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1867: Real estate developer Alonzo Horton arrived in San Diego and purchased 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of land in New Town for $265. Major development began in the Gaslamp Quarter. [8] 1880s to 1916: Known as the Stingaree, the area was a working class area, home to San Diego's first Chinatown, "Soapbox Row" and many saloons, gambling halls, and ...
Tourmaline Surfing Park is a beach access point and surfing spot in North Pacific Beach, a neighborhood of San Diego, California. The park is situated at the northern end of Pacific Beach, a short distance south of where the sand beach ends and the rocky promontory of La Jolla begins. There are cliffs to the north and south of Tourmaline ...
The company used the bridge for a trolley, part of the San Diego Class 1 Streetcars, which connected OB with downtown San Diego and encouraged the development of both Ocean Beach and Mission Beach. [12] The bridge was demolished in January 1951, thereby cutting off through traffic to Ocean Beach from the Mission Beach and Pacific Beach communities.
Sunset Cliffs is an affluent coastal community in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Ocean Beach to the north, Catalina Blvd. and Santa Barbara St. to the east, and Sunset Cliffs Natural Park to the south. [1] The area is named for the sheer cliffs which border the ocean.
The Lincoln Hotel is a historic building located at 536 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego, California. It was built in 1913 and its architectural style is Victorian with elements of Art Nouveau. [1] The Historical Building Marker inscription (marker number 60) for the Lincoln Hotel reads:
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 ...
The San Diego Savings Bank occupied the corner space in the building from 1893 to about 1912, and its old safe was still in the building in 1980. [3] In the 2000s its interior was redesigned by Pininfarina and in 2007 it was re-opened as the Keating Hotel. [4] In 2012, the hotel was featured on the FOX reality series Hotel Hell starring Gordon ...
San Onofre State Beach (San Onofre, Spanish for "St. Onuphrius") is a 3,000-acre (1,214 ha) state park in San Diego County, California. [1] The beach is 3 miles (5 km) south of San Clemente on Interstate 5 at Basilone Road. The state park is leased to the state of California by the United States Marine Corps.