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The lone dissenter was Connie Chan, who cited concerns that the events would cause disruptions in the Richmond District where her constituents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original \u003c/b>\u003cb>story\u003c/b>\u003cb>, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposal Tuesday that would bring more concerts to Golden Gate Park the weekend after Outside Lands in addition to three free concerts scattered throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concerts would be organized by Berkeley-based promoter Another Planet Entertainment, the company that also produces the Outside Lands music festival every August, and would take place at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore\">the same location as Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Another Planet would pay the city of San Francisco up to $1.4 million for a two-day event, or $2.1 million for a three-day event, annually, during the duration of the permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the extra weekend of entertainment slated for Golden Gate Park, Another Planet has also committed to staging three free concerts in downtown San Francisco on the same summer weekend if the city approves the permit. One event would take place at Civic Center Plaza, followed by concerts at Union Square and the Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal has the support of Mayor London Breed and other city officials. The Budget and Finance Committee unanimously voted last week to forward the proposal to the full board for a vote after a hearing that was dominated by supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Dennis Phillips, executive director of the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the downtown concerts would draw more people to an area that has experienced less foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are an absolute fulfillment to the mayor’s roadmap to San Francisco’s future that she put out just as COVID was ending,” Phillips said. “One of the key strategies in that roadmap was to transform downtown into a leading arts, culture and nightlife destination, so these concerts fit exactly within the strategies the mayor put forward to try to revitalize downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Andrew Solow, San Francisco resident\"]‘I live two miles away and it is so loud that I can’t think. I can’t work. I can’t even talk on the phone.’[/pullquote] Some San Francisco residents, however, are concerned about the noise that Outside Lands brings to their neighborhoods and said they dread another round of concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live two miles away and it is so loud that I can’t think. I can’t work. I can’t even talk on the phone,” said Andrew Solow, who lives in the Inner Sunset neighborhood. “What they are doing is bad for people and it’s illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solow said that he chose to leave San Francisco and live in a hotel during Outside Lands because he had detected noise levels of 70 decibels at his home during the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solow and resident Stephen Somerstein filed an unsuccessful appeal to the San Francisco Planning Department in 2019 when the city extended the permit for Outside Lands for another 10 years. Solow said he spent $25,000 in legal fees and many hours looking at the legality of the festival’s noise levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these concerns, city departments argue these concerts will bring citywide benefits to San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for San Francisco Recreation and Parks, Tamara Aparton, said they came up with the plan for more concerts with Another Planet in response to a projected city budget deficit of $780 million over the next two years. Aparton said the extra funds are necessary to avoid cuts in park maintenance, classes and recreation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='golden-gate-park'] She added that the new concerts would have the same support system for neighbors and the same infrastructure for attendees as Outside Lands, despite having smaller headliners. Attendance will be a third of the size of Outside Lands, which has a permit for 75,000 attendees per day during its duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those support systems for neighbors is a community hotline that will respond in real-time to complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Montes, a Rec and Parks spokesperson, confirmed to KQED via email that there are no limits for noise levels in the contract that Another Planet has with the city. KQED reached out to Another Planet for a request for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the festival has never been held to an environmental study \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/environmental-review-documents?title=outside+lands&field_environmental_review_categ_target_id=All&items_per_page=10\">because state law considers it a temporary event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Inner Richmond resident Mark Ernest Pothier, the hotline is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no way you can have a concert on that scale comfortably in a densely populated neighborhood. One of the most densely populated places west of Chicago,” Pothier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Giuliana Salomone contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposed concert series, organized by the production company behind the Outside Lands festival, would take place the following weekend, in the same location.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706903910,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":856},"headData":{"title":"SF Supervisors Approve Plan for New Concert Series in Golden Gate Park | KQED","description":"The proposed concert series, organized by the production company behind the Outside Lands festival, would take place the following weekend, in the same location.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Supervisors Approve Plan for New Concert Series in Golden Gate Park","datePublished":"2023-09-12T14:30:53.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-02T19:58:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11960570/sfs-golden-gate-park-may-soon-host-new-concert-series-from-producers-of-outside-lands","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/b>By a vote of 10–1, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday afternoon approved a proposal to bring more concerts to Golden Gate Park. The lone dissenter was Connie Chan, who cited concerns that the events would cause disruptions in the Richmond District where her constituents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original \u003c/b>\u003cb>story\u003c/b>\u003cb>, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposal Tuesday that would bring more concerts to Golden Gate Park the weekend after Outside Lands in addition to three free concerts scattered throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concerts would be organized by Berkeley-based promoter Another Planet Entertainment, the company that also produces the Outside Lands music festival every August, and would take place at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore\">the same location as Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Another Planet would pay the city of San Francisco up to $1.4 million for a two-day event, or $2.1 million for a three-day event, annually, during the duration of the permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the extra weekend of entertainment slated for Golden Gate Park, Another Planet has also committed to staging three free concerts in downtown San Francisco on the same summer weekend if the city approves the permit. 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The Budget and Finance Committee unanimously voted last week to forward the proposal to the full board for a vote after a hearing that was dominated by supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Dennis Phillips, executive director of the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the downtown concerts would draw more people to an area that has experienced less foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are an absolute fulfillment to the mayor’s roadmap to San Francisco’s future that she put out just as COVID was ending,” Phillips said. “One of the key strategies in that roadmap was to transform downtown into a leading arts, culture and nightlife destination, so these concerts fit exactly within the strategies the mayor put forward to try to revitalize downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I live two miles away and it is so loud that I can’t think. I can’t work. 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Solow said he spent $25,000 in legal fees and many hours looking at the legality of the festival’s noise levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these concerns, city departments argue these concerts will bring citywide benefits to San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for San Francisco Recreation and Parks, Tamara Aparton, said they came up with the plan for more concerts with Another Planet in response to a projected city budget deficit of $780 million over the next two years. Aparton said the extra funds are necessary to avoid cuts in park maintenance, classes and recreation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"golden-gate-park"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> She added that the new concerts would have the same support system for neighbors and the same infrastructure for attendees as Outside Lands, despite having smaller headliners. Attendance will be a third of the size of Outside Lands, which has a permit for 75,000 attendees per day during its duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those support systems for neighbors is a community hotline that will respond in real-time to complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Montes, a Rec and Parks spokesperson, confirmed to KQED via email that there are no limits for noise levels in the contract that Another Planet has with the city. KQED reached out to Another Planet for a request for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the festival has never been held to an environmental study \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/environmental-review-documents?title=outside+lands&field_environmental_review_categ_target_id=All&items_per_page=10\">because state law considers it a temporary event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Inner Richmond resident Mark Ernest Pothier, the hotline is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no way you can have a concert on that scale comfortably in a densely populated neighborhood. 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The lead muralist on the project, Rachel Znerold, found out via text message. The mural had been finished just a few days before, in time for Indigenous Peoples Day. Now, she learned, someone had poured black paint over the word \"Native\" and written \"no such thing\" in yellow spray paint above the blacked-out word. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Aiko Little, vice chair, WGAW's Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee\"]'We are not an imaginary people or people of the past. This is Native land.'[/pullquote]In response, members of Bay Area Native American communities called the vandalism an attempt at cultural erasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recognition of our community has been met repeatedly with resistance and violent behavior,\" said Mary Travis-Allen, advisory board president of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/\">American Indian Cultural District\u003c/a>. \"Scraping paint off the ground does not erase us. We are here and present.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janine Laiwa — member of the Pomo Nation, mural painter, volunteer and community ambassador for AICD — said the mural was done in good faith and with time, love and thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For someone to paint over the word 'Native' shows that racism against Native Americans is still a big issue in San Francisco,\" she said.[aside tag=\"indigenous, native\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]This sentiment was echoed by Aiko Little, vice chair of the Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee of the Writers Guild of America West, or WGAW, and member of the Oglala subtribe of the Lakota people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not simply an act of vandalism, but an act of erasure that continues to linger behind the Native/Indigenous peoples since 1492. We are not an imaginary people or people of the past. This is Native land,\" Little said. \"I can only hope that the people who did this one day unlearn all the ignorance and prejudice instilled in their current actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg said he was sickened by the hateful vandalism of the mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This ugly act cannot erase the beautiful message behind this installation,\" he said. \"It was specifically placed at the entrance of JFK Promenade to welcome people from around the world and (to) honor our shared connection to the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Cordero, chair of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula, said he thought the act was more of an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Bay Area is actually one of the areas in the United States where Native peoples have higher visibility than they do in other places, especially in major cities,\" said Cordero. \"I really see this (vandalism) as an aberration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"when things like this happen, it becomes an opportunity for us to talk about who we are and, unfortunately, continue to have to say that we’re still here ... still living in our land, still trying to make our way in the world, despite the adverse consequences of colonization, which are still ongoing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharaya Souza (Taos Pueblo, Ute, Kiowa), co-founder and executive director of the American Indian Cultural District, organized the mural after being asked by the SFRPD, the arts organization \u003ca href=\"https://illuminate.org/\">Illuminate\u003c/a>, and nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.paintthevoid.org/\">Paint the Void\u003c/a> to participate in their Golden Mile Project along the JFK Promenade. The mural is also part of the AICD's \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/indigenizesf\">Indigenize Project\u003c/a>, celebrating the long history of Native American life in San Francisco through public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still need to have conversations about being on Native land in San Francisco and how that makes some people feel uncomfortable,\" Souza said, adding that she would like to see the mural become a talking point and a permanent installation within Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Znerold, the muralist, spent Friday repairing the mural alongside other muralists and around a dozen volunteers. She said she plans to continue making murals honoring Native life in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand strong with our Native communities, and this has been a project that so many have poured their hearts into,\" she said, describing families and passersby who stopped to help with the painting while the mural was in progress. \"We're gonna fix it up and we're gonna keep coming back and fixing it up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that, as a white woman working in collaboration with Native people, she can go home and choose to not engage with racists, but for people of color and Native people, \"this is what they're facing every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is part of ongoing efforts to fight racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If anti-racist work was done, then we wouldn't need to be out here. But it is the kind of work you have to keep showing up for every single day. So it's a reminder, a humbling reminder, that our work is continuous,\" said Znerold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not actually taking anything away from you by just acknowledging the history and acknowledging the contributions and the gifts of the first people of this land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday evening, the mural had been fully restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco's American Indian Cultural District commissioned the mural as part of their Indigenize project, celebrating the long history of Native American life in San Francisco through public art. 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The lead muralist on the project, Rachel Znerold, found out via text message. The mural had been finished just a few days before, in time for Indigenous Peoples Day. Now, she learned, someone had poured black paint over the word \"Native\" and written \"no such thing\" in yellow spray paint above the blacked-out word. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are not an imaginary people or people of the past. This is Native land.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aiko Little, vice chair, WGAW's Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In response, members of Bay Area Native American communities called the vandalism an attempt at cultural erasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recognition of our community has been met repeatedly with resistance and violent behavior,\" said Mary Travis-Allen, advisory board president of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/\">American Indian Cultural District\u003c/a>. \"Scraping paint off the ground does not erase us. We are here and present.