Presidio State Historic Park

Elite '09

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Bryan R.

Long Beach, CA

10/2/2007 3 photos

We had parked over at Cota and Santa Barbara St to drop off some film at Calumet and decided while we were in the area, we might as well walk over to State St to go to that Paseo Nuevo shopping center and kill some time.  Walking down Santa Barbara St was a surprisingly pleasant experience.  It was around 6pm on a Sunday night, and all the streets were completely deserted.  It felt like we were completely alone, even though the hustle and bustle of State St was only a couple blocks away.  Plenty of historic points of interest , all having plaques explaining the history of whatever it is you're looking at.  

Although we were there on a Sunday and not allowed to go inside and get an up close look at the artifacts which have been dug up in the area, it was still really interesting to walk around the outside courtyard area, peer into the windows, and sit by the fountains and relax in total silence, minus the birds and fountains.  

Much of the buildings have been restored or rebuilt from the damage that hundreds of years of earthquakes have done, so I have deducted one star for the almost Knott's Berry Farm feel of the whole place, but other than that a really great (and free!) historic point of interest which I will most likely be checking out again in the near future.

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