The Journal of San Diego History Winter 1979, Volume 25, Number 1 Contents of This Issue San Diego's City Park 1902-1910 From Parsons To Balboa Back to the article   Page iv. A turn of the century map of San Diego showing City Park (renamed Balboa Park in 1910) at its center. The period from 1902 to 1910 saw some of the first comprehensive planning for the park.   Page 5. San Diego's local "merchant prince" George W. Marston offered to pay for a professional landscape architect to design City Park.   Page 6. The design by Samuel Parsons for City Park was in the Picturesque tradition. He said of the park site, "There is nothing else like it among the parks of the world."   Page 8. A wide Central Drive winds its way through City Park (ca. 1904) as it approaches downtown San Diego in the distance.   Page 8-9. The southwest corner of City Park at Sixth and Date Streets about 1904. Some 1000 trees were initially planted in this area of the park.   Page 10. Arbor Day planting in City Park on March 17, 1904   Page 13. The 1908 plan of John Nolan recommended the construction of a wide landscaped walkway, "The Paseo," which would descend twelve blocks between Date and Elm streets from the southwest entrance of City Park to San Diego Bay.   Page 14. The Nolan plan recommended that tree-lined parkways connect a citywide system of parks with City. Park at its center.