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janine Laiwa — member of the Pomo Nation, mural painter, volunteer and community ambassador for AICD — said the mural was done in good faith and with time, love and thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For someone to paint over the word 'Native' shows that racism against Native Americans is still a big issue in San Francisco,\" she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"indigenous, native","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This sentiment was echoed by Aiko Little, vice chair of the Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee of the Writers Guild of America West, or WGAW, and member of the Oglala subtribe of the Lakota people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not simply an act of vandalism, but an act of erasure that continues to linger behind the Native/Indigenous peoples since 1492. We are not an imaginary people or people of the past. This is Native land,\" Little said. \"I can only hope that the people who did this one day unlearn all the ignorance and prejudice instilled in their current actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg said he was sickened by the hateful vandalism of the mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This ugly act cannot erase the beautiful message behind this installation,\" he said. \"It was specifically placed at the entrance of JFK Promenade to welcome people from around the world and (to) honor our shared connection to the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Cordero, chair of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula, said he thought the act was more of an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Bay Area is actually one of the areas in the United States where Native peoples have higher visibility than they do in other places, especially in major cities,\" said Cordero. \"I really see this (vandalism) as an aberration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"when things like this happen, it becomes an opportunity for us to talk about who we are and, unfortunately, continue to have to say that we’re still here ... still living in our land, still trying to make our way in the world, despite the adverse consequences of colonization, which are still ongoing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharaya Souza (Taos Pueblo, Ute, Kiowa), co-founder and executive director of the American Indian Cultural District, organized the mural after being asked by the SFRPD, the arts organization \u003ca href=\"https://illuminate.org/\">Illuminate\u003c/a>, and nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.paintthevoid.org/\">Paint the Void\u003c/a> to participate in their Golden Mile Project along the JFK Promenade. The mural is also part of the AICD's \u003ca href=\"https://americanindianculturaldistrict.org/indigenizesf\">Indigenize Project\u003c/a>, celebrating the long history of Native American life in San Francisco through public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still need to have conversations about being on Native land in San Francisco and how that makes some people feel uncomfortable,\" Souza said, adding that she would like to see the mural become a talking point and a permanent installation within Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Znerold, the muralist, spent Friday repairing the mural alongside other muralists and around a dozen volunteers. She said she plans to continue making murals honoring Native life in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand strong with our Native communities, and this has been a project that so many have poured their hearts into,\" she said, describing families and passersby who stopped to help with the painting while the mural was in progress. \"We're gonna fix it up and we're gonna keep coming back and fixing it up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that, as a white woman working in collaboration with Native people, she can go home and choose to not engage with racists, but for people of color and Native people, \"this is what they're facing every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is part of ongoing efforts to fight racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If anti-racist work was done, then we wouldn't need to be out here. But it is the kind of work you have to keep showing up for every single day. So it's a reminder, a humbling reminder, that our work is continuous,\" said Znerold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not actually taking anything away from you by just acknowledging the history and acknowledging the contributions and the gifts of the first people of this land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday evening, the mural had been fully restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11929099/we-are-here-and-present-vandalized-mural-sparks-renewed-efforts-to-recognize-native-american-history","authors":["11626","11772"],"categories":["news_29992","news_223","news_31795","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_20257","news_823","news_27966","news_28429","news_1247","news_30184","news_21512"],"featImg":"news_11929111","label":"news"},"news_11915788":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11915788","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11915788","score":null,"sort":[1654250480000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"healing-in-nature-at-the-aids-memorial-grove","title":"Healing Through Nature at the National AIDS Memorial Grove","publishDate":1654250480,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Healing Through Nature at the National AIDS Memorial Grove | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit the AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park’s eastern end and you’ll see tall redwoods, green ferns, an open field and evidence of lots of loving care. Descending into the grove is like entering a different world, a calmer place than the hustle and bustle of the street above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tom Jensen first came to the National AIDS Memorial Grove in 2002, he had no idea how much it would change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan was to come and work off [to] the sidelines,” Jensen said. “I didn’t really want to be with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described introvert, Jensen had just lost his longtime partner, Bobby Hilliard, to AIDS. He decided to volunteer at one of the Grove’s monthly work days. Jensen says that his grief was so strong he was worried he would “start calling in sick days if I didn’t make a move to engage in life and take my grief somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing 1980s style clothes stand on a hiking path in the woods. The two are hugging, one slightly leaning into the other.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-2048x1440.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1920x1350.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Jensen and his longtime partner Bobby Hilliard on a hike in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tom Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Jensen didn’t anticipate taking on a leadership role, he knew that he could contribute to the Grove. He grew up learning about plants from his father, and when Bobby started taking botany classes, Jensen went on field trips with him all over California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen proved so useful that first day he was asked to be on a committee. And the Grove and its community made such an impression on Jensen that he’s currently serving his second stint on the board of directors for the National AIDS Memorial, which includes the Grove, the AIDS Memorial Quilt (which will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt35\">displayed in Golden Gate Park on June 11-12 in Robin Williams Meadow\u003c/a>) and numerous educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just such a huge family,” said Jensen. “I was transformed by being here and by getting involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco in the 1980s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen moved to San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in 1978. He described it as “a playland and a wonderland,” full of “freedom and liberation.” He felt like he was part of a community and a generation that could change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within four years, death was all around him as San Francisco’s gay community began to feel the impact of the AIDS epidemic. It was common to see people he worked out with at the gym looking like “emaciated old men” in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were covered with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions and walking on canes and in wheelchairs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between \u003ca href=\"https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D12/D293F286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1981 and 1994, more than 15,000 San Franciscans died of AIDS\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/00001477.htm\">By 1988, the CDC had recorded more than 80,000 cases of AIDS\u003c/a> in the United States. Of those, more than half were fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community advocates for and supports itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s gay community was hit early and hard by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, as were intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs who depended on blood transfusions. White gay men received the most media attention, but the disease has always disproportionately affected communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homophobia and racism shaped how the federal government and public health institutions responded. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">President Ronald Reagan didn’t publicly mention the disease until 1985.\u003c/a> Meanwhile his administration cut funding for federal public health organizations, including what was then known as the Centers for Disease Control, which published \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5021a1.htm#:%7e:text=Twenty%20years%20ago%2C%20on%20June,homosexuals%22%3B%20two%20had%20died.\">the first report on what would come to be known as AIDS in 1981\u003c/a>. The media dubbed the disease the “gay plague,” and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">White House spokesperson joked about it when reporters brought up the skyrocketing death rate\u003c/a> in press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3.jpg\" alt=\"Orange flowers sit in the center of a stone circle. Around the flowers names are carved into the stone, spiraling outward.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1778\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-800x741.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-160x148.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-1536x1422.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Circle of Friends is a centerpiece of the Grove. The names of those who have died of AIDS-related complications or who have been affected by AIDS are carved there. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of these people may not have died if our government and a majority of society had cared more about them,” said Steve Sagaser, a senior program manager with the National AIDS Memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, early in the epidemic, people with AIDS were largely left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how the response to AIDS in the first decade happened,” Jensen said. “People making food for their neighbors and having that grow into \u003ca href=\"https://www.openhand.org/\">Project Open Hand\u003c/a>. It’s just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103422/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history-ruth-brinker-aids-activist\">Ruth Brinker\u003c/a> [founder of Project Open Hand] saying, ‘Everyone in my building has AIDS’ and making dinner for 12 units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-act-up-changed-america\">Activists pushed the government to act faster\u003c/a>, fund research and develop treatments, but it took years of in-your-face advocacy to get the federal government to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A different way to grieve\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sagaser says that in the 1980s many people in San Francisco were experiencing “loss after loss at such a rate that it was impossible to complete the grieving process for one person and you’d already lost another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, against this setting, a small group of San Francisco residents, including several with backgrounds in landscaping and architecture, started talking about the possibility of having a dedicated space to grieve those who died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders of the Grove envisioned “solace through life and plants,” said Jensen. They wanted an alternative to a cemetery or a church — something in nature, with life running through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, the group asked the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for some land to use for the memorial. The city offered the de Laveaga Dell, a 7.5-acre bowl-like valley that budget cuts and neglect had led to degeneration into an overgrown, swampy mess. But the Grove’s founders saw potential there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landscape architects and designers volunteered their time to craft plans for the Grove. They aimed to create a space with the sanctity of a cathedral but that was welcoming to everyone. After a collaborative process the planners agreed on a design that highlighted the dramatic contrast of light and dark in the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also created spots in the Grove that lent themselves toward individual reflection but made sure the Grove could also accommodate groups. Plants and trees were chosen so there would always be something blooming, no matter the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sagaser calls The Circle of Friends the “heart of the Grove.” It’s a circular flagstone area where close to 3,000 names are carved, spiraling outward. Close to 80% of the names are of individuals who died from AIDS, while others are people who have been affected by the disease. Sagaser says the Grove gets around 100 requests a year for new names to be carved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 21, 1991, volunteers broke ground on the Grove. It took them three years to remove trash. In 1996, Bill Clinton signed legislation, championed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, granting the Grove national memorial status. It is the nation’s first and only federally designated memorial to those who have died of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about remembering the [people] who have died, but remembering the activism that was associated with it,” Sagaser said. “The activism was necessary because [the] government wasn’t doing anything about it because it was hitting a group of people who were already demonized or stigmatized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the federal designation as a national memorial, the Grove receives no federal funding. Its operating costs are covered by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/\">National AIDS Memorial nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Grove\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The volunteer energy behind the Grove hasn’t dropped off since shovels started digging in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg\" alt='A group of five people lean into a hillside, working with the plants in the ground. A sixth man walks towards us wearing a shirt that says \"volunteer.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers at a work day in July 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every year, nearly 2,000 volunteers contribute about 4,500 hours of work, according to Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. That adds up to over a quarter of a million volunteer hours in the Grove’s 31-year lifespan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant portion of that labor occurs during the Grove’s work days. They happen every third Saturday and still follow the same format as the first one in 1991: Breakfast at 8:30, welcome and announcements at 9:00, several hours of work, and then a healing circle at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To close out the day, everyone gathers at The Circle of Friends. They join hands, ring a Tibetan bell, “and then we say out loud the names of people we’ve lost to AIDS or people who just need that healing energy,” Sagaser said. “It’s our tradition. It’s been happening for 31 years. We never miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about fifty people stand in a circle holding hands in a brightly lit grassy area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every volunteer work day at the AIDS Memorial Grove ends with a healing circle where participants link hands and say the names of loved ones lost to AIDS. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An ever-evolving space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Grove has gradually grown from its original 7.5 acres to 10 and has added features to recognize the breadth of people affected by the epidemic. In 2017 the Hemophilia Circle was dedicated to honor those with the blood disease who have died from AIDS. Tainted blood transfusions were an early spreader of HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grove is never complete, by design. Tending to the space is part of the healing process for volunteers. The work offers people a way to move through their grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like the garden, the epidemic has changed over the years. Life-saving treatments now allow HIV-positive people to live long, full lives. But new cases still occur, and access to preventive drugs and treatment are unequal. Communities of color have always been most affected by the disease, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html\">recent CDC numbers show that more than half of new cases are among Black and Latino people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still work to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The National AIDS Memorial Grove is the first and only federally designated memorial to those lost to AIDS. Its creator envisioned a welcoming, cathedral-like space where anyone could come and grieve. Thousands of people have volunteered over the years to make the Grove the peaceful place it has become.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532578,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1704},"headData":{"title":"Healing Through Nature at the National AIDS Memorial Grove | KQED","description":"The National AIDS Memorial Grove is the first and only federally designated memorial to those lost to AIDS. Its creator envisioned a welcoming, cathedral-like space where anyone could come and grieve. Thousands of people have volunteered over the years to make the Grove the peaceful place it has become.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Healing Through Nature at the National AIDS Memorial Grove","datePublished":"2022-06-03T10:01:20.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T02:09:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","audioUrl":"https://dcs.megaphone.fm/KQINC6215992288.mp3?key=ce1b8ddb65c48479f2aa0f9673971758","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11915788/healing-in-nature-at-the-aids-memorial-grove","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit the AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park’s eastern end and you’ll see tall redwoods, green ferns, an open field and evidence of lots of loving care. Descending into the grove is like entering a different world, a calmer place than the hustle and bustle of the street above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tom Jensen first came to the National AIDS Memorial Grove in 2002, he had no idea how much it would change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan was to come and work off [to] the sidelines,” Jensen said. “I didn’t really want to be with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described introvert, Jensen had just lost his longtime partner, Bobby Hilliard, to AIDS. He decided to volunteer at one of the Grove’s monthly work days. Jensen says that his grief was so strong he was worried he would “start calling in sick days if I didn’t make a move to engage in life and take my grief somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing 1980s style clothes stand on a hiking path in the woods. The two are hugging, one slightly leaning into the other.