Balboa Stadium
Balboa Stadium construction site in 1914. Steam shovels were used to excavate the area. It was built in 1914 as part of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition with a capacity of 15,000. It was expanded to 34,000 capacity and served as the San Diego Chargers home from 1961 to 1966. The stadium was demolished in the 1970s and a smaller stadium with a 3,000 seat capacity was built, opening in 1978. (Copy and photo - San Diego City Clerk Archives)
Balboa Stadium was the venue to celebrate Charles Lindbergh who returned to San Diego after his historic flight in 1927, President Franklin Roosevelt during a visit to San Diego in 1935, auto racing, San Diego Chargers football team from 1961 to 1966, and the venue for concerts including the Beatle, Beach Boys, Doobie Brothers, Peter Frampton, Steely Dan, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles and Crosby Stills Nash & Young in the 1960s and 70s.
