Another solid virtu-tour! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks. I don't know how I miss this one a year ago. But it is a great presentation.
This video brings back many memories. I haven't been to nearly any of them since I was a child. Thank you for the experience.
Thanks for checking it out. We appreciate the kind words.
Betty Boop,,she,e from my time ,,so it's cool to see her painted on the side of a fast food place ,,sure enjoy your travels and tour,s of historic and interesting places ,,I've been across the United States twice and it was a lot of fun ,,thanks for the video,s Steve,,be safe out there
I love every one of these, I always like to start out my day with one of your videos! Thank you for taking me places I can't go anymore!
Thank you. Glad you like them.
The bell looks like the ones on El Camino Real in San Mateo County and other places.
It is one of the same bells. Even though El Camino Real started north of there, they put them up for the 101 later too.
Thank so much for another outstanding video. This one brought back memories of my cross-country bicycle trip in 2010, starting in San Diego. I had overnights n Alpine, Pine Valley, and Ocotillo, before turning north at El Centro. Watching your video made me realize how many fascinating sites I missed! Next time.
Well documented. Great history. We have been to several of those locations, and your narration makes us want to visit the rest. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Love your channel as well.
@@SidetrackAdventures Thank you so much, we really appreciate that.
Hello from Thailand 🇹🇭, it was great seeing my hometown of Holtville, CA. Haven't been back for almost 10 years. There was a couple of places you missed on your trip through the Imperial Valley. About 4 miles east of Holtville there was a wide spot in the road called Date City. On the east side of the valley was a place called Dixieland, I know this place because when I was 2 years old we lived there. Further on would be Plaster city where they make sheetrock and ship it all over the U.S.
My wife and I almost bought the Desert vew tower in 1999 but backed off. The owners wanted to strip everything out and sell it and leave us with nothing to sell. We just backed out of the deal.
We stayed at the Lafayette several years ago for a Navy reunion. It was a very nice place.
Excellent. Thank you.
The immortal Huell Howser did one of his shows about Desert View Tower. Good to re-visit!
My grandma came here from Texas when she was just a little girl on this road!
One of my favorite channels
We visited the desert view tower a few weeks ago, it took me back to my childhood. The candy shop is fun and yummy!
Living in South Orange County I have visited San Diego and it’s environs many times… but a lot of things you tell about in the eastern part of the county sound very intriguing. Gotta go visit! Thanks..
This is great! When I lived in San Diego, I'd much prefer driving Hwy 80 vs I-8 going to Yuma to visit my mom and grandma. My mom and I actually stood inside the pyramid at the "Center of the World". Your videos bring back many great memories!
Very informative. As I travel I8 often, I will be making side trips. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this history! I’m a ecv clamper and love your vids.
Thank you. I appreciate all your org does to preserve history as well.
Thank you 🙏 😊. For sharing all your videos and information! 👍👍😎
Isn't the US Grant Hotel in the Horton Plaza? I stayed in the US Grant in May, 1978 on a high school field trip 4 days, 3 nights.
It is right across the street from Horton Plaza.
I live in Midland, Texas located along the old Highway 80. It has been officially re-named Business I-20, but the locals all still call it Highway 80. I drive it going to and from work everyday. Thanks for another great video!
Thanks for doing a great job !
there was this place in pine valley called Majors Diner (it was a 50s diner) and was pretty good for breakfast...also, just up the street from majors was this place (that doesn't exist anymore) called Geezers, and my dad and i used to eat breakfast there after we went out shooting in Jacumba...Geezers used to have a ton of wooden carved statues of old men (and animals) all over the place...i mainly liked it because it had some arcades in it to play...
i used to work at majors diner! it just closed this past year sadly.
@@wickediccproduction6350 damn...that place was so cool!
Definitely gonna stop by at night and see the Boulevard sign! Thanks for sharing
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
The Lafayette Hotel is in the middle of North Park the western part on the south side of El Cajon Boulevard Highway 80 . and the boulevard sign is just past the beginning of El Cajon Boulevard where it starts at the cross street Park Boulevard. Park Boulevard runs north and south through Balboa Park into downtown where its name is 12th Street.
