October 15, 2020
Volume 50 - No. 42
By Friedrich Gomez
In today’s modern computer world of instant global information at the tip of our fingertips, it would be exceedingly difficult to imagine that San Diego County could possibly nurse any truly fabulous secret places to visit, experience, and explore from incoming tourists, let alone residents who have lived here their entire lives, generation upon generation.
And yet, this remains a most shocking revelation! The Paper - 760.747.7119
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Despite today’s social media and the infinite range of fact-sharing that streams nonstop through our ‘technological highway,’ there still remains -- for a lot of people -- a most unbelievable list of fascinating, breathtaking, and hidden places within San Diego’s metropolitan region that have never been experienced, primarily because their existence remains widely unknown! Incredible and most unimaginable secret places that have been here for years on end.
Come with me now, as we make ‘common knowledge,’ the vast array of hidden oasis, getaways, and even mysterious shipwrecks that are still here, but often go completely unnoticed for many residents. Let’s begin with our mysterious place No. 1.
(1) CORONADO’S HIDDEN CASINO GAMBLING SHIP, JUST BENEATH THE WAVES! This gives new meaning to the old phrase “Stranger than fiction.”
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And yet, what you are about to read is, shockingly, true! Right here, in San Diego County!
The 300-foot S.S. Monte Carlo which ran ashore 83 years ago, back in 1937, still lies hidden, just beneath the surface of the water in Coronado! However, when there is a low tide, the hull of the mysterious vessel comes into plain view. Although it is known to many, this sunken ship of yesteryear still, to this day, remains largely unknown to most people, citizens as well as