La Playa (Spanish, 'the beach') is a bayfront neighborhood in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California . It is bordered by San Diego Bay to the east, Naval Base Point Loma to the south, the Wooded Area neighborhood to the west and Point Loma Village/ Roseville-Fleetridge to the north. It lies across a channel from Shelter Island .
19-613: Southwestern Yacht Club may refer to the following yacht clubs in the United States: Southwestern Yacht Club (California) , in La Playa, San Diego , California Southwestern Yacht Club (Texas) , merged with Corpus Christi Yacht Club, in Corpus Christi, Texas Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
38-466: A home in Lakeside California, where it remains." Historical information from Coast Guard web site: It was decided to relocate the light on top of the fog signal building and demolish the old tower. Cabrillo National Monument, National Park Service, requested the lens and light for their museum soon to be built. Arrangements have been made for that Service to remove the lantern and lens prior to
57-533: A new three-bedroom and a four-bedroom duplex type dwelling, completely furnished which house resident personnel and their families. The new light has been shown from its new location since 5 August, and the demolition of the old tower is presently being accomplished. Ballast Point was the last lighthouse displaying a fixed light on the Pacific Coast. The only reminder left of the Ballast Point Lighthouse
76-560: The American flag was first raised over California (unofficially) in 1829. The La Playa harbor hosted vessels from almost every maritime nation in the world during this period. The Old La Playa site was registered as California Historical Landmark #61 in 1932, and designated as a historical landmark by the San Diego Historical Resources Board in 1970. The original La Playa landing place and Ballast Point are now on
95-489: The Clipper ship Aranzaya arrived in 1795, she brought three workmen and the necessary timber to build a fort at Ballast Point, or as it was known at that time, Point Guijarros. Shore whaling was a natural for the people in this area since the whales reversed the usual procedure and came to the whaler. The carcases were towed to Ballast Point where the blubber was boiled in 150-gallon try pots. In 1890, Ballast Point Lighthouse
114-540: The Port of Navidad (now Acapulco ) in 1542 and, after bucking head winds and seas for five months, sighted the Coronado Islands . As he continued on, the headland of Point Loma rose from the sea. Working his way past the kelp beds, he dropped anchor in the quiet waters inside the present Ballast Point on September 28, 1542. Cabrillo tarried for six days in this spacious harbor which he named San Miguel. Sixty years passed before
133-414: The demolition of the tower. The new light is a standard 375 millimetres (14.8 in) lens with storm panes, which will be an occulting white, six second light, three seconds off, three seconds on. The old light used a 120 volt, 300 watt lamp, giving 1700 candlepower. The new light, even though it uses a slightly smaller lamp, 32 volt, 250 watt, will give 9000 candlepower, due to the increased efficiency of
152-437: The early history of San Diego. The first European to set foot in what is now California, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo , came ashore in 1542 at La Playa, probably at a small rocky peninsula called Ballast Point . When a permanent European settlement was established a few miles inland in 1769, La Playa served as the town's "harbor", actually an anchorage where cargo was loaded and unloaded via small boats. Goods were then transported to
171-415: The filament and the removal of the green shade. The fog signal is a single tone diaphone which emits 1 blast every 15 seconds. In the event the diaphone becomes inoperative, the men on station are required to ring a large bell by hand, with one stroke every seconds. As a matter of interest it is noted the diaphone has never been inoperative since installation in 1926. Adjacent to the light structure are located
190-496: The grounds of Naval Base Point Loma. Nothing visible remains of the original sites, which are accessible to the public during the annual Cabrillo Festival and to scholars for occasional archeological digs. A lighthouse stood on Ballast Point from 1890 to 1960; currently there is a simple automated light on the site. 32°42′44″N 117°14′43″W / 32.71222°N 117.24528°W / 32.71222; -117.24528 Ballast Point Light Ballast Point Lighthouse
209-557: The hills of Point Loma. The beach at La Playa became an informal town of up to 800 people during the Mexican years (1822–1846), centered on a dozen or so huge "hide houses" where cattle hides were processed and stored until they could be exported for sale. The hide houses were named for the Boston trading ships they served. The first and best known was the Brookline captained by James O. Locke, where
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#1733086230372228-481: The original La Playa, where commercial and military ships anchored during the early days of the city. The La Playa neighborhood includes some of the most expensive homes in San Diego. The neighborhood is mostly residential and contains two yacht clubs, San Diego Yacht Club and Southwestern Yacht Club . Some bayfront homes have private piers for small boats. The original area known as La Playa played an important role in
247-528: The placid waters around Ballast Point were again disturbed by deep-sea keels, when Sebastián Vizcaíno anchored on November 10, 1602. He renamed the harbor San Diego in honor of that Saint's day. In 1769, Spain decided to occupy the vast territory by converting the Indians to the Catholic faith and teaching them domestic pursuits. By this time little transports were coming with supplies on a haphazard schedule, and when
266-517: The settlement by land over the historic La Playa Trail , the oldest European trail on the West Coast . The anchorage at La Playa continued to serve as San Diego’s main port until the establishment of New Town (current downtown ) in the 1870s. In his book Two Years Before the Mast , Richard Henry Dana Jr. describes how sailors in the 1830s camped on the beach at La Playa and hunted for wood and rabbits in
285-556: The title Southwestern Yacht Club . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southwestern_Yacht_Club&oldid=1210893778 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages La Playa, San Diego The bayside residential area now called La Playa lies somewhat north of
304-523: The tower it was found to be unstable due to failure of the brick and mortar foundation. "The 1960s did not destroy Ballast Point lighthouse completely. After the tower was torn down, the lantern room moved around San Diego County, finally settling outside the West Sea Company in Old Town (2495 Congress St), where you can view it today. The fog signal tower was also moved in 1961 after it was discontinued to
323-471: The water off of the original site. Historical information from Coast Guard web site: Ballast Point is a tiny peninsula extending from Point Loma into the channel entrance to the harbor of San Diego . The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston . Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed from
342-503: Was a lighthouse in San Diego, California , situated on Ballast Point, a tiny peninsula extending into San Diego Bay from Point Loma . The lighthouse was torn down in 1960; the site is now on the grounds of Naval Base Point Loma . Ballast Point Lighthouse was the last lighthouse displaying a fixed light on the Pacific coast . An automated light is left in its place and operates on a piling in
361-438: Was constructed. The original buildings consisted of two dwellings and a light tower which was part of the keeper’s quarters. The light was a fifth order fixed classical lens with a green shade, inside a brass and glass lantern with a focal height of 34 feet (10 m). The tower itself was a white square tower. In June of this year (1960), the old dwellings were torn down leaving the tower free standing; however, during repairs to
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