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Balboa Park

San Diego’s Balboa Park: Soaking Up Spanish Architecture & Climbing California Tower

October 2, 2017California
San Diego’s Balboa Park: Soaking Up Spanish Architecture & Climbing California Tower

It was a tale of dueling expos: Two California cities – San Diego and San Francisco ­– vying to host a world’s fair, the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. San Francisco won the rights to host the event, but San Diego refused to give up the idea and created an exposition of its own called the … Read More

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