The San Francisco Mission Zoo: Wilder Days in Glen Park (Part I)
Part I: Fisticuffs Over a Monkey Ranch This “Chevalier” Map of San Francisco shows the layout of Glen Park Terrace and the adjoining Gum Tree Tract in today’s Glen Canyon, home to the Mission Park and...
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Part III – Glen Park Rocks! Glen Park is a place of tall trees, benches placed in cool retreats, soda water counters and counters for the serving of other cooling beverages, and all the fixtures to be...
View ArticleThe San Francisco Mission Zoo: Wilder Days in Glen Park (Part V)
Part V: Start a Zoo, Sell Home Lots: Good Idea? The logo of real estate agents and auctioneers Baldwin & Howell. From the San Francisco Call, May 25, 1899. Courtesy of the California Digital...
View ArticleThe San Francisco Mission Zoo: Wilder Days in Glen Park (Part VI)
Part VI: Glen Park: Prequel to the San Francisco City Beautiful Movement? Map of the proposed Mission Park and Zoological Gardens in Glen Park, drawn by Berkeley landscape architect George Hansen for...
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