I was in San Diego for work and decided to grab a hotel downtown. After a quick dinner in Horton Plaza I finished up some work in the hotel room then headed out for a walk to relax and get some air. Snapped these two shots in and around Little Italy (which is absolutely dead at night).
Walking through downtown San Diego this building facade caught my eye. At a certain point in my life I had an unhealthy obsession with root beer. I made a habit of buying bottled root beers and identifying the ingredient mixes laced with more vanilla than wintergreen. A&W quickly became my go to cheap root beer (hands down the best of the normal stuff). I argued at the time that of all the vices one could have root beer was relatively harmless. While my argument was/is sound I sort of just up and stopped drinking soda all together about a year ago, without much reason other than I just did.
Aside from the root beer theme I also liked the vintage signage. Got me wondering how long the walls had been there as the Hires & Dr. Pepper brands date back more than a 100yrs.
The Star of India is a 1863 sail boat parked in the San Diego. Interesting fact = the ship has sailed around the world 21 times (“Round the world and back again, that is the sailors way”)
