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San Diego’s Light Made from 25,000 Oranges
San Diego, California’s entry into the 1935 National Orange Show was a 2/3 scale replica of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, that was more commonly known then as the Old Spanish Lighthouse. The man in charge of the exhibit, M. E. Salsberry, told the Los Angeles Times that the structure was made of 25,000 Navel Oranges, in addition to a profusion of lemons and grapefruits. The mannequin lighthouse keeper actually looks more like a milkman of that era in his all-white uniform with a bow tie.
We first published this antique post card image in the January/February 2016 edition of Lighthouse Digest from an image submitted to us by Mike Oliviere. At that time, with no accompanying information, we guessed that it might have been an ice sculpture. Wow, were we wrong! Little could we have guessed then, that it was made of citrus fruit.
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