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El Cortez is a condominium building in San Diego, California. Built from 1926 to 1927, the El Cortez was the tallest building in San Diego when it opened. It sits atop a hill at the north end of downtown San Diego, where it dominated the city skyline for many years and became a landmark hotel. From its opening in 1927 through the 1950s, it was ...
The Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows is a hotel in San Diego, California, United States that opened July 1, 1946. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 2012. [2] [3] The Lafayette's original name was Imig Manor, owned by local entrepreneur Larry Imig. The Lafayette was originally built at a cost of $2 ...
July 5, 2001. USS Recruit (TDE-1) at Liberty Station (formerly Naval Training Center), San Diego. Naval Training Center San Diego ( NTC San Diego) is a former United States Navy base located at the north end of San Diego Bay, used as a training facility, commonly known as "boot camp". The Naval Training Center site is listed on the National ...
Coordinates. 32°42′41.8″N 117°10′7.2″W. / 32.711611°N 117.168667°W / 32.711611; -117.168667. Website. www .kcbbq .net. Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar located in the harbor district of San Diego, California. Self-proclaimed as the "Top Gun Bar", [ 1] it is known for being the filming location for scenes used in ...
The Gaslamp Quarter is a 16½-block neighborhood in the downtown area of San Diego, California.It extends from Broadway to Harbor Drive, and from 4th to 6th Avenue. Listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places as the Gaslamp Quarter Historic District, it includes over 90 historic buildings, [3] most of which were constructed in the Victorian Era; many are in use as ...
Ocean Beach is the site of a historic single-screen movie house, the Strand Theater, which opened in November 1925. In the late 1970s, the Strand survived with midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday and Saturday nights. By the early 1980s it was running pornographic films.
Slim's. / 37.771483; -122.413339. Slim's was a nightclub and music venue in San Francisco, California, which was opened by Boz Scaggs in 1988. Scaggs and his partners took over a vacant restaurant which was called the Warehouse and threw a party there on December 31, 1987, to celebrate before closing it to remodel, and the new venue opened on ...
The bar's interior, 2016. The Tivoli Bar and Grill is the oldest bar in San Diego, California, located at 505 Sixth Ave. in the Gaslamp Quarter. It opened as a saloon in 1885. Between 1872 and 1885, the building housed a boarding house, a feed store, and a blacksmith shop, and the nine apartments above the bar were once used as a brothel.