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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8314028, member: 20201"]1935 California Pacific International Exposition Medal25mm Bronze [ATTACH=full]1471876[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1471877[/ATTACH] Appears to be bronze, although I have not found out much about the specifics on this one yet. There are both silvered bronze and non silvered bronze or brass versions. I have been to Balboa Park a number of times while stationed in Mirimar CA with the US Navy in the mid 70's. I went to Sea World and to the beaches around San Diego on my free time.I regret that I did not go to the various museums and historical buildings but I do remember a little seeing them from the outside.I also remember attending a free rock concert or two at The Starlight Bowl, but don't remember much about that. The Starlight Bowl is an amphitheater located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was constructed for the 1935-1936 California Pacific International Exposition and seats 4,300. It was originally named the Ford Bowl because the automobile manufacturer sponsored outdoor concerts at the venue during the exposition by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the San Francisco Symphony, and other performers which originally was next to the Ford Motor Exhibit A small collage of then and now below.[ATTACH=full]1471878[/ATTACH] This goes along nicely with the Gold Gulch Nuggets below that I'll post here. 1935 San Diego ExpositionLa Fortuna400 Chips Coupon [ATTACH=full]1471880[/ATTACH] I don't think it is a coincidence that the denomination is 400 chips at the Exposition held in San Diego in 1935.It celebrated the 400th anniversary of Coronado's discovery of the Pacific Southwest.Very similar to the Gold Gulch Nugget depression script or obsolete currency, as they are sometimes categorized, this was probably used in the same attraction built to portray a mining town in the gold rush days of 1849.Probably a cantina existed by the name of La Fortuna. Information is somewhat scarce on what all went on in the Village of Gold Gulch at America's Exposition in San Diego. I have only found a denomination of 400 chips for this particular type note and don't think there are others.The high serial number seems to be deceiving as all those I have seen are near the number on mine in the 24000 area. This one is the best condition example I have found by far. There is another set of four similar blue back notes that I have not yet collected.They are Jardin de Plaisir Souvenirs in denominations of One, Five, Ten and Twenty Souvenirs. I don't have any yet.I do believe that Jardin de Plaisir translates to Garden of Enjoyment. 1935 San DiegoOne, Five and Ten NuggetsGold Gulch Coupons (Actually, they all are the same color)[ATTACH=full]1471872[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1471873[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1471874[/ATTACH] Gold Gulch was the largest funfair concession built for visitors at the California Pacific International Exposition, a World's Fair that was open from 1935 to 1936, in San Diego, Southern California, United States. Gold Gulch was a section celebrating the California Gold Rush and the American Old West. [ATTACH=full]1471875[/ATTACH] Gold Gulch, located within the World's Fairgrounds in Balboa Park, was a 21-acre Old West mining town-ghost town re-creation for fairgoers to experience the atmosphere of a mining boomtown.It was described in the Exposition Guide Book as "a moviefied" version of riproaring '49 days.Gold Gulch occupied the canyon between the 'Casa de Balboa' and 'Pepper Grove,' southeast of the Spreckles Organ Pavilion.It was composed of a dance hall and a music hall, rustic unpainted shacks, a brick bank with iron-barred windows, a "Chinese restaurant and laundry," and a Hanging tree with 'dummy' hanging.Barkers lured visitors to a "shooting gallery" where a visiting "sharpshooter" hitting the bull's eye put all the lights out in the Gulch.An "Indian Village" was nearby, with trading posts and events. Gold Gulch charged no admission, but its shops and attractions did. "One could have coffee in a tin cup, beer 'by the scupper,' badges and rings made from horseshoe nails by the blacksmith, and have a photograph taken with fake beard, six shooter gun prop, a ten gallon cowboy hat on a mine-pack burro." I would imagine that these coupons were purchased and used in the attractions within the Gold Gulch funfair instead of using cash in the shops and attractions.[/QUOTE]

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