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The San Diego County Fair began in 1880 as an agricultural fair. The location moved from place to place for several years, finally settling on the Del Mar Fairgrounds when it opened in 1936. There was no fair in 1917–18 due to World War I , 1942–45 due to World War II , and 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic .
The Del Mar Fairgrounds is an event venue in Del Mar, California. It hosts the annual San Diego County Fair. The venue sits on a 370-acre (1.5 km 2) property along the Pacific Ocean coastline. It includes the Del Mar Racetrack, built in 1936 by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, with founding member Bing Crosby providing leadership.
Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco) The Panama–California Exposition was a world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United States port of call for ships traveling ...
December 22, 1977 [2] Designated SDHL. September 7, 1967 [1] 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 Natural History Museum building, built in 1933 on the site of the 1915 Southern California Counties building, which was converted to a Civic Auditorium after the 1915 fair and burned down in 1925; during the 1935 fair the new building was called the Palace of Natural History
The history of San Diego began in the present state of California, when Europeans first began inhabiting the San Diego Bay region. As the first area of California in which Europeans settled, San Diego has been described as "the birthplace of California". [1] Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was the first European to discover San Diego Bay in ...
California Pacific International Exposition. The California Pacific International Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California, during May 29, 1935–November 11, 1935 and February 12, 1936–September 9, 1936. The exposition was held in Balboa Park, San Diego's large central urban park, which had also been the site of the earlier ...
Gold Gulch, located within the World's Fairgrounds in Balboa Park, was a 21-acre (0.085 km 2) Old West mining town and ghost town re-creation for fairgoers to experience the atmosphere of a mining boomtown. [2] Gold Gulch was described in the Exposition Guide Book as "a moviefied" version of riproaring '49 days. [3]