Golden Gate Park

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San Francisco
by Lonely Planet

San Francisco Disc Golf Sports Offline map Google map (www.sfdiscgolf.org; Marx Meadow Dr at Fulton St btwn 25th & 30th Ave; Fulton St) If you love to throw Frisbees, head to the tranquil woods of Golden Gate Park to find a permanent 18-hole disc-golf course, enjoyed by cultish veterans and reckless beginners. You can rent a bag of flying saucers at Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate, and limber up for tournaments, which kick off Sundays from 8:30am to 10am. SF’s Top 3 Urban Golf Courses Golden Gate Municipal Golf Course Offline map Google map ( 415-751-8987; www.goldengateparkgolfcourse.com; 47th Ave & Fulton St, Golden Gate Park; adult/child Mon-Thu $15/5, Fri-Sun $19/7; 6am-8pm; ; Fulton St) Golden Gate Park has a challenging nine-hole, par-27 course built on sand dunes, with some 100yd drop-offs, 180yd elevated greens and Pacific views.

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San Francisco’s Top 10 Golden Gate Park ( Click here ) 1You may have heard that San Francisco has a wild streak a mile wide, but it also happens to be 4.5 miles long. Golden Gate Park lets San Franciscans do what comes naturally: roller-discoing, drum-circling, petting starfish, sniffing orchids and racing bison toward the Pacific. It’s hard to believe these 1017 acres of lush terrain were once just scrubby sand dunes, and that San Franciscans have successfully preserved this stretch of green since 1866, ousting casinos and a theme-park igloo village. (Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park) Golden Gate Park & the Avenues SABRINA DALBESIO / LONELY PLANET IMAGES © SFMOMA & SoMa Art Scene ( Click here & Click here) 2New media art has been collected at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) since before anyone knew what to call it.

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Local Life » Sporting life Take on new challenges in Golden Gate Park, including roller disco, fly-casting, disc golf and Lindy-hopping (Click here ). » Foggy days Stay warm with Trouble Coffee (Click here ), hoodies from Mollusk ( Click here ), matinees at the Balboa Theater ( Click here ), and rainforest strolls inside the California Academy of Sciences ( Click here ) and Conservatory of Flowers ( Click here ). » Goose bumps, guaranteed Get delicious chills with bare feet on Ocean Beach (Click here ), eerily lifelike ceremonial masks at MH de Young Museum ( Click here ), cliff’s-edge views along the Coastal Trail ( Click here ) and ice-cream cocktails at Trad’r Sam’s ( Click here ). » Outposts of cool Outlandishness isn’t just an aesthetic, but a way of life at Park Life (Click here ) art openings, Hollow ( Click here ) art-installation coffee breaks, and musical interludes in the garden at General Store ( Click here ). Getting There & Away » Bus Numbers 1 and 38 run from Downtown to the Richmond. Buses 5 and 21 head from Downtown along the north edge of Golden Gate Park, while number 2 runs the length of Clement St past the Legion of Honor. Bus 71 hooks around Golden Gate Park on the Sunset side. » Streetcar The N line runs from Downtown, through the Sunset to Ocean Beach. Lonely Planet’s Top Tip Hear that echo across Golden Gate Park? It’s probably a concert, and very likely free. Opera divas, indie acts, bluegrass greats and hip-hop heavies take turns rocking SF gratis, from the wintry days of June through golden October afternoons.

San Francisco
by Lonely Planet

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Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco
by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing
Published 31 Aug 2012

(www.sfosnow.com; 1630-32 Haight St; 11am-7pm; Haight St) RAIMUND KOCH/CORBIS © Golden Gate Park & the Avenues When other Americans want an extreme experience, they head to San Francisco – but when San Franciscans go to extremes, they end up here. Surfers brave walls of water on blustery Ocean Beach, runners try to keep pace with the stampeding bison in Golden Gate Park and dim sum gluttons have one more round of dumplings in Sunset or Richmond, the family-friendly neighborhoods along the park. Top Sights California Academy Of Sciences ( Click here ) MH de Young Memorial Museum ( Click here ) Best of San Francisco Outdoors Golden Gate Park ( Click here ) Ocean Beach ( Click here ) Coastal Trail ( Click here ) Stow Lake ( Click here ) Strybing Arboretum & Botanical Gardens ( Click here ) Bargain Gourmet Outerlands ( Click here ) Namu ( Click here ) Spices ( Click here ) Academy Cafe ( Click here ) Getting There Bus Nos 1 and 38 run from Downtown.

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Classic-kitsch lovers order the Hurricane, which comes with two straws to share for a reason: drink it by yourself and it’ll blow you away. (6150 Geary Blvd; 11am-2am; Geary Blvd) Local Life Great Park Pastimes Whether you’re looking for a game or are content to watch, Golden Gate Park has baseball and softball diamonds, four soccer fields and 21 tennis courts – but atypical athletes also find their niches here. At the park’s vintage-1901 Lawn Bowling Club Offline map( 415-487-8787; http://sflb.filesforfriends.com; Bowling Green Dr, Golden Gate Park; Stanyan St), f ree lessons are available at noon on Wednesday and Saturdays; call to confirm and wear flat-soled shoes. Sundays swing at Lindy in the Park Offline map( www.lindyinthepark.com; Music Concourse Dr, Golden Gate Park; admission free; 11am-2pm Sun, weather permitting; 9th Ave; ) , the free, all-ages lindy-hopping dance party held at the outdoor bandshell, preceded by free half-hour lessons at noon.

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Bonfires are permitted in artist-designed fire-pits only; no alcohol allowed. At the south end of the beach, beachcombers may spot sand dollars and the remains of a 19th century shipwreck. (www.parksconservancy.org; sunrise-sunset; 48th Ave) Understand Golden Gate Park Everything that San Franciscans hold dear is in Golden Gate Park: free spirits, free music, redwoods, Frisbee, protests, fine art, bonsai and buffalo. On the northeast end of the park, you’ll find Dahlia Garden, Conservatory of Flowers and the sheltered, contemplative valley of the AIDS Memorial Grove. On the southeast corner is a children’s playground, while further west is a baseball diamond, pagan altars on the hill behind and the Shakespeare Garden, featuring 150 plants mentioned in Shakespeare’s writings.

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Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco
by Erika Lenkert
Published 15 Mar 2003

Manufactured in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Maps iv Introducing San Francisco 1 The Walking Tours 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Union Square Past & Present The Culture & Cuisine of Chinatown Noshing Through North Beach The Storied Steps of Telegraph Hill The Haughty Hotels of Nob Hill The Ghosts of Russian Hill The Majestic Homes of Pacific Heights South of Market: A Civilized Afternoon of Arts & Leisure The Culture & Color of the Mission District A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury Golden Gate Park: Museums, Blooms & Trees from Dunes The Golden Gate 7 21 36 54 68 83 94 106 115 127 136 146 Essentials 158 Guided Walking Tours of San Francisco 169 Index 174 LIST OF MAPS The Tours at a Glance 4 The Walking Tours Union Square Chinatown North Beach Telegraph Hill Nob Hill Russian Hill Pacific Heights South of Market Mission District Haight-Ashbury Golden Gate Park Northern San Francisco 11 23 37 55 69 85 95 109 117 129 139 149 About the Author A native San Franciscan, Erika Lenkert writes food, travel, and lifestyle articles for San Francisco Magazine, Wine Country Living, and Four Seasons.

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This walk takes you to the house where The Grateful Dead lived and played in the ’60s, pauses for a historical flashback or two, leads you to some great cheap-food noshes, and shows you where to buy retro paraphernalia. It’s a colorful visit to an only-in-San-Francisco scene. Walk 11: Golden Gate Park: Museums, Blooms & Trees from Dunes This Golden Gate Park tour offers an intimate introduction to what, in my mind, is the most beautiful, diverse, and entertaining 31⁄ 2-mile-long patch of grass in the world. Between stops to smell the flowers, you’ll encounter an extensive collection of Asian art, penguins, and crocodiles, as well as a great gilded Buddha.

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Midway through the next block, at no. 1665, you can’t miss: 11. The Red Victorian. Built in 1904 to accommodate visitors headed to the new Golden Gate Park (which was once just a small landscaped patch, with miles of sand dunes stretching all the way to Ocean Beach), this hotel endured the 1906 earthquake, but by the 1970s it was in need of some serious TLC. Owner and confessed former flower child Sami Sunchild bought it in 1977 and turned it into a “living museum” entirely dedicated to the Summer of Love and Golden Gate Park. Today, rooms are decorated accordingly—psychedelic posters, crochet, beads, and all. You probably won’t be able to tour the rooms, but you can enter the Peace Center, where photos are on display along with a soothing vibe and groovy gifts.

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood
Published 2 Jan 2009

Main MUNI & cable-car routes Useful bus routes BASICS | City transportation #5 From the Transbay Terminal, west alongside Haight-Ashbury and Golden Gate Park to the ocean. #7 From the Ferry Terminal (Market St) to the end of Haight Street and to Golden Gate Park. #20 (Golden Gate Transit) From Civic Center to the Golden Gate Bridge. #22 From the Marina up Pacific Heights and north on Fillmore. #28 & #29 From the Marina through the Presidio, north through Golden Gate Park, the Richmond, and Sunset. #30 From the CalTrain depot on Third Street, north to Ghirardelli Square, via Chinatown and North Beach, and out to Chestnut Street in the Marina district. #38 From Geary Street via Civic Center, west to the ocean along Geary Boulevard through Japantown and the Richmond, ending at Cliff House.

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Another option, with similar rates, is Bike & Roll, 899 Columbus Ave (t415/771-0392, wwww.bikeandroll.com). Wheel Fun Rentals, located in Golden Gate Park at 50 Stow Lake Drive (t415/668-6699, wwww.wheelfunrentals.com), offers bikes, choppers, and surreys at hourly, half-day, and day rates, and is a great way to see the park. San Francisco’s roads and pathways aren’t rollerblade-ready, but there are a few good places to skate at Marina Green and in Golden Gate Park. On Sunday, most of Golden Gate Park’s roads are closed to autos, bringing out hordes of rollerbladers and skaters. Skaters also use the flat sidewalk along Ocean Beach and the good trails around Lake Merced, although both are away from the action of Downtown.

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Back at the top of the hill, across Point Lobos Avenue from Cliff House in Sutro Heights Park, only an enormous parapet survives from Sutro’s once lavish house, which was demolished in 1939 and its grounds stripped of their ornamental statuary. Golden Gate Park 142 Developed in the late nineteenth century, many years before the neighborhoods that surround it, GOLDEN GATE PARK (daily dawn–dusk; free; for schedules and tour information call T 415/263-0991 or 750-5442) manages to be both a pastoral retreat for San Franciscans and a bastion of local culture, with more than a thousand acres of gardens and forest, complemented by some of The eastern park If you’re entering Golden Gate Park by car or bike, follow Fell Street west until it becomes John F. Kennedy Drive, along which most of the major draws are located.

Frommer's San Francisco 2012
by Matthew Poole , Erika Lenkert and Kristin Luna
Published 4 Oct 2011

As you would expect, the views along the span are spectacular and the wind a wee bit chilly, so bring a jacket. It takes at least an hour to walk northward to the vista point and back. When you return to the southern end, board either Muni bus no. 28 or 29 (be sure to ask the driver if the bus is headed toward Golden Gate Park). 4 Golden Gate Park ★★★ Stretching from the middle of the city to the Pacific Ocean and comprising 1,017 acres, Golden Gate Park is one of the city’s greatest attributes. Since its development in the late 1880s, it has provided San Franciscans with respite from urban life—offering dozens of well-tended gardens, museums, a buffalo paddock, a Victorian greenhouse, and great grassy expanses prime for picnicking, lounging, or tossing a Frisbee.

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See chapter 10 for information on Muir Woods. Golden Gate Park ★★★ Everybody loves Golden Gate Park—people, dogs, birds, frogs, turtles, bison, trees, bushes, and flowers. Literally, everything feels unified here in San Francisco’s enormous arboreal front yard. Conceived in the 1860s and 1870s, this great 1,017-acre landmark, which stretches inland from the Pacific coast, took shape in the 1880s and 1890s thanks to the skill and effort of John McLaren, a Scot who arrived in 1887 and began landscaping the park. The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. When he embarked on the project, sand dunes and wind presented enormous challenges.

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If city life is stressing you out, take some free tai chi lessons. Log onto www.sfnpc.org/tai-chi-in-the-parks for a list of places and times that the free lessons are offered. There’s no need to register; just show up and dress comfortably. The best Outdoor Activities • A Day in Golden Gate Park: Exploring Golden Gate Park is an essential part of the San Francisco experience. Its arboreal paths stretch from the Haight all the way to Ocean Beach, offering dozens of fun things to do along the way. Top sights are the Conservatory of Flowers, the Japanese Tea Garden, the fabulous de Young Museum and its eco-fabulous cross-concourse neighbor, the California Academy of Sciences.

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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
by Matthew Richard Poole
Published 17 Mar 2006

(73) • Bayside Basking (73) • All-day hangouts (74) • Live music (74) • Jack Kerouac woke up here (74) • Hippie holdouts (74) Maps Map 3 San Francisco Dining 46 Map 4 North Beach Dining 75 Map 5 Mission District Dining 76 Map 6 Union Square & Financial District Dining The Index 77 78 An A to Z list of restaurants, with vital statistics 3 DIVERSIONS 92 Basic Stuff Getting Your Bearings The Lowdown 96 96 97 Must-sees for first-time visitors (97) • Only in San Francisco (99) • A billion Chinese can’t be wong (100) • Man with Hand in Pocket Feel Cocky (100) • Soaking up the sunset (102) • Morbid landmarks (103) • Soulful Sundays (103) • The roar of the fish stalls, the smell of the crowd (104) • Urban ferry tales (104) • A Desire for Streetcars (105) • Cruising Golden Gate Park (105) • Museum meccas outside Golden Gate Park (106) • If It’s Free, It’s For Me (107) • Museums for special interests (108) • Museums for really special interests (108) • Outlandish out-of-town archives (109) • The bongo-rama beatnik tour (109) • Tune in, turn on, drop out (110) • The last-call saloon crawl (112) • Painted ladies (112) • Mural, mural on the wall (113) • Are we there yet?

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One of MUNI’s Metro streetcar lines, the F-Market line, consists of several beautifully restored and beloved 1930s streetcars. The colorful, eye-catching line runs along Market Street from Castro to the Downtown district and is a quick and charming way to tour the city (that, and they make great photo ops). Cruising Golden Gate Park... The city’s reigning play- ground, Golden Gate Park has been home to the 49ers football team and all the city’s major hippie happenings (including Jerry Garcia’s memorial service in 1995); it’s still home to Sunday strollers, skaters, and joggers, to museums, to free operas, even a herd of buffalo. Then there are the gardens.

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The best time to ride in Golden Gate Park is ostensibly on Sunday, when John F. Kennedy Drive (71⁄2 miles) is closed to automobile traffic, but since that fact is well known to every cyclist, in-line skater, jogger, and baby stroller in the city, congestion can be a bit of a nuisance for cyclists, even without cars. A good alternative is to use the park during the week and steer clear of the area between Arguello Street and 19th Avenue, where most of the museums and other popular attractions are located. The Great Highway, from Ocean Beach (at the end of Golden Gate Park) to Lake Merced (turn right on Sloat Blvd.), is an easy 3-mile ride along the ocean on a flat sidewalk with three bike lanes.

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San Francisco Like a Local
by DK Eyewitness
Published 4 Oct 2021

g Contents OUTDOORS Green Spaces Scenic Staircases On the Water Alfresco Fitness Wonderful Walks Nearby Getaways Take a Tour: An afternoon exploring Golden Gate Park g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces San Francisco isn’t just surrounded by nature; pockets of green punctuate the city. Locals don’t take these parks for granted, and woodland strolls and hilltop climbs are popular weekend activities. g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces Golden Gate Park Mission Dolores Park Alta Plaza Park Corona Heights Park Glen Canyon Park The Presidio Bernal Heights Park Tank Hill Park g Green Spaces g Contents Google Map GOLDEN GATE PARK Map 5; Enter at Fulton and 10th Avenue, Inner Richmond; ///civic.mostly.pull; goldengatepark.com Bigger even than NYC’s Central Park, this is San Franciscans’ oasis.

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First, bag a bike through the Bay Wheels bike-sharing scheme (or book one via the Lyft ride-sharing app) then join the Facebook group, where the starting location is revealed on the day of the ride. Then, follow the leader on a mystery tour through SF’s streets, with a few pit stops for beers on the way. g Alfresco Fitness g Contents Google Map Zumba in the Park Map 5; 198 John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden Gate Park; ///tube.harp.backup; www.sfrecpark.org There’s a free Latin dance party in Golden Gate Park every Sunday at 10am, and everyone’s invited. Meeting in front of the carousel at the park’s eastern end, a motley assortment of old-timers, eager moms, and good-time students dance it up to the sounds of salsa, reggaeton, cumbia, and merengue. Afterward, follow the moms to the nearby Jamba Juice for a rejuvenating wheatgrass shot.

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The Sensitive Foodie Kitchen (www.thesensitivefoodiekitchen.com) is run by Karen, a nutritionist, and offers healthy cooking classes with a plant-based focus. g Alfresco Fitness g Contents Google Map Purusha in the Park Map 6; Golden Gate Park; ///cakes.school.town; www.purushasevaproject.org Join the guys and gals who start their Saturday off right with free yoga in the meadow between Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden and the Dutch Windmill, at the very western end of Golden Gate Park. Close enough to Ocean Beach to smell the sea air, and surrounded by cypress trees, the setting is well suited to discovering your “true self” – a central pillar of Purusha’s holistic style.

