Gold Gulch
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Gold Gulch was the largest
American Old West.[1]
Description
Gold Gulch, located within the World's Fairgrounds in
mining town-ghost town re-creation for fairgoers to experience the atmosphere of a mining boomtown.[2] Gold Gulch was described in the Exposition Guide Book as "a moviefied" version of riproaring '49 days.[3]
Gold Gulch occupied the canyon between the '
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.[1]
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
burro."[3]
Designer
set designer, humorist, and Western writer
.
Legacy
The popularity and aesthetic accomplishments of Gold Gulch inspired and influenced subsequent
Calico Ghost Town restoration and the "Ghost Town" section of Knott's Berry Farm by Walter Knott, and Frontierland by Walt Disney
.
See also
- Ghost town
- Gold prospecting
- Gold Rush
- Black Hills Gold Rush
- California Gold Rush
- Comstock Lode
- Fairbanks Gold Rush
- Georgia Gold Rush
- Holcomb Valley gold rush
- Pike's Peak Gold Rush
References
- ^ a b "San Diego Invites the World to Balboa Park a Second Time | San Diego History Center". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ "Balboa Park : Search : Gold Gulch". Balboapark.org. Retrieved 2016-10-11.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Do You Want an Exposition? | San Diego History Center". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
Book list
- "History of San Diego County" - Carl H. Heilbron, ed. - San Diego, 1936.
- "History of San Diego" - by William E. Smythe - online book 're-issue'