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  • Downtown San Diego from Harbor Island Drive. San Diego, CA
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  • The Lily Pond and El Prado Arcade are seen under a cool summer night sky in San Diego, CA. The lily pond lies adjacent to the Botanical Building, one of the largest lath structures in the world. The pond, one of the most photographed landmarks in San Diego, was created for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego's Balboa Park. Brought about with the aim of highlighting San Diego as the first U.S. port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the newly opened Panama Canal, the exposition occurred at the same time as the larger Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Nonetheless, the fair was widely regarded as a success, with over two million visitors by the end of 1915 and just under 1.7 million attendees in its second year (due to it's success, the fair was extended from its original one year duration). <br />
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As was customary of world's fair's of that era, the attractions and structures of the Panama-California exposition were constructed with cheap, temporary materials with the intention of being demolished once the fair had ended. However, Many notable visitors including Teddy Roosevelt advocated for the preservation of the immaculate structures. As a result, many of the fair's buildings and gardens were renovated or reconstructed with permanent building materials in order to ensure their enjoyment by future generations.
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  • The Alcazar Garden in Balboa Park is lit under the night sky of San Diego, CA. The garden is named after the gardens of Alcazar Castle in Seville, Spain, and is reconstructed to be identical to the1935 design by San Diego architect Richard Requa for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935-1936.
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  • The Botanical Gardens in Balboa Park is lit under the night sky of San Diego, CA. Created for the Panama-California International Expo from 1915-17.
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  • Chicano park is seen on the afternoon of July 02, 2015 in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego, CA.
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  • Downtown San Diego from Coronado Ferry Landing. Coronado, CA
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  • Downtown San Diego as seen on a cloudy night from Embarcadero marina park.
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  • Downtown San Diego is seen on a cloudy night from the convention center.
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  • Downtown San Diego, the gaslamp quarter, and even the coronado bridge are seen from the top of the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
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  • Cuyamaca. Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. Highway 79. San Diego County, CA
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  • Coronado Bridge. Coronado, CA
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  • The town of Julian is seen on a moonlit night from an overlook along the sunrise highway in the laguna mountains.
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  • A field atop the Laguna mountains in Cleveland National Forest is seen covered in snow. San Diego County, CA
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  • Located 100 miles East of San Diego in the Imperial Valley, The Salton Sea was created in 1905 when the Colorado River and its tributaries flooded. The floodwaters filled the valley basin, creating almost overnight the largest freshwater lake in California. In the 1950's and 60's, real estate developers worked to make Salton City the next Palm Springs/Lake Tahoe, laying entire street and electricity grids, planting trees, stocking the sea with millions of game fish and dredging wharves for speedboats and yachts to accommodate vacationers. However, little attention was paid to the health of the Sea itself. <br />
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Chemical laden runoff from the surrounding agriculture of the Valley paired with rising salinity from evaporation poisoned the Salton Sea. By the 1990's fish and birds washed ashore in die offs numbering in the millions, creating a permanently foul stench in the air. Salton City, and the surrounding communities were largely abandoned to the elements. Much of the infrastructure still remains, with streets leading no where, docks over dry land and houses encrusted in salt.
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