On Friday, May 25, from 11:30am-1:30pm, The Committee of One Hundred presents its annual luncheon at the Balboa Park Club. Awards will be given to Vicki Estrada and Richard S. Requa. Guest speaker Welton Jones will discuss “The Naked Truth,” shedding light on Zoro Garden, a major attraction of the California Pacific International Exposition in 1935-36. This fenced amphitheatre was where young men and women lounged on display each day wearing no clothing. Visitors could observe this “nudist colony” exercising, playing various sports, cooking, and performing daily in a pageant celebrating the “heliotherapy of naturism.” Who were these people, and just how naked were they? Seventy-seven years later Zoro Garden still stands in Balboa Park, now a butterfly sanctuary, but there are no definitive accounts of what went on there. Jones will set the record straight. Lunch will be catered by The Prado Restaurant. (www.c100.org)
