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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | |||
[[Image:excelvis$mclaren-park-n-1930s.jpg]] | |||
'''''' | '''1930s gaze north from McLaren Park to Glen Canyon, Excelsior District in foreground, Twin Peaks at upper right.''' | ||
''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA'' | |||
[[Image:excelvis$mclaren-park-view | [[Image:excelvis$mclaren-park-west-view.jpg]] | ||
''' | '''Looking westward from McLaren Park, 1997''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
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''Little Boxes,'' a song by the great songstress Malvina Reynolds, composed "in honor" of the box-like homes crisscrossing the slopes of [[San Bruno Mountain|San Bruno Mountain]], visible in most of these photos. | |||
[[Image:Mclaren-vw-sw1186.jpg]] | |||
[[ | '''Looking southwesterly, Daly City homes crisscross slopes beneath San Bruno County park.''' | ||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
[[Image:Mclaren-vw-west1187.jpg]] | |||
'''Continuing to a westward view from same spot in [[Philosopher's Way at McLaren Park|McLaren Park]], 2007.''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
[[Image:Mclaren-view-nw-excelsior1188.jpg]] | |||
'''Looking across Excelsior district and beyond to OMI/Ingleside.''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
[[Image:Mclaren-vw-nw-mt-davidson-and-glen-canyon1192.jpg]] | |||
'''View to northwest, [[Mt Davidson|Mt. Davidson]] at left, dense forest pouring out of [[Glen Canyon Natural History|Glen Canyon]] in center.''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
[[Image:Bernal-from-mclaren-looking-north1196.jpg]] | |||
'''View north/northeast towards [[East Slope Bernal Heights|Bernal Heights]] with downtown and [[Bay Bridge Work|Bay Bridge]] in background.''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
[[Image:March 1 1926 McLaren Park (originally called Mission Park) looking north toward Glen Park; Fairmount Heights to the left, Holly Park and Bernal Heights at right wnp14.0077.jpg|792px]] | |||
'''March 1, 1926: View from McLaren Park (originally called Mission Park), looking north toward Glen Park, Fairmount Heights at left, Holly Park and Bernal Heights at right.''' | |||
''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp14.0077'' | |||
[[Image:Tours-habitat.gif|link=Kite Hill views]] [[Kite Hill views|-->Open Space Habitat tour continues]] | |||
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Unfinished History
1930s gaze north from McLaren Park to Glen Canyon, Excelsior District in foreground, Twin Peaks at upper right.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Looking westward from McLaren Park, 1997
Photo: Chris Carlsson
<flashmp3>http://www.archive.org/download/LittleBoxesMalvinaReynolds/LITLBXS2.mp3</flashmp3>
Little Boxes, a song by the great songstress Malvina Reynolds, composed "in honor" of the box-like homes crisscrossing the slopes of San Bruno Mountain, visible in most of these photos.
Looking southwesterly, Daly City homes crisscross slopes beneath San Bruno County park.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Continuing to a westward view from same spot in McLaren Park, 2007.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
Looking across Excelsior district and beyond to OMI/Ingleside.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
View to northwest, Mt. Davidson at left, dense forest pouring out of Glen Canyon in center.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
View north/northeast towards Bernal Heights with downtown and Bay Bridge in background.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
March 1, 1926: View from McLaren Park (originally called Mission Park), looking north toward Glen Park, Fairmount Heights at left, Holly Park and Bernal Heights at right.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp14.0077