History: Preserved Spanish architecture shows best of human potential
The Panama-California Exposition in 1915 was an unparalleled World's Fair created ostensibly to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and its f...
The Panama-California Exposition in 1915 was an unparalleled World's Fair created ostensibly to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and its first stop at San Diego on the way north up the western coast. Real estate developer Colonel D.C. Collier famously said the point was to 'illustrate the progress and possibility of the human race, not for the exposition only, but for a permanent contribution to the world's progress.' Real estate developers, potentates, municipalities, and governments have sometimes been successful in demonstrating the best of human possibility.