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-2048x1440.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1920x1350.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Jensen and his longtime partner Bobby Hilliard on a hike in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tom Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Jensen didn’t anticipate taking on a leadership role, he knew that he could contribute to the Grove. He grew up learning about plants from his father, and when Bobby started taking botany classes, Jensen went on field trips with him all over California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen proved so useful that first day he was asked to be on a committee. And the Grove and its community made such an impression on Jensen that he’s currently serving his second stint on the board of directors for the National AIDS Memorial, which includes the Grove, the AIDS Memorial Quilt (which will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt35\">displayed in Golden Gate Park on June 11-12 in Robin Williams Meadow\u003c/a>) and numerous educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just such a huge family,” said Jensen. “I was transformed by being here and by getting involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco in the 1980s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen moved to San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in 1978. He described it as “a playland and a wonderland,” full of “freedom and liberation.” He felt like he was part of a community and a generation that could change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within four years, death was all around him as San Francisco’s gay community began to feel the impact of the AIDS epidemic. It was common to see people he worked out with at the gym looking like “emaciated old men” in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were covered with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions and walking on canes and in wheelchairs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between \u003ca href=\"https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D12/D293F286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1981 and 1994, more than 15,000 San Franciscans died of AIDS\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/00001477.htm\">By 1988, the CDC had recorded more than 80,000 cases of AIDS\u003c/a> in the United States. Of those, more than half were fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community advocates for and supports itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s gay community was hit early and hard by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, as were intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs who depended on blood transfusions. White gay men received the most media attention, but the disease has always disproportionately affected communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homophobia and racism shaped how the federal government and public health institutions responded. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">President Ronald Reagan didn’t publicly mention the disease until 1985.\u003c/a> Meanwhile his administration cut funding for federal public health organizations, including what was then known as the Centers for Disease Control, which published \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5021a1.htm#:%7e:text=Twenty%20years%20ago%2C%20on%20June,homosexuals%22%3B%20two%20had%20died.\">the first report on what would come to be known as AIDS in 1981\u003c/a>. The media dubbed the disease the “gay plague,” and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">White House spokesperson joked about it when reporters brought up the skyrocketing death rate\u003c/a> in press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3.jpg\" alt=\"Orange flowers sit in the center of a stone circle. Around the flowers names are carved into the stone, spiraling outward.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1778\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-800x741.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-160x148.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-1536x1422.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Circle of Friends is a centerpiece of the Grove. The names of those who have died of AIDS-related complications or who have been affected by AIDS are carved there. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of these people may not have died if our government and a majority of society had cared more about them,” said Steve Sagaser, a senior program manager with the National AIDS Memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, early in the epidemic, people with AIDS were largely left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how the response to AIDS in the first decade happened,” Jensen said. “People making food for their neighbors and having that grow into \u003ca href=\"https://www.openhand.org/\">Project Open Hand\u003c/a>. It’s just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103422/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history-ruth-brinker-aids-activist\">Ruth Brinker\u003c/a> [founder of Project Open Hand] saying, ‘Everyone in my building has AIDS’ and making dinner for 12 units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-act-up-changed-america\">Activists pushed the government to act faster\u003c/a>, fund research and develop treatments, but it took years of in-your-face advocacy to get the federal government to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A different way to grieve\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sagaser says that in the 1980s many people in San Francisco were experiencing “loss after loss at such a rate that it was impossible to complete the grieving process for one person and you’d already lost another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, against this setting, a small group of San Francisco residents, including several with backgrounds in landscaping and architecture, started talking about the possibility of having a dedicated space to grieve those who died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders of the Grove envisioned “solace through life and plants,” said Jensen. They wanted an alternative to a cemetery or a church — something in nature, with life running through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, the group asked the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for some land to use for the memorial. The city offered the de Laveaga Dell, a 7.5-acre bowl-like valley that budget cuts and neglect had led to degeneration into an overgrown, swampy mess. But the Grove’s founders saw potential there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landscape architects and designers volunteered their time to craft plans for the Grove. They aimed to create a space with the sanctity of a cathedral but that was welcoming to everyone. After a collaborative process the planners agreed on a design that highlighted the dramatic contrast of light and dark in the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also created spots in the Grove that lent themselves toward individual reflection but made sure the Grove could also accommodate groups. Plants and trees were chosen so there would always be something blooming, no matter the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sagaser calls The Circle of Friends the “heart of the Grove.” It’s a circular flagstone area where close to 3,000 names are carved, spiraling outward. Close to 80% of the names are of individuals who died from AIDS, while others are people who have been affected by the disease. Sagaser says the Grove gets around 100 requests a year for new names to be carved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 21, 1991, volunteers broke ground on the Grove. It took them three years to remove trash. In 1996, Bill Clinton signed legislation, championed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, granting the Grove national memorial status. It is the nation’s first and only federally designated memorial to those who have died of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about remembering the [people] who have died, but remembering the activism that was associated with it,” Sagaser said. “The activism was necessary because [the] government wasn’t doing anything about it because it was hitting a group of people who were already demonized or stigmatized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the federal designation as a national memorial, the Grove receives no federal funding. Its operating costs are covered by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/\">National AIDS Memorial nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Grove\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The volunteer energy behind the Grove hasn’t dropped off since shovels started digging in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg\" alt='A group of five people lean into a hillside, working with the plants in the ground. A sixth man walks towards us wearing a shirt that says \"volunteer.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers at a work day in July 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every year, nearly 2,000 volunteers contribute about 4,500 hours of work, according to Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. That adds up to over a quarter of a million volunteer hours in the Grove’s 31-year lifespan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant portion of that labor occurs during the Grove’s work days. They happen every third Saturday and still follow the same format as the first one in 1991: Breakfast at 8:30, welcome and announcements at 9:00, several hours of work, and then a healing circle at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To close out the day, everyone gathers at The Circle of Friends. They join hands, ring a Tibetan bell, “and then we say out loud the names of people we’ve lost to AIDS or people who just need that healing energy,” Sagaser said. “It’s our tradition. It’s been happening for 31 years. We never miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about fifty people stand in a circle holding hands in a brightly lit grassy area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every volunteer work day at the AIDS Memorial Grove ends with a healing circle where participants link hands and say the names of loved ones lost to AIDS. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An ever-evolving space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Grove has gradually grown from its original 7.5 acres to 10 and has added features to recognize the breadth of people affected by the epidemic. In 2017 the Hemophilia Circle was dedicated to honor those with the blood disease who have died from AIDS. Tainted blood transfusions were an early spreader of HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grove is never complete, by design. Tending to the space is part of the healing process for volunteers. The work offers people a way to move through their grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like the garden, the epidemic has changed over the years. Life-saving treatments now allow HIV-positive people to live long, full lives. But new cases still occur, and access to preventive drugs and treatment are unequal. Communities of color have always been most affected by the disease, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html\">recent CDC numbers show that more than half of new cases are among Black and Latino people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still work to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11915788/healing-in-nature-at-the-aids-memorial-grove","authors":["70"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_30596","news_823","news_29548","news_31170"],"featImg":"news_11915794","label":"source_news_11915788"},"news_11659844":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11659844","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11659844","score":null,"sort":[1654164028000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore","title":"Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore?","publishDate":1654164028,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published on April 26, 2018. It’s part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park Polo Field and Stadium in San Francisco is probably best known as the home to music festivals like Outside Lands.\u003cbr>\n[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003cbr>\nBay Curious listener Cliff Bargar has been to Outside Lands, and he likes to bike and run on the track around the polo field, but he’s never seen an actual polo match there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If polo was happening I would probably check it out at least once,” Cliff says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: Is polo still played at the polo field?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Like the Coliseum in Rome’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Stadium (as it was originally called) opened to the public in 1906, just after the massive earthquake and fire that ravaged the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People probably needed some celebration after all of the calamitous things that had happened,” says Christopher Pollock, historian-in-residence for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock says it looks pretty much the same today as it did back then. It’s a big, grassy oval field a few hundred yards long with some bleachers on either side and a bike track around the perimeter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Park Polo Field is frequented by intramural athletes, runners and cyclists.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Park polo field is frequented by intramural athletes, runners and cyclists. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were big plans back then for what The Stadium would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grand vision was that this would become a stadium in the biggest imaginable sense, like the Coliseum in Rome,” Pollock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was for The Stadium to be a major site of the 1915 World’s Fair being held in San Francisco. It would be surrounded by bleachers with room for thousands of spectators. An arcade of arches would surround the field, and grand portals would act as entrances to the field itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the World’s Fair was relocated to the Marina District, and a lack of easy parking near The Stadium ended any chance of realizing that grand vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The polo field\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead, polo became The Stadium’s main attraction. In 1931, it was designated an official municipal polo field and, somewhere along the way, the name stuck: It became known as just “the polo field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next three decades, polo matches were a regular sight on the field, and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department hosted matches nearly every week into the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 509px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Alberdi (R) of the famed Argentine polo team plays alongside Larry Sherrin (L) of the Texas Hurricanes play polo at the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park on May 7, 1949.\" width=\"509\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut.jpg 509w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut-375x295.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Alberdi (right) of the famed Argentine polo team plays alongside Larry Sherrin (left) of the Texas Hurricanes at the polo field at Golden Gate Park on May 7, 1949. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 506px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The California All-Star polo team plays the Texas Rangers at the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park on May 1, 1948.\" width=\"506\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut.jpg 506w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut-375x296.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California All-Star polo team plays the Texas Rangers at the polo field at Golden Gate Park on May 1, 1948. \u003ccite>(SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A polo game between Australia and San Francisco played at Golden Gate Park Polo Field on January 3, 1948.\" width=\"510\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut.jpg 510w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut-240x188.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut-375x294.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A polo game between Australia and San Francisco plays at the Golden Gate Park polo field on Jan. 3, 1948. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But polo isn’t a cheap sport to play or host. Horses are expensive to keep, and a polo field requires constant maintenance to repair the turf after horses have galloped all over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1970s, rugby had replaced polo as the primary sport on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It died out gradually,” Pollock says of polo at the field. “It wasn’t one of these things that just dropped off all of a sudden. It happened over a very gradual amount of time as the sport really became less popular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still a couple of clubs in the North Bay and on the Peninsula where you can find old-fashioned polo matches, but there’s nothing in San Francisco. The polo field is the only place that could realistically host a match, but outside of the rare tournament or charity event, it’s all concerts and recreational soccer games there now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You don’t have to ride a horse to play polo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About five miles east of Golden Gate Park is Dolores Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652193/theres-no-polo-at-the-polo-fields-but-there-is-at-dolores-park\">where bike polo matches happen\u003c/a> almost every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134147568\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nahbpa.gitbooks.io/nah-ruleset-2017/\">The rule book is 17 pages long\u003c/a>, but the basics are pretty simple: Teams of three play against each other, and the first team to score five goals wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game looks more like hockey than it does polo. For instance, in polo, players aren’t allowed to cut off someone who has the ball because it would be dangerous for both the rider and the horse. But that’s fair game in bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Curious listener Cliff Bargar poses by the Dolores Park court where you can find bike polo being played almost any night of the week.