The only fully illustrated guide to the park, this book is filled with color photos and stories celebrating this historic and distinctive urban oasis.
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Christopher Pollock is an award-winning designer whose projects have been featured in Sunset, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Metropolitan Home, as well as several professional journals and books. His work has included an essay for the San Francisco Examiner Magazine, a design workbook, and a textbook. He has lived in San Francisco for more than twenty years.
San Francisco resident and Golden Gate Park fan Erica Katz is a commercial photographer. Specializing in both studio and location photography, her career includes a variety of clients in the Bay Area and beyond. She has exhibited throughout the country and has worked with the International Center of Photography in New York, the Richard Avedon Studio, and the Parsons School of Design.
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Just as the Golden Gate Strait welcomed early tourists to San Francisco Bay long ago, so Golden Gate Park's downtown-oriented eastern third acts as a portal through which many San Franciscans and tourists venture to rekindle their city-weary spirits. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
music concourse, park commission, park stadium, rustic bridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Midwinter Fair, United States, Stow Lake, World War, Bay Area, Fulton Street, Kennedy Drive, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Strawberry Hill, Central Park, Market Street, Earl Cummings, University of California, William Hammond Hall, Works Progress Administration, Young Museum, Union Square, Conservatory of Flowers, George Washington, Kezar Stadium, California Academy of Sciences, Civic Center, Japanese Tea Garden New!
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Just as the Golden Gate Strait welcomed early tourists to San Francisco Bay long ago, so Golden Gate Park's downtown-oriented eastern third acts as a portal through which many San Franciscans and tourists venture to rekindle their city-weary spirits. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
music concourse, park commission, park stadium, rustic bridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, New York, Midwinter Fair, United States, Stow Lake, World War, Bay Area, Fulton Street, Kennedy Drive, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Strawberry Hill, Central Park, Market Street, Earl Cummings, University of California, William Hammond Hall, Works Progress Administration, Young Museum, Union Square, Conservatory of Flowers, George Washington, Kezar Stadium, California Academy of Sciences, Civic Center, Japanese Tea Garden New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- The Making of Golden Gate Park. The Early Years: 1865 - 1906 by Raymond H. Clary in Front Matter, and Index
- Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 41, and page 87
- Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Robert Burns on page 54, and page 99
- The Industrial Revolution (Reading History) by Pat Hudson on page 17
- Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) by Armistead Maupin on page 47
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- Golden Gate Park: San Francisco's Urban Oasis in Vintage Postcards (CA) (Postcard History Series) by Christopher Pollock in Back Matter
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