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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

The Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California

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Looking west along El Pradoin Balboa Park, with California Tower, San Diego, California
Looking west along El Prado street, also known as Avenue of Palaces of Avenida de Palacios during the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935 held in San Diego's Balboa Park. The California Tower can be seen on the left (part of the original California Quadrangle or California State Building), with the dome of the California Building (now San Diego Museum of Man). Just beneath it to the right is the old Science and Education Building, in 1935 the Palace of Photography and in 1936 the Palace of Medical Science, then American Legion Building. To the right of it is the Cafe of the World, which existed in Balboa Park from 1913 to 1963, formerly the Home Economy Building of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 and also known as the Pan-Pacific Building and the American Legion Building. Like the Science and Education Building, it was demolished in the 1960s, its site later occupied by the Timken Museum of Art. In the right foreground is the Palace of Foods and Beverages, formerly the Varied Industries and Food Products Building of the Panama-California International Exposition of 1915, (1916 Foreign and Domestic Products Building), and from 1971 reconstructed as the Casa del Prado.
Balboa Park; Avenue of Palaces; el Prado street; California Building; California Tower; San Diego; San Diego Museum of Man; California State Building; Varied Industries & Food Products Building; Foreign and Domestic Products Building; Palace of Foods and Beverages; Casa del Prado; Avenida de Palacios
California - San Diego - Balboa Park
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Tichnor Art Company, Los Angeles, CA
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
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  • San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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