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Ford's Roads of the Pacific

California Pacific Exposition
Ford's "Roads of the Pacific", Balboa Park, 1935

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At the south end of the Ford building (today's Aerospace Museum), overlooking downtown San Diego and the harbor, was the 2,800-ft. "Roads of the Pacific," where new Ford V-8 cars took visitors over a continuous route along the sides of a canyon landscaped into fourteen different sections, including the Summer Palace Road in China, the Tokaido in Japan, the Ballarat Road in Australia, the Inca Highway in Peru, the Oregon Trail, the old Yuma Road, and El Camino Real.

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