October 3, 2019
Volume 49 - No. 40
By Friedrich Gomez
2019 IS AN HISTORIC ANNIVERSARY YEAR. It’s hard to believe that 2019 marks the 54th Anniversary of The Beatles’ historic concert here at San Diego’s old Balboa Stadium. It was an event which placed San Diego on the front cover of cosmopolitan newspapers, in various foreign languages, worldwide. It was a moment chiseled in history for all-time.
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HISTORY WAS “ALREADY WAITING” FOR THE BEATLES.
of the Panama Canal.
The concrete edifice at the time of the British Invasion was already over half a century old, having been built back in 1914 as part of the 1915 Panama-California World Exposition to celebrate the opening
Woodrow Wilson’s visit to Balboa Stadium would see (and hear) the very first U. S. Presidential speech to ever use an electronic voice amplification system.
However, before Britain’s immortal foursome from Liverpool, England first set their celebrated footprints on Balboa Stadium grounds, the historic stadium was already old and legendary – on its own might.
Four years later, on September 19, 1919, the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, spoke in front of over 50,000 people at Balboa Stadium (even though seating capacity at the time was only 34,000).
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Almost exactly 8 years-to-the-day after President Wilson’s famous speech endorsing the creation of The League of Nations, aviation’s legendary Lone Eagle, Charles Lindbergh, visited San Diego, where history’s immortal “Spirit of St. Louis” aircraft was built by Ryan Airlines. Lindberg -- one of America’s greatest loved heroes of all-time – made one of the grandest and most spectacular entrances in modern times when his low-flying plane flew at only 100-feet over Balboa Stadium, dipping his aircraft’s wings and circling the stadi-