From my Dad's memoir: "I was working at the Grant on Dec.7, 1941, standing at the little two-burner stove heating the glaze with which to glaze the Danish pastries, when word came that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor."
The US grant hotel has a massive underground facility connecting several buildings. This facility is a fallout shelter but also service as a hub for the underground tunnel system.
They were originally liquor smuggling tunnels dating back to prohibition. One of them starts along the southern foundation wall, running parallel to fourth avenue, and others are dead ends that seem to lead or begin at the old Turkish Bath site, that used to be under third avenue.
Chairman Tucker used to roll up in his Jaguars and Bentleys with a fat blunt, before weed was legalized. The entire valet was dank by the time he’d leave lol
San Diego technically has no skyscrapers in the modern sense (500ft ceiling). However, there are notable examples of art deco throughout the city; one I can immediately thing of is the Post Office building on seventh avenue (the upper murals are stunning and highly sylized). There is also a Masonic lodge in north park, which is a prime example of art deco and employs Babylonian/Sumerian motifs. And though not strictly art deco, the Egyptian quarter in Hillcrest falls within the period and its obsession with Egyptian Revival. In Bankers Hill, by Balboa Park on Sixth, are the most Art Deco apartments in all of San Diego, the Moderne complex. And lastly, other examples that I find beautiful; the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park and the two building on Sixth and Broadway (Marriott and Fox buildings).
