1935 Photo California Pacific International Expo FORD MUSIC BOWL Starlight Bowl

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1935 Photo California Pacific International Expo FORD MUSIC BOWL Starlight Bowl
3 1/2" x 6"
Original photo of the Ford Music Bowl - known now as the
Starlight Bowl.
Handwritten on back "Henry's Music Bowl"
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The Starlight Bowl was built in 1935 for the 1935-36 California International Pacific Exposition in Balboa Park. Designed by architects Richard S. Requa, who was the lead architect of the 1935 Expo. The bowl’s acoustical engineering was by Vern D. Knudsen, who also helped design Hollywood Bowl. Originally called The Ford Bowl the amphitheater was built in tandem with the Ford Building (now the San Diego Air & Space Museum) as a showcase for Ford vehicles. Symphony concerts were held out of the bowl, and broadcast live from coast to cost. This was considered the artistic peak of the exposition. After the expo closed, the symphony continued to perform regularly in the ford bowl along with various other events and vaudeville performances. In the late 1940’s after the Navy had taken over the park during World War II, the city renamed the facility the “Balboa Bowl” In 1946, a group of local operetta fans incorporated as the San Diego Civic Light Opera and using the title “Star-Light” they had begun performing light opera and musical comedy. The Bowl was always very popular during this time in the 40’s and 50’s, as the place to be and be seen in San Diego.