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San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
by Dk Eyewitness
Published 5 Apr 2023

g Contents OUTDOORS Green Spaces Scenic Staircases On the Water Alfresco Fitness Wonderful Walks Nearby Getaways An afternoon exploring Golden Gate Park g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces San Francisco isn’t just surrounded by nature; pockets of green punctuate the city. Locals don’t take these parks for granted, and woodland strolls and hilltop climbs are popular weekend activities. g OUTDOORS g Contents Green Spaces CORONA HEIGHTS PARK MISSION DOLORES PARK ALTA PLAZA PARK GOLDEN GATE PARK GLEN CANYON PARK THE PRESIDIO BERNAL HEIGHTS PARK TANK HILL PARK g Green Spaces g Contents Google Map CORONA HEIGHTS PARK Map 2; Enter at Beaver Street and 15th Street, The Castro; ///torn.beans.brief; www.sfrecpark.org The mile-long dirt trail that climbs Corona Heights is so steep that Castro locals use the sweat-inducing ascent as their daily workout.

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First, bag a bike through the Bay Wheels bike-sharing program (or book one via the Lyft ride-sharing app) then join the Facebook group, where the starting location is revealed on the day of the ride. Then, follow the leader on a mystery tour through SF’s streets, with a few pit stops for beers on the way. g Alfresco Fitness g Contents Google Map ZUMBA IN THE PARK Map 5; 198 John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden Gate Park; ///tube.harp.backup; www.sfrecpark.org There’s a free Latin dance party in Golden Gate Park every Sunday at 10am, and everyone’s invited. Meeting in front of the carousel at the park’s eastern end, a motley assortment of old-timers, eager moms, and good-time students dance it up to the sounds of salsa, reggaeton, cumbia, and merengue. Afterward, follow the moms to the nearby Jamba Juice for a rejuvenating wheatgrass shot.

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That might be surfing Pacifica State Beach (home to the most scenic Taco Bell), hiking up Sweeney Ridge, or strolling the rugged bluffs at Mori Point. g OUTDOORS g Contents An afternoon exploring Golden Gate Park We get it; at 3 miles (5 km) in length, and with more acres than NYC’s Central Park, San Francisco’s most famous green space can seem a bit daunting. After all, it’s got museums, lakes, conservatories, botanical gardens, a bison paddock, polo fields – the list goes on. So where do you begin? The best way to attack it: have a plan. We suggest walking end to end and stopping at just a few select spots to get a sense of what makes Golden Gate Park every San Franciscan’s favorite pleasure garden. Route map 1.

Northern California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

The northern side features Barbary Coast baroque mansions at their most bombastic, bedecked with fish-scale shingles and gingerbread trim dripping from peaked roofs. Alamo Square Park, San Francisco | /HAYK_SHALUNTS/SHUTTERSTOCK © DON'T MISS GOLDEN GATE PARK When San Franciscans refer to ‘the park,’ there’s only one that gets the definite article. Everything they hold dear is in Golden Gate Park ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.golden-gate-park.com; btwn Stanyan St & Great Hwy; pc#; g5, 7, 18, 21, 28, 29, 33, 44, mN), including free spirits, free music, Frisbee and bison. At the east end you can join year-round drum circles at Hippie Hill, sweater-clad athletes at the historic Lawn Bowling Club, toddlers clinging for dear life onto the 100-year-old carousel and meditators in the contemplative AIDS Memorial Grove.

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Reserve online for a 20% discount; rental includes all extras (bungee cords, packs etc). Golden Gate Park Bike & SkateCYCLING ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %415-668-1117; www.goldengateparkbikeandskate.com; 3038 Fulton St; skates per hour $5-6, per day $20-24, bikes per hour $3-5, per day $15-25, tandem bikes per hour/day $15/75, discs $6/25; h10am-6pm Mon-Fri, to 7pm Sat & Sun; c; g5, 21, 31, 44) Besides bikes (for kids and adults) and skates (four-wheeled and inline), this rental shop just outside Golden Gate Park rents disc putters and drivers for the park's free Frisbee golf course. Bargain rates; helmets included with rentals.

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AIDS Walk San FranciscoSPORTS (http://sf.aidswalk.net/; h3rd Sun Jul) Until AIDS takes a hike, you can: this 10km fundraiser walk through Golden Gate Park benefits 43 AIDS organizations. Over three decades, $88 million has been raised to fight the pandemic and support those living with HIV. Stern Grove FestivalMUSIC (www.sterngrove.org) Music for free among the redwood and eucalyptus trees every summer since 1938. Stern Grove's 2pm Sunday concerts include hip-hop, world music and jazz, but the biggest events are performances by the SF Ballet, SF Symphony and SF Opera. Hardly Strictly BluegrassMUSIC (www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com; hOct) The West goes wild for free bluegrass at Golden Gate Park, with three days of concerts by 100-plus bands and seven stages of headliners.

Coastal California
by Lonely Planet

The Richmond, The Sunset & Golden Gate Park Sights 1California Academy of SciencesF3 2California Palace of the Legion of HonorB1 3Cliff HouseA2 4Conservatory of FlowersG3 5Japanese Tea GardenF3 6MH de Young Memorial MuseumF3 7Stow LakeE3 8Strybing Arboretum & Botanical GardensF3 Activities, Courses & Tours 9Avenue CycleryG3 10Golden Gate Park Bike & SkateF2 11Wheel Fun RentalsE3 Eating 12AzizaD2 13GenkiF1 14HaluF1 15KabutoE2 16NamuF2 17Nanking Road BistroF4 18OuterlandsB4 19SpicesF1 20Sunrise DeliD4 21Ton KiangD2 Drinking 22Beach Chalet BreweryA3 23HollowE4 24Plough & StarsF1 Entertainment 25Balboa TheaterC2 Shopping 26MolluskB4 27Park LifeF1 Activities Cycling & Skating Avenue Cyclery BICYCLE RENTAL ( 415-387-3155; www.avenuecyclery.com; 756 Stanyan St; per hr/day $8/30; 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 5pm Sun) Just outside Golden Gate Park in the Upper Haight; bike rental includes a helmet. Blazing Saddles BICYCLE RENTAL ( 415-202-8888; www.blazingsaddles.com; 2715 Hyde St; bikes per hr/day from $8/32; 8am-7:30pm, weather permitting; ) From this bike rental shop’s Fisherman’s Wharf outposts, cyclists can cross the Golden Gate Bridge and take the Sausalito ferry back to SF. Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate CYCLING, SKATING ( 415-668-1117; www.goldengateparkbikeandskate.com; 3038 Fulton St; per hr/day skates from $5/20, bikes from $3/15; 10am-6pm; ) To make the most of Golden Gate Park, rent wheels – especially Sundays and summer Saturdays, when JFK Dr is closed to vehicular traffic.

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DON’T MISS… »Saloons The Barbary Coast is roaring back to life with historically researched whiskey cocktails and staggering absinthe concoctions in San Francisco’s great Western saloon revival (Click here). »Foraged fine dining No SF tasting menu is complete without wild chanterelles, miner’s lettuce from Berkeley hillsides or SF-backyard nasturtium flowers, from Commonwealth (Click here) to Coi (Click here). »Green everything Recent reports rank San Francisco as the greenest city in North America, with its LEED-certified green hotels, pioneering citywide composting laws and America’s biggest stretch of urban greenery: Golden Gate Park (Click here). »Showtime Bewigged satire, world premiere opera, year-round film festivals, Grammy-winning symphonies and legendary, jawdropping drag: no one puts on a show like San Francisco, and the cheering, back-talking local audiences demand encores in no uncertain terms. SF’s Best Free… »Music Golden Gate Park (Click here) hosts free concerts summer through fall, from opera to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Click here). »Speech City Lights Bookstore (Click here) won a landmark free speech case over the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s magnificent, incendiary Howl; take a seat in the designated Poet’s Chair and celebrate your right to read freely. »Love Pride (Click here) fills San Francisco streets with free candy, free condoms, and over a million people freely smooching total strangers under rainbow flags. »Spirits Anywhere within city limits, at any time – consider yourself warned.

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One mile south of Ocean Beach, hang-gliders leap off 200ft cliffs and shorebirds nest in defunct Nike missile silos near the parking lot of Fort Funston (Skyline Blvd); follow the Great Hwy south, turn right onto Skyline Blvd and the entrance to the park is past Lake Merced on the right-hand side. GOLDEN GATE PARK When San Franciscans refer to ‘the park,’ there’s only one that gets the definite article. Everything that San Franciscans hold dear is in Golden Gate Park: free spirits, free music, redwoods, Frisbee, protests, fine art, bonsai and buffalo. An 1870 competition to design the park was won by 24-year-old William Hammond Hall, who spent the next two decades tenaciously fighting casino developers, theme-park boosters and slippery politicians to transform the 1017 acres of dunes into the world’s largest developed park.

Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Bargain rates; helmets included with rentals. Call ahead to confirm it's open if the weather looks iffy. DON'T MISS GOLDEN GATE PARK When San Franciscans refer to ‘the park,’ there’s only one that gets the definite article. Everything they hold dear is in Golden Gate Park ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.golden-gate-park.com; btwn Stanyan St & Great Hwy; pc#; g5, 7, 18, 21, 28, 29, 33, 44, mN), including free spirits, free music, Frisbee and bison. At the east end you can join year-round drum circles at Hippie Hill, sweater-clad athletes at the historic Lawn Bowling Club, toddlers clinging for dear life onto the 100-year-old carousel and meditators in the contemplative AIDS Memorial Grove.

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Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch , Mark Hiss , Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole
Published 6 Dec 2006

Dr. edy John F . Kenn 1 7 6 GOLDEN GATE PARK 7th Ave. Judah St. D . Clare ndo n Mission Dolores 28 Octagon House St. 12 Lawton PIER 39 14 Precita Eyes Mural Center 29 The Presidio 3 San Francisco Maritime rr e n D r10 National Historical Park San Francisco MOMA 20 San Francisco Zoo 5 SBC Park 19 d. Woodsid TransAmerica PyramidBlv17 A ve e . y e Yerba Buena Center ew & Gardens 21 a Ferry Building Marketplace 16 SUNSET DISTRICT Flood Mansion 23 Fort Point 2 Ghirardelli Square 11 Glide Memorial Noriega St. Methodist Church 22 Golden Gate Bridge 1 Golden Gate Park 6 Grace Cathedral 24 1 Japan Center 25 Lombard Street 13 M.H. de Young Museum 7 e. s Av ssu Parna nd Ho .

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Bridge-bound Golden Gate Transit buses (& 415/923-2000) depart hourly during the day for Marin County, starting from Mission and First sts. (across from the Transbay Terminal), stopping at Market and Seventh sts., at the Civic Center, along Van Ness Ave., at Lombard and Fillmore sts., and at Francisco and Richardson sts. T H E TO P AT T R AC T I O N S 115 GOLDEN GATE PARK From the Conservatory of Flowers near the eastern end, to Ocean Beach on the western border, Golden Gate Park is an interactive, 1,017-acre botanical symphony—and anyone who likes can play in the orchestra. Spend a sunny day lounging on the grass along JFK Drive, have a good read in the Shakespeare Garden, stroll around Stow Lake, or check out the M.

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MUSEUMS For information on the new M. H. de Young Museum, see Golden Gate Park (p. 115). Asian Art Museum Reopened in March 2003, in its new Civic Center home renovated by Italian architect Gae Aulenti, the Asian Art Museum is one of the Western world’s largest institutions devoted to Asian art. Its collection boasts more than 13,000 art objects, including world-class sculptures, paintings, bronzes, ceramics, jades, and decorative objects representing 6,000 years of history and various regions of South Asia, West Asia, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, China, Korea, and Japan. Previously in Golden Gate Park, the museum now resides in the city’s Beaux Arts–style central library—with 29,000 square feet of permanent gallery space, able to showcase 2,500 objects at any given time.

Lonely Planet's Best of USA
by Lonely Planet

On average Saturdays here you can sign Green Party petitions, commission a poem, hear Hare Krishna on keyboards and Bob Dylan on banjo. The clock overhead always reads 4:20 – better known in herbal circles as International Bong-Hit Time. A local clockmaker recently fixed it; within a week it was stuck at 4:20. (g6, 7, 33, 37, 43) 1 Golden Gate Park & Around In 1865, the city voted to turn more than 1000 acres of sand dunes into Golden Gate Park (www.golden-gate-park.com; Stanyan St to Great Hwy; c#; g5, 7, 18, 21, 28, 29, 33, 44, mN) S. The park ends at Ocean Beach (%415-561-4323; www.parksconservancy.org; Great Hwy; hsunrise-sunset; pc; g5, 18, 31, mN), where Cliff House (%415-386-3330; www.cliffhouse.com; 1090 Point Lobos Ave; h9am-11pm Sun-Thu, to midnight Fri & Sat; g5, 18, 31, 38) F overlooks the splendid ruin of Sutro Baths (www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm; 680 Point Lobos Ave; hsunrise-sunset, visitor center 9am-5pm; p; g5, 31, 38) SF.

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Oakland International Airport (OAK) Catch BART from the airport to Downtown ($10.05, every 10 to 20 minutes, 25 minutes to center) or take a shared van for $30 to $40. A taxi to SF destinations is $60 to $75. Golden Gate Park / MITCHELL FUNK / GETTY IMAGES © I San Francisco in Two Days On day one, hop aboard the Powell-Mason cable car and hold on for hills and thrills. Have lunch in the Ferry Building Map Google Map, then catch your pre-booked ferry to spooky Alcatraz. On day two, get the camera ready for Golden Gate Bridge vistas. Make a trip across the spanner, or visit Golden Gate Park for views from de Young Museum. Castro Theatre / MITCHELL FUNK / GETTY IMAGES © I San Francisco in Four Days Start day three in Chinatown.

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Limited choice of accommodations. The Castro & Noe Valley Great nightlife, especially for GLBT travelers; easy access to Market St transit. Far from major tourist sights. The Haight & Hayes Valley Lots of bars and restaurants; Hayes Valley near cultural sights; the Haight near Golden Gate Park. Limited choices. Golden Gate Park & the Avenues Quiet nights; good for outdoor recreation; easier parking. Far from major sights; foggy and cold in summer. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK PIRIYA PHOTOGRAPHY / GETTY IMAGES © Yosemite National Park There’s a reason why everybody’s heard of it (and why four million visitors wend their way here annually): the granite-peak heights are dizzying, the mist from thunderous waterfalls drenching, the Technicolor wildflower meadows amazing and the majestic silhouettes of El Capitan and Half Dome almost shocking against a crisp blue sky.

California
by Sara Benson
Published 15 Oct 2010

The building houses a world-class collection spanning medieval to 20th-century European art, with highlights including the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, impressionist paintings and, in honor of ‘Big Alma’s’ early career, a sizable collection of sculpture by Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore. Golden Gate Park When San Franciscans refer to ‘the park,’ there’s only one that gets the definite article: Golden Gate Park. Everything that San Franciscans hold dear is here: free spirits, free music, redwoods, Frisbee, protests, fine art, bonsai and a balding penguin. An 1870 competition to design the park was won by 24-year-old William Hammond Hall, who spent the next two decades tenaciously fighting casino developers, theme-park boosters and slippery politicians to transform the 1017 acres of dunes into the largest developed park in the world.

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Avenue Cyclery (Map; 415-387-3155; www.avenuecyclery.com; 756 Stanyan St; per hr/day $8/30; 10am-6pm) Just outside Golden Gate Park in the Upper Haight; bike rental includes a helmet. Blazing Saddles (Map; 415-202-8888; www.blazingsaddles.com; 1095 Columbus Ave; per hr $7-11, per day $20-48; 8am-6pm) The main store is in North Beach, plus rental stands along Fisherman’s Wharf. Get 10% off with online reservations, and ask about after-hours return locations. Golf Along with a bargain beauty of a nine-hole course where beginners can take lessons near the beach at Golden Gate Park (Map; 415-751-8987; www.goldengateparkgolf.com; cnr 47th Ave & Fulton St; greens fees Mon-Fri $14, Sat & Sun $18; 6am-8pm), San Francisco has three 18-hole public golf courses.

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The former officers’ golf course; book online and save 15–30%. Running & Skating Marina Green has a 2.5-mile jogging track and fitness course, and you can tack on a run along Presidio trails to Baker Beach if you’re feeling buff. For an easy, flat jog, head to Golden Gate Park. Skateboards can be bought or rented at skate shops along Haight St. Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate (Map; 415-668-1117; www.goldengateparkbikeandskate.com; 3038 Fulton St; skate rental per hr/day $5/20; 10am-6pm) Just outside the park. Rents out bikes (per hour/day $5/25) and blades, as well as some old-school roller skates and discs for Frisbee golf.

Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole , Harry Basch , Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert
Published 2 Jan 2009

The 3,000-square-foot glass-enclosed extension behind the original landmark building offers mor e casual far e—with entrees ranging fr om $11 to $23—including rib-ey e steak, fish and chips, r oasted chicken, and pizza. R etractable glass walls r eveal Golden Gate Park’s landmark Dutch windmill, a fir eplace warms the room on chillier ev enings, and liv e music is per formed Tuesday and Thursday through Sunday evenings. Weather permitting, you can eat out back on the lawn, wher e a weekend barbecue is held from 11am to dusk in summer. The restaurant opens at 11am daily in the summer (noon in winter) and has v arying closing times, so call ahead. 1000 Great Hwy. (at west end of Golden Gate Park, near Fulton St.). & 415/386-8439. www.beachchalet. com. Main courses $8–$17 breakfast, $11–$27 lunch/dinner.

