By Pam Kragen
From The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — For much of the past 36 years, Oceanside’s famous “Top Gun” house has been boarded up and moved from place to place as the city’s downtown waterfront exploded with growth.
But this month, the 135-year-old Victorian cottage that was featured in the 1986 Tom Cruise film “Top Gun,” is celebrating its new permanent home and occupant. Situated in an oceanfront lot on the grounds of the year-old Mission Pacific Hotel at 216 N. Pacific St., the Top Gun House is now home to HIGH-pie, a nostalgic Americana-inspired pie shop.
On a recent Friday afternoon, a line of customers snaked out the door and down the sidewalk of the shop, which sells fried-to-order hand pies filled with apple or cherry compote and “a la mode” hand pies filled with mascarpone ice cream. The pies are served on a popsicle stick with optional dipping sauces like salted caramel and lemon curd. The shop also sells coffee and other drinks and souvenir T-shirts and hats….
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