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<\/a>At the time it was built, Linda Vista was the largest single defense housing project in the U.S. and the world\u2019s largest low-income housing development with a projected 13,000 residents.<\/p>\n
This model city was made up of \u201ccracker box\u201d houses, with mostly 3,000 units remaining today along with the original building housing Skateworld. In 1954, the Federal Public Housing Administration sold the houses for private ownership, according to Linda Vista officials.<\/p>\n
The government also built one of the nation\u2019s first planned shopping centers as a means of providing retail facilities for local residents. Because it was such a big deal in its time, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated the shopping center in 1942 with lots of hoopla and fanfare.<\/p>\n
The original shopping center was demolished in 1972 and replaced with the current Linda Vista Shopping Center.<\/p>\n
In the 1970s and 1980s, Linda Vista became a destination community for Pan Asian immigrants fleeing the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Linda Vista continues to celebrate its ethnic pride each year with the Multi-Cultural Fair, which brings Linda Vista\u2019s melting pot to life.<\/p>\n
Carrie Bienert, the Linda Vista 75th Anniversary chairperson, said that after 75 years of the community being established, it\u2019s wonderful to be able to recognize its history.<\/p>\n
And while the kick-off event will include a number of family-friendly activities, what she\u2019s most looking forward to is the community members who will be presenting oral histories.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it will be full of interesting tales of what happened during that time,\u201d Bienert said, adding that a display board with decades-old photos will also be on display.\u00a0Some photos were collected from the San Diego History Museum; others were available through the San Diego Library.<\/p>\n \u201cThe library had a collection of big, huge, framed pictures that were initially located hung at the Linda Vista McDonalds franchise when that first opened,\u201d Bienert said.\u00a0\u201cThey were there for years and years before the library got them.\u00a0When [the franchise owner] sold the business, she donated them.\u201d<\/p>\n The kick-off event will take place from 2 \u2014 4 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at the Linda Vista Shopping Center. San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts will be speaking at the event, and is among those who hold the community close to their heart.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was a young boy, Linda Vista was where my family settled and where I grew up,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cWhile much has changed in the 60 years since, the community remains a wonderful neighborhood, close to everything but with a distinctive character and feel all its own. One of my brothers still lives there and Linda Vista has never stopped feeling like home.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014Margie M. Palmer es una escritora independiente con sede en San Diego que ha estado acumulando art\u00edculos en una gran cantidad de publicaciones de noticias durante los \u00faltimos 10 a\u00f1os. Puedes localizarla en <\/em>margiep@alumni.pitt.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Por Margie M. Palmer<\/p>","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":233424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11557","_seopress_titles_title":"Linda Vista celebrates 75th Anniversary","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11557,11551,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-valley-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s a really unique area because it was really established for the workers who came to San Diego to build ships and airplanes,\u201d Bienert said.<\/p>\n