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Beginning in the city, it follows a rough circle around the bay and passes vir tually all the best-known sights, fr om Chinatown to the G olden Gate Bridge, Ocean Beach, Seal Rocks, Golden Gate Park, and Twin Peaks. Originally designed for the benefit of visitors to San Francisco’s 1939 and 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, the route is marked by blue-and-white seagull signs. Although it makes an ex cellent half-day tour, this miniexcursion can easily take longer if y ou decide, for example, to stop to walk acr oss the Golden Gate Bridge or to have tea in Golden Gate Park’s Japanese Tea Garden. The San Francisco Visitor Information Center, at Powell and Market streets (p. 66), distributes free route maps, which ar e handy since a fe w of the Scenic D rive marker signs are missing.

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The ornately decorated and imposing facades create a romantic aura amid the beautifully landscaped mesas and canyons of one of the world ’s finest city par ks, home to many of the city ’s top museums. S ee “Exploring the Area,” in chapter 17. 8 THE BEST MUSEUMS • de Y oung Museum (San F rancisco): The city ’s oldest museum was r ebuilt from the gr ound up, and in late 2005 debuted as one of S an F rancisco’s top attractions. Anchor ed in beautiful Golden Gate Park, surrounded by stunning flora, and shimmering in its fabulous copper exterior , it has a fantastic collection of American paintings, decorative ar ts and crafts, and ar ts fr om Africa, O ceania, and the Americas. Topping it off is a to wer with great city views and a surprisingly good cafe with outdoor tables o verlooking the sculpture garden.

Hollow City
by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg
Published 1 Jan 2001

Most of San claim their outings to the park or the opera have been ruined Francisco's is not that the homeless pose to the housed, but that they are unaes- mayors since the 1980s have responded with punitive measures focusing on clearing certain sidiary tactics like arresting to the homeless. Willie Food Not Bombs members Brown, helicopters to rout sleepers areas, as well as sub- who once proposed for serving food using heat-detecting from Golden Gate Park, has presided over the elimination of benches from the plaza in ft"ont of City Hall and the long-term cyclone-fencing-off^ of one hangout zone Street in Golden Gate Park. Corr documents at the (in a head of Haight book written decades-old collective household in the Western Addition) mid-1990s on Homes Not Jails in a how from the used squatting aligned with community organizing, public activism and other tactics to try to house the homeless, and how they often — albeit temporarily —succeeded (activists in other — THE SHOPPING CART AND THE LEXUS communities, notably Since Homes Not Jails tions have Seattle, 59 have achieved more permanent victories).

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back to the nineteenth century depict the I Peltier. laboriously realistic paint- ings of indigenous people, a facsimile of his jail one for each year of On M. H. de mini-museum of American Indian Movement leader Leonard steps, with waving hot pink capes. bull) Pacific, Young Memorial Museum and admire artist the through Golden Gate Park, which tai chi, three students and an instructor (but back from if than weather and natural people sunning themselves and what looks to be a matador my way young see that a the races represented, bounding dogs on the lawns, roUerbladers dancing a I my friend Catherine e-mails me from the solicited for adventures in the shrubbery, less and Bishop Hispanic as he looks.

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when a fascinating the region belonged These photographs roles artists can play in cities documenting the Yerba Buena testify and con- conflict in Hatch and Janet Delaney (Along the same lines, the photographer Lewis Watts saved the photo collection from Red Powell's Shine Parlor on Fillmore Street, a marvelous array of publicity shots of the musicians who came through and reinstalled them In the late 1950s in the nearby and 1950s, restored them, New Chicago Barbershop.) San Franciscans fought to prevent the freeway system from completely garroting the to the Pacific in the 1940s Ocean (and city and ripping through Golden Gate Park the 1989 earthquake gave its support to this cause by shattering the Embarcadero Freeway and parts of the Central HOLLOW CITY 54 Freeway, which have since been cleared away). and groups did much to save the cable and historic radicals national Hotel trict genteel individuals and protect Victorian houses neighborhoods.

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City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
by Chester W. Hartman and Sarah Carnochan
Published 15 Feb 2002

Finally, my thanks to the wonderful San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose recent play, “City for Sale”—about gentriﬁcation and the city’s housing crisis—provided the title for this book. chester hartman Golden Gate Bridge SAN FRANCISCO BAY 101 PACIFIC OCEAN Fillmore 80 CHINATOWN M Ho w ar ke t ar d rnia Geary Castro 19th Ave. Sunset Great Highwa Mission 7th Ave. CASTRO Twin Peaks 3rd St. 101 HAIGHT Golden Gate Park 1 Bay Bridge DOWNTOWN Union Yerba Square Buena Tenderloin n South of WESTERN Civic sio South Park ADDITION Center Mis om Market s l Mission Hayes o F Valley Bay RICHMOND SUNSET PACIFIC HEIGHTS NORTH lumBEACH bu s s Van Nes The Presidio Califo Lincoln Park Lombard ero Divisad 1 Co MARINA 101 MISSION POTRERO HILL César Chávez 101 80 3rd S t.

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The conversion of downtown San Francisco into the administrative and ﬁnancial headquarters of the West—particularly through the massive BART system and the Golden Gateway project—had been good for the various construction industry trades and locals. By the mid-1960s, the BCTC was a backer not just of Yerba Buena Center but also of any planned construction that would provide employment for members of its afﬁliated unions. This included the proposed 550-foot U.S. Steel high-rise on the waterfront and a proposed freeway through Golden Gate Park, both of which earned the hostility of the general populace because of the loss of recreational space and scenic views. But as a representative of the BCTC said regarding Yerba Buena Center, “We are in favor of building with no respect to where it is and how it is.”35 For many San Francisco workers the quest for construction jobs was vital to survival.

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The group believed passionately in the right to bear arms and in selfdefense. The original White Panther formation was established in the Detroit–Ann Arbor area in the late 1960s, as a white counterpart to the Black 244 / Chapter 11 Panthers, and was active in civil rights and Vietnam War protests. The San Francisco group organized free rock concerts in Golden Gate Park and ran a successful ﬁve-thousand-member alternative food distribution system, The Food Conspiracy. Their occasionally disruptive tactics, emphasis on publicity, and reluctance to participate in coalition politics or establish uniﬁed neighborhood positions on Haight-Ashbury issues led to a history of poor relations with other progressive formations in the neighborhood and city.

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
Published 1 Jan 1968

He came up from Los Angeles some number of weeks ago, he doesn’t remember what number, and now he’ll take off for New York, if he can find a ride. I show him a sign offering a ride to Chicago. He wonders where Chicago is. I ask where he comes from. “Here,” he says. I mean before here. “San Jose, Chula Vista, I dunno. My mother’s in Chula Vista.” A few days later I run into him in Golden Gate Park when the Grateful Dead are playing. I ask if he found a ride to New York. “I hear New York’s a bummer,” he says. Deadeye never showed up that day on the Street, and somebody says maybe I can find him at his place. It is three o’clock and Deadeye is in bed. Somebody else is asleep on the living-room couch, and a girl is sleeping on the floor beneath a poster of Allen Ginsberg, and there are a couple of girls in pajamas making instant coffee.

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I hear quite a bit about one cop, Officer Arthur Gerrans, whose name has become a synonym for zealotry on the Street. “He’s our Officer Krupke,” Max once told me. Max is not personally wild about Officer Gerrans because Officer Gerrans took Max in after the Human Be-in last winter, that’s the big Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park where 20, 000 people got turned on free, or 10, 000 did, or some number did, but then Officer Gerrans has busted almost everyone in the District at one time or another. Presumably to forestall a cult of personality, Officer Gerrans was transferred out of the District not long ago, and when I see him it is not at the Park Station but at the Central Station on Greenwich Avenue.

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“We don’t get help here, nobody can guarantee what’s going to happen. We’ve got people sleeping in the streets here. We’ve got people starving to death.” He pauses.”All right,” he says then, and his voice rises.”So they’re doing it by choice. So what.” By the time he hangs up he has limned what strikes me as a pretty Dickensian picture of life on the edge of Golden Gate Park, but then this is my first exposure to Arthur Lisch’s “riot-on-the-Street-unless” pitch. Arthur Lisch is a kind of leader of the Diggers, who, in the official District mythology, are supposed to be a group of anonymous good guys with no thought in their collective head but to lend a helping hand.

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Fodor's California 2014
by Fodor's
Published 5 Nov 2013

. | Main Post,104 Montgomery St., off Lincoln Blvd. | 94129 | 415/345–6800 | www.waltdisney.org | $20 | Wed.–Mon. 10–6. Golden Gate Park and the Western Shoreline More than 1,000 acres, stretching from the Haight all the way to the windy Pacific coast, Golden Gate Park is a vast patchwork of woods, trails, lakes, lush gardens, sports facilities, museums—even a herd of buffalo. There’s more natural beauty beyond the park’s borders, along San Francisco’s wild Western Shoreline. Previous Map | Next Map | California Maps Exploring Golden Gate Park Previous Map | Next Map | California Maps California Academy of Sciences.

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Images of California California Maps Experience California San Diego Orange County and Catalina Island Los Angeles The Central Coast Channel Islands National Park The Monterey Bay Area San Francisco The Bay Area The Wine Country The North Coast Redwood National Park The Inland Empire Palm Springs Joshua Tree National Park The Mojave Desert Death Valley National Park The Central Valley The Southern Sierra Yosemite National Park Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Sacramento and the Gold Country Lake Tahoe The Far North Travel Smart California About Our Writers Credits and Copyright Main Table of Contents San Diego Downtown, Balboa Park, Zoo and Coronado Old Town San Diego Mission Bay and SeaWorld La Jolla Harbor and Shelter Islands and Point Loma Orange County and Catalina Island Orange County Coast Catalina Island: West Catalina Island: East Los Angeles Hollywood Beverly Hills and the Westside Downtown Los Angeles Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu Pasadena Area The Central Coast Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo County and Big Sur Channel Islands National Park Channel Islands: Santa Cruz and Anacapa Channel Islands: San Miguel and Santa Rosa The Monterey Bay Area Monterey Bay Area Monterey San Francisco Union Square SoMA Civic Center Nob Hill and Russian Hill North Beach and On the Waterfront The Marina The Presidio Western Shoreline and Golden Gate Park West Golden Gate Park East Haight, Castro, Noe Valley, and the Mission Pacific Heights and Japantown The Bay Area Berkeley Oakland Marin County The Wine Country Napa Valley Sonoma Valley Elsewhere in Sonoma County The North Coast Sonoma Coast Mendocino Coast Redwood Country Redwood National Park Redwood National Park The Inland Empire The Inland Empire Palm Springs The Desert Resorts Palm Springs Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park The Mojave Desert The Western Mojave The Eastern Mojave Death Valley National Park Death Valley National Park The Central Valley South and Mid Central Valley Fresno Area North Central Valley The Southern Sierra The Southern Sierra Yosemite National Park Yosemite Yosemite’s Valley Floor Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park Western Sequoia National Park Western Kings Canyon National Park Kings Canyon’s Cedar Grove Area Sacramento and the Gold Country Sacramento The Gold Country—South The Gold Country—North Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe The Far North The Far North Lassen Volcanic National Park Main Table of Contents What’s New in California What’s Where California Planner When to Go California Today Top Attractions California’s Top Experiences Quintessential California If You Like Great Itineraries FAQ Next Chapter | Table of Contents Foodie’s Paradise Great dining is a staple of the California lifestyle, and a new young generation of chefs is challenging old ideas about preparing and presenting great food.

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Catch a Powell Street cable car to the end of the line and get off to see the bay views and the antique arcade games at Musée Mécanique, the hidden gem of otherwise mindless Fisherman’s Wharf. No need to go any farther than cosmopolitan North Beach for cocktail hour, dinner, and live music. Day 2: Golden Gate Park In Golden Gate Park, linger amid the flora of the Conservatory of Flowers and the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, soak up some art at the de Young Museum, and find serene refreshment at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden. The Pacific surf pounds the cliffs below the Legion of Honor art museum, which has an exquisite view of the Golden Gate Bridge—when the fog stays away.

Western USA
by Lonely Planet

JAPANTOWN & PACIFIC HEIGHTS Atop every Japantown sushi counter perches a maneki neko, the porcelain cat with one paw raised in permanent welcome: this is your cue to unwind with shiatsu massages at Kabuki Hot Springs, eco-entertainment and non-GMO popcorn at Sundance Kabuki Cinema, world-class jazz at Yoshi’s or mind-blowing rock at the Fillmore. GOLDEN GATE PARK & AROUND San Francisco was way ahead of its time in 1865, when the city voted to turn 1017 acres of sand dunes into the world’s largest city stretch of green, Golden Gate Park. This ambitious green scheme scared off Frederick Law Olmstead, the celebrated architect of New York’s Central Park, and thwarted real estate speculators’ plans to turn Golden Gate Park into a theme-park resort. Instead of hotels and casinos, park architect William Hammond Hall insisted on botanical gardens and a Japanese Tea Garden.

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Oceanic Society Expeditions BOATING ( 415-474-3385; www.oceanic-society.org; per person $100-120; office 8:30am-5pm Mon-Fri, trips Sat & Sun) Whale sightings aren’t a fluke on naturalist-led, ocean-going weekend boat trips during mid-October through December migrations. Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate CYCLING, SKATING ( 415-668-1117; www.goldengateparkbikeandskate.com; 3038 Fulton St; skates per hr/day from $5/20, bikes $3/15, tandem bikes $15/75, discs $6/25; 10am-6pm) To make the most of Golden Gate Park, rent wheels – especially Sundays and summer Saturdays, when JFK Dr is closed to vehicular traffic – or disc golf equipment. Blazing Saddles CYCLING ( 415-202-8888; www.blazingsaddles.com; 2715 Hyde St; bikes per hr/day from $8/$32; 8am-7:30pm) From this bike rental shop’s Fisherman’s Wharf outposts, cyclists can cross the Golden Gate Bridge and take the Sausalito ferry back to SF (weather permitting). 18 Reasons COOKING ( 415-252-9816; www.18reasons.org; 593 Guerrero St; 6:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 7am-4:30pm Sun) Go gourmet at this local food community nonprofit offering knife-skills and edible perfume workshops, wine and cheese tastings, and more.

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End the night with silver-screen revivals at the Castro Theatre, or swaying to glam-rock anthems at Café du Nord. Two Days Start your day amid mural-covered garage doors lining Balmy Alley, then window-shop to 826 Valencia for pirate supplies and ichthyoid antics in the Fish Theater. Break for burritos, then hoof it to the Haight for flashbacks at vintage boutiques and the Summer of Love site: Golden Gate Park. Glimpse Golden Gate Bridge views atop the MH de Young Museum, take a walk on the wild side inside the California Academy of Sciences rainforest dome, then dig into organic Cal-Moroccan feasts at Aziza. Sights Let San Francisco’s 43 hills and more than 80 arts venues stretch your legs and imagin-ation, and take in some (literally) breathtaking views.

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
Published 25 May 2020

“I ran for an hour or so, six miles I think, and I came home and sat in my living room chair.” His voice is quivering a little here, he’s almost laughing. “And I had this dull headache, that good headache, and I felt the most intense peace and unity in the world . . . everything. . . .” Our destination today is Golden Gate Park, which offers miles of uninterrupted jogging tracks beneath the canopies of blue gum eucalyptus, Tasmanian tree ferns, cypress, and redwoods. Because the tracks are dirt, we won’t split our heads open and die if we suddenly go unconscious, which, Olsson warns, is a rare but real side effect of the breathing-way-less thing we’ll be attempting.

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Buteyko approached and showed him the technique he’d been using on himself. After a few minutes, the patient calmed down. He inhaled a careful and clear breath through his nose and then calmly exhaled. Suddenly, his face flushed with color. The asthma attack was over. * * * • • • Back in Golden Gate Park, Olsson and I are jogging deeper into the foot trail. The bucolic scene of dappled sunlight and Avatar trees has morphed into a more urban mess of wheel-less shopping carts and suspicious mounds of toilet paper. We realize the path less traveled may be less traveled for a reason. A quick left, and we’re on our way back to the coastal route.

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Just a few weeks of the training significantly increased endurance, reduced more “trunk fat,” improved cardiovascular function, and boosted muscle mass compared to normal-breathing exercise. This list goes on. The takeaway is that hypoventilation works. It helps train the body to do more with less. But that doesn’t mean it’s pleasant. * * * • • • Olsson and I emerge from the shady tranquility of Golden Gate Park, stopping to face the wind-ripped Pacific Ocean. We’ve just jogged a few miles, inhaling fast and exhaling very long breaths to a count of about seven or higher, trying to keep our lungs roughly half full. I want to believe that this training may be helping me as it helped Zátopek, Counsilman’s swimmers, Wooron’s runners, and everyone else, but the past several minutes have been a challenge.

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Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel
by Josh Riedel
Published 17 Jan 2023

Maybe the source of income had to do with stability and purpose, I speculated, as I began to sing with Allie, trying to relive a slightly altered version of that night, years ago, in the drafty dorm common room. * * * I took a long walk on New Year’s Eve from my apartment in Bernal through Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach, where I ran into an old flame from freshman year. I smoked with her and her friends near the firepits, until we cut away from the group to dip our bare feet into the cold sea. To warm our bodies, we hiked up Great Highway to the Giant Camera, a large-scale camera obscura housed in a wooden structure on the edge of the headlands.

