Identifier: sandiegogardenfa00neuh (find matches)
Title: The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Neuhaus, Karl Eugen, 1879-
Subjects: Panama-California International Exposition (1916 : San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and Company

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hedral tower ona clear January day, it is a reality and a sightnot to be forgotten. There is a peculiar irregu-larity in the contour of these mountains. Theyhave not the uniform round shape of the northernmountains and hills, and they look as if they weregetting ready to lose their identity, approachingthe Mexican border on the east. Looking east,the lands lessen into terrace forms, ultimatelyshowing a typical Mexican mesa, as flat as atable. There is no suggestion in this monotonouspicture to remind one of the turbulency of oursouthern neighbors, unless it is the faint sugges-tion of that hybrid town of Tia Juana, whereAunt Jane in her old days is leading a dissolutelife under the protection, or rather the blindtolerance, of a lax and generous government.There is much variety in this panoramic picture,and casting quick glances to all sides one hasthe feeling that here is a corner of the earthwhere every topographical unit known to thephysical geographer exists, with the exception(36)
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PATIO WITHIN THE SCIENCE AND EDUCATION BUILDING THE BUILDINGS of inland lakes. Open seas, rockbound coast,sandy beaches, sheltered lagunas, marshy lands,make a picture of great variety towards the sea;while inland the country within a comparativelyshort space rises from tilled and fertile lowlandsand oak-grown pastures into higher mountains,with their snow covering in winter time. It is apicture which contributes much toward theuniqueness of the San Diego Exposition. One leaves that tower with great regret, onlyto become enchanted immediately on arrivingbelow, by the romance of the inviting coolarcades which enclose the open court, the Plazade Cahfornia. Opposite the gorgeous fagade,under the restful shadows of the roughly shapedceiling, the true spirit of the California Missionis in evidence. In fact the three sides of thesquare court adjoining the cathedral have moredecidedly the character of the simple buildingsof the Padres than of the accomplished andskilled creation of the Spani

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