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The Panama–California Exposition was a world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United States port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal.
About the Panama-California Exposition. In 1909 G. Aubrey Davidson proposed to the Chamber of Commerce that San Diego host a world’s fair to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. San Diego would be the first American port-of-call north of the Panama Canal on the Pacific coast.
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Nineteen hundred and fifteen was San Diego’s most notable year in the twentieth century. The Panama-California Exposition held in San Diego that year put the small town in the southwest corner of the United States on the map and convinced some people, but not all, that its name was spelled S-a-n D-i-e-g-o and not S-a-n-t-i-a-g-o.
After five years of unrelenting effort, San Diego celebrated the official opening of the Panama-California Exposition on January 1, 1915. At midnight, December 31, President Woodrow Wilson, in Washington, D.C., pressed a Western Union telegraph key.
Despite the presence of American troops on Mexican soil seeking to capture bandit and rebel Francisco (Pancho) Villa, the Exposition celebrated Mexico’s Independence Day September 16, with a mock bullfight, games, sports, a piñata party, and the inevitable open-air ball.
On July 9, 1909, G. Aubrey Davidson, founder of the Southern Trust and Commerce Bank and president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, said San Diego should stage an exposition in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal.
The Panama–California Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California, between 1915, and January 1, 1916. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first U.S. port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal. The fair was held in San Diego’s ...
