San Ysidro, CA my first look at the MEX border

Found these pictures on the internet. Thank you to who's ever they are. The first pic is of the US/Mex border from the Mex side in 1925. The pic below is present day, from the Mex side but appears to be from the opposite direction. It went from 4 lanes to 24 lanes. eeeshhhh, talk about a parking lot ?!

I told you in an earlier post about going to the San Diego Courthouse and researching the deeds and finding the location of his parents property. We also got a photo copy of a plat map with lot sizes etc on it. From that and with the existance of a few roads that still exist, I was able to determine a pretty close proximinty where the house was. The Google Earth image below marks the spot. In 1959 Ansel's mother sold the property to Vivian and Maurice, (Ansel's older sister). Don't know the year, but at some point after that the property was purchased to widen I-5 and the approaches to the border.

The yellow line is the US/Mexican border. To the north of the border (US side) there is a very large factory outlet store complex. Front St is now an alley behind a strip mall. It doesn't exist on the GPS, but it was still here on Google Earth for now any way. On the death certificates, Mother Marshall's listed the address as 241 National, and on Papa's it was listed as Front and Louisiana. On the plat map the south boundary was Front St, the west boundary was National, and the east boundary was Louisiana. On a larger image of Google Earth we can see traces of National and Louisiana on the north side of I-5 and you can see where they tied into Front St. Ansel remembers that there wasn't anything between there property and the Mexican border except a simple barb wire fence.

Here we are parked on what is left of Front St., which is now an alley facing east. One hundred feet NE of the utility pole you see is where the house would be.



The Border behind the shopping complex. It's actually a triple fence. One fence is below the pickup, and has barbed wire on top of it. Then the fence on the other side of the pick up is two fences. There is a series of mega flood lights along the fence too.

As soon as I got out of my car and started to take pictures... these two officers showed up on bicycles to see what I was doing. I asked if I could take their pictures and they said no...

This picture is looking at Mexico on the other side of the fence, there is a very majestic flag blowing in the breeze.

And for my girlfriends who do their nails... this looked pretty cheap?