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious listener Cliff Bargar poses by the Dolores Park court where you can find bike polo being played almost any night of the week. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnkbikepolo.com/History-of-Bike-Polo.pdf\">Bike polo has its origins in Ireland\u003c/a> from the late 19th century, where it was played on a grass field. In 1908, it was featured as an exhibition sport in the London Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hard-court bike polo, like what’s played in Dolores Park, got its start in Seattle in the late 20th century and quickly spread from there. The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/san-franciscos-bike-polo-league-finds-a-home-at-new-dolores-park/\">Dolores Park court was built in 2015\u003c/a> specifically for sports like hard-court bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So should we expect to see our question-asker, Cliff Bargar, pedaling into a game anytime soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find this a lot more interesting than horse polo, to be honest,” he said, “[but] I’m not sure yet if I’ll be back with my own bike … but I’ll definitely consider it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We go back in time to the days when polo was king at Golden Gate Park.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532586,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":958},"headData":{"title":"Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore? | KQED","description":"We go back in time to the days when polo was king at Golden Gate Park.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore?","datePublished":"2022-06-02T10:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T02:09:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2018/04/BCPolo.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore","audioDuration":414000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published on April 26, 2018. It’s part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park Polo Field and Stadium in San Francisco is probably best known as the home to music festivals like Outside Lands.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBay Curious listener Cliff Bargar has been to Outside Lands, and he likes to bike and run on the track around the polo field, but he’s never seen an actual polo match there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If polo was happening I would probably check it out at least once,” Cliff says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: Is polo still played at the polo field?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Like the Coliseum in Rome’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Stadium (as it was originally called) opened to the public in 1906, just after the massive earthquake and fire that ravaged the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People probably needed some celebration after all of the calamitous things that had happened,” says Christopher Pollock, historian-in-residence for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock says it looks pretty much the same today as it did back then. It’s a big, grassy oval field a few hundred yards long with some bleachers on either side and a bike track around the perimeter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Park Polo Field is frequented by intramural athletes, runners and cyclists.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30483_mayoraldebate-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Park polo field is frequented by intramural athletes, runners and cyclists. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were big plans back then for what The Stadium would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The grand vision was that this would become a stadium in the biggest imaginable sense, like the Coliseum in Rome,” Pollock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was for The Stadium to be a major site of the 1915 World’s Fair being held in San Francisco. It would be surrounded by bleachers with room for thousands of spectators. An arcade of arches would surround the field, and grand portals would act as entrances to the field itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the World’s Fair was relocated to the Marina District, and a lack of easy parking near The Stadium ended any chance of realizing that grand vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The polo field\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead, polo became The Stadium’s main attraction. In 1931, it was designated an official municipal polo field and, somewhere along the way, the name stuck: It became known as just “the polo field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next three decades, polo matches were a regular sight on the field, and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department hosted matches nearly every week into the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 509px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Alberdi (R) of the famed Argentine polo team plays alongside Larry Sherrin (L) of the Texas Hurricanes play polo at the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park on May 7, 1949.\" width=\"509\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut.jpg 509w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30358_Polo-1-qut-375x295.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Alberdi (right) of the famed Argentine polo team plays alongside Larry Sherrin (left) of the Texas Hurricanes at the polo field at Golden Gate Park on May 7, 1949. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 506px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The California All-Star polo team plays the Texas Rangers at the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park on May 1, 1948.\" width=\"506\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut.jpg 506w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30359_Polo-2-qut-375x296.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California All-Star polo team plays the Texas Rangers at the polo field at Golden Gate Park on May 1, 1948. \u003ccite>(SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A polo game between Australia and San Francisco played at Golden Gate Park Polo Field on January 3, 1948.\" width=\"510\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut.jpg 510w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut-240x188.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30360_Polo-3-qut-375x294.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A polo game between Australia and San Francisco plays at the Golden Gate Park polo field on Jan. 3, 1948. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But polo isn’t a cheap sport to play or host. Horses are expensive to keep, and a polo field requires constant maintenance to repair the turf after horses have galloped all over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1970s, rugby had replaced polo as the primary sport on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It died out gradually,” Pollock says of polo at the field. “It wasn’t one of these things that just dropped off all of a sudden. It happened over a very gradual amount of time as the sport really became less popular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still a couple of clubs in the North Bay and on the Peninsula where you can find old-fashioned polo matches, but there’s nothing in San Francisco. The polo field is the only place that could realistically host a match, but outside of the rare tournament or charity event, it’s all concerts and recreational soccer games there now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You don’t have to ride a horse to play polo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About five miles east of Golden Gate Park is Dolores Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652193/theres-no-polo-at-the-polo-fields-but-there-is-at-dolores-park\">where bike polo matches happen\u003c/a> almost every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134147568\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nahbpa.gitbooks.io/nah-ruleset-2017/\">The rule book is 17 pages long\u003c/a>, but the basics are pretty simple: Teams of three play against each other, and the first team to score five goals wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game looks more like hockey than it does polo. For instance, in polo, players aren’t allowed to cut off someone who has the ball because it would be dangerous for both the rider and the horse. But that’s fair game in bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11661034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Curious listener Cliff Bargar poses by the Dolores Park court where you can find bike polo being played almost any night of the week.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS29586_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-58-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious listener Cliff Bargar poses by the Dolores Park court where you can find bike polo being played almost any night of the week. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnkbikepolo.com/History-of-Bike-Polo.pdf\">Bike polo has its origins in Ireland\u003c/a> from the late 19th century, where it was played on a grass field. In 1908, it was featured as an exhibition sport in the London Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hard-court bike polo, like what’s played in Dolores Park, got its start in Seattle in the late 20th century and quickly spread from there. The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/san-franciscos-bike-polo-league-finds-a-home-at-new-dolores-park/\">Dolores Park court was built in 2015\u003c/a> specifically for sports like hard-court bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So should we expect to see our question-asker, Cliff Bargar, pedaling into a game anytime soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find this a lot more interesting than horse polo, to be honest,” he said, “[but] I’m not sure yet if I’ll be back with my own bike … but I’ll definitely consider it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore","authors":["11260"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520","news_10"],"tags":["news_18426","news_22662","news_823","news_22663"],"featImg":"news_11663342","label":"source_news_11659844"},"news_11915583":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11915583","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11915583","score":null,"sort":[1654081304000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-japanese-tea-garden-a-beloved-s-f-landmark-with-a-troubling-past","title":"The Complicated Origins of SF's Beloved Japanese Tea Garden","publishDate":1654081304,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Complicated Origins of SF’s Beloved Japanese Tea Garden | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Japanese Tea Garden is one of the most magical corners of Golden Gate Park. Pass through its elaborate front gate, and the serene landscape welcomes you to take a deep breath and let life’s stresses melt away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stepping-stone paths weave through beds of well-tended plants, koi fish swim beneath an arched drum bridge and benches invite visitors to sit and admire the blooming cherry blossom trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an oasis from the hustle and bustle of daily life, which makes it a hard pill to swallow that the history of this garden is full of racism toward Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fair comes to Golden Gate Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you were living in the United States at the end of the 19th century, it was a tough time. The country was trying to rebound from an economic depression that shuttered about 15,000 businesses and sent unemployment soaring to nearly 25 percent. Congress was looking for anything to spur a little economic growth. In 1893, they decided to hold a World’s Fair in Chicago, called the World’s Columbian Exposition. It drew millions of visitors — and their dollars — and was, by all accounts, a huge success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael H. de Young, publisher of The San Francisco Chronicle, was a national commissioner for the Chicago fair and was inspired by what he saw. Before long, he was lobbying to hold a fair in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really wanted to point out that San Francisco was as good as every other city on the East Coast,” said Nicole Meldahl, executive director of the Western Neighborhoods Project, a nonprofit focused on the history of the west side of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But de Young’s interests weren’t only for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[De Young] also owned a bunch of land in the Sunset District, which was totally undeveloped at the time. So he thought, ‘Why don’t we put a midwinter exposition in Golden Gate Park? It’ll show how good the weather is here in California. And also it would be bringing tons of people out here,'” said Meldahl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city would need to build transportation and make other infrastructure improvements around the park — all things that would make the property de Young was hoping to sell more attractive to buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, de Young was successful in his bid to bring a fair to San Francisco. With Congress and local leaders on board, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 came to be. Over the course of eight months, organizers transformed a portion of quiet, tree-studded Golden Gate Park into a boisterous fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Midwinter fair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the fair’s attractions surrounded the Grand Court, which you can still see today in Golden Gate Park. It’s the plaza between the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, also known as the Music Concourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1719px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A118128?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=33b26e9e7c761f3cf72f&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=3\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair.png\" alt=\"A night time shot of a tall tower lit up and beaming a light across the night. A little ways off is a round pavilion also brilliantly lit up.\" width=\"1719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair.png 1719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-800x335.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-1020x427.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-160x67.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-1536x642.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1719px) 100vw, 1719px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A night view of the Midwinter International Exhibition of 1894 in Golden Gate Park. The Electric Tower stood at the center of the Grand Court, now known as the Music Concourse, and offered visitors views across the park. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Situated in the middle of the Grand Court was the Electric Tower, where visitors could climb up and get a view out over the fairgrounds. Food was the main attraction at the Agricultural and Horticultural buildings. There was also an ostrich farm, a scenic railway and a mining camp where guests could pretend to be gold miners. Oh, and a 100-foot-tall Firth wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” … which is a Ferris wheel, but ‘Ferris Wheel’ was copyrighted. So some guy named Firth built this one,” said Meldahl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also a lot of cultural exhibitions about faraway places like Egypt, Hungary, China and Japan. These attractions were supposed to showcase art, food and culture from other countries — places San Franciscans were unlikely to visit themselves during the 1890s. But it was often done in a way that was problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was advertised to white people as a visit to authentic countries and cultures, and it was just kinda a sketch,” said Sango Tajima, a performer and writer who has been researching the history of the Japanese Tea Garden for an upcoming performance there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairgoers were invited to view the lifestyles of Native Americans on display at the Eskimo Village — where Inuit people were made to live in plaster igloos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was an Indian Village with wooden lean-tos and straw huts. And there was an African Village where you could meet members of the Dahomey tribe — who were actually just actors from Oakland,” said Tajima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was the Japanese Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1719px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A117954?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=8be6806e44bf968d2e5b&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=9&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=11\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden.png\" alt=\"A black and white photo shows a small rounded bridge built of lashed together logs and a small thach roofed building in the distance.\" width=\"1719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden.png 1719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-800x335.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-1020x427.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-160x67.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-1536x642.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1719px) 100vw, 1719px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, circa 1894, when it made its debut as part of the California Midwinter International Exhibition. People loved the tea garden so much that organizers left it when they demolished the rest of the fair. Later, a Japanese landscape architect named Makoto Hagiwara took over care of the garden, building it out and importing plants and animals to make it more authentic. