{"id":680,"date":"2012-01-24T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2012-01-24T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:03:50","slug":"the-civic-auditorium-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"The Civic Auditorium Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>All those old exposition buildings are nothing but fire traps.\u00c2\u00a0 I go to bed every night afraid that I will wake up in the morning to see the park buildings wiped out and with them collections of materials that could not be replaced for less than $1,000,000 [and] several years of hard work. <\/em>&#8211;Joseph W. Sefton, Jr., president, Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story of a\u00c2\u00a0disaster in Balboa Park: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Civic-Auditorium-Fire.pdf\">Civic Auditorium Fire<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_682\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" data-attachment-id=\"682\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=682\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg?fit=1700%2C1089\" data-orig-size=\"1700,1089\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"CivicAuditorium3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The CivicAuditorium was the former Southern Califoria Counties Building, built for the Panama-California Exposition.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg?fit=1024%2C655\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-682  \" title=\"CivicAuditorium3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg?resize=300%2C192\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg?resize=300%2C192 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg?resize=1024%2C655 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CivicAuditorium3.jpg?w=1700 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Civic Auditorium was the former Southern California Counties Building, built for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D680&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All those old exposition buildings are nothing but fire traps.\u00c2\u00a0 I go to bed every night afraid that I will wake up in the morning to see the park buildings wiped out and with them collections of materials that could not be replaced for less than $1,000,000 [and] several years of hard work. &#8211;Joseph W. 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