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she asked, and I answered honestly. Whooshes. “What else?” “I heard my sister laughing in the waves, on a family vacation in the Gulf of Mexico.” “Okay,” she said, and took my hand, which held the shell, placing it to her own ear. “What do you hear?” I asked, and she said, “Let’s go into the park.” In the dark of Golden Gate Park, the half-moon overhead, we did not sit atop our hill and watch the roller skaters. We did not peer through the windows of the empty de Young or climb to the living rooftop at the Academy of Sciences. We did not get stoned in the Turrell Skyspace and find gods in the stars, or walk through the forest of eucalyptus trees all the way to Sutro Baths and listen to the waves crash from inside the cave.

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How—” Don’t worry about how I’m here just tell me do you see her? In the sand down the cliff near the sea? The world materialized. There was the dewy field, Isabel on the path. In the distance, my parents’ trailer. Go the other way. I turned around. More darkness, like we were in the tunnel in Golden Gate Park, listening to our names echo. Walk. “It doesn’t work like that,” I said. Who says? I walked in the opposite direction of the trailer, even though the ocean was the other way. I walked and found myself in complete darkness—and out of the darkness, hovering in its own world, the ocean, closer now.

Karl the Fog
by Karl the Fog
Published 14 Apr 2019

For thousands of years, my mom was the dark gray cloud looming above the land finger. She was chilling above Twin Peaks when the Ohlone settled here. She blocked the city from being discovered by European settlers on multiple occasions. And she suffered through the Summer of Love, when it became impossible to tell where the parties in Golden Gate Park ended and her clouds began. I grew up over Drakes Bay—a lovely sky community in Point Reyes, fifty miles north of San Francisco. Thanks to my protective parents, I lived a sheltered life. Quite literally, since there was no way for us to be in the same place without them physically hovering over me.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit
Published 31 Aug 2010

The house in western San Francisco was slightly damaged, her downtown place of business—she was a beautician and masseuse—was “a total wreck,” and so she salvaged what she could and moved on with a friend, Mr. Paulson. They camped out in Union Square downtown until the fires came close and soldiers drove them onward. Like thousands of others, they ended up trudging with their bundles to Golden Gate Park, the thousand-acre park that runs all the way west to the Pacific Ocean. There they spread an old quilt “and lay down . . . not to sleep, but to shiver with cold from fog and mist and watch the flames of the burning city, whose blaze shone far above the trees.” On their third day in the park, she stitched together blankets, carpets, and sheets to make a tent that sheltered twenty-two people, including thirteen children.

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Schmitt’s reminiscences continue, “Then when the dynamite explosions were making the night noisy and keeping everybody awake and anxious, the girls or some of the refugees would start playing the piano, and Billy Delaney and other folks would start singing; so that the place became quite homey and sociable, considering it was on the sidewalk, outside the high school, and the town all around it was on fire.” Thomas A. Burns, who was a partner in one of those produce firms Schmitt routinely patrolled, also took care of his neighbors. He lived on Lyon Street next to the Panhandle—the long strip of greensward east of Golden Gate Park—and he owned a wagon and team of horses. That first day, he took fifty boxes of oranges to the Panhandle and gave them away, then went to his house, which had been shaken from its foundation but was otherwise fine. Into it he moved dozens of guests, “some that we knew before and some that we did not know from Adam.

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A man from the business department of one of the city’s many newspapers found a baby about four months old abandoned, orphaned, or lost the day of the quake, carried it with him, joined up with a stray company of opera singers whose female members helped care for the child and found it some milk, and took it to sleep with him in Golden Gate Park that night, embraced it to keep it warm, but found it cold and dead when he awoke. Tragedies and gen erosities: the plumbers union decided, five days after the earthquake, to volunteer their services without pay for a week, “and in pursuance of this action about five hundred plumbers worked day and night for over a week repairing all broken pipes and stopping waste of water in the unburned district.”

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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time
by Hunter S. Thompson
Published 6 Nov 2003

Ten years ago it was a very hip and private kind of vice to be into. I remember going to my first 49er game in 1965 with 15 beers in a plastic cooler and a Dr. Grabow pipe full of bad hash. The 49ers were still playing in Kezar stadium then, an old grey hulk at the western end of Haight Street in Golden Gate Park. There were never any sellouts, but the 30,000 or so regulars were extremely heavy drinkers, and at least 10,000 of them were out there for no other reason except to get involved in serious violence. . . By halftime the place was a drunken madhouse, and anybody who couldn't get it on anywhere else could always go underneath the stands and try to get into the long trough of a "Men's Room" through the "Out" door; there were always a few mean drunks lurking around to punch anybody who tried that. . . and by the end of the third quarter of any game, regardless of the score, there were always two or three huge brawls that would require the cops to clear out whole sections of the grandstand.

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Many one-time activists have forsaken politics entirely and turned to drugs. Others have even forsaken Berkeley. During 1966, the hot center of revolutionary action on the Coast began moving across the bay to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, a run down Victorian neighborhood of about 40 square blocks between the Negro/Fillmore district and Golden Gate Park. The "Hashbury" is the new capital of what is rapidly becoming a drug culture. Its denizens are not called radicals or beatniks, but "hippies" -- and perhaps as many as half are refugees from Berkeley and the old North Beach scene, the cradle and the casket of the so-called Beat Generation.

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A 22-year-old student was recently sentenced to two years in prison for telling an undercover narcotics agent where to buy some marijuana. "Love" is the password in the Haight-Ashbury, but paranoia is the style. Nobody wants to go to jail. At the same time, marijuana is everywhere. People smoke it on the sidewalks, in doughnut shops, sitting in parked cars or lounging on the grass in Golden Gate Park. Nearly everyone on the streets between 20 and 30 is a "head," a user, either of marijuana, LSD, or both. To refuse a proffered "joint" is to risk being labeled a "nark" -- narcotics agent -- a threat and a menace to almost everybody. With a few loud exceptions, it is only the younger hippies who see themselves as a new breed.

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A Crack in the Edge of the World
by Simon Winchester
Published 9 Oct 2006

People flocked to fire-eaters from India, acrobats from Japan, an eight-foot-tall Chinese man and a dancing bear called Split-Nose Jim. For the next twenty years Woodward’s Gardens were San Francisco’s equivalent of Copenhagen’s Tivoli. It was only when the city created the even larger, more remarkable (and still surviving) expanse of meadows, gardens and lakes known as Golden Gate Park that the citizenry permitted Woodward to close his creation in 1894, and to have the place levelled and turned over to the great commercial buildings that still occupy his tract of land today. And then there was Tangrenbu – Chinatown. The Gold Rush had attracted men from everywhere. According to one of the drier accounts, there were ‘Indians, Spaniards of many provinces, Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Malays, Tartars and Russians’.

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Nine immense and die-straight boulevards radiated from the great new palace of City Hall, intersecting as they speared across the map with périphériques, with huge parks, colonnades, marble subways and castellated mansions that looked down from the city’s famous hills. One park, to the south of the city, was three times the size of Golden Gate Park, which was already monstrous. And between all these grand marble confections ran water – streams, cascades, reflecting pools and lakes set through the city at staggered heights, thereby providing headwaters for a score of huge fountains that could keep the city bathed in even more mist and moisture than nature provided on her own.

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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
by Corey Seymour , Johnny Depp and Jann S. Wenner
Published 31 Oct 2007

It was there where he mostly wrote Hell’s Angels. CHAPTER THREE San Francisco, Hells Angels, and Merry Pranksters I saw him two days after they beat him up. Both of his eyes were filled with blood. His ribs were taped. He could hardly stand up. SANDY THOMPSON We moved to San Francisco and got a place at the top of Golden Gate Park, right at the edge of the Haight. The Haight-Ashbury scene was just beginning—this was in ’65. We had very little money. Every once in a while there would be an article and a little more money, and one of these was the piece for The Nation on the Hells Angels. So that’s where it all began. Ian Ballantine, who would become Hunter’s book editor, came out from New York and offered Hunter a contract.

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Hunter would get up for a couple hours while Juan opened presents, and then he’d go back to bed. He didn’t behave badly, and he would get me a present. But we never celebrated my birthday, ever, until the year that I left him. JACK THIBEAU We first met at a bar before a football game with John Clancy and then took a cab across Golden Gate Park to Kezar Stadium. He was writing Hell’s Angels, and he told me I looked like an Oakland undercover cop covering the Angels. I just sort of shrugged that one off, and he goes, “Reach into my pocket and grab some of those brownies.” There was a whole mess of brownies that he said one of the Angels had given him.

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He lived with a guy named Tom, another friend, who fixed Hunter’s cars and motorcycles. I could call on either of them in a second for any kind of help. You wanted Tex on your side—let’s put it that way. You didn’t want to fuck with Tex. TEX WEAVER I first met Hunter when I was visiting my sister-in-law in San Francisco in the late sixties, and I used to go out to Golden Gate Park on my motorcycle at two or three a.m. and ride through the park as fast as I could possibly fucking go. I was always watching, because if you see some headlights coming, maybe it’s the police, you know. But I see headlights coming at me and I realize it’s a motorcycle, and I realize the son of a bitch is going as fast as I am.

Python Geospatial Development - Second Edition
by Erik Westra
Published 23 May 2013

For example: What's the longest road in Sausalito? How many bridges are there in Oakland? What is the total area of the Golden Gate Park? How far is it from the Pier 39 to the Moscone Center? Many of these types of problems can be solved using tools such as the PostGIS spatially-enabled database. For example, to calculate the total area of the Golden Gate Park, you might use the following SQL query: select ST_Area(geometry) from features where name = "Golden Gate Park"; To calculate the distance between two places, you first have to geocode the locations to obtain their latitude and longitude.

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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
by Cary McClelland
Published 8 Oct 2018

The public sector has to be just as innovative as the tech sector, perhaps even more so. A lot of these things are inextricably bound. They need to help us create a shared vision of how we can all live together. MARGARET ZHAO She grew up in the Richmond, a residential neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco, running along Golden Gate Park to the Pacific. She went to school on the East Coast, thinking she might stay there. But she returned and made her career in tech. She now lives in an old townhouse blocks from her childhood home. She is curled up on the sofa covered in blankets. The Richmond was one of the last bastions against true gentrification.

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You liked me a few hours ago . . . in a way that made me think that you were not . . . that you’re at least queer!” So my first experience in San Francisco was Mission and Sixteenth, homeless and getting duped by a woman. A girl named Kristine said, “You don’t want to hang out here at night.” So I came up to the Haight. Golden Gate Park nearby has been a draw for a hundred years. Even during the Gold Rush, this park was like a campsite, basically. Then the hobos started coming. Then the hippies came. And now the street kids are living there. It’s a different demographic, sort of the elite of the homeless. You’re not so bad.

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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
by Austin Kleon
Published 6 Mar 2014

Unger, Maria Popova, Seth Godin, and Lauren Cerand. •••••••••• Finally, to Owen, who doesn’t give a hoot about any of this. Notes & Illustration Credits 1. You don’t have to be a genius. I took the photo of Beethoven in San Francisco outside the Academy of Arts and Science in Golden Gate Park. The bust is a copy of sculptor Henry Baerer’s monument in Central Park. “Read obituaries” is also chapter 6½ in Charles Wheelan’s 10½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said (Norton, 2012). 2. Think process, not product. The title of the second section comes from something Gay Talese once said in an interview: “I am a documentarian of what I do.” 4.

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Dead Companies Walking
by Scott Fearon
Published 10 Nov 2014

After I expressed skepticism about this claim, she came back with the most preposterous prediction I have heard in thirty years of listening to preposterously optimistic predictions from analysts, executives, and entrepreneurs: “Mark my words, Scott,” she pronounced. “In ten years’ time, for every one bike you see in Golden Gate Park on a sunny day, you’re going to see ten people on Rollerblades.” “Let me ask you a question,” I said. “Do you Rollerblade?” “Absolutely!” she exclaimed. “So do all my friends. I do it every morning before work. It’s the best workout you can get!” I thanked her for her time, hung up the phone, and promptly shorted the stock of First Team Sports.

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My father used to bring my brother and me along to San Francisco when he attended conferences there, and I have fond memories of walking from our hotel in Union Square through Chinatown and into the original Cost Plus location in Fisherman’s Wharf. That original location—which opened way back in the 1950s—was the first major treasure hunt retailer, and it was as much of a destination in San Francisco as Coit Tower or Golden Gate Park. Stepping through the doors was like going on a mini round-the-world tour. I can still smell the mix of teak and wood oil and wicker. You never knew what you’d find. It had exotic but inexpensive Asian furniture, weird crackers from Denmark, tins of Iranian caviar, handmade soap from Mexico.

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
Published 1 Jan 1968

It could mean anything, isms, life styles, habits, leanings, causes, sexual organs; thing and freak; freak referred to styles and obsessions, as in "Stewart Brand is an Indian freak" or "the zodiac—that's her freak," or just to heads in costume. It wasn't a negative word. Anyway, just a couple of weeks before, the heads had held their first big "be-in" in Golden Gate Park, at the foot of the hill leading up into Haight-Ashbury, in mock observance of the day LSD became illegal in California. This was a gathering of all the tribes, all the communal groups. All the freaks came and did their thing. A head named Michael Bowen started it, and thousands of them piled in, in high costume, ringing bells, chanting, dancing ecstatically, blowing their minds one way and another and making their favorite satiric gestures to the cops, handing them flowers, burying the bastids in tender fruity petals of love.

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—oh, how it messed up their minds. The cops knew drunks and junkies by heart, and they knew about LSD, but this thing that was going on . . . The heads could con the cops blind and it was wild. Haight-Ashbury had always been a brave little tenement district up the hill from the Panhandle entrance to Golden Gate Park, with whites and Negroes living next door in peace. Rents had been going up in North Beach. A lot of young couples with bohemian enthusiasms had been moving to Haight-Ashbury. Some of the old beats had moved in. They hung around a place called the Blue Unicorn. But the Trips Festival of eight months before was what really kicked the whole thing off.

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Thousands of heads piled in, in high costume, ringing bells, chanting, dancing ecstatically, blowing their minds one way and another and making their favorite satiric gesture to the cops, handing them flowers, burying the bastids in tender fruity petals of love. Oh christ, Tom, the thing was fantastic, a freaking mindblower, thousands of high-loving heads out there messing up the minds of the cops and everybody else in a fiesta of love and euphoria. And who pops up in the middle of it all, down in the panhandle strip of the Golden Gate Park, but the Pimpernel, in Guadalajara boots and cowboy suit, and just as the word gets to ricocheting through the crowd real good— Kesey's here! Kesey's here—he vanishes, accursed Pimpernel. Just in case there was anybody left who didn't get the Gestalt here, Kesey made his big move in the press.

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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
by Nicholas Schou
Published 16 Mar 2010

The biker, presumably drunk or high on acid, crashed at high speed, and a barmaid who heard the commotion ran to the sputtering machine and cradled the injured man, covering herself with his blood. A cop arrived and kicked the biker a few times, as if searching for signs of life, before an ambulance came to haul away the corpse. The next day, the Angels held a memorial service for their fallen friend in Golden Gate Park’s Panhandle, shaking down passersby for money to pay for his funeral. Ralph Metzner, coauthor with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert of the 1965 LSD manual The Psychedelic Experience, in Dana Point, October 10, 1970. (Courtesy of author) The Taxonomic Mandala, Mystic Arts World, circa 1967.

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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski
Published 1 Jan 1999

They promised to “enlarge the scale of operations in the Spring, with entire confidence, based upon the experience we have now had, in the ability and zeal with which we shall be sustained, not only by the gentlemen whom we have named [the engineering team], but by all who are engaged in the service of your Board.” * * * 1. The San Francisco plan appears to have been solely Olmsted’s work; the report was signed by him on behalf of Olmsted, Vaux & Co. 2. Five years later, work began on a city park that did not incorporate any of Olmsted’s proposals; Golden Gate Park, half a mile wide and more than three miles long, was a larger version of Central Park. 3. That same summer, Tosomock Farm was—finally—sold. It proved not to have been a poor investment, after all. Bought for thirteen thousand dollars, it sold for more than twenty thousand dollars. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Metropolitan SHORTLY AFTER OLMSTED ARRIVED in New York from California, Godkin asked him to become associate editor of his weekly newspaper, now in full swing.

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As was his custom, Olmsted wanted to expand the scope of his work and proposed to develop a comprehensive plan for the entire area. Not wanting to appear forward—but not willing to leave judgments about design to politicians—he called for an oversight committee made up of prominent landscape architects, including his friend Horace Cleveland of Chicago, and William Hammond Hall, who was building Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Congress was reluctant to undertake the expensive task of replanning the national capital and instructed Olmsted to confine himself to the fifty acres on Capitol Hill. L’Enfant’s original plan showed the Capitol facing west across a square toward the Potomac. The final plan for Washington, drawn by his successor, Andrew Ellicott, moved the building closer to the brow of the hill and located the square on the other side.

