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The largest town on the shore of the gulf is San Diego. The islands in the gulf include Santa Catalina Island. The gulf covers an area of more than 100 sq mi (260 km 2) and borders the east coast of Catalina and the beaches of Orange, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties. The gulf is located in a seismically active area. [1]
The Catalina Island Museum, formerly located in the historic Catalina Casino but since 2016 in a standalone building, [65] is also an attraction as it is the keeper of the island's cultural heritage with collections numbering over 100,000 items and including over 8,000 years of Native American history, over 10,000 photographs and images, a ...
Disney and Carnival Cruise Lines have seasonal Mexican cruises in the spring and fall, as well as a Panama Canal cruise at the end of the visit. Multiple other cruise lines use San Diego as a port of call. The Port of San Diego experienced a 44-percent growth in cruise calls between 2002 and 2006, growing from 122 to 219 calls.
The building is the 40th tallest building in San Diego, based on its height of 310 ft (94 m). From its opening in 1927 through the 1950s, it was a renowned apartment-hotel in San Diego. The large "El Cortez" sign, which is illuminated at night, was added in 1937 and could be seen for miles.
Bay Terraces is a hilly urban neighborhood in the southeastern part of San Diego, California, United States. [3] A composite of North Bay Terrace and South Bay Terrace, [4] it is bordered by Skyline to the north, Paradise Hills to the southwest, Alta Vista, South Encanto and National City to the west.
Shelter Island businesses lease their location from the Port of San Diego. [3] Under California law, property on Shelter Island cannot be sold and permanent residences cannot be built there, because the area falls under the law governing public tidelands. [4] The "island" is 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long and only a few hundred feet wide.
Major thoroughfares within the neighborhood include Catalina and Nimitz Boulevards, Narragansett Avenue, and Voltaire Street. The neighborhood is largely residential, with older single-family housing neighboring Ocean Beach and along the Catalina Boulevard corridor, and multi-family housing in the northern part of the neighborhood. [ 2 ]
The Del Cerro area was developed as a residential suburb during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. [2]In 2007, California State University trustees endorsed a Master Plan [3] proposing to build a housing project for faculty and staff on university-owned undeveloped open space [4] in Del Cerro (at the site of Adobe Falls, a city historic landmark).