I have driven through this neighborhood so many hundreds of times.
I enjoy your videos so much.😷
Wonderful Highway 80 history. Thanks for the great video!
I was atruvker during the late 50's and into the 60's' I spent from the fall of 60 to the early summer of 61 running across the old 2 lane 80 pulling doubles across that roadd.
I remember seeing those exact Auto Club signs in Holtville as a kid when my family traveled in Baja California, as they'd set them up along the peninsula's main roads during the 1920s, if I recall.
The Frosty Burger was a Dairy Queen I moved to pine valley in 1971
Love your videos, Steve (we're tocayos). I think what I enjoyed most about this episode was that pre-I-5/8/15 map...I love maps from that era and recently bought a Shell Road Atlas of the US published in 1960 with the intent of retracing our family's 1963 trip from Gainesville, Florida to San Francisco, CA to the Canadian border and then back to the Mexican border crossing at San Isidro. I want to stay on the old roads as much as possible, so maps like the one you show are the ones that really perk me up. That Shell Atlas is exactly what I'd been looking for as that was just as the interstate system was getting underway.
THE LAFAYETTE... JUST CAME FROM THE NEW DINER. EPIC.
I gotta check it out.
Y’all need to check jacumba hot springs spa, it was just renovated from scratch. It is 10/10, I recommend it for so many reasons!
You got a cool channel...I lived 8 yrs of my pathetic life in Yuma. (Use of the word pathetic was in jest.🤣)
I know this was posted a year ago but Thank You!
I took a lot of notes.
This guy has saved me many thousands of dollars in gas costs. lol thanks!
What about Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Driving back and forth to San Diego and New Mexico, We pronounce Jacumba with J instead of an H ....lol Love watching your vlogs /videos
In remembrance of my dad, he went home with the Lord on Monday, May 27, 2012. Memorial Day. Him and I took a road trip along highway 80. He renamed this highway as, Old Lady Highway. It was comedy with him.
There are maps that indicate the western terminus of US 80 was actually at the entrance to the Cabrillo National Monument on Catalina Blvd. The routing was El Cajon Blvd., west to US 101 on Market Street. Co-signed with US 101 along Pacific Highway to Barnett Ave. Barnett Ave. to Lytton Ave. at the Naval Training Center entrance, across Rosecrans Street to Chatsworth Blvd. which turns into Catalina Blvd. at Canon St. There are also maps that indicate US 80 turned left off of Lytton St. at Rosecrans St. then made a right at Canon St. then a left at Catalina Blvd. The construction of these streets indicate that they were major traffic lanes from back in the 1940's
From what I understand, even though a few maps listed Cabrillo as the end, it never officially ended there and the maps are the only mention of it.
I remember the happy meals of early 80s
Absolutely fascinating. I thought the western terminus of US HWY 80 was Washington Street and Pacific Highway. I'd like to see some more detail of where the highway went as it entered San Diego from El Cajon. Also, there are some very interesting tidbits directly related to US HWY 80 between the city of El Cajon and the Desert View Tower that I haven't seen mentioned, so I'm not sure if you know they even exist.
There is at least one map that shows the end of Highway 80 at Cabrillo National Monument, but I'm not sure that was ever official.
Yes
He seems to be confused, the map he showed is I8, not I80. Unless I80 was completely rerouted this isn’t a video about I80.
So interesting! Am now trying to think of a friend who would be willing to do a road trip out to Jacumba, Boulevard, and environs. I just came across your channel today and your videos are fantastic. I grew up in SD (from 1966 on) and never knew about this area. For fun, I looked up property values at several points along old Highway 80 and it looks like absurd California property prices extend even into tiny communities that are located way, way off the beaten track. Pine Valley, of course, is much more well known town but I was still floored by the sky-high cost of homes there. Truly surreal. (Sad about San Diego having gotten on the bandwagon and removed those highway terminus markers because of "confederate references" - it's always a very bad sign when people attempt to rewrite or revise history. I guess it's a cheap and easy thing for city governments to do to gain approval from citizens while city government officials continue to collect their payouts from developers in back rooms. It's too lucrative to stop the never-ending home building even as the water runs out and bans on watering gardens loom on the horizon.)
