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| Landmarks
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 San
Diego is a great city with lots of history. While you
are here visit some of the famous landmarks and don't forget
to stop by and visit the many museums San Diego has to
offer. Whatever your pleasure we're sure San Diego is
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Landmarks
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Cabrillo
National Monument
- Catalina Boulevard at the tip of Point Loma 557-5450
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Heritage
Square
- 900 block of A Avenue, National City 477-0859
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Hotel
del Coronado
- 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado, 435-6611
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George
White and Anna Gunn Marston House
- 3525 Seventh Ave., San Diego, 238-3142
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Palomar
Observatory
- Highway of Stars, Palomar Mountain (760) 742-2119
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San
Diego Japanese Friendship Garden
- Balboa Park 232-2780
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Villa
Montezuma/Jesse Shepard House
- 1925 K Street, downtown, 239-2211
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William
Heath Davis House - 410 Island Avenue,
downtown San Diego, 233-4692
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Museums
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California
Surf Museum - presents standing displays of
surfing equipment and photographs. Every six months it
introduces a new feature exhibit highlighting one of the
pioneering legends of the surfing world. The museum also retails
surfing-related merchandise. 20,000 people visit the museum
annually. Surfing has inspired its own subculture
throughout the years. It has its own highly specialized
equipment and paraphernalia, music, clothing, art, film, and
language. It is a lifestyle at the very heart of the Southern
California beach culture. It is the museum's commitment to
gather and display this treasured memorabilia for future
generations to enjoy.
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The
Firehouse Museum - Dedicated to all
Firefighters, the Firehouse Museum displays a large collection
of fire-fighting equipment and memorabilia from across the
country and around the world. This amazing story of
fire-fighting is displayed in memorabilia, photographs and
equipment. Come see what our fathers, grandfathers and great
grandfathers had to use when it came to fighting fires.
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San
Diego Aerospace Museum - Learn about the
extraordinary accomplishments achieved by the world's leading
aviation pioneers, pilots, engineers and industrialists in the
museum's International Aerospace Hall of Fame where you will rub
shoulders with Wilber Wright, Amelia Earhart, Wally Schirra and
General Chuck Yeager. The museum also includes our International
Aerospace Hall of Fame, which honors engineers, pilots, and
industrialists.
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San
Diego Hall of Champions - The new San Diego
Hall of Champions, scheduled to open in the renovated Federal
Building in Balboa Park in 1999, will be as exciting,
entertaining and enthralling as the athletic accomplishments and
hometown heroes it celebrates. More than a museum and archives
of San Diego sports, this 70,000-square-foot facility on three
levels will be a dynamic activity center that encourages
visitors to be participants as well as observers. The new Hall
will extend the tradition of honoring excellence and commitment,
and will expand the mission of youth and community
outreach into the new millennium. There will be emphasis on new
hands-on, interactive exhibits, participatory programs that
highlight current events as well as historical milestones, and
bringing timely, topical programming and traveling exhibits to
this spectacular new facility.
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San
Diego Maritime Museum
- In 1927 the Star of India was donated to a group of San Diego
historians who had a dream of restoring the sailing ship.
Despite their good intentions, they lacked the money to
adequately maintain the Star. It was not until 1957, when
Captain Alan Villiers, a famous skipper and author, came to San
Diego on a tour and saw the dilapidation of the old ship, that
things began to change. Villiers so reprimanded the city for
their lack of responsibility that people began to donate money,
even if only to relieve the burden on their consciences. By 1976
the ship's restoration was complete and she was sailing off the
coast near San Diego. The San Diego Maritime Museum was founded
in 1948. Prior to this official beginning, committee members had
been involved with the Maritime Research Society, a branch of
the Zoological Society. By 1958 the group broke away and became
completely responsible for managing the Star. The museum
expanded in 1973 with the acquisition of the ferryboat Berkeley
and the steam yacht Medea. After six decades of carrying
passengers across San Francisco Bay, the Berkeley came to rest
at the San Diego waterfront acting as headquarters for the
museum, housing workshops, offices, the maritime library and the
gift shop.
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