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers had plans for fairgoers to ride around in a fleet of rickshaws, pulled by Japanese men. This plan did not sit well with Japanese Americans in San Francisco. They wrote a letter to the fair committee that said: “The custom of requiring the jinrikisha to be drawn by men instead of animals is degrading. … We, consequently, respectfully and earnestly protest against its use in this manner in the Park or upon public streets during the Fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers responded by having white men, who wore yellowface and were dressed in Japanese garb, do the job instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also aspects of these exhibitions that showcased culture in less problematic ways. The Japanese Village had a theater where Japanese dancers and acrobats performed, a studio with an artist creating live paintings, and a house where tea was served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just kind of a taste of Japan, and what it would be like to ride a jinrikisha passenger car and visit a tea garden and enjoy some Japanese treats,” Tajima said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many exhibits at the fair, the Japanese Village was a crowd favorite. It was so beloved that when the rest of the fair was disassembled in July 1894, it remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Tea Garden’s many lives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the fair closed, the design and operation of the garden was taken over by Makoto Hagiwara, a landscape architect who immigrated from Japan in 1878. He nurtured its grounds, importing plants, birds and fish from Japan, reportedly at his own expense. He also tripled the size of the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1719px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142735?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=34fdfb99b9b8f3492b06&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=4\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara.png\" alt=\"Black and white photo of an older Asian man in a suit looking at a card. A younger Asian woman reads over his shoulder. They are dressed in clothes typical of the early 20th century.\" width=\"1719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara.png 1719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-800x335.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-1020x427.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-160x67.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-1536x642.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1719px) 100vw, 1719px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makoto Hagiwara, manager of the Japanese Tea Garden, and his daughter look at a card after returning from a vacation to Japan. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He hired a bunch of Japanese craftsmen to build the garden,” said Tajima. “And [they] kind of made it a little bit more authentic to what a Japanese garden in Japan might look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Hagiwara built a house on the grounds and moved in with his family. They joined him in caring for the garden, dedicating their lives and talents to its upkeep. When Hagiwara died in 1925, his daughter, Takano Hagiwara, and her children continued to care for the grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1942, at the start of World War II, they were evicted from their home and sent to the Japanese concentration camp at Tanforan (near where the Tanforan Mall is today).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The garden was scrubbed of its Japanese affiliations: Structures were demolished, a Shinto shrine was removed, and the garden itself was renamed “The Oriental Tea Garden.” Chinese women replaced the Japanese workers. In a matter of months, the work of the Hagiwara family was almost completely erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hagiwaras were held in concentration camps until the end of the war. When they were finally released, San Francisco leaders did not allow the family to return to their home in the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took years, but slowly, Japanese elements were returned to the garden and the name was changed back to the “Japanese Tea Garden.” The city also is recognizing the work and passion of Hagiwara and his family more. San Francisco Recreation and Parks put up a plaque honoring the Hagiwara family, designed by revered sculptor Ruth Asawa. And the road in front of the garden is now named Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you make the trip to the Japanese Tea Garden today, enjoy the beautiful plants, peaceful places to sit, and delightful treats served in the teahouse. They are all a reminder that even in the face of hatred, beauty can endure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was first conceived as part of the Midwinter International Exhibition of 1894. The public loved it, and the garden remained after the fair was dismantled. A Japanese gardener named Makoto Hagiwara took on the task of making it more authentic. Go there today, and you're walking through his legacy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532598,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1513},"headData":{"title":"The Complicated Origins of SF's Beloved Japanese Tea Garden | KQED","description":"The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was first conceived as part of the Midwinter International Exhibition of 1894. The public loved it, and the garden remained after the fair was dismantled. A Japanese gardener named Makoto Hagiwara took on the task of making it more authentic. 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Pass through its elaborate front gate, and the serene landscape welcomes you to take a deep breath and let life’s stresses melt away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stepping-stone paths weave through beds of well-tended plants, koi fish swim beneath an arched drum bridge and benches invite visitors to sit and admire the blooming cherry blossom trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an oasis from the hustle and bustle of daily life, which makes it a hard pill to swallow that the history of this garden is full of racism toward Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fair comes to Golden Gate Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you were living in the United States at the end of the 19th century, it was a tough time. The country was trying to rebound from an economic depression that shuttered about 15,000 businesses and sent unemployment soaring to nearly 25 percent. Congress was looking for anything to spur a little economic growth. In 1893, they decided to hold a World’s Fair in Chicago, called the World’s Columbian Exposition. It drew millions of visitors — and their dollars — and was, by all accounts, a huge success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael H. de Young, publisher of The San Francisco Chronicle, was a national commissioner for the Chicago fair and was inspired by what he saw. Before long, he was lobbying to hold a fair in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really wanted to point out that San Francisco was as good as every other city on the East Coast,” said Nicole Meldahl, executive director of the Western Neighborhoods Project, a nonprofit focused on the history of the west side of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But de Young’s interests weren’t only for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[De Young] also owned a bunch of land in the Sunset District, which was totally undeveloped at the time. So he thought, ‘Why don’t we put a midwinter exposition in Golden Gate Park? It’ll show how good the weather is here in California. And also it would be bringing tons of people out here,'” said Meldahl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city would need to build transportation and make other infrastructure improvements around the park — all things that would make the property de Young was hoping to sell more attractive to buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, de Young was successful in his bid to bring a fair to San Francisco. With Congress and local leaders on board, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 came to be. Over the course of eight months, organizers transformed a portion of quiet, tree-studded Golden Gate Park into a boisterous fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Midwinter fair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the fair’s attractions surrounded the Grand Court, which you can still see today in Golden Gate Park. It’s the plaza between the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, also known as the Music Concourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1719px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A118128?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=33b26e9e7c761f3cf72f&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=3\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair.png\" alt=\"A night time shot of a tall tower lit up and beaming a light across the night. A little ways off is a round pavilion also brilliantly lit up.\" width=\"1719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair.png 1719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-800x335.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-1020x427.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-160x67.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/midwinter-fair-1536x642.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1719px) 100vw, 1719px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A night view of the Midwinter International Exhibition of 1894 in Golden Gate Park. The Electric Tower stood at the center of the Grand Court, now known as the Music Concourse, and offered visitors views across the park. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Situated in the middle of the Grand Court was the Electric Tower, where visitors could climb up and get a view out over the fairgrounds. Food was the main attraction at the Agricultural and Horticultural buildings. There was also an ostrich farm, a scenic railway and a mining camp where guests could pretend to be gold miners. Oh, and a 100-foot-tall Firth wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” … which is a Ferris wheel, but ‘Ferris Wheel’ was copyrighted. So some guy named Firth built this one,” said Meldahl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also a lot of cultural exhibitions about faraway places like Egypt, Hungary, China and Japan. These attractions were supposed to showcase art, food and culture from other countries — places San Franciscans were unlikely to visit themselves during the 1890s. But it was often done in a way that was problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was advertised to white people as a visit to authentic countries and cultures, and it was just kinda a sketch,” said Sango Tajima, a performer and writer who has been researching the history of the Japanese Tea Garden for an upcoming performance there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairgoers were invited to view the lifestyles of Native Americans on display at the Eskimo Village — where Inuit people were made to live in plaster igloos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was an Indian Village with wooden lean-tos and straw huts. And there was an African Village where you could meet members of the Dahomey tribe — who were actually just actors from Oakland,” said Tajima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was the Japanese Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1719px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A117954?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=8be6806e44bf968d2e5b&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=9&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=11\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden.png\" alt=\"A black and white photo shows a small rounded bridge built of lashed together logs and a small thach roofed building in the distance.\" width=\"1719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden.png 1719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-800x335.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-1020x427.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-160x67.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/first-japanese-tea-garden-1536x642.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1719px) 100vw, 1719px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, circa 1894, when it made its debut as part of the California Midwinter International Exhibition. People loved the tea garden so much that organizers left it when they demolished the rest of the fair. Later, a Japanese landscape architect named Makoto Hagiwara took over care of the garden, building it out and importing plants and animals to make it more authentic. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers had plans for fairgoers to ride around in a fleet of rickshaws, pulled by Japanese men. This plan did not sit well with Japanese Americans in San Francisco. They wrote a letter to the fair committee that said: “The custom of requiring the jinrikisha to be drawn by men instead of animals is degrading. … We, consequently, respectfully and earnestly protest against its use in this manner in the Park or upon public streets during the Fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers responded by having white men, who wore yellowface and were dressed in Japanese garb, do the job instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also aspects of these exhibitions that showcased culture in less problematic ways. The Japanese Village had a theater where Japanese dancers and acrobats performed, a studio with an artist creating live paintings, and a house where tea was served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just kind of a taste of Japan, and what it would be like to ride a jinrikisha passenger car and visit a tea garden and enjoy some Japanese treats,” Tajima said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many exhibits at the fair, the Japanese Village was a crowd favorite. It was so beloved that when the rest of the fair was disassembled in July 1894, it remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Tea Garden’s many lives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the fair closed, the design and operation of the garden was taken over by Makoto Hagiwara, a landscape architect who immigrated from Japan in 1878. He nurtured its grounds, importing plants, birds and fish from Japan, reportedly at his own expense. He also tripled the size of the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1719px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142735?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=34fdfb99b9b8f3492b06&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=4\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara.png\" alt=\"Black and white photo of an older Asian man in a suit looking at a card. A younger Asian woman reads over his shoulder. They are dressed in clothes typical of the early 20th century.\" width=\"1719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara.png 1719w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-800x335.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-1020x427.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-160x67.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Hagiwara-1536x642.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1719px) 100vw, 1719px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makoto Hagiwara, manager of the Japanese Tea Garden, and his daughter look at a card after returning from a vacation to Japan. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He hired a bunch of Japanese craftsmen to build the garden,” said Tajima. “And [they] kind of made it a little bit more authentic to what a Japanese garden in Japan might look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Hagiwara built a house on the grounds and moved in with his family. They joined him in caring for the garden, dedicating their lives and talents to its upkeep. When Hagiwara died in 1925, his daughter, Takano Hagiwara, and her children continued to care for the grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1942, at the start of World War II, they were evicted from their home and sent to the Japanese concentration camp at Tanforan (near where the Tanforan Mall is today).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The garden was scrubbed of its Japanese affiliations: Structures were demolished, a Shinto shrine was removed, and the garden itself was renamed “The Oriental Tea Garden.” Chinese women replaced the Japanese workers. In a matter of months, the work of the Hagiwara family was almost completely erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hagiwaras were held in concentration camps until the end of the war. When they were finally released, San Francisco leaders did not allow the family to return to their home in the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took years, but slowly, Japanese elements were returned to the garden and the name was changed back to the “Japanese Tea Garden.” The city also is recognizing the work and passion of Hagiwara and his family more. San Francisco Recreation and Parks put up a plaque honoring the Hagiwara family, designed by revered sculptor Ruth Asawa. And the road in front of the garden is now named Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you make the trip to the Japanese Tea Garden today, enjoy the beautiful plants, peaceful places to sit, and delightful treats served in the teahouse. They are all a reminder that even in the face of hatred, beauty can endure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11915583/the-japanese-tea-garden-a-beloved-s-f-landmark-with-a-troubling-past","authors":["102"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_823","news_17856","news_31164","news_31163","news_6627"],"featImg":"news_11915613","label":"source_news_11915583"},"news_11495697":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11495697","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11495697","score":null,"sort":[1653904825000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park","title":"What's With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?","publishDate":1653904825,"format":"audio","headTitle":"What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":33523,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: In our humble opinion, with so many treasures across almost 1,000 acres, it’s arguably one of the best urban parks in the world. There’s a \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatepark.com/windmills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pair of windmills\u003c/a> that look like they belong in the Dutch countryside, and through an elaborate gate you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://japaneseteagardensf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oldest public Japanese teagarden\u003c/a> in the United States. But perhaps the wildest treasure in the park is the herd of American bison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2020, for the park’s 150th anniversary, a birthday gift of five new bison calves were added to the herd.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7hbu_pGErw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the bison in the park is unexpected, says Bay Curious listener Paul Irving. After all, bison aren’t native to San Francisco, and they certainly stand out in today’s urban setting. After years of cycling past the paddock, Irving asked Bay Curious: “What’s the story behind the bison in Golden Gate Park?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11495865 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Irving in front of the bison paddock.