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Thomas Hopkins, 31, 52 gambler, FLO’s description of, 251–52 Garden and Forest, 399 Gardener, James T., 341 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 188 Garrison, William Lloyd, 32, 107 Geddes, George, 64–67, 69, 72, 75, 80, 98, 134, 355 Geddes, Maria, 67 gentility, nineteenth-century growth of, 31 George, Henry, 91 Georgia, 196, 237 FLO in, 111, 114–15, 123 German settlers, in Texas, 128–31, 133–34, 138n, 147–48 Germany: Brace in, 85, 92, 94, 103 FLO in, 85, 93, 143, 144, 336, 337 FLO’s work in, 148 Gettysburg, battle of (1863), 220–21 Gibbs, Mount, 237 Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott, 200, 216, 223, 237 Gilpin, William, 29, 86, 181 Gladstone, Thomas, 148–49 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 219–20, 221, 226, 230, 263, 309, 338, 341, 393 FLO’s correspondence with, 228, 235, 239, 241n, 246, 247, 250, 251, 253, 256, 279 Nation and, 278, 279 Godkin, Fanny, 341 Godwin, Parke, 137, 156, 174, 393 Golden Gate Park, 275n Good Hope, Cape of, 51 Goodloe, Daniel R., 195, 196 Goodrich, Samuel, 31 Goodwin, James, 49, 50 Gordon & Talbot, 49 Gothic Revival, 74n Gower, Lord, 181 Graham’s, 150n Grand Army Plaza, 273 Grant, Ulysses S., 217–18, 221, 237, 248 Grant, William H., 175, 177 Gray, Asa, 156, 341 Gray, John, 155, 162, 319 Great Britain, 43, 84–87, 148 countryside of, 85, 86–87 in Crimean War, 197, 213 drainage systems in, 84, 86, 92, 93, 159 FLO in, 85–87, 142–45, 159, 180–82, 336, 337, 390–91, 407–9 FLO’s book on, see Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England FLO’s works in, 141, 143, 148, 195–97 landscape gardening of, 29, 34, 45, 87, 93–94, 164, 173, 180–82 Great Dismal Swamp, 110 Greater New York, 281 Great Point, 72, 75 Greeley, Horace, 149, 312 Green, Andrew Haswell, 155, 157, 159, 164, 185–86, 219, 260, 276 as city comptroller, 311, 331, 332 FLO’s problems with, 186, 193–95, 197–98, 331, 332, 348, 369–70, 373 Niagara Falls and, 369–70, 373 Green, John, 52 Greensward, 163–70, 172, 182, 186, 222 Board modifications of, 173–74, 184–85 division of labor for, 169–70, 228, 369 Downing’s influence on, 165, 167, 168, 170 illusion at heart of, 166–67 Greenwood Cemetery, 45, 168, 238 Gregory VII, Pope (Hildebrand), 20–21 Grymes, James, 209, 213 Gustin, Samuel, 164, 176 Hale, Edward Everett, 97, 138–39, 141, 148, 198n Hale, Emily Perkins, 82, 123, 138, 184n FLO’s engagement to, 96–98, 138 Hall, William Hammond, 320 Hamilton, Alexander, 36, 155 Hamilton, James, 155, 156 Hammond, James H., 196 Hammond, William A., 206, 207 Harpers Ferry, W.Va., 190 Harper’s Monthly, 136, 137, 142, 385 Harris, Elisha, 199, 306 Hartford, Conn., 42, 69, 308, 326 described, 29–33 FLO’s childhood years in, 23–27, 29 FLO’s returns to, 27, 40, 46–49, 56–58, 63–64, 76, 82–83, 214, 314 intellectual and cultural life of, 29, 31, 83 midnineteenth-century beauty of, 32–33 Hartford Daily Courant, 101 Hartford Grammar School, 25, 27 Hartford Institute for the Insane, 317 Hartford Natural History Society, 33, 46–47, 52 Hartford Public Library, 29 Hartford Times, 30, 31 Harvard University, 238n, 341, 345, 346, 354, 368, 397, 410 Rick at, 386, 401, 402, 403 Haussmann, Baron, 180, 182 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 136 Hayden, Julia Gorham, see Richardson, Julia Hayden Helper, Hinton Rowan, 140, 191 Hesse, Herman, 68 high school, as new institution, 25–26 Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII), 20–21 Hill, Governor, 369 Hilton Head, 205–6 History of Tom Thumb, The (Yonge), 142 Hitchcock, Sophia Stevens, 82, 83, 97–98, 142–43, 178 Holland, 336, 337 Holly-Tree Inn, The (Dickens), 142 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 341, 366 Hooker, Sir William Jackson, 180, 194, 333 Hoppin, William J., 220 Horticulturist, 65, 66 FLO’s work in, 66, 74, 92–94, 157 Walks and Talks reviewed in, 100–101 Hospital Transport Service, 208–13 hotels, Southern, 110, 111, 129 Household Words, 136, 141 House of Representatives, U.S., 207 Howard, George (Bank of California trustee), 246 Howard, George (Olmsted’s friend), 49 Howard, Mrs., boarding house of, 44 Howard, Sam, 49 Howe, Samuel Gridley, 200, 206 Howells, William Dean, 366, 393 Hudson River Bracketed Style, 65 Hull, Charlotte, see Olmsted, Charlotte Hull Hull, Linda, see Brooks, Linda Hull Hull, Stella, see Law, Stella Hull humor, British, 144 Hungary, 103, 104 Hungary in 1851 (Brace), 104 Hunt, Richard Morris, 303, 374 Biltmore and, 380–81, 383, 399, 403–4 World’s Columbian Exposition and, 387–89, 393–94 Hyde Park, 333 hydrotherapy, 37 immigrants, 232 Bushnell’s views on, 253–54 FLO’s views on, 229, 251–55 German, see German settlers, in Texas Impending Crisis of the South, The (Helper), 140, 191 Incidents of a Whaling Trip (Francis Olmsted), 48 Independent, 141 insider trading, 243 International Exhibition (1851), 93 Ireland, 85, 159 Irving, Washington, 137, 156 Italian immigrants, 229 Italian Renaissance style, 327 Italy, 143, 188, 336, 337 Ithaca, N.Y., 285 Jackson Park, 300, 386–92 Jamaica Pond, 360 James, Henry, 279 James, William, 366 James River, 208, 211, 212 Jay Cooke & Co., 315 Jefferson, Thomas, 36, 106, 148–49 Jeffersonville, Ind., 326 Jenkins, John Foster, 202, 216, 218, 223, 228, 233 Jenney, William LeBaron, 218, 298, 299, 300, 306, 388–89 John P.

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Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
by Howard P. Segal
Published 20 May 2012

In fact, by designing artifacts that could be both moved and replicated, Fuller readily met a principal challenge facing most earlier (and later) communitarians: how to promote one’s vision beyond its base camp, so to speak.24 The Future of Utopias and Utopianism 247 Fuller deserves further recognition as the ﬁrst major American scientiﬁc or technological utopian to argue—as per his bestselling (and already noted) Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity (1969)—that the realization of utopia was possible within our own lifetimes rather than, as with all earlier utopians, either possible only at least two generations ahead or virtually impossible. If this ethos has steadily pervaded corporate thinking and advertising, it also suffused such anti-corporate spirits as the hippies at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, with whom Fuller engaged in 1967, as a delightful forty-four-minute DVD demonstrated at the exhibit. The non-violent, non-ideological, and drugfree guru, with his close-cropped hair and horn-rim glasses, neatly dressed in a conservative suit, impresses the rather differently dressed crowd—just as he did more mainstream audiences who also didn’t necessarily understand many of his points.

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The Future of Money
by Bernard Lietaer
Published 28 Apr 2013

Even though it may seem that the Corporate Millennium is looming betbre us, this scenario is only one of the ways in which the power shift away from the nation-states could manifest itself. The next scenario - Careful Communities - reveals another very different set of dynamics. Careful communities The other night I woke up from a strange dream. I had dreamt that I was in San Francisco, at the colourful intersection where Haight Street meets Golden Gate Park. I was sitting in a coffee shop, next to a little shop with a garish sign saying 'Tsutomo Tattoos'. I was overhearing a long monologue of a parent talking to an adolescent. There was a calendar hanging on the wall in the coffee shop - a calendar of the year 2020. This is how the monologue went.

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They lived in an environment that was de-evolving because of isolation, drugs that were rumoured to be supplied by the government, and because of an American people who chose to ignore the poverty, to close their eyes because they felt it wasn't their responsibility. For them, the ghettos didn't even exist. TODD and JEREMY Todd and Jeremy ran away from home when Todd was five and Jer was nine. They took the train to San Francisco, where they slept in Golden Gate Park. They had lived in a trailer park in San Jose with their father who had sexually molested them and abused them for as long as they could remember. Their mother had died in a car accident just months after the birth of Todd. Their father was unemployed, but the television, where he spent most of his time, always seemed to work: The children cooked their own meals, consisting mostly of cereal and of Tater Tots, deep fried potato scraps.

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The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 1 Jan 2012

"I’ve never seen her hump anyone before,” Nick Bilton said, dumbfounded. He was as puzzled as everyone else in the kitchen watching Pixel, his dog, go to town on my leg. My test had succeeded, albeit with the wrong species. Yellow pine pollen, originally introduced to me on a foraging trip through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, doesn’t just act as a precursor to testosterone. It is testosterone. Several species contain not just androstenedione (remember Mark McGwire?) but also DHEA and testosterone itself. Combine it with a fat steak and all sorts of mischief is possible. That’s what I’d done 90 minutes before heading to Nick’s house.

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—NICOLAS CHAMFORT * * * GEAR Eyes Hands San Francisco is a strange city. Feel free to walk into a Starbucks naked and order a Grande Frappuccino, but—horrors of horrors—if you decide to eat a handful of grass, you are breaking the law. It is technically illegal to forage in the Bay Area.19 Pondering this, I found myself at a trail entrance to Golden Gate Park with Kevin “Feral Kevin” Feinstein. It was a pleasant Sunday morning, and a group had assembled for a wild food walk organized by foragesf.com. Kevin, our guide, started with the first rule of foraging: “Foraging is not a guessing game. It’s not like eating blowfish at a Japanese restaurant for a rush.

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Second, in contrast to dinosaur kale, which is widely considered a “superfood” due to its 7% mineral content, nettles can reach 20% mineral content. This makes them one of the most nutritious greens ever studied. Third, if you’re looking to increase your testosterone, it also has anti-aromatase effects, reducing testosterone’s conversion to estrogen. But nettles were just our starting point. In our romp through Golden Gate Park, where we <ahem> didn’t munch on a thing, we spotted an incredible bounty of food, all hidden in plain sight. The starred plants that follow are perennial weeds, which grow all over and all year round: - Nettles To harvest nettles, wear rubber gloves and cut off the top 3–4" (8–10 cm) of the plant, aiming for younger growth, and you’re in business.

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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
by Pete Jordan
Published 20 Aug 2012

Despite its look and moniker, the Dill Pickle was my bike and it provided me the freedom to travel beyond my block and explore the city. I no longer had to wait for the bus or be chauffeured in my parents’ station wagon; I could just go. Countless hours were spent riding with my friends through Golden Gate Park out to Ocean Beach or up and over the hills to the video game and pinball parlors at Fisherman’s Wharf. Sometimes we even cycled outside the city, down to a friend’s cousin’s house in suburban South San Francisco. By the end of its first year, my Dill Pickle had aged considerably. Spokes were missing; the handlebars were bent from a collision with a wall; dents and scratches pitted the frame.

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Admittedly, I didn’t take especially good care of the Pickle and, eventually, rode the poor thing into an early grave. We were unable to even celebrate a second anniversary together. A long string of other low-budget bikes followed. Some I bought secondhand from friends. One I found abandoned and covered with ivy in Golden Gate Park. Another I found rusting on the rooftop of a neighboring apartment building. Unbothered by their homely looks, I always fell for junkers and granny bikes—ones that weren’t embarrassed by their broken-in appearances. Maybe they didn’t always have the keenest brakes or the best tread tires, but those bikes seemed to be glad just to be ridden at all—and I always happily obliged them.

USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet

JAPANTOWN & PACIFIC HEIGHTS Atop every Japantown sushi counter perches a maneki neko, the porcelain cat with one paw raised in permanent welcome: this is your cue to unwind with shiatsu massages at Kabuki Hot Springs, eco-entertainment and non-GMO popcorn at Sundance Kabuki Cinema, world-class jazz at Yoshi’s or mind-blowing rock at the Fillmore. GOLDEN GATE PARK & AROUND San Francisco was way ahead of its time in 1865, when the city voted to turn 1017 acres of sand dunes into the world’s largest city stretch of green, Golden Gate Park (Offline map). This ambitious green scheme scared off Frederick Law Olmstead, the celebrated architect of New York’s Central Park, and thwarted real estate speculators’ plans to turn Golden Gate Park into a theme-park resort. Instead of hotels and casinos, park architect William Hammond Hall insisted on botanical gardens and a Japanese Tea Garden.

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Oceanic Society Expeditions BOATING ( 415-474-3385; www.oceanic-society.org; per person $100-120; office 8:30am-5pm Mon-Fri, trips Sat & Sun) Whale sightings aren’t a fluke on naturalist-led, ocean-going weekend boat trips during mid-October through December migrations. Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate CYCLING, SKATING Offline map ( 415-668-1117; www.goldengateparkbikeandskate.com; 3038 Fulton St; skates per hr/day from $5/20, bikes $3/15, tandem bikes $15/75, discs $6/25; 10am-6pm) To make the most of Golden Gate Park, rent wheels – especially Sundays and summer Saturdays, when JFK Dr is closed to vehicular traffic – or disc golf equipment. Blazing Saddles CYCLING Offline map Google map ( 415-202-8888; www.blazingsaddles.com; 2715 Hyde St; bikes per hr/day from $8/$32; 8am-7:30pm) From this bike rental shop’s Fisherman’s Wharf outposts, cyclists can cross the Golden Gate Bridge and take the Sausalito ferry back to SF (weather permitting). 18 Reasons COOKING Offline map Google map ( 415-252-9816; www.18reasons.org; 593 Guerrero St; 6:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 7am-4:30pm Sun) Go gourmet at this local food community nonprofit offering knife-skills and edible perfume workshops, wine and cheese tastings, and more.

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End the night with silver-screen revivals at the Castro Theatre , or swaying to glam-rock anthems at Café du Nord . Two Days Start your day amid mural-covered garage doors lining Balmy Alley , then window-shop to 826 Valencia for pirate supplies and ichthyoid antics in the Fish Theater. Break for burritos, then hoof it to the Haight for flashbacks at vintage boutiques and the Summer of Love site: Golden Gate Park . Glimpse Golden Gate Bridge views atop the MH de Young Museum , take a walk on the wild side inside the California Academy of Sciences rainforest dome, then dig into organic Cal-Moroccan feasts at Aziza . Sights Let San Francisco’s 43 hills and more than 80 arts venues stretch your legs and imagin-ation, and take in some (literally) breathtaking views.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
Published 20 Nov 2007

I had romanticized San Francisco as an exotic destination, away from friends and family and toward mystery and adventure, so I often drove my twenty-year-old self up from Los Angeles to audition my fledgling comedy act at a club or to play banjo on the street for tips. I would either sleep in my VW van, camp out in Golden Gate Park, pay for a cheap hotel, or snag a free room in a Haight-Ashbury Victorian crash pad by making an instant friend. At this point, my act was a catchall, cobbled together from the disparate universes of juggling, comedy, banjo playing, weird bits I’d written in college, and magic tricks. I was strictly Monday-night quality, the night when, traditionally, anyone could get up to perform.

City Parks
by Catie Marron

We entered Army Street, a parade of brightly colored houses, and turned onto Dolores and its Victorians, its people lazing in the park, its impossible palm trees against the blue sky. San Francisco. It was to be my summer of love. IT WAS ONLY IN THE 1880s, after the success of turning a sandy stretch of land into Golden Gate Park, that the military began to take interest in changing the dunes in the Presidio. Major W. A. Jones wrote a proposal for an enormous tree planting program to transform the army’s land: “In order to make the contrast from the city seem as great as possible,” he wrote, “and indirectly accentuate the idea of the power of the Government, I have surrounded all the entrances with dense masses of wood.”

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger
Published 11 Oct 2021

Right now we have a lot of them. ‘Bath salts.’* When they do them, they become aggressive and psychotic.” Kruger said harder drugs had attracted a harder crowd. “There was a sense of community among the people on the street in the eighties and nineties,” she said. “They looked out for each other more. They camped out in Golden Gate Park and there were family things. That doesn’t seem to be happening as much, as far I can see.” Kruger described a homeless man who was abandoned by his friend after overdosing. “His heart stopped and [he survived but] was brain-dead,” she said. “The [other] guy didn’t stick around to say his name or anything.

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Local governments, including San Francisco’s, created “drug courts” that allowed judges to sentence many addicts to treatment as an alternative to jail.103 Drug culture in San Francisco reached a new level during the Summer of Love in 1967. On January 14, 1967, former Harvard professor Timothy Leary and others organized a “Be-In” of between twenty thousand and thirty thousand people in Golden Gate Park to take LSD and have a spiritual experience. Allen Ginsberg, whose 1955 poem, Howl, is today considered one of the greatest American poems, reminisced that “people were walking around in the crowd handing out these tiny white tablets, the most professional-looking and also the strongest LSD tablets yet.”104 The Be-In inspired young people from across the United States to travel to San Francisco for the Summer of Love a few months later.

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The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
Published 1 Jan 1966

She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike “clues” were only some kind of compensation. To make up._for~her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night. In Golden Gate Park she came on a circle of children in their nightclothes, who told her they were dreaming the gathering. But that the dream was really no different from being awake, because in the mornings when they got up they felt tired, as if they'd been up most of the night. When their mothers thought they were out playing they were really curled in cupboards of neighbors' houses, in platforms up in trees, in secretly-hollowed nests inside hedges, sleeping, making up for these hours.

