{"id":805,"date":"2013-01-04T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:00:22","slug":"the-tijuana-sky-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"The Tijuana Sky Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960, Long Beach entrepreneur Allen Parkinson (inventor of Sleep-Eze) had a clever idea to speed people across the international border at San Ysidro.\u00a0 Partnering with Tijuana businessmen, Parkinson would build a mile-long aerial tramway to whisk passengers across the line in a Disneyland-style skyride.\u00a0 Regrettably, the scheme fizzled, but not before San Diego architect Frank L. Hope\u00a0 produced this fascinating rendering.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_806\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=806\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-806\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" data-attachment-id=\"806\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=806\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?fit=3818%2C2473&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3818,2473\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TJ_skyride_1960\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Proposed International Skyride from San Ysidro to Tijuana. Rendering by Frank L. Hope &amp;#038; Associates.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Special Collections, San Diego Public Library.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?fit=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-806   \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?resize=517%2C334\" alt=\"Special Collections, San Diego Public Library.\" width=\"517\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?resize=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TJ_skyride_1960.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special Collections, San Diego Public Library.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D805&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960, Long Beach entrepreneur Allen Parkinson (inventor of Sleep-Eze) had a clever idea to speed people across the international border at San Ysidro.\u00a0 Partnering with Tijuana businessmen, Parkinson would build a mile-long aerial tramway to whisk passengers across the line in a Disneyland-style skyride.\u00a0 Regrettably, the scheme fizzled, but not before San Diego architect [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[849,850,7],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-miscellany","tag-san-ysidro","tag-sky-ride","tag-tijuana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pVcZn-cZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}