on Oct. 24, will be held throughout the month at downtown’s Central Library.
And since the archives are also the official home of the Mayoral Artifacts collection, history is captured in the gifts, plaques and souvenir mugs that have been bestowed upon San Diego’s many mayors. During a phone interview from the basement, Maland and Miggins gave a brief but impressive inventory of the some of the items that were gifts to our mayors but are the property of the city. An elephant figurine made of Pakistani green onyx. A wooden wall hanging from Russia embroidered in gold thread. A brass key to the City of Tijuana awarded to former Mayor Maureen O’Connor in 1987. A framed needlework depicting life on a Vietnamese river given to then-Mayor Jerry Sanders in 2011.
There are burial records from Mount Hope Cemetery going back to 1868. There is a 1931 petition objecting to an odiferous Fifth Avenue concession exhibiting “embalmed specimens of Sea Animals.” There is an 88-page “Master Plan Recommendations for Mission Bay Park” from 1969, which highlights this perennial pickle: “The demand for outdoor recreation areas and facilities in California is far greater than the present supply.
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