Balboa Park (San Diego) - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The 1915 silent film Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition takes place at the 1915 Exposition and stars Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
• Citizen Kane has scenes from Charles Kane's (Orson Welles) mansion "Xanadu" filmed at buildings in Balboa Park, with the film's animals from the San Diego Zoo.
• Portions of the 1979 movie Scavenger Hunt were filmed in and around Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo.
• MyNetworkTV's Desire filmed a 2006 episode scene in the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
• The California Bell Tower appears in the film Almost Famous.
• The video games Tony Hawk's Underground and Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition use Balboa Park for their San Diego levels.
• The internet series Mega64 often films their sketches at Balboa Park.
• Bruce Springsteen's album The Ghost of Tom Joad includes a song about Balboa Park.
• The cover photo of the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds was taken at the San Diego Zoo's children's petting zoo.
• The 2003 movie National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze's exterior shots of the "college campus" are from Balboa Park.
• The 2nd copy of the iconic statue from the film Rocky III is featured in the San Diego Hall of Champions.
• The 1995 Chuck Norris film Top Dog was set in Balboa Park.