| Mira Mesa Contributor(s): Stevens, Pam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738582034 ISBN-13: 9780738582030 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 979.4 |
| LCCN: 2010934468 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Diego, California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mira Mesa is a suburban community in the northern part of the city of San Diego with many qualities of a small town. Mira Mesa is San Diego s largest suburb, with over 75,000 residents, stretching from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on the south to Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve on the north, and from I-15 on the east to I-805 on the west. When rapid growth in the early 1970s transformed the mesa from rocks and rattlesnakes to tract homes, there were no schools, parks, or other facilities, not even a grocery store. Residents held rallies and marches, and the first schools in Mira Mesa were created inside houses leased from developers. Mira Mesa today is a happily multiethnic community that includes schools, parks, a library, industrial and retail centers, and several supermarkets." |
Contributor Bio(s): Stevens, Pam: - Pam Stevens is a freelance author, librarian, and active volunteer with the Mira Mesa Town Council and other civic groups in Mira Mesa, where she and her husband, Jeff, have lived in the same house since 1980. Their two daughters grew up in Mira Mesa. A regular contributor to Mira Mesa Living magazine, Pam wrote for the Mira Mesa/Scripps Ranch Sentinel from 1982 until it ceased publication in 2009. |