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Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) historic urban cultural park in San Diego, California. [3] [4] Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use. The park hosts various museums, theaters, restaurants, and the San Diego Zoo. It is managed and maintained by the Parks and ...
Balboa Theatre. / 32.71389°N 117.16056°W / 32.71389; -117.16056. The Balboa Theatre is an historic vaudeville/movie theatre in downtown San Diego, California, US, built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, the Balboa was refurbished (beginning in 2005) and reopened as a performing arts venue in 2008.
Starlight Bowl (San Diego) Coordinates: 32.726408°N 117.153504°W. The amphitheater in 2009. The Starlight Bowl is an amphitheater located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was constructed for the 1935–1936 California Pacific International Exposition and seats 4,300. It was originally named the Ford Bowl because the automobile ...
Website. Official website. The Centro Cultural de la Raza (Spanish for Cultural Center of the People) is a non-profit organization with the specific mission to create, preserve, promote and educate about Chicano, Mexicano, Native American and Latino art and culture. It is located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.
Coordinates: 32.726°N 117.149°W. The Veterans Museum and Memorial Center is a museum located in historic Balboa Park of San Diego, California. Founded in 1989, it is dedicated to create, maintain, and operate an institution to honor and perpetuate the memories of all men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of ...
Casa del Prado in the El Prado Complex, 2016. The Casa del Prado comprises several reconstructed buildings that were initially built for the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego 's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. [1] Current tenants include the San Diego Botanical Garden Foundation, Civic Dance Arts, the San Diego Floral ...
Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Spreckels Organ Pavilion houses the open-air Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The Spreckels Organ is the world's largest pipe organ in a fully outdoor venue. Constructed for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, it is located at the corner of President's Way and Pan American Road East in the park.
The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880–1940. University of New Mexico Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8263-3642-6; Kropp, Phoebe S. California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Past. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN 0-520-24364-1; Marshall, David AIA. San Diego's Balboa Park.