Soap Creek Valley · Place

San Diego

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about San Diego: 3 transcript mentions across 2 records, grouped by who was speaking.

place-in-state Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 3

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

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Provenance

Coordinates: 32.71742, -117.16277
How they were found: coordinate from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; name match verified
How far to trust it: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 75, p. 76
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 5

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Then they bought a lot in Chula Vista, a city in San Diego Bay, about 12 miles south of San Diego.

James Hanish, #6 James Hanish , p. 75

We left Elmhurst, Illinois, and moved to San Diego, California, where my Mother's family lived.

James Hanish, #6 James Hanish , p. 75

Dated statements about this place

1941 — I registered with the Selective Service Board in El Cajon. My uncle decided to sell the ranch. I went to San Diego to find work with an aircraft plant and was employed by Solar Aircraft, running power machines for parts for aircraft. James Hanish · source · 1941–1950

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: San Diego (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: San Diego. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/san-diego/
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