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The plan to have the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 at Lake Merced.
The Lake Merced Fair that Could Have Been
by Woody LaBounty
(Adapted from article published in Outside Lands magazine, Jan-Mar 2015, and is put online with support from the Schwemm Family Foundation.) Map of Merced Park, proposed site for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915., 1915 - Designed by J. E. Pope, Civil Engineer
In 1915, San Francisco celebrated the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), the fair that remade a swampy area called Harbor View into a wonderland of exhibit halls, courts, plazas, technology showcases, a “Joy Zone,” and a Tower of Jewels centerpiece.