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Irving in front of the bison paddock. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The answer goes back hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1500s, an estimated 30 million to 60 million bison roamed American prairies. They grazed all over the West, from northern Mexico up through Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As European colonizers moved into the West, the bison’s habitat was chopped up by railroads, or turned into farms. Imported cattle brought grazing competition and new diseases to the bison. But the greatest threat to bison was hunting. Bison meat was exported or eaten on the spot, skins were sent to commercial tanneries, and bones were ground up to make things like fertilizer and bone china.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11495700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-800x688.jpg\" alt='\"Map of Bison Distribution Over Time.\" Kentucky Geological Survey, 1876. ' width=\"800\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-800x688.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-160x138.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-960x826.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-240x206.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-375x323.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-520x447.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Map of Bison Distribution Over Time,’ Kentucky Geological Survey, 1876. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Newberry Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, allegedly killed 4,280 bison over 17 months to feed construction crews of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bison also were killed for sport. Competitions were held to see who could kill the most bison (Buffalo Bill got his nickname at one of these competitions). Tourists on trains would shoot the animals from their seats, leaving the carcasses where they fell. In 1973, a railway engineer in Santa Fe said it was possible to walk 100 miles along the railroad by stepping from one bison carcass to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11495712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway.jpg\" alt=\"A collection of bison heads killed from the Kansas Pacific Railway.\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway.jpg 614w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collection of bison heads killed from the Kansas Pacific Railway. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the U.S. government clashed with Native Americans over land, the army encouraged the rampant slaughter of bison, which were an important native resource. One colonel even said to hunters, “Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1889, the estimated number of bison had dwindled to about 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11495709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Piles of bison skulls that would be ground up for fertilizer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piles of bison skulls to be turned into fertilizer. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The bison come to Golden Gate Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was around this time that work began on Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Bison facts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A male bison tips the scale at 2,000 pounds, and females can weigh around 1,000 pounds.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In 2016 President Obama named the American bison the United State’s official mammal.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bison can use their heads as snowplows, allowing them to discover food beneath feet of snow.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When bison were close to extinction, concerns about inbreeding led to many being bred with cows, which explains why most of the bison we see today look a little like cows.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Though their names are often used interchangeably, bison and buffalo are different animals. Buffalo are a species native to Africa and Asia, while bison are specific to North America and parts of Europe.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When Golden Gate Park was created, the idea was to honor the Wild West,” says Phil Ginsburg, general manager of San Francisco Recreation and Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recreate the Wild West, the park needed bison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first bison was brought to the park in 1891. It was soon joined by more bison from private and public herds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bison and several other animals were actually first put in a paddock, which is very close to where Kezar Stadium is today,” Ginsburg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zoo had a captive-breeding program that produced more than 100 bison calves, though the program has since ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, conservation efforts (and, ironically, an increased interest in bison meat) have brought the North American bison population back into the hundreds of thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11495873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-800x378.jpg\" alt=\"Bison and white deer grazing in Golden Gate Park in 1944.\" width=\"800\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-800x378.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-160x76.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-1020x482.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-1180x558.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-960x454.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-240x113.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-375x177.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-520x246.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bison and white deer grazing in Golden Gate Park in 1944. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Today’s herd\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bison currently living in the pen in Golden Gate Park are not descended from the original animals brought to the park. The bison were replaced by a younger herd in 1984 and again in 2011. At the beginning of March 2020, the five new bison calves were added to the surviving 2011 herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, all the bison in the paddock are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11497000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11497000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The bison at Golden Gate Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bison at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Having all females just keeps everything a little bit more calm,” says Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there were bulls, the bison could get aggressive. One tried to maul a police officer on horseback, and another tried to escape by running into the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Males become very aggressive around August because they’re fighting for dominance in order to breed with the females,” says Sarah King of the San Francisco Zoo, which takes care of the animals. “Then calves are generally born in the spring, nine months later, and that’s when the females get aggressive because they’re very protective of their offspring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they may appear to be slow, bison are powerful creatures. They can run over 30 mph, jump up to 6 feet in the air, and swim over half a mile, says King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days the paddock is calm. On any given day, you can see the bison either grazing or resting. Most of the excitement in the paddock is human-generated. For example: The streaker who was arrested for running into the paddock during Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this article was first published on June 8, 2017. In the last few years some bison referenced in the original story have passed away.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The first American bison was brought to Golden Gate Park in 1891. It was soon joined by more bison from private and public herds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532618,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1081},"headData":{"title":"Just Don't Call Them Buffalo: Meet the Bison of Golden Gate Park | KQED News","description":"The first American bison was brought to the Golden Gate Park in 1891. 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It was soon joined by more bison from private and public herds.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What's With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?","datePublished":"2022-05-30T10:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T02:10:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/h7hbu_pGErw","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC6656088419.mp3?updated=1653503144","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: In our humble opinion, with so many treasures across almost 1,000 acres, it’s arguably one of the best urban parks in the world. There’s a \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatepark.com/windmills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pair of windmills\u003c/a> that look like they belong in the Dutch countryside, and through an elaborate gate you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://japaneseteagardensf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oldest public Japanese teagarden\u003c/a> in the United States. But perhaps the wildest treasure in the park is the herd of American bison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2020, for the park’s 150th anniversary, a birthday gift of five new bison calves were added to the herd.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/h7hbu_pGErw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/h7hbu_pGErw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Seeing the bison in the park is unexpected, says Bay Curious listener Paul Irving. After all, bison aren’t native to San Francisco, and they certainly stand out in today’s urban setting. After years of cycling past the paddock, Irving asked Bay Curious: “What’s the story behind the bison in Golden Gate Park?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11495865 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Irving in front of the bison paddock.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Question-Asker.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Irving in front of the bison paddock. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The answer goes back hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1500s, an estimated 30 million to 60 million bison roamed American prairies. They grazed all over the West, from northern Mexico up through Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As European colonizers moved into the West, the bison’s habitat was chopped up by railroads, or turned into farms. Imported cattle brought grazing competition and new diseases to the bison. But the greatest threat to bison was hunting. Bison meat was exported or eaten on the spot, skins were sent to commercial tanneries, and bones were ground up to make things like fertilizer and bone china.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11495700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-800x688.jpg\" alt='\"Map of Bison Distribution Over Time.\" Kentucky Geological Survey, 1876. ' width=\"800\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-800x688.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-160x138.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-960x826.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-240x206.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-375x323.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map-520x447.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-map.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Map of Bison Distribution Over Time,’ Kentucky Geological Survey, 1876. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Newberry Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, allegedly killed 4,280 bison over 17 months to feed construction crews of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bison also were killed for sport. Competitions were held to see who could kill the most bison (Buffalo Bill got his nickname at one of these competitions). Tourists on trains would shoot the animals from their seats, leaving the carcasses where they fell. In 1973, a railway engineer in Santa Fe said it was possible to walk 100 miles along the railroad by stepping from one bison carcass to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11495712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway.jpg\" alt=\"A collection of bison heads killed from the Kansas Pacific Railway.\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway.jpg 614w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/A-collection-of-bison-heads-killed-from-the-Kansas-Pacific-Railway-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collection of bison heads killed from the Kansas Pacific Railway. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the U.S. government clashed with Native Americans over land, the army encouraged the rampant slaughter of bison, which were an important native resource. One colonel even said to hunters, “Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1889, the estimated number of bison had dwindled to about 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495709\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11495709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Piles of bison skulls that would be ground up for fertilizer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/bison-fertilizer.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piles of bison skulls to be turned into fertilizer. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The bison come to Golden Gate Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was around this time that work began on Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Bison facts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A male bison tips the scale at 2,000 pounds, and females can weigh around 1,000 pounds.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In 2016 President Obama named the American bison the United State’s official mammal.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bison can use their heads as snowplows, allowing them to discover food beneath feet of snow.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When bison were close to extinction, concerns about inbreeding led to many being bred with cows, which explains why most of the bison we see today look a little like cows.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Though their names are often used interchangeably, bison and buffalo are different animals. Buffalo are a species native to Africa and Asia, while bison are specific to North America and parts of Europe.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When Golden Gate Park was created, the idea was to honor the Wild West,” says Phil Ginsburg, general manager of San Francisco Recreation and Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recreate the Wild West, the park needed bison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first bison was brought to the park in 1891. It was soon joined by more bison from private and public herds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bison and several other animals were actually first put in a paddock, which is very close to where Kezar Stadium is today,” Ginsburg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zoo had a captive-breeding program that produced more than 100 bison calves, though the program has since ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, conservation efforts (and, ironically, an increased interest in bison meat) have brought the North American bison population back into the hundreds of thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11495873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11495873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-800x378.jpg\" alt=\"Bison and white deer grazing in Golden Gate Park in 1944.\" width=\"800\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-800x378.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-160x76.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-1020x482.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-1180x558.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-960x454.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-240x113.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-375x177.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock-520x246.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/High-Res-Mixed-paddock.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bison and white deer grazing in Golden Gate Park in 1944. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Today’s herd\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bison currently living in the pen in Golden Gate Park are not descended from the original animals brought to the park. The bison were replaced by a younger herd in 1984 and again in 2011. At the beginning of March 2020, the five new bison calves were added to the surviving 2011 herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, all the bison in the paddock are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11497000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11497000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The bison at Golden Gate Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bison at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Having all females just keeps everything a little bit more calm,” says Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there were bulls, the bison could get aggressive. One tried to maul a police officer on horseback, and another tried to escape by running into the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Males become very aggressive around August because they’re fighting for dominance in order to breed with the females,” says Sarah King of the San Francisco Zoo, which takes care of the animals. “Then calves are generally born in the spring, nine months later, and that’s when the females get aggressive because they’re very protective of their offspring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they may appear to be slow, bison are powerful creatures. They can run over 30 mph, jump up to 6 feet in the air, and swim over half a mile, says King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days the paddock is calm. On any given day, you can see the bison either grazing or resting. Most of the excitement in the paddock is human-generated. For example: The streaker who was arrested for running into the paddock during Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this article was first published on June 8, 2017. In the last few years some bison referenced in the original story have passed away.