Cabrillo\u00a0Festival<\/a>! \u00a0The first festival 123 years ago in 1892\u00a0came about when\u00a0newsman Walter Smith urged city leaders to host an event to stimulate the economy.\u00a0He described how a festival celebrating\u00a0Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo’s discovery of San Diego Bay\u00a0would afford citizens the opportunity of acquainting visitors with the city’s attributes. San Diego’s mayor Mathew Sherman saw\u00a0it as a\u00a0chance\u00a0for the city\u00a0to take the lead as the birthplace of Alta California,\u00a0while\u00a0inviting prominent guests to an event destined to be remembered. One week before the celebration nearly every hotel room was\u00a0reserved\u00a0and residents were urged to offer visitors room and board in their homes. Fiestas, re-enactments, dignitaries, races, swim contests, a Vaquero tournament, dinner dances and a spectacular\u00a0fireworks show at the Hotel del Coronado drew thousands of spectators. San Diego banker Bryant Howard summed up the festival in a news story:\u00a0\u00a0“I think the outlook is encouraging. I think we will have a good business during the winter and spring … I con\u00adsider that the Cabrillo Celebration is one of the greatest advertisements San Diego ever had.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. —\u00a0On\u00a0Sept. 26 & 27, 2015 you are invited to the free Cabrillo\u00a0Festival! \u00a0The first festival 123 years ago in 1892\u00a0came about when\u00a0newsman Walter Smith urged city leaders to host an event to stimulate the economy.\u00a0He described how a festival celebrating\u00a0Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo’s discovery of San Diego Bay\u00a0would afford citizens the opportunity of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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