The Lake Merced Fair that Could Have Been
Please Donate The plan to have the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 at Lake Merced. The Lake Merced Fair that Could Have Been by Woody LaBounty (Adapted from article published in Outside Lands magazine, Jan-Mar 2015, and is put online with support from the Schwemm Family Foundation.) Map of Merced Park, proposed site for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915., 1915 - Designed by J. E. Pope, Civil Engineer In 1915, San Francisco celebrated the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), the fair that remade a swampy area called Harbor View i...