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park","authors":["8606"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_18426","news_23201","news_21073","news_21074","news_823","news_150"],"featImg":"news_11809842","label":"news_33523"},"news_11915008":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11915008","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11915008","score":null,"sort":[1653559241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"golden-gate-park-was-once-miles-and-miles-of-sand-dunes","title":"Golden Gate Park Was Once Miles and Miles of Sand Dunes","publishDate":1653559241,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Golden Gate Park Was Once Miles and Miles of Sand Dunes | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A map of San Francisco from 1853 labels the west side of the city the “Great Sand Bank” because at the time it was largely rolling dunes. A few intrepid folks lived there, but for many early San Franciscans, the area that is now Golden Gate Park was far away and inhospitable, a “dreary desert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the park today will find more than a thousand acres of green parkland, replete with walking paths, dells, lakes and almost every kind of recreational activity one can imagine. So how did the area go from acres of desolate sandy dunes to the beautiful, urban park it is today? One myth says it was a magical combination of horse manure and spit that tamed the sandy expanse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Wild West(ern side)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The land where Golden Gate Park sits today wasn’t even part of San Francisco in the early 1860s. But city leaders saw potential. They thought the area then known as “Outside Lands” was a perfect place for an urban park that would help put San Francisco on the map as a great metropolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has always thought of itself as a great, amazing city,” said Nicole Meldahl, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/\">Western Neighborhoods Project\u003c/a>, a community history nonprofit focused on the west side of San Francisco. “But really, it was the new kid in town. So at some point they decided they needed a park that was befitting of the amazing city they hoped to build this into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land was federal property back then. It took a protracted legal battle and the passage of the Outside Lands Act of 1866 to officially extend San Francisco’s borders out past Divisadero Street, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. But even once the city had the land, there were still park naysayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.olmsted.org/the-olmsted-legacy/frederick-law-olmsted-sr\">Frederick Law Olmsted, the famous landscape architect known for his work on Central Park\u003c/a> in New York City, to weigh in on their idea to put a park in the Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And [Olmsted] was like, ‘Oh, no, no, you can never build a park here,'” Meldahl said. “‘Trees won’t grow on these sand dunes. So I recommend the other side of the city.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city leaders were stubborn, though, and put out a bid for surveyors who could design a park in the Outside Lands despite its seemingly inhospitable environs. The winner was a man named William Hammond Hall, the park’s first superintendent and chief architect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142708?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=24d08e44aa79fb342fd7&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall.png\" alt=\"Old-timey black and white photo of a man with white hair, big white mustache and old fashioned looking suit.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-800x310.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-1020x396.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-160x62.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-1536x596.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Hammond Hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“William Hammond Hall had all the confidence in the world that he could do it,” said Christopher Pollock, Golden Gate Park historian and author of the book “\u003ca href=\"https://norfolkpress.com/san-franciscos-golden-gate-park-a-thousand-and-seventeen-acres-of-stories-christopher-pollock/\">San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories\u003c/a>.” “And he did. That was just an amazing feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land for Golden Gate Park was approved in 1870, which is why we celebrate that year as the park’s official birthday. But really, that’s when the hard work began, turning the park into the green place it is now. As to how Hall transformed sand dunes into verdant park, there is some folklore around that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hall vs. sand and wind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most common story is a bit more involved than merely manure and spit. It goes like this: Hall and his team of surveyors were out in the western part of what would come to be the park, and because there were few roads out there, they were camping. A feed bucket filled with barley was attached to each horse. One of the buckets fell off, and the barley scattered in the sand. Conveniently the horse then dropped a load of manure right on top of the grain kernels now lost in the sand. In a few days, the men returned to that spot and found the quick-growing barley had sprouted and was thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And William Hammond Hall goes, ‘Aha, this is going to be the secret recipe for how we tame these dunes,’” says Meldahl, “because if you combine the quick-growing barley with native lupine here, that will sort of stabilize the dunes long enough to allow for these trees that he wanted to put through the park as windbreaks to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP.png\" alt=\"Black and white photo shows rolling sandy hills with grasses and low shrubs. A road winds off into the distance.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-800x282.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-1020x360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-160x56.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-1536x542.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Gate Park, circa 1886. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library/Society of California Pioneers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meldahl thinks some of the elements of this story are true, but the fact that they all happened at once in the same spot is a little hard to believe. \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Golden_Gate_Park_History\">This tale also leaves out some important context.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, historians now think the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhistory.org/a-journey-of-discovery-the-fleishhacker-family/\">Fleishhacker family\u003c/a> — famous for their philanthropic giving in the early days of the city — owned a farm at the eastern end of what is now the park. On that farm they grew barley. So, Hall likely knew that barley could grow in some areas of the park already. Second, landscape architects in Europe were already pioneering a technique of using quick-growing grasses to “reclaim” sandy areas of the coast. Hall would have heard about those successes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the manure, that brings us to some old-timey street sweeping. In the 1800s, transportation was mostly by horse and buggy. The roads were full of horse manure, so street sweepers would come along, sweep up the droppings, and bring them to the city’s parks to use as fertilizer. So, yes, Golden Gate Park probably did have a healthy amount of horse manure to help the reclamation process along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A118075?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=63e8c3e3e9425557fb4b&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=1&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=10\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP.png\" alt=\"A photochrome print of the main drive of Golden Gate Park with people in 1800 clothes picnicking in the foreground and horse and buggy in the backround.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-800x282.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-1020x360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-160x56.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-1536x542.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Hammond Hall envisioned a park that all San Franciscans could enjoy. The manure from the city’s many horses helped fertilize the soil. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The genius of place\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The other technique Hall used in his design of the park is an idea put forward by Frederick Law Olmsted (the two were friends). Olmsted believed that architects should respect the natural topography of a place and work with it. He coined the term “the genius of place” to describe the idea that you would work with what nature created instead of leveling everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that meant was a very efficient way of using the sand dunes as the existing topography to create this undulating kind of interesting landscape,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall used the dunes themselves as a break against the strong winds coming off the Pacific Ocean. He reclaimed the leeward side first, and stabilized the ground at the bottom of the natural valleys. As plant matter created topsoil that could support stronger plants, Hall gradually extended plantings around to the other side. The “genius of place” explains the many hidden dells and winding paths you’ll still find in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall’s most formidable challenge was at the far western end of the park, near the ocean. He built a fence where sand would pile up. Then he used his tried-and-true reclamation strategies of marrying quick-growing grasses with natural lupine and overlaying the whole thing with manure to build up the plant matter on the protected side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By 1890, only 20 years after the park’s inception at the eastern end, it looked fairly mature,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 678px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/birdseye-GG-park.jpg\" alt=\"Old drawing of an aerial view of Golden Gate Park from the east end looking west. Some roads exist and the contours of the land are visible. There are almost no houses in the neighborhoods surrounding the park.\" width=\"678\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/birdseye-GG-park.jpg 678w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/birdseye-GG-park-160x136.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Golden Gate Park, circa 1892. Perspective is from the east end looking west and includes seven notable spots in the park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/\">Online Archive of California\u003c/a>\u003ca>\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Hall makes enemies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Hall’s contributions as the first designer and superintendent of Golden Gate Park are often forgotten. That may be because he didn’t get along with some of the political power players of his day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of graft in the city at the time,” Meldahl said. “And William Hammond Hall didn’t like it, so he tried to control what he could with his power as superintendent of the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he discovered that a blacksmith by the name of Sullivan was padding his contracts with the city, Hall fired him. Unfortunately for him and the park, Sullivan rose to prominence as a state legislator and took his revenge by throttling funding for Golden Gate Park. At the same time, he accused Hall of misusing park resources.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]“The allegations were completely false,” Meldahl said. “However, William Hammond Hall had had enough. In 1876, he resigned and the entire park commission resigned because they’re so disgusted by what they’re seeing as politics getting in the way of a beautiful city park that the city wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Hall and his supporters gone, the park commission became a political pawn. Several railroad men were appointed and, soon after, a plan to build a railroad out to the park was approved. Conveniently, the railroad companies paid a much lower tax rate than usual for the privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also tension over how to develop the park. Hall envisioned a wild, open space for people to escape city living. But others thought the park could be a place to showcase the cultural and social power of the city. Some of the buildings considered iconic today, like the Conservatory of Flowers, were built during this time. Without proper funding, the park struggled until the commission promoted a man named John McLaren to the superintendency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142749?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=c4de9a849febd3cafe75&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=1\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren.png\" alt=\"Sepia toned photo of a tall man in a black suit with large eyebrows. He stands surrounded by palm trees with more greenery behind him.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-800x282.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-1020x360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-160x56.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-1536x542.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John McLaren, circa 1927. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think he’s one of the most universally beloved city employees of all time,” Meldahl said. “They built him a giant house. McLaren Lodge was built in 1896 specifically for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaren was hired in 1890 and stewarded the park for the next 50 years. He oversaw the development of much of what is in the park today. He shared Hall’s vision, believing the space should be kept as undeveloped as possible. And he managed to stay the course without making so many enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example: “[McLaren] hated statues in the park, hated them,” Mehdahl said. But rich people and cultural groups were constantly giving the city statues as gifts. Leaders didn’t know what to do with them so they’d just put them in the park. There would be a lot of fanfare around choosing the perfect location for a statue and placing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then John McLaren would very quietly plant things around the monuments that would grow up over time and totally obscure them so you couldn’t see them,” Mehdahl said. Some of the oldest statues in the park are around the Music Concourse, near the de Young Museum and the Academy of Sciences. But you wouldn’t know it because they’re almost completely obscured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given his hatred of statues, it’s a cruel irony that despite his wishes to the contrary, the city put a statue of McLaren in the rhododendron dell after his death in 1943. It’s still there, but fittingly his feet are firmly on the ground with the plants, not up on a big pedestal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A park for everyone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Visit Golden Gate Park today and you’ll see William Hammond Hall’s dream in action. He wrote in an 1872 report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With drives and rides for the rich, and pleasant rambles for the poor; quiet retreats for those who would be to themselves, and thronged [promenades] for the gayly disposed; sheltered nooks for invalids, and open grounds for lovers of boisterous sports; and tracts adapted to the special wants of children, and arranged to insure their comfort and welfare — the modern urban park is, indeed, the municipality’s open-air assembly-room, acceptable alike to all, and pleasing to each of her citizens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>More than a million people visit Golden Gate Park each year, and it is beloved by many. The park continues to evolve with the needs of San Francisco’s residents, but none of it would have been possible without the knowledge, skill and perseverance of William Hammond Hall and John McLaren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco started developing Golden Gate Park in 1870. It was a herculean task to tame the sand dunes and turn it into the green oasis city residents today know and love.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532627,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":2096},"headData":{"title":"Golden Gate Park Was Once Miles and Miles of Sand Dunes | KQED","description":"San Francisco started developing Golden Gate Park in 1870. It was a herculean task to tame the sand dunes and turn it into the green oasis city residents today know and love.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Golden Gate Park Was Once Miles and Miles of Sand Dunes","datePublished":"2022-05-26T10:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T02:10:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC7835621216.mp3?updated=1653545033","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11915008/golden-gate-park-was-once-miles-and-miles-of-sand-dunes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A map of San Francisco from 1853 labels the west side of the city the “Great Sand Bank” because at the time it was largely rolling dunes. A few intrepid folks lived there, but for many early San Franciscans, the area that is now Golden Gate Park was far away and inhospitable, a “dreary desert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the park today will find more than a thousand acres of green parkland, replete with walking paths, dells, lakes and almost every kind of recreational activity one can imagine. So how did the area go from acres of desolate sandy dunes to the beautiful, urban park it is today? One myth says it was a magical combination of horse manure and spit that tamed the sandy expanse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Wild West(ern side)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The land where Golden Gate Park sits today wasn’t even part of San Francisco in the early 1860s. But city leaders saw potential. They thought the area then known as “Outside Lands” was a perfect place for an urban park that would help put San Francisco on the map as a great metropolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has always thought of itself as a great, amazing city,” said Nicole Meldahl, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/\">Western Neighborhoods Project\u003c/a>, a community history nonprofit focused on the west side of San Francisco. “But really, it was the new kid in town. So at some point they decided they needed a park that was befitting of the amazing city they hoped to build this into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land was federal property back then. It took a protracted legal battle and the passage of the Outside Lands Act of 1866 to officially extend San Francisco’s borders out past Divisadero Street, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. But even once the city had the land, there were still park naysayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.olmsted.org/the-olmsted-legacy/frederick-law-olmsted-sr\">Frederick Law Olmsted, the famous landscape architect known for his work on Central Park\u003c/a> in New York City, to weigh in on their idea to put a park in the Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And [Olmsted] was like, ‘Oh, no, no, you can never build a park here,'” Meldahl said. “‘Trees won’t grow on these sand dunes. So I recommend the other side of the city.