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Understanding 9/11tv San Diego Driving Tour CSPAN January 8, 2017 2:28pm-2:40pm EST
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>> our charter spectrum and cox communications cable partners worked with c-span cities tour's only travel to san diego, california. once part of mexico, san diego became u.s. cert tory at the end of the u.s.-american war. more about san diego all weekend on c-span3. >> we drove around the city with ken kramer to learn more about the city's history. >> thank you for showing around. ken: have you been here before? andrea: no, first time. ken: welcome to san diego. andrea: i know people say there's is beautiful scenery. what do people need to know beyond to that? ken: that is true.
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let's go to balboa park. this is a good example. there is the navy and there is the zoo. it's a growing city. there are a beautiful places i think tourists would, and see balboa park -- this is really the gym of our city and the centerpiece of it, a beautiful, beautiful park. the are the result of panama exhibition here. what that meant was the panama canal was opening in 1915 and they thought about it and they thought, where is logical place all of the places are going to come? they're going to come to the first port on the pacific ocean side. that, of course, will be san diego. let's make sure everybody knows about that. they had a world's fair. out here is the largest outdoor organ in the world, the pavilion, and there are three concerts.
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these are some of the buildings left over from that 1915 exposition. when you think about it, putting on a world's fair for his city that had tens of thousands and population in 1915, this took a chutzpah.t spa -- this was a big thing. this is showed what the state of california had to offer. you see this a lot of movies. there was ae," segment in there about the xanadu. the biggest monument a man has ever built to himself. .anadu was this
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we are crossing across the bridge here. this was the grand entranceway into that 1915 exposition. andrea: did that bring a lot of people here? ken: you did. it kind of put san diego on the map to read we did some things in our city. we changed these streets. every city worth its salt has to have a broadway. it just did a lot. changed some of the avenues. just these little things. as we attempted to become a big-time city. >> did people stay here after the exhibition? is that how the city grew? ken: it did. it became a military center. as the military came here, you would see a sign here -- andrea: where are we headed now? where next? ken: i can go to the gas lamp if you want.
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the gaslamp district is an area south of broadway. it's now full of very fun clubs and places and things to do. it's very interesting. but back in the old days, this was the area south of broadway that you just did not go. revived.it has been the city was originally at the mouth of san diego bay, which was two miles north of here. and a man named alonso came from wisconsin and he looked at the city in effect, it just does not seem to lie right. it ought to be down here where you could have the port. bought up a lot of this property down here that is part of the gaslamp, and he developed and this became the city of
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san diego. andrea: i'm starting to see signs that say's city of san diego. ken: i have to tell you the truth, that in the day it really was. into the 1970's, you just did , you know,wn here for family fun. now it's truly different. is right across the street from what used to be the hotel. and so balboa park was dedicated to a lot of ports. surely --, slowly but that would've been a time when you couldn't -- i don't think you would want to come down here very much, that as we got more
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into the 90's, we saw the development of that shopping center, the sense that this could be a very trendy area, and now you come down here on a friday night or saturday and it's just jammed with millennials. you might notice these streets are -- the blocks are short. andrea: yeah, i am noticing that. ken: well, alonzo horton was a smart guy and he knew when he laid out this whole area and started selling it for development he could get more money for the corner lots. been talking a lot about san diego, its proximity to the water. where can we go next to see the water? ken: i think a place to see water from a higher perspective would be to go to the cabrillo national monument.
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they're kind of moving. if you're up for that -- yeah, let's do that. ken: we are coming up along harbor drive. there are a lot of exhibits from the museum. and coming up on this sailing ship, this is the oldest sailing ship -- certainly iron hold this operated- between san francisco and there was the earthquake in san francisco, ferrying people back and forth. people could go out into san diego bay and have a great time, have dinner cruises, things like that.
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people are aware -- if you are a server, you know what the surf conditions are. there's good form, there is whatever it is. surfing is a big part. water condition, water temperature, and how turbulent is the water, what is it going to look like? things like that are part of nightly reports on the news. yeah, it is part of what people think about it. all right, we are going into the federal land. andrea: the gates are closed right now. this is after dark. ken: they do all kinds of research and technology. they do, you know, military work that is beyond my ken. andrea: you have to go through this to get to the cabrillo national monument? ken: you do.
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i think this is one of the most beautiful vistas in the country. andrea: oh, wow. ken: is just gorgeous. on one hand you can see the pacific ocean. on one hand you can see the san diego bay. where when youe are bringing tourists here, this is where you get the overview. this is where you get the take on where everything is. and you can get out if you choose to. you just get a sense of how extraordinary this places. and along the way, there are -- ly poignant andrea: we are passing a large graveyard. ken: this is where people who paid the ultimate sacrifice, you can see row after row after row,
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each one a story, each one of those, and relatives of who died or served. you seeook over there, the lighthouse? .hat is the original lighthouse the problem was, it was too high. not see the light. they built a new and farther down. andrea: why was this a national monument? ken: because it was so beautiful. and it had the historic having discover the bay. at low tide, you can hike around down here. there's all kinds of sea life, divots and ponds created by the receding tide. we are concluding on the
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beach. not a driving tour of san diego. what else would you like to see for san diego? natural resource of fun and the good weather, making decisions to take advantage of that clean industry for everybody, finding how we accommodate the increase in population, how do we build enough housing, affordable hereng, for people to live and to come here and to come here, and keep the quality of life the way it is, you know, with more people wanting to come. we are now a population of 1.3 million in the city. that makes us the eighth largest city and more people are going to be coming. what san diego is and know that people want to take advantage of what it is. that is challenge.
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