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San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California housing over 3,700 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies. It is also one of the few zoos in the world that houses the giant panda. It is privately operated by the nonprofit Zoological Society of San Diego on 100 acres of parkland leased from the City of San Diego, and ownership of all animals, equipment and other assets rests with the City of San Diego.

Located at 32.7357, -117.152 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Panama–California Exposition

The Panama–California Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California, between March 9, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first U.S. port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal. The fair was held in San Diego's large urban Balboa Park.

Located at 32.7315, -117.15 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Hillcrest, San Diego

Hillcrest is a neighborhood in San Diego, California northwest of Balboa Park and south of Mission Valley. Hillcrest is known for its "tolerance and acceptance," its gender diversity, and numerous locally-owned businesses, including restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, trendy thrift-stores, and other independent specialty stores. Hillcrest has a high population density compared to many other neighborhoods in San Diego, and it has a large and active lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Located at 32.75, -117.167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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UC San Diego Health System

UC San Diego Health System is an academic health system in San Diego and has been in operation since 1966. It is composed of UC San Diego Medical Center, Thornton Hospital, Moores Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Center, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center and Jacobs Medical Center (opening in 2015), as well as other primary and specialty practices of UC San Diego Medical Group located throughout southern California.

Located at 32.7544, -117.166 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Zoro Garden Nudist Colony

Zoro Gardens Nudist Colony was an attraction at the 1935-36 Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was located in Zoro Garden, a sunken garden originally created for the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition. Billed as a nudist colony, it was populated by hired performers rather than actual practicing nudists. The women wore only G-strings; the men wore loincloths or trunks.

Located at 32.7311, -117.148 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Old Globe Theatre

The Old Globe Theatre is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons.

Located at 32.7322, -117.152 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Bankers Hill, San Diego

Bankers Hill, sometimes known as Park West, is a long established uptown San Diego neighborhood near Balboa Park. It is bordered to the north by Hillcrest (at Upas St. ), to the south, past Date Street, by Downtown, to the east by Balboa Park, and the west by Interstate 5, Little Italy and the neighborhood known as Midtown. The area is primarily residential south of Laurel Street and west of 5th Avenue.

Located at 32.731, -117.164 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Cabrillo Bridge

The Cabrillo Bridge in San Diego, California is a historic pedestrian and automobile bridge providing access between Balboa Park and the Uptown area of San Diego. It was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Located at 32.7314, -117.154 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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San Diego Museum of Art

The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine arts museum located at 1450 El Prado in Balboa Park in San Diego, California that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. The San Diego Museum of Art opened as The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed its name to the San Diego Museum of Art in 1978. The official Balboa Park website calls the San Diego Museum of Art "the region's oldest and largest art museum".

Located at 32.7322, -117.15 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Spreckels Organ Pavilion

Spreckels Organ Pavilion, located in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, is one of the world's largest outdoor pipe organs. Constructed for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, it is located at the corner of President's Way and Pan American Road East in the park.

Located at 32.7294, -117.15 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Lafayette Hotel & Suites in San Diego

The Lafayette Hotel and Suites is a hotel in San Diego, California that opened 01946-07-01July 1, 1946. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 02012-07-31July 31, 2012. The Lafayette's original name was Imig Manor, owned by local entrepreneur Larry Imig. The LaFayette was originally built at a cost of $2 million on El Cajon Boulevard. When Imig Manor opened in 1946, its first guest was Bob Hope; other celebrities followed.

Located at 32.755, -117.141 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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San Diego Model Railroad Museum

The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is a model railroad exhibit in San Diego, California. At 27,000 sq. ft. , it is the largest indoor such exhibit in North America, and one of the largest in the world. The museum is on the lower level of the Casa de Balboa on the Prado in Balboa Park. Nearly 3 million people have passed through the center since it opened in 1982.

Located at 32.7311, -117.148 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Francis W. Parker School (San Diego)

Francis Parker School, also known simply as Parker, is an elite college preparatory independent day school in San Diego, California, serving students from junior kindergarten through twelfth grade. Parker was founded in 1912 by Clara Sturges Johnson and William Templeton Johnson, themselves recent arrivals to the West Coast. The Johnsons' nieces had attended the original Francis W.