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city leaders were stubborn, though, and put out a bid for surveyors who could design a park in the Outside Lands despite its seemingly inhospitable environs. The winner was a man named William Hammond Hall, the park’s first superintendent and chief architect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142708?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=24d08e44aa79fb342fd7&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall.png\" alt=\"Old-timey black and white photo of a man with white hair, big white mustache and old fashioned looking suit.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-800x310.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-1020x396.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-160x62.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/william-hammond-hall-1536x596.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Hammond Hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“William Hammond Hall had all the confidence in the world that he could do it,” said Christopher Pollock, Golden Gate Park historian and author of the book “\u003ca href=\"https://norfolkpress.com/san-franciscos-golden-gate-park-a-thousand-and-seventeen-acres-of-stories-christopher-pollock/\">San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories\u003c/a>.” “And he did. That was just an amazing feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land for Golden Gate Park was approved in 1870, which is why we celebrate that year as the park’s official birthday. But really, that’s when the hard work began, turning the park into the green place it is now. As to how Hall transformed sand dunes into verdant park, there is some folklore around that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hall vs. sand and wind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most common story is a bit more involved than merely manure and spit. It goes like this: Hall and his team of surveyors were out in the western part of what would come to be the park, and because there were few roads out there, they were camping. A feed bucket filled with barley was attached to each horse. One of the buckets fell off, and the barley scattered in the sand. Conveniently the horse then dropped a load of manure right on top of the grain kernels now lost in the sand. In a few days, the men returned to that spot and found the quick-growing barley had sprouted and was thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And William Hammond Hall goes, ‘Aha, this is going to be the secret recipe for how we tame these dunes,’” says Meldahl, “because if you combine the quick-growing barley with native lupine here, that will sort of stabilize the dunes long enough to allow for these trees that he wanted to put through the park as windbreaks to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP.png\" alt=\"Black and white photo shows rolling sandy hills with grasses and low shrubs. A road winds off into the distance.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-800x282.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-1020x360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-160x56.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/early-view-GGP-1536x542.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Gate Park, circa 1886. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library/Society of California Pioneers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meldahl thinks some of the elements of this story are true, but the fact that they all happened at once in the same spot is a little hard to believe. \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Golden_Gate_Park_History\">This tale also leaves out some important context.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, historians now think the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhistory.org/a-journey-of-discovery-the-fleishhacker-family/\">Fleishhacker family\u003c/a> — famous for their philanthropic giving in the early days of the city — owned a farm at the eastern end of what is now the park. On that farm they grew barley. So, Hall likely knew that barley could grow in some areas of the park already. Second, landscape architects in Europe were already pioneering a technique of using quick-growing grasses to “reclaim” sandy areas of the coast. Hall would have heard about those successes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the manure, that brings us to some old-timey street sweeping. In the 1800s, transportation was mostly by horse and buggy. The roads were full of horse manure, so street sweepers would come along, sweep up the droppings, and bring them to the city’s parks to use as fertilizer. So, yes, Golden Gate Park probably did have a healthy amount of horse manure to help the reclamation process along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A118075?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=63e8c3e3e9425557fb4b&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=1&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=10\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP.png\" alt=\"A photochrome print of the main drive of Golden Gate Park with people in 1800 clothes picnicking in the foreground and horse and buggy in the backround.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-800x282.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-1020x360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-160x56.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/main-drive-GGP-1536x542.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Hammond Hall envisioned a park that all San Franciscans could enjoy. The manure from the city’s many horses helped fertilize the soil. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The genius of place\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The other technique Hall used in his design of the park is an idea put forward by Frederick Law Olmsted (the two were friends). Olmsted believed that architects should respect the natural topography of a place and work with it. He coined the term “the genius of place” to describe the idea that you would work with what nature created instead of leveling everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that meant was a very efficient way of using the sand dunes as the existing topography to create this undulating kind of interesting landscape,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall used the dunes themselves as a break against the strong winds coming off the Pacific Ocean. He reclaimed the leeward side first, and stabilized the ground at the bottom of the natural valleys. As plant matter created topsoil that could support stronger plants, Hall gradually extended plantings around to the other side. The “genius of place” explains the many hidden dells and winding paths you’ll still find in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall’s most formidable challenge was at the far western end of the park, near the ocean. He built a fence where sand would pile up. Then he used his tried-and-true reclamation strategies of marrying quick-growing grasses with natural lupine and overlaying the whole thing with manure to build up the plant matter on the protected side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By 1890, only 20 years after the park’s inception at the eastern end, it looked fairly mature,” Pollock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 678px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/birdseye-GG-park.jpg\" alt=\"Old drawing of an aerial view of Golden Gate Park from the east end looking west. Some roads exist and the contours of the land are visible. There are almost no houses in the neighborhoods surrounding the park.\" width=\"678\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/birdseye-GG-park.jpg 678w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/birdseye-GG-park-160x136.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Golden Gate Park, circa 1892. Perspective is from the east end looking west and includes seven notable spots in the park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/\">Online Archive of California\u003c/a>\u003ca>\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Hall makes enemies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Hall’s contributions as the first designer and superintendent of Golden Gate Park are often forgotten. That may be because he didn’t get along with some of the political power players of his day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of graft in the city at the time,” Meldahl said. “And William Hammond Hall didn’t like it, so he tried to control what he could with his power as superintendent of the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he discovered that a blacksmith by the name of Sullivan was padding his contracts with the city, Hall fired him. Unfortunately for him and the park, Sullivan rose to prominence as a state legislator and took his revenge by throttling funding for Golden Gate Park. At the same time, he accused Hall of misusing park resources.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"emailsignup","attributes":{"named":{"newslettername":"baycurious","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The allegations were completely false,” Meldahl said. “However, William Hammond Hall had had enough. In 1876, he resigned and the entire park commission resigned because they’re so disgusted by what they’re seeing as politics getting in the way of a beautiful city park that the city wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Hall and his supporters gone, the park commission became a political pawn. Several railroad men were appointed and, soon after, a plan to build a railroad out to the park was approved. Conveniently, the railroad companies paid a much lower tax rate than usual for the privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also tension over how to develop the park. Hall envisioned a wild, open space for people to escape city living. But others thought the park could be a place to showcase the cultural and social power of the city. Some of the buildings considered iconic today, like the Conservatory of Flowers, were built during this time. Without proper funding, the park struggled until the commission promoted a man named John McLaren to the superintendency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1622px\">\u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142749?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=c4de9a849febd3cafe75&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=1\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren.png\" alt=\"Sepia toned photo of a tall man in a black suit with large eyebrows. He stands surrounded by palm trees with more greenery behind him.\" width=\"1622\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-800x282.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-1020x360.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-160x56.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/john-mclaren-1536x542.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John McLaren, circa 1927. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think he’s one of the most universally beloved city employees of all time,” Meldahl said. “They built him a giant house. McLaren Lodge was built in 1896 specifically for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaren was hired in 1890 and stewarded the park for the next 50 years. He oversaw the development of much of what is in the park today. He shared Hall’s vision, believing the space should be kept as undeveloped as possible. And he managed to stay the course without making so many enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example: “[McLaren] hated statues in the park, hated them,” Mehdahl said. But rich people and cultural groups were constantly giving the city statues as gifts. Leaders didn’t know what to do with them so they’d just put them in the park. There would be a lot of fanfare around choosing the perfect location for a statue and placing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then John McLaren would very quietly plant things around the monuments that would grow up over time and totally obscure them so you couldn’t see them,” Mehdahl said. Some of the oldest statues in the park are around the Music Concourse, near the de Young Museum and the Academy of Sciences. But you wouldn’t know it because they’re almost completely obscured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given his hatred of statues, it’s a cruel irony that despite his wishes to the contrary, the city put a statue of McLaren in the rhododendron dell after his death in 1943. It’s still there, but fittingly his feet are firmly on the ground with the plants, not up on a big pedestal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A park for everyone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Visit Golden Gate Park today and you’ll see William Hammond Hall’s dream in action. He wrote in an 1872 report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With drives and rides for the rich, and pleasant rambles for the poor; quiet retreats for those who would be to themselves, and thronged [promenades] for the gayly disposed; sheltered nooks for invalids, and open grounds for lovers of boisterous sports; and tracts adapted to the special wants of children, and arranged to insure their comfort and welfare — the modern urban park is, indeed, the municipality’s open-air assembly-room, acceptable alike to all, and pleasing to each of her citizens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>More than a million people visit Golden Gate Park each year, and it is beloved by many. The park continues to evolve with the needs of San Francisco’s residents, but none of it would have been possible without the knowledge, skill and perseverance of William Hammond Hall and John McLaren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11915008/golden-gate-park-was-once-miles-and-miles-of-sand-dunes","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_3631","news_823","news_31136","news_6627"],"featImg":"news_11915022","label":"source_news_11915008"},"news_11912421":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912421","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912421","score":null,"sort":[1651167159000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-supervisors-vote-to-keep-cars-off-jfk-drive-in-golden-gate-park","title":"SF Supervisors Vote to Keep Cars Off JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park","publishDate":1651167159,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban motorists from John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, making permanent a closure that started in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic when people needed space to exercise and distance socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic began, San Francisco has barred cars from the eastern portion of JFK Drive, which runs alongside the Conservatory of Flowers and the de Young Museum.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Dean Preston\"]'I think we need to be acting boldly to address the threats of climate change and our unsafe streets, and I think car-free JFK is one important step in this direction.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 12-hour meeting, the Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 for Mayor London Breed's proposal. The majority sided with supporters who said a car-free promenade was in keeping with the city's commitment to safer roads and a cleaner climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we need to be acting boldly to address the threats of climate change and our unsafe streets, and I think car-free JFK is one important step in this direction,\" said Supervisor Dean Preston during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other roads in the park — which sees more than 24 million visitors a year — will stay open to drivers.[aside postID=\"news_11912370,arts_13912499\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Critics argued that permanently closing the 1.5-mile portion of John F. Kennedy Drive would cut off park access to people who are disabled or elderly or who live farther away, while benefiting select bicyclists and runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people asked for a compromise to keep the road car-free on weekends only, saying drivers needed access during the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most vocal opponents were Supervisors Connie Chan and Shamann Walton, although Ahsha Safai also voted against Breed's proposal. Supervisor Chan’s proposal to allow greater access to some parts of JFK and Conservatory Drive was sent to the Land Use Committee while it waits for environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To close down portions of the park says to a certain geography, says to a certain class of people, says to a certain race of people here in San Francisco that you weren't welcome before and you're still not welcome,\" Board President Shamann Walton, who represents one of the most diverse and lower-income parts of the city, said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent battle between motorists and pedestrians and bicyclists has raged in San Francisco for roughly two years. In August, Breed announced that a stretch of coastal highway that was closed to cars in 2020 would reopen to vehicles during the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sara Gaiser contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Supervisors voted Tuesday to keep John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park closed to vehicular traffic. Tuesday's 7-4 vote makes permanent a closure that started in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when people needed space to exercise and distance socially.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1651170844,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":450},"headData":{"title":"SF Supervisors Vote to Keep Cars Off JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park | KQED","description":"Supervisors voted Tuesday to keep John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park closed to vehicular traffic. 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