Image: San Diego Fair El Prado 1916

Description: El Prado — the main axis and street of the Panama-California Exposition, Balboa Park, San Diego, California. On right, the Foreign and Domestic Building facing El Prado. The principal axis of the Exposition grounds picks up and carries the center line of Laurel Street and carries it eastward to the edge of the deep canyon running southward through the middle of Balboa Park. This avenue has the character of a fine, principal street of some display-loving Spanish city. Between the arcades or portales which line it, and its roadbed, are broad esplanades, lined, near the curb, with pleached Blackwood acacia trees set in formal order. Back against the arcades and the faces of the buildings where they project in front of the arcades are banked shrubs, vines and flowering plants. At regular intervals and in line with the trees are ornamented, bronze-green lamp posts, their light softened by the foliage and casting a mellow glow upon the buildings, restful and beautiful beyond compare. Along the street are located the more important exhibit buildings, exemplifying, in their design, certain, periods of Spanish and Mexican architecture, but all drawn into harmony by a uniform scale of ornamentation and one general tone of color.
Title: San Diego Fair El Prado 1916
Credit: Winslow, Carleton Monroe (1916). THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE GARDENS of the SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company.
Author: Carleton Monroe Winslow
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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