The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
October 1962, Volume 8, Number 4
Jerry MacMullen, Editor
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Leading off this issue is Charles V. Birkett who,
one might say, is a door-to-door distributor of local history. As a
public relations man for the Union Title office of Title insurance Co.,
his life is a mad round of luncheon clubs, where he gives illustrated
talks on bygone San Diego County communities ... Sheriff A. E. Jansen
is a lawman who, if sufficiently goaded, can turn out excellent copy
for publication. He became sheriff after nearly 30 years in the Police
Department, 14 of them "in the hot-seat"; no one else has been chief
that long ... Orion Zink is the kind of historian you dream about but
seldom find, for he pursues his facts with the bulldog zeal of a man
from Scotland Yard. For years, everyone has accepted the statement that
the Exchange hotel was "razed" in 1855; he found out that instead of
being "razed" it had been "raised" to become the three-story Franklin
house, and thus pin-pointed its location after all these years.
