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		THE PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION An elaborate world’s fair, the 1915 PPIE was ostensibly to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal, but was also designed to show the world that San Francisco had bounced back after the 1906 earthquake.  A storybook city of dazzling palaces was constructed on new land created by filling in part of the bay (what is now the Marina District).  All that remains today is the Palace of Fine Arts, and even that is not the original.  The original Palace, designed to stand for one year; was in terrible shape half a century later, when it was recreated, this time in durable concrete.
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