Ready For The Ring By Diana Sainz
by Diana Raquel Sainz
Title
Ready For The Ring By Diana Sainz
Artist
Diana Raquel Sainz
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography
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The San Diego Firehouse Museum is located in the Little Italy section of downtown San Diego. Inside the museum, visitors will see firefighting memorabilia dating back 100 years. Everything from fire buckets to early firefighting apparatus is on display.
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Founded in 1962, the Firehouse Museum occupies the former home of San Diego Fire Station No. 6, which now resides in Otay Mesa. The museum's brick-and-mortar building in Little Italy features firefighting equipment and apparatus dating back to the late 1800s. La Jolla's first fire engine, a horse drawn steamer and piece of steel from the World Trade Center are some of the highlighted pieces. Firefighting's rich tradition and heritage live on in the San Diego Firehouse Museum.
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Little Italy is a somewhat hilly neighborhood in Downtown San Diego, California that was originally a predominately Italian fishing neighborhood. It has since been gentrified and now Little Italy is a scenic neighborhood composed mostly of Italian restaurants, Italian retail shops, home design stores, art galleries, and residential units.
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In fact, in square blocks, San Diego's Little Italy is bigger than San Francisco's,
St. Louis' and New York's combined. And that's after having its heart bisected by Interstate 5. That happened more than 40 years ago when San Diegans called it the Crosstown Freeway. But for the natives of Little Italy, the pain is still acute. Ask anyone who lived or worked here before the freeway came, and they'll tell you it was a disaster for the neighborhood.
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Little Italy is one of the more active downtown neighborhoods and has frequent festivals and events including a weekly farmers market, also known as the Mercato (the Market, in Italian). The neighborhood has low crime rates when compared with other neighborhoods in Downtown San Diego and is maintained by the Little Italy Neighborhood Association, which looks after trash collection, decorations, and special events.
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