Santa Fe May 1935 Timetable

Until I read the full-page ad on the back cover of this timetable, I had forgotten, or maybe never knew, that San Diego held an international exposition in 1935. Like Chicago in 1933 and New York and San Francisco in 1939, San Diego hoped that an expo would help drag it out of depths of the Depression. Like San Francisco’s 1939 Golden Gate Expo, the San Diego fair was held over for a second year.

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Like the Panama-California Expo held just two decades before, the California Pacific Expo took place in Balboa Park. The largest exhibit was the Ford Motor Company’s building, celebrating the development of the automobiles that were putting Santa Fe passenger trains out of business. Ford’s building survives and is currently used as an air and space museum.


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