Are you a lover of sports or history? Planning a visit to Balboa Park? If you’ve answered Yes and Yes, make sure you head over to the free San Diego History Center in Balboa Park!
Their current Inside/Out exhibit is titled Summer of Sports. A large display case contains fascinating sports artifacts and ephemera from the San Diego History Center Collections.
The Olympic Games return this summer, and the display takes this into account. But it mostly focuses on local sports and San Diego history.
There’s also a great video that you can watch concerning San Diego’s own skateboarding legend Tony Hawk!
The Inside/Out display case contains all sorts of San Diego sports pins and patches. Do you recognize some of these?
Alice “Lefty” Hohlmayer was a Hall of Fame player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In her later life she resided in San Diego.
The next photo is from an old ZLAC program. ZLAC was founded in San Diego in 1892 and is the oldest continuously operating women’s rowing club in the world.
One part of this historical sports exhibit concerns Palisade Gardens, a skating rink that opened in 1946 on University Avenue in North Park. It was the first post-World War II commercial structure completed in San Diego. It closed in July 1985.
The steel and leather roller skates are circa 1930s.
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