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The anchorage at La Playa continued to serve as San Diego’s main port until the establishment of New Town (current downtown) in the 1870s. [ 4 ] In his book Two Years Before the Mast , Richard Henry Dana Jr. describes how sailors in the 1830s camped on the beach at La Playa and hunted for wood and rabbits in the hills of Point Loma.
Mission San Diego itself was in the San Diego River valley, but its port was a bayside beach in Point Loma called La Playa (Spanish for beach). The historic La Playa Trail , the oldest European trail on the West Coast , [ 9 ] led from the Mission and Presidio to La Playa, where ships anchored and unloaded their cargoes via small boats.
Clairemont (or Clairemont Mesa) is a community in San Diego, California, United States.It has a population of about 81,600 residents and an area of roughly 13.3 square miles (34 km 2).
The Linda Vista Shopping Center is a neighborhood shopping center in San Diego and one of the first in the United States, built in 1943. It was predated in California only by the Broadway & 87th Street shopping center in South Los Angeles, which opened seven years earlier in 1936. Linda Vista was dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt. [1]
Parks in San Ysidro include Howard Lane Park, Vista Terrace Park, and San Ysidro Community Park. Churches include Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church. The San Ysidro Post Office opened on April 13, 1910, and closed on January 5, 1974. [30] It has moved to a new location on W. San Ysidro Blvd. and continues providing service today.
looking down the cliffs overlooking Pacific Beach north of Crystal Pier. The beach stretches for miles from the Mission Bay jetty to the cliffs of La Jolla.The boardwalk, officially called Ocean Front Walk/Ocean Boulevard, is a pedestrian walkway that runs approximately 3.2 miles along the beach from the end of Law St. in the north down into Mission Beach, ending at the mouth of Mission Bay in ...
Otay Mesa (/ ˈ oʊ t aɪ ˈ m eɪ s ə / OH-ty MAY-sə) is a community in the southern exclave of San Diego, California, just north of the U.S.–Mexico border.. It is bordered by the Otay River Valley and the city of Chula Vista on the north; Interstate 805 and the neighborhoods of Ocean View Hills and San Ysidro on the west; unincorporated San Diego County on the north and east including ...
La Playa Trail was a historic bayside trail in San Diego, connecting the settled inland areas to the commercial anchorage at Old La Playa on San Diego Bay. (La Playa means "the beach" in Spanish.) La Playa Trail has been recognized as the oldest commercial trail in the Western United States. [1] [2] The trail was used during the pre-Hispanic ...