Mannequins in San Diego: Gas Lamp Quarter

Horton Plaza, the shopping center where Nordstrom is located in downtown San Diego, is part of the city's historic Gas Lamp Quarter. Founded in 1850, San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, is located in what was then called New Town, became the bustling anchor of commerce for the developing City of San Diego. [more]

Mannequins in San Diego: Founding Fathers of The City

In the city's long history, several names had came up as the founding father. Juan Cabrillo, who was the first to discover San Diego Bay in 1542; Junipero Serra, the padre who guided the establishment of Alta California's first mission in 1769; William Heath Davis who was the catalyst of the 1850 of New Town; and Alonzo Erastus Horton, who started the first real estate boom in the city. [more]

Mannequins in San Diego: Wyatt Earp's Missing Years

Wyatt Earp is better known in the history of Tombstone and the great shootout at the OK Corral. But according Kenneth Cilch's book, Wyatt Earp The Missing Years, Wyatt came to San Diego between 1885 and 1887 and could have remained here as late as 1896. [more]

Mannequins in San Diego: San Diego Today

Today, San Diego is a bustling metropolis of 1.3 million city residents, and 2.8 million county residents. Listed as California's second largest city,it ranks as the sevent largest in the nation. [more]