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SDHS Museum and Research Archives Balboa Park Review

If you are very interested in history of San Diego don't miss SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM.

HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 to 4:30

TICKET FARES:
Adults: $5, Ages 6-17: $2
Group rate $4/person for 10 or more
Members get unlimited free admission

MORE:
www.sandiegohistory.org/mainpages/locate2.htm

Need more? Visit SDHS RESEARCH ARCHIVES

HOURS:
Thu-Sat: 10am to 4pm; Closed all of August

TICKET FARES:
$5 fee; $2 students with ID
Members get unlimited free admission

MORE:
www.sandiegohistory.org/mainpages/locate6.htm

Address: 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park

Directions: In Casa de Balboa

Phone: (619) 232-6203

Spreckels Organ Pavilion Spreckels Organ Pavilion Review

Spreckels Organ Pavilion, housing one of the world's largest outdoor pipe organs, was donated to the City of San Diego by John D. and Adolph Spreckels in 1914 for the Panama-California Exposition.

This unique outdoor organ, which contains over 4,500 pipes, was built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Connecticut. The organ is housed in an ornate vaulted structure with highly embellished gables (llok at my picture).

Address: 1549 El Prado, Suite 10

Directions: http://www.serve.com/sosorgan/index6.html

Other Contact: Sosorgan@AOL.com

Phone: (619) 702-8138;FAX 702-8128

Spreckels Organ Pavilion - concerts Spreckels Organ Pavilion Review

The pavilion area provides comfortable seating for 2,400, with wheelchair access.

Free year-round organ concerts are held on Sundays from 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Guest performers are scheduled at least once a month. The annual free Summer International Organ Festival is presented from mid-June through August on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
ALL CONCERTS AND PARKING ARE FREE!

Check incoming events on the page of Spreckels Organ Society:
http://www.serve.com/sosorgan

Address: 1549 El Prado, Suite 10

Directions: http://www.serve.com/sosorgan/index6.html

Other Contact: Sosorgan@AOL.com

Phone: (619) 702-8138;FAX 702-8128

HOUSE OF POLAND Balboa Park Review

This group of small cottages, each home to a different nation, holds open house to the public Sunday afternoons from noon to 4:00 p.m.

Hmm... opening hours were real tourist trap for me. I was there on Sunday but at 4.30 p.m. - what a pity. All was closed except the French house - there was a banquet inside, one guy invited us to enter but we... didn't go inside.

MEMBER COUNTRIES:
House of Argentina
House of Austria
House of China
House of Colombia
House of Czech and Slovak Republics
House of Denmark
House of England
House of Finland
House of France
House of Germany
House of Hungary
House of Iran
House of Ireland
House of Israel
House of Italy
House of Lithuania
House of Norway
House of Panama
House of Philippine Islands
House of Poland
House of Puerto Rico
House of Scotland
House of Spain
House of Sweden
House of Ukraine
House of United States of America
HPR Queens Organization

Address: 2125 PARK BOULEVARD

Directions: The House of Poland is located at the south side of the International Cottages Center.

Other Contact: info@sdhpr.org

Phone: (619) 234-0739

Gaslamp Quarter (district) Gaslamp Quarter Review

Visit Gaslamp District in a downtown: great place if you love nightlife, music, food, watching people and so on - just the best place to be especially on Friday evening.

The Heart of the Gaslamp is Fifth Avenue and on either side Fourth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, however, 5th and 4th are the most popular and active of the three streets.

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Directions: San Diego Downtown - access by trolley (both = Blue and Orange lines).

Gas lamps? Gaslamp Quarter Review

Although the name Gaslamp district or Quarter derives from gas lamps, nowadays you can find only electric lights there. But didn't they look nice?

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Horton Plaza Horton Plaza Review

What is a plaza? It's an open area or square in a town/city (esp. in Spanish-speaking countries = in San Diego as well hehe) or a group of buildings including stores (= shops) designed as a single development within a town/city.

Horton Plaza is a large, multi-story shopping center/mall just in the downtown of San Diego, next to Gaslamp Quarter (they don't have a city center/centre in the USA, they have a downtown).

You can do shopping (or window shopping :-) at daytime there or just look and admire interesting architecture at nighttime.

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Address: 324 Horton Plaza

Directions: Located in the heart of downtown San Diego.

Phone: +1 (619) 239-8180

Horton Plaza - Jessop Clock Horton Plaza Review

Except of doing shopping you can look at nice fountains and architecture (hmm... is it postmodernism + a little art deco or what?) or just eat/drink something outside on the last floor, nice (and not the cheapest :-) place for watching people!

Pay attention to this clock on my picture - it's Jessop Clock made for State Fairs in 1907.

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Address: 324 Horton Plaza

Directions: Located in the heart of downtown San Diego

Phone: +1 (619) 239-8180

ZOO transportation Zoo Review

Zoo Transportation (additional charge, not included in General Admission price; included in Best Value Admission):

- GUIDED BUS TOUR ($10 adults, $5.50 children 3-11) is a 40-minute tour on a double-decked bus covering about 75 percent of the Zoo;

- additionally, bus tour riders will have access to the EXPRESS BUS. These Express Buses are double- or single-decked buses with green signs on the sides, allowing guests to hop on and off at five different stops throughout the Zoo. They will go by the stops every 20 minutes or less. The Express Bus is mainly for quick transportation around the Zoo.

Spanish tours are available at other times for groups of 20 or more with advanced notice.Tours in French are also available with advanced notice.

What about Polish (haha) or German?

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Address: 2920 Zoo Drive

Phone: (619) 234-3153

Website: http://www.sandiegozoo.org

Beisa Oryx (Ethiopia to northern Kenya) Zoo Review

Tough, alert and wary, these antelope survive without water in some of the driest regions of Africa.
Oryx have been known to kill lions. Their horn tips are so sharp they have been used as spear tips by human hunters.

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Address: 2920 Zoo Drive

Phone: (619) 234-3153

Website: http://www.sandiegozoo.org