18.5.2023, ♣ San Francisco: Golden Gate Park

Shakespeare Garden; Van Niekerken, Bill (2015_09_08): The mysteries of Shakespeare Garden in Golden Gate Park, www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/The-mysteries-of-Shakespeare-Garden-in-Golden-6491913.php: … The tiny meadow’s actual name is the Garden of Shakespeare’s Flower … the California Spring Blossom and Wildflower Association … championed plans for a garden where all of the flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare could grow … The Parks Commission … approved the plan in September 1927, and the association and legendary Superintendent John McLaren got to work installing water lines, plowing the grounds and fertilizing the soil …

Music Concourse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Concourse: … an open-air plaza … Flanking the oval-shaped concourse are the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Academy of Sciences … Originally excavated for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, it underwent … significant redesign … as a venue for public gatherings centered on music performances … focal point of the plaza, Spreckels Temple of Music … has served as a stage for numerous performers … the Grateful Dead …

Hamon Tower, De Young Museum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Young_Museum: … 44 m … observation tower allows visitors to see much of Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse … and rises above the Park’s treetops, providing a view of the Golden Gate and Marin Headlands. The twisting … tower is a distinctive feature …

Conservatory of Flowers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatory_of_Flowers: … a greenhouse and botanical garden that houses a collection of rare and exotic plants … With construction having been completed in 1879, it is the oldest building in the park. It was one of the first municipal conservatories constructed in the United States and is the oldest remaining municipal wooden conservatory in the country … sits atop a gentle slope overlooking Conservatory Valley … modeled after Kew Gardens in London … The conservatory has 16,800 window panes …

Golden Gate Park, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park: … large urban park … administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development … Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape to … Central Park in New York City, to which it is often compared …