According to Beautiful Public Data, a collection of San Diego photologs from the nineteen seventies has been made available online. These historical municipal records and photographs offer a window into the city during that era, preserving urban documentation from fifty years ago. The archive is the kind of public dataset that lets us see how cities actually looked and operated before digital memory.

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