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42 unique pages contain "gold gulch" sorted by [Relevance/Date]

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Gold Gulch last night (4 times)
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BALBOA PARK HISTORY
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1935new.htm
...GOLDEN GULCH In a twisting Gulch, built by the hand of nature, a striking reproduction of a mining camp, typical of the gold rush days of '49, will be placed....
...Not located on the midway proper, but part of the amusement zone will be Golden Gulch, a typical gold mining camp of California's days of '49....
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/85fall/invites.htm
...Gold Gulch occupied a canyon between the model homes and Pepper Grove....
...A nudist colony of about fifty members read books, played handball and ate vegetables in Zoro Gardens at the northern tip of Gold Gulch....
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California Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expo38.htm
...GOLD GULCH ...
...Gold Gulch occupied a canyon between the model homes behind the Palace of Better Housing and Pepper Grove, near today's horse stables for the San Diego Police Department....
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California Pacific Exposition
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expoh3.htm
...A colony of about fifty nudists read books, played handball and ate vegetables in Zoro Garden, at the northern tip of Gold Gulch....
...Compared to "Gold Gulch Gertie," who was arrested for impersonating Lady Godiva, and to dancers along the Midway, the nudists were models of decorum....

California Pacific Exposition
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expoh5.htm
...As Gold Gulch and the Midway - the most popular attractions at the Exposition - were considered too risque for families, they were abandoned....
...A "Days of '49 Stockade," with dining hall and dance floor, across the northern end of the plaza, replaced the notorious Gold Gulch....
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1950.htm
...Ever gone shooting down in Gold Gulch?...
...Gold Gulch is located in the heart of San Diego, and field archery shooting is common there....
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1985.htm
...Subsequently, interest in locating the garden in the western branch of Gold Gulch Canyon, behind the House of Hospitality, began to develop....
...In 1972 the Park and Recreation Board confirmed this site as the Garden's future home by adoption of a master plan for the Gold Gulch area....
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California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/sirigobw.htm
...S-68 S-69 Gold Gulch CPIE S-70 Ford Building CPIE ...
...S-72 The Arch CPIE S-73 Gold Gulch CPIE ...

Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac022.htm
...Gold Gulch, California Tower, Art Museum, and the Palace of Electricity and Varied Industries;...
...Dutch Village, Aztec Empire, Lucky Strike Building, Indian Village, Midway [Amusement Thoroughfare], Midget City, House of Pacific Relations, Palace of Business Machines and Equipment, Zoro Gardens, Bank of America Building, a theater for trained fleas, Gold Gulch, House of Hospitality, Hollywood Hall of Fame, and other attractions. ...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/speegle.htm
...EMANUEL A. SPEEGLE, GOLD GULCH MINER ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/85fall/wantexpo.htm
...Page 292 Gold Gulch was described in the Exposition Guide Book as "a moviefied" version of riproaring '49 days by Harry Oliver, a well known Hollywood designer of Western sets....
...Located in the canyon south of the present Reuben Fleet Space Theatre and Casa de Balboa, Gold Gulch charged no admission, but its shops and attractions did....

Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac023.htm
...Subjects include: Zoro Gardens nudist colony, Gold Gulch, Enchanted Land for children, Midget Village, and other Midway attractions; circus animals and performers, the Ice Carnival, Olsen and Johnson comedy shows, Old Globe Theater productions, a parade on El Prado, a rodeo, polo match, and other events, including spelling, pie-eating, log-rolling, gum-chewing, baby, beauty, and roller-skating contests; beauty queens, models, dancers, musicians, clowns, aerialists, and...
...Flaming Fanny side show, a stagecoach hold-up, prospectors, and Bull Durham Day in Gold Gulch mining town from the Days of '49; and rodeo scenes showing cowboys and cowgirls on horses, broncos, and bulls. ...

California Pacific Exposition
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expoh4.htm
...A lucky college student rolled Hollywood sex goddess Mae West down El Prado (in a rollerchair) June 9. As she entered Gold Gulch someone hit the bull's eye and all lights went out....
...On July 27, Le Roy Haines, a 46-year old stunt man, told his wife, "We need the money," then jumped from a 90-ft. tower into a pool of flaming water at Gold Gulch....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1990.htm
...Work began in January at the site on the rim of Gold Gulch Canyon....
...Gold Gulch Canyon was selected as the new site in 1968, and the Charles C. Dail Memorial Japanese Gate was erected just north of the Organ Pavilion....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1936.htm
...Gold Gulch is no more; ghost town in canyon is closed and tumbling to ruin....
...It is more like the notorious "Gold Gulch," where everybody went last year when in quest of a real good time....
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1972.htm
...5. Balboa Park - Gold Gulch Area - General Plan...
...David Roberts displayed and explained a proposed General Development Plan for the Gold Gulch area, which is the major under-developed area in central Balboa Park and calls for an area for active and semi-active group activities, a Japanese Garden, Australian Garden and Shade Garden....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1940.htm
...A ceremony opened the Girl Scout day camp, Camp Wildwood, on the site of Gold Gulch in Balboa Park yesterday, when presentation of a flag pole, its base and a flag and halyard featured in dedication exercises....
...From Ninth Avenue east a bridge would be constructed across the Eleventh Avenue, or Cabrillo Canyon, after which the road would wind up Gold Gulch of exposition fame to a point west of Park Boulevard, and about 1,000 feet south of Laurel Street, where it would tunnel under Park Boulevard and the street car tracks....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1973.htm
...Proposition A, if passed, also would provide about $114,875 to continue the development of Gold Gulch, a rambling canyon east of the Organ Pavilion and south of the buildings along El Prado....
...The council authorized Mailcraft, Inc. to use $739,000 to build 48 acres of new recreational facilities in the Gold Gulch-Pepper Grove area of the park, the undeveloped section of the park south of Morley Field [sic]....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1989.htm
...Beyond the gate, in Gold Gulch Canyon, workers will build an entry garden, a sand-and-stone garden and a new exhibit house designed in the traditional Sukiya style....
...However, many more old issues and new challenges arose in 1989. Solicitation of tenants for the House of Charm following its reconstruction; retention and refurbishment of the Fire Alarm Building; preparation of a Palisades/Prado Precise Plan; groundbreaking for the Japanese Garden in Gold Gulch; fencing of the Zoo perimeter and landscaping of its parking lot; demolition of Navy Hospital buildings; rejuvenation and rededication of...

