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The 1937 Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition.
The Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. The exhibition promoted the city of Dallas as the cultural and economic capital of an emerging Pan-American civilization stretching from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska. It followed the successful Texas Centennial Exposition, which was held to celebrate the centennial anniversary of Texas in 1936. Every exhibition building constructed for the 1936 fair (except the Hall of Negro Life, which was demolished) were simply redecorated for the event, but most major exhibitors (such as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler) did not return in 1937. The event also included the Pan American Olympics, pitting the nations of North, Central, and South America against one another in a series of interracial contests and which led as a precursor for the eventual establishment of the Pan American Games.
The exhibition ran from June 12, 1937, through October 1937. The exposition failed to live up to expectations, attracting only 2 million visitors (compared to over 6 million for the Texas Centennial).
1935 America's Exposition in San Diego CA. 1935 San Diego Five and Ten Nuggets
Gold Gulch Coupons GalleryThese will be updated with actual images if the possible stock images here do not end up being the same ones I ordered.
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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.
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.
There is a One Nugget note or coupon that I'll be on the lookout for to make what I am guessing is a complete set.
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