C. Open Street Maps.
Although freeways take up 111
acres of the park, the rest is filled with museums and program spaces. In 1915, the park celebrated the opening of
the Panama Canal with a number of temporary buildings, the Panama-California Exposition. In 1935, the park hosted another exposition
called the Panama Pacific California Pacific Exposition. Each series of buildings were dramatically
styled from ersatz baroque Spanish to the Art Deco Ford Building.
During WWII, the park buildings
were handed over to the Navy.
These exposition buildings were “declared a National Historic Landmark and National
Historic Landmark District in 1977, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The only problem was that they were only
temporary. The whole city worried while
the government found ways to reconstruct the buildings.
Just at that time, there was a
series of fires in the park. The Aerospace
Museum lost all its many air planes and collections. The Park’s original Old Globe Theater was
torched. Wikipedia tells us, “Several crumbling buildings were (also) torn down and
replaced with permanent structures which were carefully detailed to maintain
the original appearance. The Science and Education Building and the Home
Economy Building were demolished to make room for the expansion of two new
wings for the Timken Museum of Art.[74] The
loss of these two buildings along with the Casa
de Balboa, the House of Charm, and the House of Hospitality, resulted
in the formation of the independent organization, Committee of One Hundred, to
attempt to preserve the exhibition buildings.[74]
Along the edges of the Prado are
lined various entertainments.
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- Himself: Still caretaking me beautifully, thank you.
- Myself: The neew glasses came. I hope they work.
- Photo: All but the top one are mine.
- Reading: A Joe Gunthur Murder Mystery.
- Gratitude’s: George.
Great place this park of ours.
ReplyDeleteIt's great when cites have an accessible park.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely park. The typewriter troubadour looked interesting.
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