HERE2 (part 1 of 2) -A History of Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park is more than a history of hard and inventive work to plant trees in a treeless, windswept environment. It is more than a history of the struggles of those who sought a bucolic park against those who had sought to locate massive building projects in a large convenient location. The construction of Golden Gate Park creates a myth of what San Francisco might be have been had the city never been built - it's implied, garden of Eden. A complete, higher definition, full version of HERE1 can be found on in the iTunes Podcast Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=339869382

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Travel & Events

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• Golden Gate Park
• landscape
• William Hammond Hall
• John McLaren

[lymarchvideo]

@BerkeleyBuilt: Yeah interesting stuff under the surface !

[BerkeleyBuilt]

i love local history.

[lymarchvideo]

@sbacon1999

You're welcome.

[lymarchvideo]

Thanks, this originally was going to be a part of the HERE1 video on the De Young and Academy of Sciences but then I realized it was actually a bigger and more far reaching story in and of itself, so it became it's own piece.

[sbacon1999]

This is fantastic - thank you for putting it together!