6th And Island

The Stingaree was a neighborhood of San Diego between the boom of the 1880s and the cleanup of 1916. The reason for the neighborhoods fame was its role as the home to the citys undesirables, including prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers and gamblers. For similar reasons of societal exclusion, it was also the site of the citys first Chinatown. Additionally, the neighborhood was home to many other lower-class citizens, and was in the center of a wider blue-collar residential area encompassing much of the city south of Broadway.