Homefront La Jolla

An American Community during World War II

This exhibit features images, artifacts and individual stories drawn from a special oral history project, showing patrons how La Jolla residents dealt with the cultural, economic and emotional effects of being one small community in a nation mobilized for a world at war. The face of La Jolla was invariably altered as young men left to fight in campaigns across the globe, women stepped into San Diego’s workforce in numbers to help the wartime effort, the government ordered the internment of Japanese-Americans, Victory Gardens were planted, nighttime blackouts were mandatory, war bond and recycling drives were organized, and young servicemen from all corners of America passed through La Jolla to train at military bases throughout San Diego. These stories are both unique to La Jolla and a microcosm of what happened in communities across America.

Free Admission Thursdays-Sundays 12:00-4:00 pm

Homefront La Jolla is made possible thanks to a generous grant from San Diego County / Supervisor Pam Slater-Price and the support of the City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture.