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t o r y o f A H i s A History of Golden Gate Park Fromm Institute - Fall 2019 - John Freeman October 16 - Quest for Civic Pride in a Peoples Park San Francisco Chronicle - July 20, 1895 Fateful End to the Bonets Electric Tower

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A H i s t

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A History of Golden Gate Park

Fromm Institute - Fall 2019 - John Freeman

October 16 - Quest for Civic Pride in a People’s Park

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San Francisco Chronicle - July 20, 1895

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Fateful End to the Bonet’s Electric Tower

The Bonet Electric Tower stood a year and a half in the otherwise cleared Midwinter Fair site, waiting for the Park Commission to make a decision to save it or scrap it. Finally the irritated John McLaren took maters into his own hands, when dynamite was placed under two support legs on January 12, 1896. Now the Park staff could finish clearing the site.

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1901 1900 1903

Change in management of Tea Garden 1900

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Spreckels Temple of Music - Dedicated Sept. 9, 1900

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New popular Sunday “focus” in Golden Gate Park

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Bison herd moved to Western Golden Gate Park paddock - 1900

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James Duval Phelan 1861 - 1930

Mayor: 1897 - 1902 U.S. Senator - 1914 -1920 A Complicated Biography

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Mayor Phelan in 1900 evicted the Hagiwara family from the Japanese Tea Garden. He replaced staff with inexperienced “gardeners” (political cronies) who made a mess of the attraction. The Hagiwara family relocated across from GG Park, opening a more comprehensive and authentic Japanese operation and a commercial nursery.

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Western Golden Gate Park c. 1900

Beach Chalet

1888 1896

Sutro R.R. F&CHRR..

Ferries & Cliff House R.R Electric (various names) (1898 - 1947) Steam (1883 - 1898)

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Original Beach Chalet 1892 - 1922

Park’s Western Beachhead

The Odyssey of the Original Beach Chalet

John Freeman - 2011

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