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One of the world's most lovely urban oases, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park surely is one of the most beloved. This 1,000-acre green space in the middle of the cosmopolitan City by the Bay is covered with grassy meadows, wooded bike trails, secluded lakes, open groves, formal gardens, and several museums. This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this special place in an elegant package that is perfect for visitors and residents alike. Filled with color photographs that spill over with the flowers, trees, and charming architecture you expect, SAN FRANCISCO'S GOLDEN GATE PARK also includes many black-and-white historical photos documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past. A full-color map of areas and structures within the park gives a helpful overview, and lively, anecdotal text provides information about particular monuments, structures, gardens, and museums, from the Dutch Windmill, historic Beach Chalet, Japanese Tea Garden, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, to the herd of bison grazing peacefully in an enclosed paddock just off Kennedy Drive.
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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.
One of the world's most lovely urban oases, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park surely is one of the most beloved. This 1,000-acre green space in the middle of the cosmopolitan City by the Bay is covered with grassy meadows, wooded bike trails, secluded lakes, open groves, formal gardens, and several museums. This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this special place in an elegant package that is perfect for visitors and residents alike. Filled with color photographs that spill over with the flowers, trees, and charming architecture you expect, SAN FRANCISCO'S GOLDEN GATE PARK also includes many black-and-white historical photos documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past. A full-color map of areas and structures within the park gives a helpful overview, and lively, anecdotal text provides information about particular monuments, structures, gardens, and museums, from the Dutch Windmill, historic Beach Chalet, Japanese Tea Garden, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, to the herd of bison grazing peacefully in an enclosed paddock just off Kennedy Drive.
About the Author
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)
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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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- 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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