{"id":12554,"date":"2012-04-25T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=12554"},"modified":"2012-04-27T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:15:27","slug":"exploring-balboa-park-with-ron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/25\/exploring-balboa-park-with-ron\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Balboa Park With Ron"},"content":{"rendered":"

After picking up my buddy Ron from his downtown hotel, we drove over to Balboa Park<\/a> to meander around a bit and to go see the Titanic exhibit showing at the San Diego Natural History Museum<\/a>. It was my second time (so far) seeing this particular exhibit. Since no photography of the displays was allowed, you will have to either use your imaginations or just ask Mr. Google to show you. (We also visited the Model Railroad Museum, and even though we only had half an hour to see the dioramas and displays, I was able to take more photos and will post that as a separate entry.)<\/p>\n

Ron was very impressed with the Park, especially when I told him that most of the beautifully ornate Spanish Revival buildings we saw today have been around (albeit rebuilt or refurbished) since the 1915 Panama-California Exposition<\/a>. We will be coming back here\u00a0again in five days\u00a0for his final visit this month and will then be focusing more on the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition<\/a> portion of the Park, mainly the old Ford Pavilion which is now the Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\n

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Spanish Village Art Center <\/div> <\/div>
\"Botanical <\/a>
Botanical Building <\/div> <\/div>
\"El <\/a>
El Prado Hallway <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"El <\/a>
El Prado Visitor Center <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Only <\/a>
Only pic of exhibit I could get <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Museum <\/a>
Museum Atrium <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Natural <\/a>
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\"Grabbing <\/a>
Grabbing a snack <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ron <\/a>
Ron Flight Route <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After picking up my buddy Ron from his downtown hotel, we drove over to Balboa Park to meander around a bit and to go see the Titanic exhibit showing at the San Diego Natural History Museum. It was my second time (so far) seeing this particular exhibit. Since no photography of the displays was allowed, … <\/p>\n

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It was a surprisingly minimal presentation with only three small display cases in the middle of a large open area.\u00a0For\u00a0the\u00a0$6.00 admission that I paid I stayed and went through the rest of the museum, which took\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Balboa Park"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SD-History-Center-Comic-Con01-07-30-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11068,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/19\/balboa-park-meanderings\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":4},"title":"Balboa Park Meanderings","date":"January 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Continued my great day with some strolling around most of Balboa Park, from the Natural History Museum, across to the San Diego History Center with its library and archives, over to the California Tower by the Museum of Man, through Alcazar Garden, down to the Organ Pavilion, over to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Balboa Park"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1505,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/31\/san-diego-model-railroad-museum-visit\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":5},"title":"San Diego Model Railroad Museum Visit","date":"August 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to the Model Railroad Museum at Balboa Park with the Cassins.","rel":"","context":"In "Balboa Park"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12565,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions\/12565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}