Ford Building - San Diego, CA
Posted by: saopaulo1
N 32° 43.600 W 117° 09.231
11S E 485583 N 3620996
Building from the 1936 Expo at Balboa Park.
Waymark Code: WM47CH
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2008
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"The Ford Building, a Streamline Moderne structure in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, serves as the home of the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The Ford Motor Company sponsored the building for the California Pacific International Exposition, which was held in 1935 and 1936. Ford was the exposition's principal exhibitor and invested $2.8 million in the 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m²) building to showcase its vehicles and other forms of transportation.
The museum opened in the building on June 28, 1980.
The building was stylized after a V8 engine: the building overall consists of two (different sized) circles in the shape of an "8," and in the courtyard of the larger circle there is a large fountain shaped like the Ford V8 logo." (
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