See the historical image featuring two individuals standing in front of a car. The gentleman on the left is Mayor Edwin Capps, who served not once, but twice as the mayor of San Diego and also as an engineer. Capps was Mayor in our City from 1899-1901 and his second term from 1915-1917. The other individual in the photo is Ezra Meeker, an absolute legend. Meeker, a pioneer from Washington who did it all - he was a hops farmer, merchant, and an advocate for preserving the Oregon Trail. Since 1906 until his passing, he devoted his time and energy to marking and preserving this historic trail. In fact, he even went on four official trail-promoting trips! His third trip was in 1916, traveling east to west in The Pathfinder, a touring car with a canvas shell loaned to him, for publicity by the Pathfinder Company.