Prices are crazy everywhere, even the Salton Sea area is going up.
Jacumba hot springs hotel is very interesting, owned by the same folks with the nudist camp across the freeway
Having grown up in San Diego during the 60's I really enjoy your videos. I left the area in the early 70's and don't care for what it has turned into Have you ever considered doing a video on the bridge that used to go from Ocean Beach to Mission Beach. Also the amusement park , Wonder World?
I lived in San Diego starting 1966 left for San Francisco during the school year 1981 to 1985. When I came back the summer of 84 and drove through Mission Valley I renamed it myself 'Misery Valley' for all of the construction especially one high-rise building right North of Highway 8 Loss of the Dairy remnants of farmland mobile home parks a few large ranch homes in the valley. People I know who lived in San Diego their whole lives that they rode horse horses you could rent from stables in Mission Valley. Much of the Farmland in Mission Valley was owned and operated by Japanese for World War II.
@@brucehutch5419 Japanese in Japan or American Japanese? Before WWII or during? That's interesting.
@@billofrightsamend4 . Japanese-American first generation and Nisei Japanese(second generation). They owned land in lots of places in California. Were. expert Farmers gardeners. All the Japanese had their land and positions taken for them were sent to concentration camps called Internment Camps. This is courtesy of that great white Liberal Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR.
In San Diego Mission Valley was Farmland that they owned and operated or leased and operated. There's a famous Gardener Bruce Asakawa who was on the radio 30 years doing weekend gardening shows with his announcer sidekick John Bagnasco. After WWII his parents and he started Presidio Garden Center Morena Boulevard San Diego. He graduated from Mission Bay High School and Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in landscape architecture. Held many positions in The landscape architect in gardening community. He also served in the Navy post-World War II aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
I remember him wel;l got some of this detail from his obituary available online 1941 to 2022 died with Parkinson's disease.
I had a girlfriend 1968-69 UC Santa Barbara who is sansei Japanese( third generation). Her parents and Grandparents were interred in the concentration camp WWII. She lived with their parents in Imperial Valley. While attending UCSB she lived with her grandparents in the central Santa Barbara City. I knew her grandparents. She showed me the books her family had of life in the internment camps. These books were just like high school annuals showing them where they lived the school stores Etc in their camp. Japanese-Americans resilient wonderful people.
I have been to the center of the world ❤
Hope to make it to Balboa Park via Amtrak.
Have you done something about the unfinished tunnels up CA 39, past East Fork? There are two stories about them, the Park Service story and the truth.
Back when I was a kid, in the 50s, we lived in El Cajon on Broadway and would travel back east to visit relatives each summer. We didn't have air conditioning so dad would put a large tub in the back seat and fill it with a 50-pound block of ice. As we drove and the ice melted, we would stop at the icehouse in a towns along the way and by more ice. Almost every town of size had one and it was next to the railroad which still cooled the car with ice to keep fruit and vegetables fresh on their trip back east. In the summer the temperature was always between 105 and 115 degrees. Oh! how times haves changed. Interstate freeways, air-conditioning in cars and drive-thru restaurants. But now you have to put gas in your car and no checks the oil, tire pressure and washes the windshield. Self-service is no service.
no matter what ,even though i see hundreds of video about california whenever another video pops up on my screen when it says california .i just click it to watch .no matter even if i am pooping in bathroom using mobile along with it 😂
5:12 I wonder if that was used in the movie American Graffiti. It looks familiar.
I think it was all filmed in Modesto but I'm not 100% sure on that.
The instructor at a class I was taking had an original tax return for a plot of land for Alonzo Horton. Loved taking my daughters shopping there when there were SO many different stores.
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Have you ever tried to visit Hell To Find Lake way up in NorCal in the Trinity National Forest?
