San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories

by Pollock, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781558685451
• ISBN10: 1558685456
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co

Summary

The only fully illustrated guide to the park, this book is filled with color photos and stories celebrating this historic and distinctive urban oasis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	2	(1)
Foreword	3	(3)
Ken Garcia
Map	6	(2)
Introduction	8	(5)
The Eastern End	13	(1)
The Panhandle	14	(1)
William McKinley Monument	14	(4)
McLaren Lodge and Uncle John's Tree	18	(6)
Peacock Meadow	24	(1)
Fuchsia Dell	24	(1)
Horseshoe Pits	24	(1)
Clarke Pillars Gate	25	(1)
Ghirardelli Card Shelter	26	(1)
Conservatory of Flowers	27	(3)
Liberty Tree	30	(1)
Vanished First Band Stand	30	(1)
Dahlia Garden	30	(1)
Arizona Garden	31	(1)
James Abram Garfield Monument	32	(1)
Major General Henry Wager Halleck Monument	32	(1)
Baseball Player	33	(1)
Favorite Point	34	(1)
Vanished Suspension Bridge	34	(1)
Tennis Courts, William M. Johnson Clubhouse, and Vanished Second Music Stand	34	(1)
Sharon Meadow	35	(1)
Alvord Bridge	36	(1)
Alvord Lakelet	37	(1)
Page Street Gate	37	(1)
Haight Street Gate	38	(1)
Park Police Station	38	(1)
Park Emergency Aid Hospital	38	(1)
Kezar Stadium and Kezar Pavilion	39	(1)
Carousel	40	(2)
Sharon Building and Mary B. Connally Children's Playground	42	(1)
Foresters Memorial Fountain	43	(1)
Sarah B. Cooper Memorial	43	(1)
Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens	43	(1)
Park Nursery and Maintenance Yard	44	(1)
National AIDS Memorial Grove	44	(1)
Vanished Bear Pit	45	(1)
Lily Pond	45	(1)
Australian Tree Fern Dell	46	(1)
Vanished Canal	46	(1)
George Washington Elm Tree	46	(1)
Vanished Casino and Rustic Arbors	47	(1)
John McLaren Rhododendron Dell and Statue	47	(4)
The Music Concourse	51	(29)
Brayton Gate	52	(1)
Powell Street Railway Shelter	52	(1)
Brown Gate	52	(1)
Chaplain William D. McKinnon Statue	53	(1)
Robert Burns Memorial	53	(1)
Thomas Starr King Statue	53	(1)
Pedestrian Tunnel under John F. Kennedy Drive	54	(1)
Francis Scott Key Monument	54	(1)
General Ulysses Simpson Grant Sculpture	55	(2)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Grouping	57	(1)
Padre Junipero Serra Monument	58	(1)
General John Joseph Pershing Monument	58	(1)
Goethe and Schiller Monument	59	(1)
California Academy of Sciences	59	(3)
Robert Emmet Statue	62	(1)
Ludwig van Beethoven Bust	63	(1)
Giuseppe Verdi Monument	63	(1)
Shakespeare Garden	63	(1)
Big Rec	64	(1)
Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens	65	(2)
Vanished Pump Works	67	(1)
Spreckels Temple of Music	68	(1)
The Music Concourse and Fountains	68	(1)
Lion Statue	69	(1)
Dore Vase	69	(1)
The Sphinxes	70	(1)
Apple Cider Press Statue	70	(1)
Sundial	71	(1)
Roman Gladiator Sculpture	71	(1)
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Asian Art Museum	71	(3)
Pool of Enchantment	74	(1)
Japanese Tea Garden	75	(2)
William Randolph Hearst and the Ill-Fated Stones of Santa Maria de Ovila	77	(2)
Heroes Grove and Gold Star Mothers Rock	79	(1)
Stow Lake	80	(15)
Rose Garden	82	(1)
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Bust	82	(1)
Redwood Memorial Grove and The Doughboy	83	(1)
Colonial Historic Trees and Chinese Friendship Pine Tree	83	(2)
Willis Polk Rock	85	(1)
Pioneer Mother Monument	86	(1)
Pioneer Log Cabin	86	(1)
Stow Lake and Stow Lake Boathouse	87	(1)
Roman Bridge	88	(2)
Strawberry Hill Island and Sweeney Observatory	90	(1)
Golden Gate Pavilion	91	(1)
Huntington Falls	92	(1)
Rustic Bridge	92	(1)
Prayer Book Cross	92	(1)
Rainbow Falls	93	(2)
West of Cross Over Drive	95	(7)
Portals of the Past	96	(1)
Lloyd Lake	97	(1)
Breon Gate	97	(2)
George Washington Bicentennial Grove and Herbert Hoover Tree	99	(1)
Elk Glen Lake	99	(1)
Mallard Lake	100	(1)
Metson Lake	100	(1)
Speedway Meadow	101	(1)
Marx Meadow	101	(1)
Beardslee Gate	101	(1)
Golden Gate Park Stadium	102	(11)
Lindley Meadow	104	(1)
Golden Gate Park Stables	104	(1)
Golden Gate Park Stadium aka the Polo Field	105	(1)
Frederick C. Egan Memorial Police Stables	106	(1)
Anglers Lodge and Fly-Casting Pools	107	(1)
Spreckels Lake and San Francisco Model Yacht Club	107	(2)
Senior Center	109	(1)
Petanque Court	110	(1)
Bison Paddock	110	(3)
Facing West	113	(13)
Chain of Lakes	114	(1)
Jewett Memorial Bench	115	(1)
Bercut Equitation Ring and Dressage Ring	115	(1)
Golden Gate Park Golf Course	115	(1)
Archery Range	115	(1)
Dutch Windmill and Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden	116	(4)
Former United States Life-Saving Service Station	120	(1)
Captain Roald Amundsen Memorial and Vanished Ship Gjoa	121	(1)
Beach Chalet	122	(2)
Soccer Fields	124	(1)
Murphy Windmill and Millwright's Cottage	124	(1)
The Pavilion	125	(1)
Vanished Rustic Stone Overpass	125	(1)
Select Bibliography	126	(1)
Index	127	(1)
Archival Photograph and Illustration Credits	128