Tourist attraction
The Cave Store
Hand-carved tunnel of stone steps descending to a hidden sea cave beneath a coastal shop.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Cave Store in San Diego starts with an odd admission: most of this souvenir shop's revenue comes not from anything on its shelves but from a staircase cut into solid rock. It follows Gustav Schultz, a German mining engineer and part-time painter who bought this coastline in 1902 and hired two laborers to hollow a passage down to a hidden sea cave using only picks and shovels. You'll hear how a famous writer, visiting a few years later, gave the cave the unusual name it still carries. Count the steps on your way down and you're following the exact route those laborers carved by hand.
This audio guide was created using AI.