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Children's Pool Beach. Coordinates: 32.847638°N 117.278433°W. The Children's Pool Beach or Casa Beach is a small sandy beach area located at 850 Coast Boulevard, at the end of Jenner Street, in San Diego, California, United States. Aerial view of the pool, May 2011, with over 200 seals on the beach. The Children's Pool earned its name after ...
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California. [1] The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. Construction of the research ...
Coordinates: 32°51′30″N 117°15′56″W. Spanish Shawl (Flabellina iodinea) in Scripps Canyon, La Jolla. The San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park is the historical name for a marine reserve that includes the San Diego-Scripps Coastal Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) and Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve (SMR), adjoining marine protected areas ...
Designated. 1977. Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is a coastal state park in San Diego, California. The reserve is one of the wildest stretches of land on the Southern California coast, covering 2,000 acres (810 ha). It is bordered immediately to the south by Torrey Pines Golf Course and to the north by the city of Del Mar.
Marine Street Beach. / 32.837; -117.282. Marine Street Beach is a public beach in the community of La Jolla in San Diego, California, on the Pacific Ocean. It sits at the western terminus of Marine Street, with Children's Pool Beach to the north and Windansea Beach to the south. The surf has been described as rough and not suitable for children ...
The La Jolla Recreational Center is a historic recreation center in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was commissioned by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps on property adjacent to her home, and designed by San Diego architect Irving Gill. [ 1][ 2] The center was completed in 1915; Scripps donated it to the City of San ...
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. / 32.84444°N 117.27806°W / 32.84444; -117.27806 ( Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla) The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ( MCASD) is an art museum in La Jolla, California, focused on the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art from 1950 to the ...
In 1988, the creation of Thornton Hospital on the La Jolla campus allowed the regents to reduce the number of Hillcrest beds from 447 to 327. [5] The hospital received a 78,000 square foot, $32 million facelift in 1992. [6] In 2005, UC San Diego announced future plans to consolidate its Hillcrest and La Jolla operations under one roof in La Jolla.