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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 sure to please. Don't
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Landmarks
Cabrillo National Monument - Catalina Boulevard
at the tip of Point Loma 557-5450
Heritage Square - 900 block of A Avenue, National
City 477-0859
Hotel del Coronado - 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado,
435-6611
George White and Anna Gunn Marston House - 3525
Seventh Ave., San Diego, 238-3142
Palomar Observatory - Highway of Stars, Palomar
Mountain (760) 742-2119
San Diego Japanese Friendship Garden - Balboa Park
232-2780
Villa Montezuma/Jesse Shepard House - 1925 K Street,
downtown, 239-2211
William Heath Davis House - 410 Island Avenue,
downtown San Diego, 233-4692
Museums
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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