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The Del Mar Fairgrounds is an event venue in Del Mar, California. It hosts the annual San Diego County Fair. The venue sits on a 370-acre (1.5 km 2) property along the Pacific Ocean coastline. It includes the Del Mar Racetrack, built in 1936 by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, with founding member Bing Crosby providing leadership. [ 1]
The San Diego County Fair began in 1880 as an agricultural fair. The location moved from place to place for several years, finally settling on the Del Mar Fairgrounds when it opened in 1936. There was no fair in 1917–18 due to World War I, 1942–45 due to World War II, and 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Michael Grimes. Website. Del Mar Antique Show. The Del Mar Antique [sic] Show & Sale is the longest-running family owned indoor antiques show in California. It is the largest antiques and collectible show south of San Francisco, with over 55,000 square feet (5,100 m 2) of exhibition space. As of November 2017, the show was in its 56th year.
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the San Diego County Fair is returning next week, and preparations are in full swing at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. SD County Fair returns next week ...
San Diego 1904 FC ( NISA) (2019) San Diego Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in San Diego, California. [ 3] The stadium opened in 1967 as San Diego Stadium and was known as Jack Murphy Stadium from 1981 to 1997. From 1997 to 2017, the stadium's naming rights were owned by Qualcomm, and the stadium was known as Qualcomm Stadium or simply The Q.
Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco) The Panama–California Exposition was a world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first United States port of call for ships traveling ...
The Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California (RPFS) is a Renaissance faire that takes place at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale, California. It opened in the spring of 1963 and has been an annual event since then. [ 1] Presently owned by Renaissance Entertainment Productions (REP), it is a commercial reenactment of a 1580s ...
San Diego County (/ ˌ s æ n d i ˈ eɪ ɡ oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of San Diego (Spanish: Condado de San Diego), is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634, [7] making it California's second-most populous county and the fifth-most populous in the United ...