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It is reported that on the day of Ledger's death, Jessop's clock stopped working for reasons unknown. [2] It was restarted and continued keeping time on the streets of San Diego. In April 2009 the clock stopped working. A few months later it was given a two-month refurbishing and cleaning, [5] paid for by the Jessop family, which still owns the ...
Using the facilities of the SD&AE, in July 1981 the agency was able to open the first line of the San Diego Trolley, between downtown San Diego and the international border in San Ysidro. [5] The San Diego Trolley added a second line to the east on March 20, 1986, with the two lines meeting at a station near 12th and Imperial Avenues, just ...
Jessop's Clock, San Diego, California, is a pendulum regulated multi-face town clock commissioned in 1905 by Joseph Jessop, a jewellery store owner in San Diego, California. The Ohio Clock is an 1815 clock in the United States Capitol; The Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864.
The tower has been described as "San Diego's Icon," the most photographed and best-known landmark in San Diego. [13] The State of California paid the $250,000 to develop the California Building and Tower for the 1915 Exposition. [11] Although California owned the building, it was turned over to the San Diego government in 1926. [8]
In October 2010, Northern Irish filmmaker George Clarke uploaded a video clip entitled "Chaplin's Time Traveller" to YouTube. The clip analyzes bonus material in a DVD of the Charlie Chaplin film The Circus. Included in the DVD is footage from the film's Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 1928. At one point, a woman is seen ...
Hardy Memorial Tower is a bell tower at San Diego State University (SDSU). Constructed as a Works Progress Administration project in 1931, it is 11 stories (119.1 ft / 36.3 m) tall; it contains the Fletcher Symphonic Carillon (also known as the Fletcher Chimes) (installed 1946), consisting of 204 bells over 6 octaves.
A pair of giant pandas will soon make the journey from China to the U.S., where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo as part of an ongoing conservation partnership between the two nations ...
A time travel project probe from the year 2073 is sent to the year 1973 and goes wrong, creating a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots. The hero must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening. 1994 Star Trek Generations