Auto Museum restoration revs up - The San Diego Union-Tribune

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A historically accurate repainting of Balboa Park’s Automotive Museum Building is kicking off a long-awaited $500,000 restoration of the building by the Committee of 100.

The park’s oldest support group, C100 has donated more than $15,000 worth of paint and materials for city crews to apply to the 85-year-old building in the Palisades area, south of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.

Armando Rios refilled the paint compressor with an additional 5-gallons of the custom color, Balboa Park Palisades Tan.

(Nelvin C. Cepeda - U-T)

C100 has raised additional funds to re-create four elaborate murals that graced the entrance to what was originally the California State Building, which was built for the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego’s second world’s fair. Also coming are re-creations of Central American-inspired ornamental features and two statues of California grizzly bears, resembling those that peered over Pan-American Plaza from the roof in 1935.

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The work is expected to be completed by Labor Day.

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