San Diego Video
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/videos/1935zoro.htm
...A colony of about fifty nudists read books, played handball and ate vegetables in Zoro Gardens, at the northern tip of Gold Gulch....

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/anon1.htm
...#24 CPIE San Diego (Federal Bldg; "Gold Gulch or Bust" on wagon) PC5-52 ...

Journal Index 1990-1998
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/index/1990-1998.htm
...Gold Gulch Canyon, 44:9 Gold mining, article about, 42:56-85, 174-201 ...

California Pacific Expo 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expo94.htm
...Frashers Foto Globe-Ben Hur Gold Gulch Calaboose - individual real photos ...

Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac020.htm
...San Diego: Balboa Park, the 1935 Exposition 125. General-Palace of Electricity, Palace of Travel, Indian Pueblo, Standard Oil Tower, Flintkote Exhibit, Gold Gulch, Midway, theaters, nudists, Hollywood Hall of Fame. 126. Buildings and the Ford Bowl-Ford Building, Shell Bldg., Federal Building, and other buildings. 127. People and Street Scenes-Max Etzkorn at Eckerts Bavarian Beer Garden. nudists, Midway, small people, All Nations Village, other attractions....

Panama-California Exposition, San Diego 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo38.htm
...The new garden, to be built in five phases, will occupy an eleven and one- half acre site embracing most of a canyon called Spanish Canyon in 1915-16 and Gold Gulch Canyon in 1935-36....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1977.htm
...As envisioned by the consulting firm of Fong and LaRocca of Newport Beach, the garden would take up five to six acres in Gold Gulch Canyon....

Rising Tide by Richard Pourade
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/rising/risingchapter8.htm
...The exhibits were supplemented by a large midway, a so-called "nudist" colony and a Western mining town situated in a canyon and named the Gold Gulch....

Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/palist2.htm
...Victor McLaglen's motorcycle group & parade, high wire act, Army band and bugle corps, soldiers playing volleyball, Beech-nut girl, cactus gardens, some buildings at night, 'bail out tower' ride, Hollywood Hall of Fame, Streets of Paris, Gold Gulch, and many other attractions....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/98winter/parsons.htm
...Parsons did not mention the pound in Pound Canyon, the powder magazine in Powder House Canyon, and the rifle range in today's Gold Gulch Canyon....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1954.htm
...Archery is so popular, there is an archery range at 6th Avenue and Laurel Street, field archery in Gold Gulch and crossbow archery at 6th and Grape Streets....

Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/clist1.htm
...Subjects include animals including elephants and zebras, midget activities, nudist colony (daily activities and robot visit), Gold Gulch, Rodeo, Ford Building, automobiles, murals, dioramas, people in uniforms, dancers, people in Spanish uniforms, Olsen & Johnson show, Sally Rand, aerialists & trapeze artists, Old Globe Theater, bicyclists, antique cars, Fine Arts Gallery, enchanted land figurines, Spanish Village, California Building, contests (beauty, cracker-eating, whittling, babies, roller...

Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac014.htm
...393 Balboa Park, 1935 Expo Gold Gulch ...

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1976.htm
...On March 12, 1976, Council awarded a contract for subject improvements in the Organ Pavilion, Gold Gulch, Casting Pool areas and Art Pratt Memorial Foundation Handicapped Play Area for the sum of $76,555....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1987.htm
...Set in a portion of Gold Gulch canyon, adjacent to the Organ Pavilion, the proposed garden features two streams, a pond meant to represent an ocean inlet, and several traditional Japanese-style structures, including a tea house, garden house, cultural center, exhibit house and arbor....

Journal Index 1975-1989
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/index/1975-1989.htm
...Gold Gulch (Balboa Park), 31:4:265 ...

[PDF] Journal of San Diego History--Index to Volumes 51 & 52
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/v52-3/pdf/2006-3_index.pdf
...24 Girls' Collegiate School, Los Angeles, 51/3-4: 110 Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, 52/3-4: 127 Glorietta Bay, 52/1-2: 1 Gold Gulch, see California Pacific Exposition Gold Rush of 1849, 51/3-4: 99 Gold Rush Saints:...

[PDF] The Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/v51-1/pdf/2005-1_hollywood.pdf
Volume 51, Numbers 1 & 2
...For a time, they both ended up working at the Expo's Gold Gulch, Frances as a dancing girl and Bob as a barker....

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