Location for the sleazy bar scene where Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan, and Anthony Edwards sing "Great Balls of Fire."

Shag-covered Ford van in downtown San Diego.

Grand Horton Hotel. Walking South along Forth Ave. Early evening walk through San Diego downtown Gaslamp Quarter

Lincoln Town Car limousine on Fifth Ave. in downtown San Diego.

OUT NOW!!!! The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson, also available as an eBook.

Shorebirds of Ireland with Jim Wilson.

Freshwater Birds of Ireland with Jim Wilson.

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A yellow cab waits outside the side entrance of Petco Park, in San Diego, CA. Petco Park is home of the San Diego Padres baseball team.

Location for the sleazy bar scene where Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan, and Anthony Edwards sing "Great Balls of Fire."

Location for the sleazy bar scene where Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan, and Anthony Edwards sing "Great Balls of Fire."

1970s Seville in San Diego.

Hard Rock Hotel

San Diego, Ca.

This is at the southern edge of the Gaslamp Quarter and is adjacent to the Gaslamp Quarter Orange Line station on the San Diego Trolley. It is also right across from both the Convention Center and Petco Park.

July 23, 2016, San Diego, California, USA: A dragon cosplayer poses while walking up 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego during the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The dragon drew a crowd, including a woman dressed as Game of Thrones' Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons.

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2001 New Flyer C40LF in downtown San Diego.

Rumor is that this Borders bookstore at 6th Ave. & G St. in downtown San Diego will be closing.

Radio Latina Ford E350 in downtown San Diego.

Southbound Route 4 turns left from southbound Fifth Avenue to eastbound J Street in the Gaslamp Quarter in the 1980s. This area has sure changed. The Spaghetti Factory on the left is still there, yet substantially upgraded, but the TM Cobb factory across Fifth Avenue is now a Hilton Hotel with restaurants and retail stores fronting the street.

I love eating at this 1950's style eatery in the Gaslamp

Ford Transit van in downtown San Diego.

New Gaslamp Quarter Trolley Station signage, as demanded by the Klingons. Mercifully, the Klingons allowed MTS to keep two directional signs in English ("To Downtown San Diego," as seen in this photo, and "To 12th & Imperial" on the opposite platform). However, it was commanded that all other signage at this station be translated into Klingon.

Direct translation of the Klingon signs:

Gaslamp Quadrant

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Do not discard garbage on the ground! Also, do not feed the birds!!

Thanks to Klingon language experts Steven Boozer (Voragh), Chris Lipscombe (qurgh), and Michael Roney, Jr. (naHQun), MTS was able to answer the Klingons' demand of posting Klingon-language signage, thus assuring the safe passage of Comic-Con attendees.

Photo by Denis Desmond.

San Diego Trolley's Gaslamp Station in 1986. The Gaslamp Trolley Station was renamed "Fifth Avenue" when a new Gaslamp Station was built along the Bayside corridor at the foot of 5th Avenue.

with brooding rock star looking guy along with some unidentified dude.