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The Spreckels Organ Pavilion is an outdoor venue that houses the open-air Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.With more than 5,000 pipes, the Spreckels Organ is the world's largest pipe organ in a fully outdoor venue.
Spreckels Temple of Music, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 1908 Post Card of what was called the "Music Stand," Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The Spreckels Temple of Music was the third bandstand in the park.
Spreckels is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Salinas Valley of Monterey County, California, United States. [4] Spreckels is located 3 miles (5 km) south of Salinas, at an elevation of 62 ft (19 m).
Spreckels Theatre is a performing arts center in San Diego, California.It was touted as "the first modern commercial playhouse west of the Mississippi". [3] It was designed for philanthropist John D. Spreckels, and was meant to commemorate the opening of the Panama Canal.
In 1911 Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her husband Adolph B. Spreckels, park commissioner and namesake of Spreckels Lake, wanted M. Earl Cummings to capture McLaren's likeness. The San Francisco Examiner reported in 1911 that McLaren had modeled for Cummings, and the statue was to be shown at a Bohemian Club art exhibition. [ 6 ]
Spreckels Lake is an artificial, clay-lined, reservoir holding around 7.8 million gallons (23.94 acre feet/29,530,000 liters) of non-potable (not-drinkable) well-water [3] [not specific enough to verify] behind an earthen dam that forms its western edge, walkway, and the 36th Avenue roadbed, which crosses the top of the dam after entering Golden Gate Park at Fulton Street.
John Diedrich Spreckels (August 16, 1853 – June 7, 1926), the son of German-American industrialist Claus Spreckels, founded a transportation and real estate empire in San Diego, California, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Spreckels Mansion in San Francisco. Adolph Bernard Spreckels (January 5, 1857 – June 28, 1924) was a California businessman who ran the Spreckels Sugar Company and who donated the California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum to the city of San Francisco in 1924.