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''Photo: Private Collection''
''Photo: Private Collection''
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'''Lindley Meadow, off JFK Drive and west of 25th Avenue and Crossover Drive.'''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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'''Flag football in Lindley Meadow.'''
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


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Revision as of 21:15, 10 September 2020

Unfinished History

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Spreckels Lake, home to remote controlled toy boating.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

On Sundays, the eastern half of J.F.K. Drive down the center of Golden Gate Park is closed to automobiles and turned over to an amazing multitude of people skating, biking, walking, running, and playing. Walking among the crowd one is treated to a remarkable diversity of languages, subcultures, bodies, etc. An ongoing campaign to close large parts of the park to cars has intermittently made itself felt, but the city's Park Dept. has no current plans to expand the restrictions on cars, though a recent effort (2007-08) led to a partial closure of JFK Drive on Saturdays too.

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Sunday Skating on J.F.K. Drive in Golden Gate Park.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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Bicycles were very widely enjoyed during the 1890's in Golden Gate Park and all of San Francisco.

Photo: Private Collection

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Lindley Meadow, off JFK Drive and west of 25th Avenue and Crossover Drive.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Flag-football-in-lindley-meadow 4564.jpg

Flag football in Lindley Meadow.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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