Panama-Pacific International Exhibition (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California
 exposition, historical layer / disappeared object
A world's fair held February 20 - December 4, 1915, to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and to demonstrate the recovery of San Francisco from the 1906 earthquake. The Palace of Fine Arts and its exhibit building (now the Exploratorium) were the only buildings to survive the close of the fair (though other features such as the Palace's lagoon and the eastern end of the boat harbor also still survive). Both of the surviving buildings were torn down, except for the steel frame of the exhibit building, in 1964 and replaced with near-duplicate buildings made from more durable materials.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama-Pacific_International_Exposition_(1915)
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Coordinates:   37°48'10"N   122°26'46"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago