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January 2015

The California Pacific International Exposition

By Samuel Phineas Upham

We call it the California World’s Fair of 1935, but they called it the California Pacific International Exposition. Certainly a flair for language. The gathering was meant to showcase San Diego and to give its economy a shot in the arm, so to speak, and get things going.

Frank Drugan was the man with the plan, and he’d arrived in San Diego only two years before the …