Located at 32.7541, -117.177 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Museum of Photographic Arts

The Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) is a museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park. First founded in 1974, MOPA opened in 1983. MOPA is one of three museums in the US dedicated exclusively to the collection and preservation of photography, with a mission to inspire, educate and engage the broadest possible audience through the presentation, collection, and preservation of photography, film and video. The museum's address is 1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, 92101.

Located at 32.731, -117.149 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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San Diego Natural History Museum

The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the third oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California. The present location of the museum was dedicated on January 14, 1933. A major addition to the museum was dedicated in April 2001, doubling exhibit space.

Located at 32.7321, -117.147 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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El Cajon Boulevard

El Cajon Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare through San Diego, La Mesa and El Cajon, California. Before the creation of Interstate 8 it was the principal automobile route from San Diego to El Cajon, the Imperial Valley, and points east.

Located at 32.7552, -117.146 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Timken Museum of Art

The Timken Museum of Art is a fine art museum, established in 1965 and located at 1500 El Prado in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, close to the San Diego Museum of Art. It is the only Balboa Park museum with free admission.

Located at 32.7318, -117.15 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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San Diego Art Institute

The San Diego Art Institute’s “Museum of the Living Artist”, with its main gallery located in historic Balboa Park, is a Center for the Visual Arts for the Southern California /Baja California region. The institute functions much like a municipal gallery for the city/county. It is their vision to promote San Diego as a living arts community that fully integrates visual arts into everyday life through their three-fold mission of Education, Exhibition, and Outreach.

Located at 32.7311, -117.151 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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House of Charm

The House of Charm is a historic museum building in Balboa Park, San Diego. It was built for the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition, and like most buildings from that Exposition it features Mission Revival Style architecture. It acquired its current name, "House of Charm", during the park's second Exposition held in 1935-36. It now houses the San Diego Art Institute and the Mingei International Museum as well as rehearsal space for the Old Globe Theatre.

Located at 32.7311, -117.151 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Mingei International Museum

The Mingei International Museum is a non-profit public institution that collects, conserves and exhibits folk art, craft and design. The museum was first founded in 1974 and its building opened in 1978. The word mingei, meaning 'art of the people,' was coined by the Japanese scholar Dr. Sōetsu Yanagi by combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei).

Located at 32.7311, -117.151 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Lambda Archives of San Diego

Lambda Archives of San Diego is a collection of LGBT historical materials in San Diego, California. Lambda Archives of San Diego 200pxLambda Archives LogoWebsite http://www. lambdaarchives. org Jess Jessop incorporated the Lesbian and Gay Archives of San Diego in 1987, starting the collection with materials that he and Doug Moore had gathered.

Located at 32.7449, -117.163 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Midtown, San Diego

Midtown is a neighborhood in San Diego, California bordered by Mission Hills to the North, the Midway District to the West, Hillcrest and Park West to the East, and Downtown to the South.

Located at 32.7386, -117.175 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Mickie Finn's

For the variety television series, see Mickie Finn's (TV series). Mickie Finn's (also known as Mickey Finn's) was the creation of piano player Fred E. Finn, who developed the concept in several different forms: a 1960s nightclub in San Diego, a television show on NBC in 1966, a series of compilation record albums issued from 1966 on, and a stageshow continuing on into the 21st century.

Located at 32.7481, -117.154 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Scripps Mercy Hospital

Scripps Mercy Hospital is a private Catholic teaching hospital located in San Diego, California. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest hospital in San Diego County and has campuses in Chula Vista, California and Hillcrest, a neighborhood of San Diego. The hospital has 700 acute-care licensed beds and employs 1,300 physicians. The Hillcrest campus is home to one of only two regional Level I Trauma Centers and receives more than 2,100 trauma patients each year.

Located at 32.7514, -117.16 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Zoro Garden

Zoro Garden is a 6-acre sunken garden within Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It is located between the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the Casa de Balboa. The name refers to the Persian mystic Zoroaster. The stone garden was originally built for the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition. During the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition it was the site of the Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, which featured mostly-nude performers rather than practicing nudists.

Located at 32.7311, -117.148 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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