PC-000-209

Plaza del Pacifico, later Plaza de Panama, Balboa Park, San Diego, with California Tower

 

 

 

 

This postcard shows a view from the southeast side of the Plaza de Panama, formerly known as the Plaza del Pacifico. The most distant buildings, at the western entrance to Balboa Park, are part of the California Quadrangle--the California Tower and California Building (the dome glimpsed immediately to the right of the tower). These were designed by Bertram Goodhue (1869-1924) and built for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. The California Building subsequently became the San Diego Museum of Man. On the right, toward the viewer from the Tower, on the northwest corner of the Plaza is the Science and Education Building, later the Palace of Photography during the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935, the Medical Arts Building (1936), the Veterans of Foreign Wars Building (1939), and finally demolished in the 1960s. On the southwest corner of the Plaza, the south side of El Prado street, is the Indian Arts Building, also built for the 1915 Exposition, known in 1916 as the Russia and Brazil Building, and renamed the House of Charm in 1935. The House of Charm was razed and recreated in1996.

Balboa Park; Plaza de Panama; California Tower; California Building; California State Building; Science and Education Building; House of Charm; Indian Arts Building; Medical Arts Building; San Diego; Veterans of Foreign Wars Building; Palace of Photography

 

California - San Diego - Balboa Park

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

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Image

TIFF

20.26 MB