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Oh, if investors only knew what was coming.

Sit back and get comfortable while you read about our little beachside community that believed in itself and grew to become one of the most popular places to live, work and visit.

PACIFIC BEACH?LOOKING BACK By Eve Smull, Beach and Bay Press

"Pacific Beach Is Offered To Investors For The First Time!"

1887 - Golden Era magazine touted the glories of our all-but-vacant land just north of False Bay, extolling PB's "magnificent beach, unsurpassed in California and the bay for yachting, fishing and duck-shooting." The Pacific Beach Company offered its first 25' x 125' lots on December 12, 1887. The land boom extended to neighborhoods throughout the San Diego area. Others who celebrate 1887 as their founding year include Ocean Beach, La Jolla and Coronado.

January - 1888 - The San Diego College of Letters laid its cornerstone in formal ceremonies. (The site of Pacific Plaza II today.)

March -1888 - The Pacific Beach Weekly Newspaper was first published. It survived one year. The PB Community Church (now PB Presbyerian Church) rose on the corner of Garnet and Jewell.

April - 1888 - The San Diego and Old Town Railway was extended to PB. Round trip fare from downtown to the beach was 25 cents and took just 30 minutes one-way.

May, 1888 - The American Driving Park (racetrack) opened, complete with a grandstand, stables and clubhouse. Wyatt Earp raced his horses there.

In the summer of '88, world-famous poet Rose Hartwick Thorpe arrived to lend prestige to the "college town." She wrote a poem about our bay-then know as "False Bay"-renaming it forever, "Mission Bay." Meanwhile, buyers continued to invest in vacant lots.