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About Miramar
Miramar is a neighborhood in the northern part of the city of San Diego,
California, USA.
Although Miramar is mainly a commercial and light industrial area, many people
live in Miramar. Most residents live on the Marine base MCAS Miramar (formerly
Miramar Naval Air Station). Miramar was the site of the real TOPGUN made famous
by the movie Top Gun in 1986. NAS Miramar was closed by the Base Realignment and
Closure (BRAC) program, then re-opened as a fixed wing and helicopter base for
the Marines in the 1990s. To the north of MCAS Miramar is the suburb Mira Mesa.
The land on which MCAS Miramar sits has been eyed by the city of San Diego for
years as a possible replacement to San Diego International Airport, but the
city's location in the southwest corner of the United States makes it a very
significant location for national defense purposes.
History
Miramar was originally part of Scripps Ranch, founded by Edward W. Scripps. He
named his home he built on the ranch "Miramar" in the 1890s, after Archduke
Maximilian's castle, Miramare, in Trieste, Italy. The name eventually became
applied to the surrounding mesa. Loosely translated from Spanish it means "a
view of the sea".
Before becoming a military base in 1950, Miramar was a small, isolated community
centered around a railroad station. No buildings from the original Miramar
survive.