 At the corner
of Broadway and India Streets, the Grand Central Cafe requires a few
steps to get to it.
You can also
enter by way of the 500 West Hotel (below), which has a few less steps,
then left off the lobby is an entrance.
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 Built in 1924
as an Army-Navy YMCA, it has nautical crests outside. There is
still a YMCA connection of some kind, but the 500 West Hotel uses most.
if not all, the rooms. Rates for a Saturday night room with 2
queen beds is $79 as of this writing.
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 Inside the Grand Central Station Cafe. |
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 Their French toast is like the original Santa Fe French Toast. |
 Our plan for
Sunday was to go to Balboa Park. We found that Bus 7 from near
the Grand Central Cafe on Broadway would take us right to the
park. We learned later that we could have taken Bus 2 from closer
to the Pacific Sands spot
and transfer to Bus 7 along Broadway and return the reverse set of
routes. We boarded prepared for the $2.25 fare, but learned from
the driver that Seniors were $1.
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 Balboa Park,
built for a World's Fair, has beautiful architecture throughout.
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 One nice model they have is the Santa Fe Depot. |
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 Carol Williams is the civic Organist. |
 A wonderful pipe organ. |
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 Azalea's flourish in the shade by the pavillion. |
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 We walked past
the Air & Space Museum, learning about the jet that had pontoons.
Planes pass so close to the museum when landing at the San Diego Airport, that they seem part of the museum. |
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 They have a
nice and varied collection of automobiles. They were featuring
law enforcement vehicles. One wall was mirrored allowing you to
photograph both the front and back of some cars (above).
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 Cadillac had artistic radiator caps. |
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