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Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
by Mark Vanhoenacker
Published 14 Aug 2022

Among the businesspeople and the young travelers with backpacks, I spot someone wearing a uniform identical to mine. He’s no one I know, but still, I return his hardly perceptible nod. Then I turn away toward the window, where the clarity of my reflection startles me, and then helps me to straighten my tie as the train rolls out of the city. SAN FRANCISCO I wander northwest toward Golden Gate Park. I still have a few flyers and so every few blocks, whenever I pass a group of homeless people in a park or talking around a bench, I stop to chat and hand them one. The explorer John C. Frémont dubbed the strait that leads into San Francisco Bay the Chrysopylae, the Golden Gate, to evoke the Chrysoceras, the Golden Horn—the name the Greeks gave to the waterway at the heart of Byzantium.

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This possibility is an unwelcome reminder of the painful paradox in the way in which I experience cities: frequently enough to occasionally search for someone like Henry, but not enough to contribute in a meaningful or ongoing way to his life, or to that of the city in which he must survive. So for this—perhaps final—trip a friend and I made up another round of flyers, and once again I’m nearing Golden Gate Park with only a few left in my hand. Before I enter the park I stop to speak to a group of young homeless people. In foreign countries I’m often struck—when on a bus, for example, I listen to young people chatting in a language I don’t understand about a video playing on one of their phones, or when I stare at a billboard or television advertisement because I can’t even understand what the product is—by a dizzying awareness of how each particular country, each particular city, even, constitutes its own entire world, a whole I could dedicate the rest of my life to inhabiting and learning about, yet perhaps never begin to feel truly at home in.

Learning Puppet 4: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation
by Jo Rhett
Published 24 Mar 2016

Here an example which builds a service to run the puppet agent installed above. service { 'puppet': ensure => running, enabled => true, 92 | Chapter 7: Expressing Relationships www.it-ebooks.info require => Package['puppet'], } So remember: create a resource with the lowercase type, and refer to an existing resource with an uppercase first letter. An easy way to remember this is the common name versus proper name rule of English. A park is a resource type, but Golden Gate Park is a specific instance... e.g. a proper noun, the first letter of which is always capitalized. Ordering Resources In many situations some resources must be applied before others. For example, you cannot start a service until after you install the package which contains the applica‐ tion. Here we will show you the before and require metaparameters you can use to ensure the package is installed before the service is started. package { 'puppet': ensure => present, before => Service['puppet'], } service { ensure enable require } 'puppet': => running, => true, => Package['puppet'], The before and require metaparameters are redundant in this case.

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One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness
Published 28 Mar 2010

(Cambridge, Ma: MiT press, 1994), 154; robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 2005), 97. Timothy Davis, “looking down the road: J. B. Jackson and the american Highway landscape,” in Everyday America, ed. Chris Wilson and paul Erling Groth (Berkeley: University of California press, 2003), 70. rob anderson, “anti-car Jihad Targets Golden Gate park,” District 5 Diary, March 23, 2006, available at http://district5diary.blogspot.com/2006_03_23_archive. html; rachel DiCarlo, “Hit the road,” Weekly Standard, January 25, 2006; Hart Seely, “On Social Highway, it’s prius against Hummer,” The Post-Standard, august 17, 2008. See Chapter 5 for more on the construction of bicyclists’ so-called elitism in the popular press.

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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007

BEST TIMES: Apr–June and Sept–Oct for weather. A City’s Oasis and an Engineering Marvel GOLDEN GATE PARK AND THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE San Francisco, California One of the country’s greatest city parks, rivaling New York’s Central Park in beauty and in importance (see p. 166), Golden Gate Park is a magical place where American bison, Dutch windmills, and towering redwoods rub shoulders with star attractions like the Japanese Tea Garden and the world-class de Young Museum (see p. 847). Carved out of sand dunes known as the “outside lands” when it was conceived in 1870, Golden Gate Park is a long, rectangular 1,017-acre urban oasis of forests, meadows, foot-paths and, yes, roads, though many are closed to traffic on Sundays and holidays, when cyclists, walkers, and in-line skaters own the park’s thoroughfares with gleeful abandon.

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An engineering marvel whose 4,200-foot central span set a record for suspension bridges unchallenged for 27 years (it was eclipsed by New York’s Verrazano Narrows in 1964), the Golden Gate Bridge is not named for its color (an “international orange” chosen to make the bridge more visible in fog) but for the Golden Gate Strait it crosses. WHERE: Golden Gate Park is loosely bounded on the east by Stanyan St., on the north by Fulton Ave., on the west by the Great Highway, and to the south by Lincoln Way. Park info: www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/ggpark.shtml. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE: www.goldengatebridge.org. BEST TIMES: early spring for cherry blossoms in Japanese Tea Garden; Sun for car-free wandering; weekdays for less crowded visits to park museums and Japanese Tea Garden.

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A City’s Cultural Showpieces SAN FRANCISCO’S ART MUSEUMS San Francisco, California It took a good many years to see the bright side of the destruction caused by the 1989 earthquake in the Bay Area. But if ever there was a silver lining, it can be found in the de Young Museum, which started in 1895 as an outgrowth of a world’s fair held in Golden Gate Park (see p. 845). After the fair closed, the collection of curiosities housed in a pseudo–Egyptian Revival building (complete with images of Hathor, the cow goddess) evolved into the West Coast’s foremost museum of the art of the Americas, Oceania, and Africa. In addition to its traditional strengths, the de Young has strong holdings of sculpture and American art dating to the 17th century, including Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.

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The Passenger
by AA.VV.
Published 23 May 2022

By the 1990s, he was considered the godfather of the marijuana legalization movement and began to focus on using the ballot initiative system to write legislation, finally attaining citywide medical-use permission in 1991 and opening the country’s first legal-marijuana dispensary before achieving statewide medical-use permission five years later. Friends Emily Gilmore and Shannon Washburn smoke a joint at the 420 Hippie Hill celebrations in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. (IL)LEGALISE IT In 2016 legalisation of recreational cannabis use in California was approved by 60 per cent of voters in the hope of creating a flourishing market and replenishing state coffers with the resulting tax receipts – and yet 89 per cent of the market remains illegal today, primarily because of the difficulties in covering the costs of legalisation.

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Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
by Adam Lashinsky
Published 31 Mar 2017

—and took him to an apartment in a neighborhood called the Inner Sunset, where he was sharing a room for the summer. I was fortunate that my first customer could not have been nicer, even as I fumbled with how to correctly work the app and made a couple wrong turns. The nearly five-mile trip, from the heart of San Francisco’s central business district to the perennially foggy neighborhood near Golden Gate Park, lasted twenty-two minutes. Daniel and I chatted about his internship experience and what he hoped to do when he graduated from college. I told him about the summer camps my daughter was attending. I was extremely aware of the incongruity of my being a college-educated middle-aged man driving around a college kid who thought nothing of hailing a ride home rather than taking public transportation.

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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
by Frances Stroh
Published 2 May 2016

I listened to every tape until it repeated,” said my mother. “I stood right next to the TV screens so I could hear everything.” “Not me,” said my father gruffly. “Stick with photography, Frances. That’s my advice.” My parents were staying at the Stanyan Park Hotel in the Haight, just across from Golden Gate Park. It was one of the many ways in which they still operated as a couple, traveling together, staying at the same hotel. I took Fell Street from Zuni, where we’d had dinner, up to the Haight. A crowd had gathered in the Panhandle, encircling a string of bongo players as they danced wildly to the discordant rhythms.

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Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Pocket Guide
by Patricia Unterman and Ed Anderson
Published 1 Mar 2007

.; Moderate; Credit cards: MC, V The best way to eat at this Hong Kong-style seafood house is to call the manager and tell him how many will be at the table, and how much you want to spend per person—$45 should do it. That way you needn’t decode the menu and the pristine seafood dishes appear banquet style. You’ll get a great meal. MOSS ROOM California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 55 Concourse Drive; 415-867-6121; www.themossroom.com; Open daily 11:30 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. and 5:30 P.M. to 10 P.M.; Museum admission required at lunch but not at dinner; Moderate; Credit cards: MC, V, AE Loretta Keller has created a scrumptious, original menu for this small, swank, hidden dining room beneath the ground floor of the Renzo Piano–designed Academy of Sciences building.

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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Joshua Foer , Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
Published 19 Sep 2016

Corporate Goddess Sculptures Financial District · A dozen eerily faceless, draped figures loom over pedestrians from 23 floors up at 580 California Street. Musée Mécanique Fisherman’s Wharf · Save up your quarters for the world’s largest privately owned collection of coin-operated arcade machines. California Academy of Sciences Herpetology Department Golden Gate Park · The academy’s 300,000-strong collection of jarred reptile specimens was amassed over 160 years. Viewing is by appointment only. Drawn Stone Golden Gate Park · A huge crack in the ground outside the de Young Museum was put there on purpose by the wry English artist Andy Goldsworthy. Buena Vista Park Tombstones Haight-Ashbury · Broken Gold Rush–era gravestones line the gutters of this park’s paths.

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Frommer's Portable San Diego
by Mark Hiss
Published 2 Nov 2007

DEL MAR BEACH This long stretch of sand across the city limits in the charming community of Del Mar is backed by grassy cliffs and a playground area. This area is not heavily trafficked, and you can dine right alongside the beach at Jake’s or Poseidon. Del Mar is about 15 miles from downtown San Diego. 3 Attractions in Balboa Park New York has Central Park, and San Francisco has Golden Gate Park. San Diego’s crown jewel is Balboa Park, a 1,174-acre cityowned playground and the largest urban cultural park in the nation. The park was established in 1868 in the heart of the city, bordered by downtown to the southwest and fringed by Hillcrest and Golden Hill to the north and east. Tree plantings started in the late 19th century, while the initial buildings were created to host the 1915–16 Panama-California Exposition; another expo in 1935–36 brought additional developments.

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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
Published 14 Jan 2020

It was possible that the tourists trawling the commercial strip mistook San Francisco’s homelessness epidemic for part of the hippie aesthetic. It was possible that the tourists didn’t think about the homelessness epidemic at all. * * * Weekends, once I ran out of work, were a challenge. Sometimes I met up with coworkers, but mostly I spent time alone. I felt free, invisible, and very lonely. On warm afternoons, I went to Golden Gate Park and lay in the grass listening to dance music, fantasizing about going out dancing. People threw tennis balls to their dogs in corridors of light, and I felt envious. I watched groups of fitness enthusiasts bobbing up and down and wondered if I was the sort of person who could make friends doing squats.

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I Hate the Internet: A Novel
by Jarett Kobek
Published 3 Nov 2016

In theory, the valuation was meant to reflect the growth potential of the company and its potential earnings. In actuality, the valuation of Bromato was meaningless. It existed in a complex and random system. Bromato offered an entirely new and untested service in an ultra-niche market. Erik Willems could have arrived at an equally valid number by standing in Golden Gate Park’s Sharon Meadow, the place where all the old hippies held drum circles, counting the number of farts that drifted beneath his nose and multiplying the number by one million. A few months after the initial investment, Erik Willems helped Bromato stage another round of funding. The equity being sold during this round had a higher cost than the equity purchased by MoriaMordor.

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What's the Matter with White People
by Joan Walsh
Published 19 Jul 2012

Appalled by the apparent depravity of the Irish, those elites were more sympathetic to the black poor and working class, with whom they at least shared a Protestant religion and culture. Union League Club founder Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect known for New York’s Central Park and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, urged wealthy New Yorkers “to deal justly and mercifully with the colored people in [their] midst,” whom he praised as having “the virtues and graces of the Christian and the gentleman.” Union League Club officer Jonathan Sturges agreed: “Those who know our colored people of this city can testify to their being peaceable, industrious people, having their own churches, Sunday schools and charitable societies and that as a class they seldom depend upon charity.”

The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life
by Steven E. Landsburg
Published 1 May 2012

An economist is somebody who thinks it is worth wondering why everyone doesn't choose movies in exactly this way. CHAPTER 4 THE INDIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE Who Cares If the Air Is Clean? Would you rather live in San Francisco or in Lincoln, Nebraska? San Francisco offers extraordinary shopping districts, world-class museums, a temperate climate, and Golden Gate Park. Lincoln offers magnificent old houses that can be had for the price of a San Francisco studio apartment. You can have the world's finest seafood or you can have wall space. Each year, the Places Rated Almanac and The Book of American City Rankings issue their reports on the best places to live in America.

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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
by Stewart Lee Allen
Published 1 Jan 2002

“My Laotian clients just needed information on what’s acceptable to Americans in relationship to dogs. Besides, I think they were more interested in the squirrels.” Climent was explaining to me how it was that a group of dog lovers from Laos caused a national panic in the early 1980s. It started one day in August when some cops found five headless dogs lying in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. As the officers stood puzzling over the situation (now if I were a dog, where would I hide my head?), they noticed a number of Asians armed with bows and arrows wandering about. The dogs, it seemed, belonged to the Laotians in the gustatory sense. The incident appeared in the papers, and overnight Californians realized that a tribe of quasi-cannibals had invaded their state.

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How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz
Published 7 Mar 2017

Jimmie is able to stay in San Francisco only because Joe’s parents, two creative types with a stable income, were lucky enough to buy a big house on the border of the Mission several decades ago. Joe and Jimmie live in the basement. But they can’t stay there forever, and being an artist doesn’t pay enough to afford an apartment in a city where the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment is over $5,000. When I first met the duo they were shooting promo photos in Golden Gate Park to send out to people to raise money for production. They’d convinced five women from a just-concluded outdoor yoga class to hold their poses while Jimmie stood behind them and Joe took pictures. “This is the closest I’ll ever get to doing yoga,” Jimmie said. After a quick shot, we hopped in one of the production cars and drove around the city for a bit.

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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
by Novella Carpenter
Published 25 May 2010

She was lonely up there on the ranch. My dad, who eventually went semiferal, would often go on weeks-long hunting trips, leaving my mom to tend to the ranch duties: milking the cow, watering the garden, and locking the duck pen at night. She missed her friends, her exciting life when she had attended be-ins in Golden Gate Park, danced at rock shows, and traveled the world. I still regard the country as a place of isolation, full of beauty—maybe—but mostly loneliness. So when friends plan their escape to the country (after they save enough money to buy rural property), where they imagine they’ll split wood, milk goats, and become one with nature, I shake my head.

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The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life
by Pam Grout
Published 14 May 2007

where anyone who answers questions wrong gets dunked. Another ICO in San Francisco organized a nature photography workshop for kids at a housing project. The Sierra Club San Francisco Bay chapter started the first ICO group in 1971 when it realized that many of San Francisco’s kids had never even seen Golden Gate Park, let alone areas outside the city. Today, there’s a dedicated core of volunteers in 50 cities across the United States. They work with local schools and social service agencies, and it’s not just kids in housing projects who benefit, as volunteer Kate Mytron, founder of the ICO in New Orleans, emphasizes: “It’s so incredibly rewarding to rediscover what it feels like to see frogs for the first time.

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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons
Published 4 Apr 2016

Some mysterious philanthropist has been putting hundred-dollar bills in envelopes, stashing them all over San Francisco and New York, and posting clues about how to find them. “I propose we kick it up a notch. We announce that on a certain day we will hide a bag containing five thousand dollars somewhere in San Francisco, say in Golden Gate Park. Or in Central Park, in New York. We create a frenzy. Imagine you have hundreds, or thousands, of people racing around trying to find the money. They all descend on the park at the same time. They’re blocking traffic. They’re causing accidents! It’s like that old movie, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, where all the different teams are trying to find the treasure.

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So Me
by Graham Norton
Published 2 Jan 2005

I’d given up on university and had failed to get a degree, and there was nothing concrete to go back to, but it was something I felt I had to do. The hippies all piled into Obo’s old blue van to see me off, and we posed for pictures in the airport. On the plane during take-off I stared out of the window at San Francisco and started crying. I could see the green flag of Golden Gate park, and from there I could work out exactly where Stardance was. So small and getting smaller. The tidy elderly lady next to me asked why I was going home. I answered that I was going home for my parents – they were worried about me being away for so long, etc. – but then I remembered that my teacher and friend Niall MacMonagle had given me some very harsh but sound advice years before: ‘Never do anything just for your parents; after they’re dead you are still going to have to live your life.’

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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
by Marc Lewis Phd
Published 5 Mar 2013

The pantomime of teamwork took on creepy overtones. When I went home to Thomas that night, it began to dawn on me that no other home might exist. I took psychedelic drugs two or three times a week, often in the beautiful Berkeley Hills, or wandering around campus, watching the vapour trails of flying geese. Or in Golden Gate Park, or in the night-lit mounds of the Presidio golf course, undulating like pink glaciers, or just wandering the streets, assessing the hieroglyphs of the sidewalk to reassure myself that I was good and high. I smoked pot or hash nearly every day. But everyone smoked dope. It was my fascination with psychedelics—acid, STP, mescaline, and psilocybin—that seemed a little weird, even to my peers.