Hey man. Thanks for the video. We're tentatively planning a coast to coast trip end of next year in one of our 100+ year old Fords. We are starting on historic 80 at tybee Island. Looks like we can realistically stay on it until Dallas-Fort Worth or el paso depending on the map/ person that we ask. We'd greatly appreciate any help with planning our route. Bonus points if we get on 66 for a while. Thanks Todd
I haven't been able to explore much of Highway 80 in New Mexico, but you can still drive a lot of it in Arizona, and I think that's one of the best states for it. In AZ it travels through historic towns like Bisbee and Tombstone (both the OK Corral and Boot Hill are right on Highway 80) and major cities like Tucson and Phoenix. It never gets very close to Route 66, but if you head north at Phoenix its about 2 hours away. That's a hard choice though because Route 66 in AZ and NM is great too.
@@SidetrackAdventures yeah. I'm seeing that we're not going to get on 66 this time. I should have mentioned that our top speed is 36. Lol. So we need to stay off the major roads.
@@toddtouchberry I'm not sure about NM, but in AZ you can stay on 80 from the NM border to Benson, but then you'll run into Interstate between Benson and Tucson. From Tucson you can retrace the old 80 up through Phoenix and all the way to Gila Bend without touching interstate. From there to the California border there is a few streches of highway but you'll run into a lot of Interstate again. Interstate can't be completely avoided in California either unfortunately.
The Lafayette is currently being heavily renovated. The Botanical Building in Balboa Park is being completely refurbished and currently closed.
I had to abandon this one because it looks like ads keep trying to come up about ever 2 minutes, but nothing ever plays. I get a 30-second black screen. Hope you can chat with CZcams and get this fixed. Hopefully, I'll see your next one.
You should do a Oregon Trail video!!
I would but every time I played the game as a kid I got dysentery! Hoping to do something in that area next year.
RIP HORTON PLAZA 💔
hwy 79 south of Florence AZ has a monument laying claim to the accident location where Tom Mix was killed. Was that hwy 80 at that time?
Was California State Route 78 ever intended to be the western extension of US Highway 78? It would numerically line up, with US-80 just to the south.
7:06 evil bert!!
What will a Jacumba Hot Springs and some of these other locations look like 10,000 years from now.
Always love your shows. Spent lots of time out on 80. Good job. Ever thinking of doing warner springs? Jefferson davis highway. Tearing down monuments to such will make history disappear. Im not pro slavery that would be ridiclous. Hiding history will have unintended consequences. Last i checked a war was fought and many died. Usually years after a war the pain of the soldiers is respected in context of war. Im not suggesting glorifying the politics. Notable military men who b4vthe warvdid some notable act get erased because ofvtge war politicians and activests want division as a distraction or a way to generate votes. Forgrt the gov we all are here now reach out and get along. We all will be better off.
In your research did you discover why US 80 / I-80 was redirected to San Francisco over the Sierra Nevada (by Reno)? Where it is today.
When they created the interstate system, they flipped the numbers from the highway system, with high numbers in the north and low in the south.
It’s a shame not all history is celebrated in San Diego
Cant believe they got rid of that marker in horton plaza 🤡
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Ahhh, now known, for the most part, as US Interstate 8.
Music mix WAY too loud.
This is how my parents came from back east. They were married nearby...not long after the forgotten war
Federal highway 80, or U.S. highway 80.
US 80. I-80 (Interstate 80) comes out of San Francisco and heads east. Whereas US 80 heads out San Diego
Why is there a Hwy 80 in San Diego and a Interstate 80 in San Francisco?
The Highway system was created in 1926 and the lower numbers were in the north and east but when they started the interstate system in the 1950s they did it in reverse with lower numbers in the south and west so that people wouldn't confuse the highways and the interstates (that's why there is no Interstate 50, because it would be too close to Highway 50).
@@SidetrackAdventures very interesting!
America has many many beautiful spots, but i shudder everytime i see old buildings covered in Horrible graffiti 😱, keep America the beautiful.
Always the spray paint......why the hell for? lol
Shows what will happen in 5o years if our society fails
Great video, but the ending spoiled it for me. I lived in beautiful San Diego from 1982-91 and I'm saddened to hear that PC cancel culture has San Diego digging up and removing historical markers. That is so sad 😢
Progress always has a sad price.
Ridiculous historical revisionism they should have left the marker and edited it for historical perspective.
You can't cancel our history. Confederate or something else. Ridiculous. Nonetheless, appreciate the video 👍