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unusual facts about Balboa Park



Golden Gate

With 13 million visitors annually, Golden Gate is the fifth most visited city park in The United States after Central Park in New York City, Lincoln Park in Chicago, and Balboa Park and Mission Bay Park in San Diego.

Joseph S. Manasse

While on the board he voted for Ephraim Morse's proposal in 1868 to set aside a large track of land for a public park, which eventually became Balboa Park.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Community and art has always been part of what has driven Herrera, beginning in the mid-seventies, when he was director of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, an occupied water tank in Balboa Park that had been converted into an arts space for the community.

Lori Saldaña

Saldaña was on the founding Board of Directors for San Diego Earth Day and organized the first "Earth Fair" in Balboa Park in 1990.

National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze

The four major locations in California used for filming were: Los Angeles, San Diego (including Balboa Park), and Castaic.

San Diego Art Institute

The San Diego Art Institute’s “Museum of the Living Artist”, with its main gallery located in historic Balboa Park, is a Center for the Visual Arts for the Southern California /Baja California region.


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Halfway Gone

The video was shot in the Anthony C. Beilenson Park (formerly Balboa Park) in the Lake Balboa district of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.

Lyndhurst High School

The following week, Rono ran at Foot Locker Northeast Regional in Sunken Meadow State Park (Kings Park, NY), again finishing 7th, earning a spot to Foot Locker Nationals, held in Balboa Park (San Diego, CA).