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This is a view of Mojave & Northern Railroad Davenport 0-6-0T 3, built in 1925 and operated in Southern California. It's at the La Mesa Depot along the San Diego Trolley Orange Line, which was once the route of the San Diego & Arizona Eastern. But some wag Photoshopped a Metro-North sticker to the locomotive! September 28, 2016. © 2016 Peter Ehrlich
Challenged Athletes Foundation Youth Paratriathlon Camp
August 4, 2016
©2016 Rich Cruse \ CrusePhoto.com
I was in University Heights in San Diego. I stopped by Lestat's on Park which is a coffee house on a large scale. The man in this photo, Mr Herb Oberman was sitting outside smoking a cigarette and reading the newspaper. So, I decided to see if he would let me take his photo. As you can see he said, "Yes."
2 hours east of San Diego - in the middle of no where, well close to the border, I spent 30-45 mins explaining what I do, from where I came from etc. to Border Patrol.
Strobist info:
1) Sb-800 with CTO gel I think full power or half camera right far away... Only one pop not to get multiple exposures on the plants as it was very windy.
Looking south from the Plaza de California at the entrance of the Museum of the Living Artist, which occupies a portion of the House of Charm in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.
The structure was built for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915-1916 (which celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal). Originally called the Mining Building, its name was changed to the Science Building, then the Science and Education Building, then the Arts and Crafts Building and then finally to the Indian Arts Building.
Designed by Carleton Winslow (with help from architect Bertram Goodhue), the wood frame structure with no foundation was intended to be a temporary one that lasted just for the expo. Artistic plasterer H.L. Schmohl fabricated the exterior ornaments based on drawings by Winslow.
The one-year expo proved so popular that it was extended for a full year (into 1916). Expo officials renamed the building again, this time calling it the Russia and Brazil Building.
The east side of the building, which faces the Plaza de Panama, is its main entrance and its most famous facade. An arcade supported a second level, and the entire facade mimicked that of the Sanctuary of Guadalupe in Guadalajara, Mexico, and represents Spanish Colonial architecture.
The north side entrance was designed in the Churrigueresque style. Churrigueresque is a Spanish Baroque style architectural ornament which emerged in the late 1600s in Spain. It is marked by extreme, expressive, and florid decorative detailing, most commonly found above the main entrance to a building. It was popularized by the architect and sculptor, José Benito de Churriguera (who based his work on that of the sculptor Alonso Cano, who designed the facade of the cathedral at Granada in 1667).
Winslow borrowed motifs from Mexican churches and monasteries. Thus, angels flank a saint, who are in turn flanked by nude figures with raised arms. This entrance was designed to echo the south (main) entrance to the California Building on the north side of the street (an avenue known as El Prado). The ornamentation was cast in staff (an artificial stone composed of powdered gypsum mixed with cement, glycerin, and dextrin).
The facade of the north side of the House of Charm contains piers, and the pavement is of tile. A loggia runs west from the east wing to the west wing (hiding the Montezuma Gardens behind it to the south). This arcade was designed to mimic the arcade at Mission San Fernando (although Winslow himself mistakenly cited arcades in Celaya, Mexico, and Genoa, Italy as his inspiration).
In 1917, the building became known as the Science of Man Building. Exhibits from the Science & Education Building were removed and placed in this structure. The building was repaired in 1922, and the exhibits were moved to the California Building on March 1, 1922. For several years, flower shows were held in the empty building. In 1935, San Diego hosted yet another expo, the California-Pacific International Exposition. While changes (large and small) were made to other 1915 expo buildings, almost none were made to the Science of Man building.
In 1935, the Science of Man Building got yet another new name: House of Charm. The city leased the building to a wide variety of retailers, who sold cosmetics, jewelry, perfume, and women's clothing and shoes. (Hence the name...) Within a year, these were replaced by gem stores -- but the House of Charm name stuck. Retail outlets and flower shows continued to use the building. But during World War II, the House of Charm was used by the U.S. Navy for nurses' quarters.
The Navy vacated the building in 1945. In 1947, the decrepit House of Charm was condemned as unsafe. As efforts to save the structure continued, the House of Charm continued to house flower shows. A model train society also took up residence there. The structure was condemned again in December 1978.
Once more, efforts to save it occurred. Finally, in 1989, the city decided to turn the House of Charm into a permanent building. The $11.5 million cost was financed by a one penny hotel room tax. Structural framing was replaced with steel, and modern electrical, HVAC, and water systems added. The exterior ornaments were replaced with fiberglass-reinforced plastic ones. The plaste-and-lath exterior was removed, and replaced with a cement plaster exterior (which, unfortunately, is darker than the original material). The renovation was overseen by BSHA Design Group and implemented by Soltek Construction of San Diego.
The renovated building opened on September 21, 1996.