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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty
Published 18 Feb 2020

The Embarcadero Freeway would seal off miles of bay front and run directly in front of the city’s Ferry Building. And this was just the beginning of a vast state freeway plan that intended to blanket a relatively small city—San Francisco is just forty-seven square miles—with seven crosstown freeways, including several through Golden Gate Park. It said most of what you needed to know about what sort of future state highway engineers saw for the Bay Area that one of the Embarcadero Freeway’s proponents had argued it would increase access to scenery by allowing people to glimpse the bay and Alcatraz from cars traveling on the top deck.

pages: 941 words: 237,152

USA's Best Trips
by Sara Benson
Published 23 May 2010

For crowd-pleasing, family-friendly fare, head down zigzagging Lombard to Columbus and walk four blocks to Cinecittá Pizzeria for the capricciosa, loaded with artichoke hearts, prosciutto, olives, fresh mozzarella and an egg. The next morning while the fog’s still clearing, take public transit from your downtown digs at funky artist-decorated Hotel des Arts, designer-fabulous Hotel Adagio or certified green Orchard Garden Hotel to the MH de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park (best options: N Judah streetcar or bus 71 from Powell and Market). Follow Andy Goldsworthy’s simulated sidewalk earthquake cracks into the museum, which celebrates artists from Oceania to California. Blockbuster temporary shows range from Hiroshi Sugimoto’s haunting time-lapse photographs of drive-ins to Dale Chihuly’s bombastic glass sculpture.

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San Francisco crowds don’t realize the movie is not about them – audiences will hiss, yell and backtalk at the screen like it’s going to change the ending. We have the best audiences in the world, period.” Peaches Christ, drag diva and San Francisco movie maven * * * Stroll through the redwoods of the National AIDS Memorial Grove, where volunteers have brought life back to a forgotten corner of the Golden Gate Park and created a haven of peace. Emerge in Sharon Meadow, better known as the site of the Summer of Love. Spelunk through the faux-cavern tunnel to Haight St, where the parade of nonconformists has continued for 40 years. Browse your way along five blocks of skate shops and tattoo parlors to the Victorian storefront with fishnet-clad legs kicking out the window.

Love's Executioner
by Irvin D. Yalom
Published 1 Jan 1989

You haven’t heard from him for eight years!” “But there’s a chance—a small one. But a two-percent or even a one-percent chance is better than no chance at all. I don’t expect Matthew to love me again, I just want him to care about my being on this planet. It’s not too much to ask—when we walked in Golden Gate Park, he almost sprained his ankle trying to avoid disturbing an anthill. Surely he can send some of that loving-kindness my way!” So much inconsistency, so much anger, almost mockery, standing cheek by jowl with such reverence. Though I was gradually entering her experiential world and growing accustomed to hyperbolic assessments of Matthew, I was truly staggered by her next comment.

pages: 394 words: 108,215

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
Published 1 Jan 2005

Not only was he immersed in computing, he was fully engaged in the emerging Bay Area counterculture and antiwar scene. Tesler took Bender to her first meeting of the Free University. A remarkable transformation was taking place around the Stanford campus during 1967 and into 1968. The Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park in January 1967 had touched off a cascade of events all over the Bay Area. During the summer of 1967 and on through the summer of 1968, there was a dramatic new kind of music being played in the dance halls and the parks, and open talk of revolution was everywhere. Caught up in the political and cultural commotion around Stanford, Bender and Tesler became close friends.

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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Published 23 Jul 2009

Photo: Deborah Coleman More research: Three-star Michelin-rated chef Thomas Keller (left) shows Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis the art of making ratatouille in the kitchen of his restaurant The French Laundry. Copyright © 2007 Pixar. Photo: Deborah Coleman Pixar Animation Studio crew members for the film Brave take an archery class in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Copyright © 2006 Pixar. Photo: Deborah Coleman Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, and Ed chat after Pixar University’s graduation ceremony in September 1997. Copyright © 1997 Pixar. John Lasseter shares his thoughts about the value of honest feedback at the kickoff to Notes Day in the Pixar atrium.

pages: 308 words: 103,890

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
by Hunter S. Thompson
Published 1 Jan 1966

After that I decided to ride it differently: I would stop pushing my luck on curves, always wear a helmet and try to keep within range of the nearest speed limit … my insurance had already been canceled and my driver’s license was hanging by a thread. So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run down the coast. I would start in Golden Gate Park, thinking only to run a few long curves to clear my head … but in a matter of minutes I’d be out at the beach with the sound of the engine in my ears, the surf booming up on the sea wall and a fine empty road stretching all the way down to Santa Cruz … not even a gas station in the whole seventy miles; the only public light along the way is an all-night diner down around Rockaway Beach.

pages: 274 words: 102,831

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall
Published 5 May 2009

Ann had run track in high school, but got sick to death of “ham-stering” around and around an artificial oval, as she put it, so she gave it up in college to become a biochemist (which pretty much makes the case for how tedious track was, if periodic tables were more spellbinding). For years, she ran only to keep from going nuts: when her brain got fried from studying, or after she’d graduated and started a demanding research job in San Francisco, Ann would blow out the stress with a quick patter around Golden Gate Park. “I love to run just to feel the wind in my hair,” she’d say. She could care less about races; she was just hooked on the joy of bustin’ out of prison. It wasn’t long before she began defusing job stress in advance by jogging the nine miles to the lab each morning. And once she realized that her legs were fresh again by punch-out time, she began running back home again as well.

pages: 440 words: 117,978

Cuckoo's Egg
by Clifford Stoll
Published 2 Jan 1989

“In a couple days, the police will bust him, and we’ll find out what he was after,” I told them. “Now that someone knows who’s behind this, it can’t be long.” “Yow, you’ll get your name in the newspaper,” Claudia marveled. “Will you still talk to us?” “Yeah, I’ll even keep washing the dishes.” The rest of the day, Martha and I spent in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, riding the merry-go-round and roller-skating. After all these months, the problem was solved. We’d thrown a net around the cuckoo. He stared bleakly at the broken greasy venetian blinds, a cigarette butt dangling from his clammy lips. The sickly green glow of the screen reflected on his sallow tired features.

pages: 395 words: 115,753

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America
by Jon C. Teaford
Published 1 Jan 2006

Explaining their action, the supervisors contended that expressway construction involved “the demolition of homes, the destruction of residential areas, the forced uprooting and relocation of individuals, families, and business enterprises.”68 State highway engineers persisted in their plans for a freeway through a section of the city’s historic Golden Gate Park. In 1965 a local radio newsman attacked this continuing devotion to destructive highway development when he warned that San Francisco would fall to “a ghastly combination of concrete monsters, side-by-side with immense parking garages, all of which will be overladen with the poisonous smog which is already choking the life out of us now.”69 FIGURE 3.6 View of the historic Ferry Building in San Francisco, blocked by the Embarcadero Freeway.

pages: 347 words: 112,727

Rust: The Longest War
by Jonathan Waldman
Published 10 Mar 2015

He held his head sideways, with his evocative eyebrows cocked, his forehead the closest thing to those around him, the pupils of his beady eyes peeking out from above nonexistent glasses. It’s a worrisome, piercing posture with a hint of the lunacy you see in the homeless or deranged. Had he been playing charades, I’d have guessed that he was conducting an orchestra, or doing a hippie dance in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The museum staff, meanwhile, beheld Dunmire with feet planted firmly, steadily, hands clasped or in pockets, their upper bodies immobile. Only their necks moved slightly, as did their facial features. An hour later, when he bumped into a visitor dressed up as Captain Kirk (it was, after all, Halloween), Dunmire stood up straight, gathered himself into a proper posture, and told him, “Good work.”

pages: 384 words: 112,971

What’s Your Type?
by Merve Emre
Published 16 Aug 2018

Their ascendance would have to wait until the 1960s, when, after the election of John F. Kennedy and the arrival of the Beatles, after the Vietnam protests and the Freedom Rides, Dr. Timothy Leary, once a promising graduate student at IPAR, would urge a gathering of thirty thousand hippies in Golden Gate Park to “turn on, tune in, drop out”—to commit to “mobility, choice, and change,” to embrace “one’s singularity” in the world. In retrospect it is easy to see that we have absorbed a distinctly mythic view of the 1950s and 1960s, one in which conformity and creativity do battle across a vast cultural divide.

pages: 397 words: 110,222

Habeas Data: Privacy vs. The Rise of Surveillance Tech
by Cyrus Farivar
Published 7 May 2018

He told them, “I’m uncomfortable turning over the encryption keys. I would have to consult with a lawyer before I did anything.” “I would say the conversation ended within 15 or 20 minutes because it had reached a dead end.” * * * As a child growing up in Inner Sunset, a neighborhood near Golden Gate Park, Ladar Levison spent a lot of time at the nearby California Academy of Sciences, so that he could use their fast Internet connection. Before he was 13, they even put him to work creating web pages for endangered species. He poured over 2600 magazine and even administered his own dial-up bulletin board system (BBS), a precursor to the modern chat room.

pages: 398 words: 120,801

Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
Published 29 Apr 2008

It looks for all the world like a Roman ruin, crumbled and mysterious, and just beyond them is a set of caves that let out into the sea. In rough tides, the waves rush through the caves and over the ruins -- they've even been known to suck in and drown the occasional tourist. Ocean Beach is way out past Golden Gate park, a stark cliff lined with expensive, doomed houses, plunging down to a narrow beach studded with jellyfish and brave (insane) surfers. There's a giant white rock that juts out of the shallows off the shore. That's called Seal Rock, and it used to be the place where the sea lions congregated until they were relocated to the more tourist-friendly environs of Fisherman's Wharf.

pages: 502 words: 124,794

Nexus
by Ramez Naam
Published 16 Dec 2012

What the goggles showed him, what the headphones told him, Kade could only recall in fragments. At the end of the session, he felt strung out, mentally exhausted. He returned to his apartment, collapsed onto his bed and slept for ten hours. Every night, they did the same. While Kade trained, Rangan brooded. They skipped lab one day, went out to Golden Gate Park, and took Ilya with them. Kade opened his mind to theirs, showed them everything the ERD had briefed him on, showed them what he knew of his mission. Then Rangan opened his mind to Kade and Ilya, showed them what had happened in that ERD cell. They'd hit him with a pain beyond anything he could imagine.

pages: 385 words: 25,673

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers
by Stefan Fatsis
Published 27 Jul 2001

“Because of my physical problem, I couldn’t manifest what I needed to manifest,” he says. 68 ❑ Word Freak Edley next manifested himself on a six-month cross-country Scrabble and backgammon odyssey, staying with friends, playing in eleven Scrabble tournaments (four ﬁrsts, four seconds), and netting $500. When he returned to San Francisco, he had one last piece of personal growth to attend to: living outdoors. Edley stashed his belongings at the apartment of an old girlfriend, donned an army jacket, slept under a bush outside the arboretum in Golden Gate Park, and showered at a park near Fisherman’s Wharf. At age thirtyseven. “I wanted to feel comfortable being a citizen of the world.” After ﬁve months, Edley decided to live indoors again. And he hatched a plan: He would start a Scrabble newsletter. About two hundred players subscribed to Edley’s twelve-page type- and handwritten Tile Rack, which contained game boards, anagrams, and other puzzles.

Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
Published 1 Jan 1990

Now that she was able, she took a stroll on the deck of the ship and stood at the railing to stare at the mountains that hugged the shore. They made her wish she was back in Nome, with the ice and the snow. But when the ship docked in San Francisco and Peggy took Ada and Bennett for a ride through Golden Gate Park with some friends who met them at the dock, she sat straight and still with her hands clasped on her lap, exclaiming over and over again to herself, “Oh, Oh!” There was such beauty here, and a kind of grandeur of color and form that she had never seen before. Flowers bloomed in February, and the sound and smell of the nearby sea awakened her senses.

pages: 515 words: 143,055

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu
Published 14 May 2016

— Late in 1966, a “psychedelic artist” named Michael Bowen invited Leary to an event in San Francisco meant to unite various emerging countercultural and “alternative” groups—alienated students, poets, rock musicians, jazz hipsters, and members of biker gangs. His advertising posters billed the event as “A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In.” And so it was on January 14, 1967, in Golden Gate Park that Leary first took his carefully constructed message to a broader audience. His speech centered on the infectious refrain, repeated over and over: “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.” McLuhan’s advice worked. Leary’s line caught on as well as any advertising slogan and became, effectively, the motto of the counterculture.

pages: 573 words: 142,376

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff
Published 22 Mar 2022

When asked for advice on taking action to protect the environment, he cited Kesey’s advice on how to make money—he ran a good creamery, compatible with good environmental stewardship, and money followed. In the wake of Earth Day, he was invited to testify at a House Committee on Education and Labor hearing on environmental education, held at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. He stunned the committee when he showed up and argued against the value of “education.” The next day the San Francisco Examiner headline read WHOLE EARTH MAN SHOCKS PROBERS. Dressed in his “Daniel Boone buckskin suit and battered top hat,” he told the committee that their efforts would backfire: “Forget it.

The Unicorn's Secret
by Steven Levy
Published 6 Oct 2016

For the next five years, when the word hippie cropped up in a Philadelphia news story, there would inevitably be a cross-reference to the Unicorn, most often with a memorable, if cosmically cryptic, quote from the bearded one himself. The clincher was Ira Einhorn’s personal Be-In. In January of 1967, San Francisco had celebrated the first event of that sort, the Human Be-In, a truly cosmic gathering of 25,000 in Golden Gate Park with Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, and innumerable rock bands. Not long after, New York City had the East Coast equivalent in Central Park, again with reports that the heavens beamed a blessing on these illuminated beings. It would not necessarily follow that Philadelphia, certainly a backwater in the Age of Aquarius, would have its own Be-In.

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Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe
Published 8 Sep 2011

Protesters were able to halt virtually all freeway construction in San Francisco, leaving only the stump of the elevated Embarcadero Freeway standing until its demolition after the 1989 earthquake. Were it not for these middle-class obstructionists, New Orleans’s French Quarter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and the historic center of Boston would now be buried under pavement. The freeway gang had long held Portland in its sights. In 1943, Robert Moses was invited by a city commissioner to chart out a postwar freeway plan for the Rose City. “Every citizen of Portland,” he proclaimed in an 86-page report, “has a right to be proud of the fact that this community is prepared, while there is still time, to face the future with unclouded vision.”

pages: 510 words: 138,000

The Future Won't Be Long
by Jarett Kobek
Published 15 Aug 2017

“You pay him, not vice versa. Now you stare at his face for hours like risen Messiah. Strange people.” Yet there we were, April 18th, a Sunday, trudging towards the Upper Haight at 6 pm. Gray buildings, gray sky, gray faces, gray people. Fog over Buena Vista Park with sinister intent, carpet looming above Golden Gate Park. Regarding the trees of the former, I thought, as ever, about the hey-hey heyday of the hippie era, imaginating how much smaller the vegetation would have been during the golden years, wondering if the psychopathologic influence of their increased heights wasn’t responsible for the shift away from Luv on Haight.

The death and life of great American cities
by Jane Jacobs
Published 1 Nov 1961

But people do not use city open space just because it is there and because city planners or designers wish they would.*1 In certain specifics of its behavior, every city park is a case unto itself and defies generalizations. Moreover, large parks such as Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Central Park and Bronx Park and Prospect Park in New York, Forest Park in St. Louis, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Grant Park in Chicago—and even smaller Boston Common—differ much within themselves from part to part, and they also receive differing influences from the different parts of their cities which they touch. Some of the factors in the behavior of large metropolitan parks are too complex to deal with in the first part of this book; they will be discussed later, in Chapter Fourteen, The Curse of Border Vacuums.

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner
Published 31 Aug 2006

Stern, personal communication, September 15, 2005. 20. “Psychedelic Art,” 65. The precise origins of the term be-in are unclear. By the late 1960s, however, it had become a prominent cultural form. On January 14, 1967, for instance, more than twenty thousand hippies gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, waving psychedelic banners, dropping the now-illegal LSD, and dancing to the sounds of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, for what was billed as the ﬁrst Human Be-In. 21. In 1950 Innis had published an epic study of the role communication had played in various empires since the time of ancient Egypt, entitled Empire and Communications; in 1951 he published a collection of essays, The Bias of Communication.

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Sixty Days and Counting
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Published 27 Feb 2007

In that phase, he had worked as a grocery store bagger and checkout clerk, construction worker, real estate agent, plumber (or plumber’s helper as he joked), barrio textile seamstress, sewage maintenance worker, trash collector, stockbroker, and a celebrated stint as a panhandler in San Francisco, during which time he had slept at undisclosed locations in Golden Gate Park and elsewhere around the city, and asked for spare change for his political fund—part of his “spare change” effort in which he had also asked California citizens to send in all the coins accumulating on their dressers, a startlingly successful plan that had weighed tons and netted him close to a million dollars, entirely funding his second run for senator, which he did on the cheap and mostly over the internet.

pages: 547 words: 148,732

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
Published 30 Apr 2018

The two would now take their show (with its numerous ex-students and hangers-on) on the road, moving the International Federation for Internal Freedom (which would later morph into the League for Spiritual Discovery) from Cambridge to Zihuatanejo, until the Mexican government (under pressure from U.S. authorities) kicked them out, then briefly to the Caribbean island of Dominica, until that government kicked them out, before finally settling for several raucous years in a sixty-four-room mansion in Millbrook, New York, owned by a wealthy patron named Billy Hitchcock. Embraced by the rising counterculture, Leary was invited (along with Allen Ginsberg) to speak at the first Human Be-In in San Francisco, an event that drew some twenty-five thousand young people to Golden Gate Park in January 1967, to trip on freely distributed LSD while listening to speakers proclaim a new age. The ex-professor, who for the occasion had traded in his Brooks Brothers for white robes and love beads (and flowers in his graying hair), implored the throng of tripping “hippies”—the term popularized that year by the local newspaper columnist Herb Caen—to “turn on, tune in, drop out.”

