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The area was renamed in honor of San Francisco mayor George Moscone, who was assassinated in 1978. The park includes tennis courts, baseball diamonds, children's playgrounds, basketball courts, and putting greens. [1] The park has been a favorite of San Franciscans since its inception in the 1920s. [2]
Playland (also known as Playland-at-the-Beach and Whitney's Playland, beginning in 1928 [1] – some say 1926 [2]) was a 10-acre (40,000-square-meter) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California, along Great Highway, bounded by Balboa and Fulton streets. [1]
San Francisco Botanical Garden; Grand View Park; Harding Park Golf Club; Heron's Head Park; Holly Park; Huntington Park; In Chan Kaajal Park; Lincoln Park, including California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Lafayette Park (San Francisco) Lake Merced; Larsen Park; McLaren Park (John McLaren Park) Marina Green; Mount Davidson Park; Mount Olympus ...
San Francisco (SF) Park Ranger, also known as San Francisco Park Patrol Officer, is a non-sworn, unarmed, uniformed, park security, park safety, park service, park informational, and ambassadorial civilian employee of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. Acting as ambassadors, they continue to serve visitors of San Francisco's ...
It was originally dedicated in 1909 when the park included the land now used by City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus west of I-280 Freeway. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The park is located in the Outer Mission neighborhood group, [ 4 ] and is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Cayuga , Ingleside , Oceanview , and Sunnyside .
The aesthetics of Cayuga Park is largely the creation of Demetrio Braceros, an employee of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Braceros worked on the park for over 20 years, transforming a barren landscape into a park that features lush vegetation, trails, "themed gardens" and, most prominently, over 375 figurines, totem poles and statues as well as several observation decks, all ...
Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy operates the property on behalf of the City and County of San Francisco. Yerba Buena was the name of the town in the Mexican territory of Alta California that became the city of San Francisco , California , after it was claimed by the United States in 1846.
John McLaren Park is a park in southeastern San Francisco. At 312.54 acres (126.48 ha), McLaren Park is the third largest park in San Francisco by area, after Golden Gate Park and the Presidio. The park is surrounded mostly by the Excelsior, Crocker-Amazon, Visitacion Valley, Portola and University Mound neighborhoods.