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Published 1 Oct 2018

Recently, Ohanian had begun trying to balance his globetrotting with focusing on his health: He’d been drinking more water, streamlining his diet, starting his days with a vegetable smoothie or the occasional Soylent (a meal replacement beloved in Silicon Valley). He’d purchased a house in San Francisco’s chic NoPa neighborhood (North of the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park). He’d also fallen in love with one of the most famous athletes on the planet. Ohanian’s romance with Serena Williams, which has played out in glossy publications and behind paparazzi lenses, improbably began in May 2015 while Ohanian was preparing to deliver a speech at an advertising conference in Rome.

pages: 499 words: 144,278

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson
Published 26 Mar 2019

When Drasner gets deep into a programming challenge, the rest of the world drops away. At night, her husband—also a software engineer—often needs to force her to put away her laptop so she’ll stop sharpening and improving her code and go to sleep. One day in the summer of 2015, when they were still dating, he’d suggested at breakfast that they go for a walk later to the Golden Gate Park. She’d agreed, but then got swept up trying to fix a bug in a piece of convoluted SVG code. The time came to leave; her boyfriend came over to get her. Just five more minutes, she told him. He came back after five minutes: No, no, no, I just have to finish this one thing, she said. This went on for multiple cycles.

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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
Published 15 Jul 2003

Which is why Hiro quit his job at Black Sun Systems, despite the promise of future riches, and why Juanita divorced Da5id two years after she married him. Hiro did not attend Juanita and Da5id's wedding—he was languishing in jail, into which he had been thrown a few hours before the rehearsal. He had been found in Golden Gate Park, lovesick, wearing nothing but a thong, taking long pulls from a jumbo bottle of Courvoisier and practicing kendo attacks with a genuine samurai sword, floating across the grass on powerfully muscled thighs to slice other picnickers' hurtling Frisbees and baseballs in twain. Catching a long fly ball with the edge of your blade, neatly halving it like a grapefruit, is not an insignificant feat.

pages: 487 words: 147,238

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
by Nancy Jo Sales
Published 23 Feb 2016

There were a couple of trains already stopped in the yard. One of them said EMP WESTBOUND on its side. “I wonder if that one’s going west,” whispered Jack. “It says west,” Daisy said. “I know,” said Jack, “but that don’t mean it’s going west right now.” “Then why’s it say it?” Daisy asked. They were bickering, like any couple. They’d met in Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, they said, about six months before. “First time I saw her,” said Jack, “she had the gay pride flag on her back, so I was just like, whatever,” meaning he thought he didn’t have a chance. Then they saw each other again and “got all shwilly,” drunk. Daisy had told me earlier she “liked to hold his hand”; and she said she found it easier traveling with a guy.

Parks Directory of the United States
by Darren L. Smith and Kay Gill
Published 1 Jan 2004

Facilities: Picnic areas, pool, hiking trails (7 miles), amphitheater, playgrounds, sports areas. Activities: Swimming, hiking, bicycling, tennis, basketball, softball, soccer. Special ★4971★ MISSION BAY PARK I-5 & Sea World Dr San Diego, CA 92107 Web: aboutmissionbay.com Phone: 619-235-1169 907 10. Urban Parks ★4973★ GOLDEN GATE PARK 501 Stanyan St San Francisco, CA 94117 Web: www.nps.gov/goga/ Phone: 415-831-2700; Fax: 415-668-3330 Size: 1,017 acres. Location: From Highway 101 or Highway 80, follow signs ‘‘to Golden Gate Bridge,’’ take the Fell Street Exit, head west into park. From Highway 1, follow signs to 19th Ave., turn right on Martin Luther King Jr.

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Gene C Reid Regional Park (AZ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Bush Park (TX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Ward Park (AL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn Cunningham Lake (NE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Golden Gate Park (CA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant Park (GA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Green Lake Park (WA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greynolds Park (FL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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.★90 Death Valley Scenic Byway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136 Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1569 Del Paso Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4956 Delevan National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712 Delta Meadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1570 Devils Postpile National Monument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 DL Bliss State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1571 Dockweiler State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1572 Doheny State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573 Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. . . . . 719 Donner Memorial State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574 Earth Island Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5078 Earthjustice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5079 Eastshore State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575 Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137 Edward Z’Berg Sugar Pine Point State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576 El Capitan State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1577 El Dorado East Regional Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4884 El Dorado Park West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4885 El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1578 Eldorado National Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 Ellicott Slough National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727 Elysian Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4887 Emerald Bay State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579 Emma Wood State Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580 Empire Mine State Historic Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1581 Environmental Protection Information Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5088 Environmental Traveling Companions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5089 Estero Bay State Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1582 Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Farallon National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732 Folsom Lake State Recreation Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583 Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1584 Forest of Nisene Marks State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1585 Fort Humboldt State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1586 Fort Ord Dunes State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587 Fort Point National Historic Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Fort Ross State Historic Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1588 Fort Tejon State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589 Franks Tract State Recreation Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1590 Fremont Peak State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591 Friends of the River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5103 Garrapata State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1592 Gaviota State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593 George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1594 Golden Gate National Recreation Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Golden Gate Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4973 Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595 12. Geographic Index PARKS DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES—5th EDITION Limekiln State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633 Little (John) State Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1617 Little River State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1634 London (Jack) State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1615 Los Angeles State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635 Los Encinos State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1636 Los Osos Oaks State Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1637 Los Padres National Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4970 Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .★836 MacKerricher State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1638 Maillard Redwoods State Reserve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1639 Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1640 Malibu Creek State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1641 Malibu Lagoon State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1642 Manchester State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643 Mandalay State Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1644 Manresa State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1645 Manzanar National Historic Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1646 Marina State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647 Marsh (John) Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1618 Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1648 McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1649 McConnell State Recreation Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1650 McGrath State Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1651 Mendocino Headlands State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1652 Mendocino National Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526 Mendocino Woodlands State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653 Merced National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 Merlo (Harry A.)

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American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Published 30 Jun 2001

The rhythm of the "Blue Danube" waltz rippled and rang and sang in his head, the lights of a thousand chandeliers glinted and prismed, and for a heartbeat Shadow was a child again, and all it took to make him happy was to ride the carousel: he stayed perfectly still, riding his eagle-tiger at the center of everything, and the world revolved around him. Shadow heard himself laugh, over the sound of the music. He was happy. It was as if the last thirty-six hours had never happened, as if the last three years had not happened, as if his life had evaporated into the daydream of a small child, riding the carousel in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, on his first trip back to the States, a marathon journey by ship and by car, his mother standing there, watching him proudly, and himself sucking his melting Popsicle, holding on tightly, hoping that the music would never stop, the carousel would never slow, the ride would never end.

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In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
by Clifton Hood
Published 1 Nov 2016

Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the Astor dynasty, wrote in her own memoir that once the money was gone, the only thing left for members of her generation was their identity: “We live off the remains of our ancestral grandeur.”76 Eve Pell acknowledges that she developed into “a snobbish foxhunting debutante who went to private schools, had maids to make my bed and do my laundry.”77 Over time, though, “the silver spoon to which I was born began to taste bad,” and she discovered “that privilege can have corrosive effects on human relations” and that the “collateral damage” it caused her family included alcoholism and suicide.78 Like the other memoirists, Pell rails against “the emotional walls behind which my social class lived its lives” and sees the severe emotional maladies of her relatives as the price her family has paid for its skewed values and snobbishness.79 Living in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Pell rebelled against her birthright by joining first the counterculture (she says that hearing the Grateful Dead perform at Golden Gate Park in 1967 was a decisive influence for her) and then leftist revolutionary circles. She had an affair, wrote for an underground newspaper, and befriended Black Panther leaders. Yet her activism left her leading a “double life,” pulled in one direction by family comforts and relationships while simultaneously being repelled by the pomposity and bigotry of the upper class and enticed by the freedoms that were obtainable in the larger world.80 She regards her confusion and ambivalence as a consequence of her anomalous place in the world.81 These memoirists identify the upper class with inauthenticity, emotional barrenness, and self-destructiveness, and several of them yearn for what they view as the normality of the middle class.82 Their frank admissions of ruined lives and false values let the authors redeem themselves for their elitist sins, while allowing their readers to experience Schadenfreude.

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The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bondgraham
Published 10 Jan 2023

He’d been offered a healing future by its harm-reduction nonprofits, but also sucked into San Francisco’s addictive underworld of street drugs. His only prior run-ins with the law included a couple arrests for drug possession and a protest he organized a few years before after San Francisco cops were accused of beating up homeless youth they caught camping in Golden Gate Park. Originally from Virginia, the thirty-one-year-old suffered from mental illness. From an early age, he self-medicated with Adderall, a habit that grew into heroin and other drugs in his late teens. His working-class family couldn’t afford drug treatment programs, and Pawlik’s life spiraled downward for a number of years as his psychological issues intensified into a diagnosed form of schizoaffective disorder.

pages: 786 words: 195,810

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
Published 24 Aug 2015

“When I look at my son,” she says, “I think, ‘He’s not broken. He’s just neurologically outnumbered, like me.’” — ON A DRIZZLY, windswept afternoon in 2012—a typical spring day in San Francisco—Shannon and Leo visited the California Academy of Sciences with Julia Bascom and Zoe Gross of ASAN. The Cal Academy, located in Golden Gate Park, is one of Leo’s favorite places to go, because it boasts an aquarium that wraps around overhead (allowing Leo to lie flat on a bench looking up through schools of glittering fish) and a planetarium (“I want to go to space!” he says). Friends like Julia and Zoe are able to translate Leo’s world into terms that Shannon can understand.

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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin
Published 18 Aug 2014

A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires, philanthropists, government agencies, book publishers, and universities could perhaps finance the endeavor, but it is difficult to challenge the grassroots ethos that has grown up around Wikipedia, that its content is democratically determined, and that all information should be free, all the time. The lack of sympathy for a paid model is similar to a situation that arose in the psychedelic 1960s. When the music impresario Bill Graham started organizing some of the first outdoor rock concerts in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, many of the hippies complained vigorously about his charging admission to the concerts. “Music should be free,” they cried. Some added that music’s ability to soothe the mortal soul, or its status as the “voice of the universe” virtually mandated that it should be free. Graham patiently pointed out the problem.

The Simple Living Guide
by Janet Luhrs
Published 1 Apr 2014

Here, it’s much better.” Annelle left her city job and her very organized city play groups that she dutifully brought her children to once or twice a week. Thurston left a very secure, tenured teaching job with the San Francisco school district. They left the city life, where they could walk nearly everywhere … to Golden Gate Park, to daughter Kyla’s day care, to the library, the health food store, the co-op. They left behind their favorite Greek restaurant where they would walk every Saturday to get Greek pastries and coffee before taking the kids to the park. “It took us a long time to leave,” Annelle said. “We loved it.

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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by Alec Nevala-Lee
Published 1 Aug 2022

In fact, an alternative model did exist, and if he had seen the theoretical potential of an interlinked network of less expensive terminals, constructed along the lines of the virtual company that had developed the dome, his final years might have been very different. Fuller never saw it coming, despite a valuable clue that fell into his lap at just the right time. In November 1967 Fuller attended several events in San Francisco, including an appearance at Golden Gate Park’s Hippie Hill, a popular gathering place for flower children, among whom he cut an incongruous figure in his usual dark suit. Later that day, he went to speak at the Esalen Institute, the scenic retreat for the study of human potential in Big Sur, where he met a twenty-eight-year-old named Stewart Brand.

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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
Published 23 Oct 2011

His passion was tinkering with old cars, and he made money in his spare time buying, restoring, and selling them. Eventually he quit his day job to become a full-time used car salesman. Clara, however, loved San Francisco, and in 1952 she convinced her husband to move back there. They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a “repo man,” picking the locks of cars whose owners hadn’t paid their loans and repossessing them. He also bought, repaired, and sold some of the cars, making a decent enough living in the process. There was, however, something missing in their lives.

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Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner
Published 1 Jan 1986

Actually, San Francisco looks green all year long, if one ignores the rain-starved hills that lie disturbingly behind its emerald-and-white summer splendor, but this is the second part of the fraud, the part perpetrated by man. There was not a single tree growing in San Francisco when the first Spanish arrived; it was too dry and wind-blown for trees to take hold. Today, Golden Gate Park looks as if Virginia had mated with Borneo, thanks to water brought nearly two hundred miles by tunnel. The same applies to Bel Air, to Pacific Palisades, to the manicured lawns of La Jolla, where the water comes from three directions and from a quarter of a continent away. The whole state thrives, even survives, by moving water from where it is, and presumably isn’t needed, to where it isn’t, and presumably is needed.

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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Petre
Published 30 Sep 2012

I wanted my English to be good enough so that I could read newspapers and textbooks and go on to classes in other subjects. I wanted to speed up the process of learning to think, read, and write like an American. I didn’t want to just wait till I picked it up. One weekend a couple of girls took me up to San Francisco, and we stayed in Golden Gate Park. I said to myself, “This is unbelievable, how free people are in America. Look at this! Now we’re sleeping at night in the park, and everyone is friendly.” I didn’t realize until much later that I had arrived in California at a totally crazy cultural moment. It was the late sixties, there was the hippie movement, free love, all this incredible change.

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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by Max Boot
Published 9 Jan 2018

He and Helen had their first child, Edward Russell Lansdale (who would become known as Ted and later Ed), on June 2, 1939. A second and final son, Peter Carroll Lansdale (Pete), arrived on November 7, 1941. The family was living in a narrow, three-bedroom bungalow, with thick stucco walls and low ceilings, located at 880 Thirty-Fourth Avenue in San Francisco’s Richmond district, an “urban suburb” close to Golden Gate Park and the Pacific Ocean.54 Precisely a month after Pete’s birth, on December 7, 1941, a cool, seasonal Sunday with limpid skies and temperatures in the low sixties,55 the entire family was in the modest backyard of their house getting some sun and fresh air, with the newborn in a baby carriage.

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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris
Published 14 Feb 2023

To design the campus, the Stanfords brought Frederick Law Olmsted back to Northern California. The godfather of U.S. landscape architecture, Olmsted’s Central and Prospect Parks in New York are among the country’s most iconic green spaces, and he drew up UC Berkeley’s original master plan, too. Though his plan for Golden Gate Park was too progressive—San Francisco’s oligarchs preferred something in the northern European rather than the Mediterranean mode Olmsted felt was more appropriate—he was the natural choice for the Stanfords, who liked his Mission revival concept.36 They laid the campus cornerstone in 1887, but between trouble attracting faculty and Jane’s outsize memorial-construction ambitions, the school’s first class of students didn’t arrive until the fall of 1891.

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Surfaces and Essences
by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
Published 10 Sep 2012

The following example of this phenomenon will speak directly to readers who live in large metropolitan areas, and may intrigue those who live in less traffic-congested locales. It shows why the loveliest spot in a city isn’t necessarily what one might think. What is San Francisco’s Loveliest Spot? Union Square? Chinatown? Twin Peaks? The Great Highway? The Cliff House? Pacific Heights? The Golden Gate Bridge? Fisherman’s Wharf? Golden Gate Park? The Presidio? The Marina? The Palace of the Legion of Honor? The Top of the Mark? Coit Tower? The Ferry Building? Lake Merced? West Portal? Russian Hill? Surely, for a non-resident of the City, one of the above would fill the bill, but a true San Franciscan sees things differently. Finding a place to park one’s car in the City without worrying about getting an astronomical fine or having to go pick it up at the pound can verge on the miraculous, especially in certain areas and at certain times of day.

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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein
Published 1 Jan 2008

In December thousands of Berkeley students went on strike after demonstrators were arrested while protesting the presence of navy recruiters’ tables in the student union. They shouted down the vice chancellor; Ronald Reagan promised that upon his inauguration they “would be treated like any other person charged with a crime.” Then, on January 14 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, twenty thousand gyrating young tatterdemalions spouted poetry, chanted mantras, listened to Moby Grape and the Jefferson Airplane, and ingested ten thousand free tablets of now illegal LSD, drawn forth by Day-Glo posters that enjoined, “Now in the evolving generation of America’s young the humanization of the American man and woman can begin in joy and embrace without fear, dogma, suspicion, or dialectical righteousness.

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Published 1 Sep 2008

The worst-scarred relics fell to the pavement with the winos and the burned-out addicts left from the days of the skinny-dipping hippies who had blown their minds on LSD and pot in the Haight. Those still drawn to San Francisco for its hedonism, sexual freedom, and liberation stepped through a growing puddle of homeless on the streets. The gays had burst from the closet earlier in the decade, in a celebration of freedom that peaked at the Gay Pride Parade in Golden Gate Park in 1976. But a Florida singer named Anita Bryant began what became a national campaign of gay-bashing, which culminated in the murder of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by a homophobic city employee in November 1978.14 After the jury accepted the assassin’s insanity defense and returned a verdict of manslaughter, some of the worst rioting in its history rocked San Francisco.

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein
Published 17 Aug 2020

He responded, “I don’t see homosexuality as a threat to the family”—then split the difference: “I don’t feel that it is a normal relationship.” And that “highly publicized confrontations” over the subject were unfortunate—perhaps referring to another event that day in San Francisco in which Vice President Mondale appeared with Mayor George Moscone in Golden Gate Park and was drowned out by hecklers shouting, “Gay rights are human rights!” The next day, the New York Times reported that preliminary plans to realize Jimmy Carter’s campaign promise for a White House conference on the family were bogging down over “differences over homosexuality, feminism, and abortion” that might sink the project altogether.