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	~~[[Image:ggpk$bicycles-1890s~~.~~jpg]]~~		<font size=4>The Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens, Golden Gate Park.</font size>

	[[~~CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE \|Bicycles~~]]~~''' were very widely enjoyed during the 1890's in Golden Gate Park and all of San Francisco.'''~~		[[Image:Ggpk lawnbowlers2960.jpg]]

	''Photo: ~~Greg Gaar Collection~~''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	~~'''The Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens, Golden Gate Park.'''~~

	~~[[Image:Ggpk lawnbowlers2960.jpg]]~~

	It's just a few minutes' walk from the underage neo-hippies and 60's-style booze and drug casualties gathered on the green across from the butt-end of Haight Street. But the Lawn Bowling Club seems like an opium dream from another era, a bad-tripping hippie's weirdest nightmare. Dozens of old folks dressed entirely in white, the men in safari hats, the women in equally antiquated headgear, are standing around a lawn so perfectly manicured it looks like sixty-ninth generation astroturf, rolling their balls the length of the green in hopes of hitting the balls rolled by somebody else, who rolled those balls in hope of hitting those of somebody else, who rolled those balls ... well, frankly, Dr. Weirde doesn't pretend to understand the intricacies of lawn bowling. In any case, if you've had too much of the wild weird & wooly side of San Francisco, and feel an urge to go into a soothing trance for a few hours, check out the lawn bowling scene. The oldsters moving in slow motion, as if underwater, and the gentle clacking of balls, would be enough to send Jerry Lewis into an alpha trance.		It's just a few minutes' walk from the underage neo-hippies and 60's-style booze and drug casualties gathered on the green across from the butt-end of Haight Street. But the Lawn Bowling Club seems like an opium dream from another era, a bad-tripping hippie's weirdest nightmare. Dozens of old folks dressed entirely in white, the men in safari hats, the women in equally antiquated headgear, are standing around a lawn so perfectly manicured it looks like sixty-ninth generation astroturf, rolling their balls the length of the green in hopes of hitting the balls rolled by somebody else, who rolled those balls in hope of hitting those of somebody else, who rolled those balls ... well, frankly, Dr. Weirde doesn't pretend to understand the intricacies of lawn bowling. In any case, if you've had too much of the wild weird & wooly side of San Francisco, and feel an urge to go into a soothing trance for a few hours, check out the lawn bowling scene. The oldsters moving in slow motion, as if underwater, and the gentle clacking of balls, would be enough to send Jerry Lewis into an alpha trance.
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			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

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	[[~~Critical Mass~~ Bicycles]]''' were very widely enjoyed during the 1890's in Golden Gate Park and all of San Francisco.'''		[[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE \|Bicycles]]''' were very widely enjoyed during the 1890's in Golden Gate Park and all of San Francisco.'''

	The Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens, Golden Gate Park.		''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection''

			'''The Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens, Golden Gate Park.'''

			[[Image:Ggpk lawnbowlers2960.jpg]]

	It's just a few minutes' walk from the underage neo-hippies and 60's-style booze and drug casualties gathered on the green across from the butt-end of Haight Street. But the Lawn Bowling Club seems like an opium dream from another era, a bad-tripping hippie's weirdest nightmare. Dozens of old folks dressed entirely in white, the men in safari hats, the women in equally antiquated headgear, are standing around a lawn so perfectly manicured it looks like sixty-ninth generation astroturf, rolling their balls the length of the green in hopes of hitting the balls rolled by somebody else, who rolled those balls in hope of hitting those of somebody else, who rolled those balls ... well, frankly, Dr. Weirde doesn't pretend to understand the intricacies of lawn bowling. In any case, if you've had too much of the wild weird & wooly side of San Francisco, and feel an urge to go into a soothing trance for a few hours, check out the lawn bowling scene. The oldsters moving in slow motion, as if underwater, and the gentle clacking of balls, would be enough to send Jerry Lewis into an alpha trance.		It's just a few minutes' walk from the underage neo-hippies and 60's-style booze and drug casualties gathered on the green across from the butt-end of Haight Street. But the Lawn Bowling Club seems like an opium dream from another era, a bad-tripping hippie's weirdest nightmare. Dozens of old folks dressed entirely in white, the men in safari hats, the women in equally antiquated headgear, are standing around a lawn so perfectly manicured it looks like sixty-ninth generation astroturf, rolling their balls the length of the green in hopes of hitting the balls rolled by somebody else, who rolled those balls in hope of hitting those of somebody else, who rolled those balls ... well, frankly, Dr. Weirde doesn't pretend to understand the intricacies of lawn bowling. In any case, if you've had too much of the wild weird & wooly side of San Francisco, and feel an urge to go into a soothing trance for a few hours, check out the lawn bowling scene. The oldsters moving in slow motion, as if underwater, and the gentle clacking of balls, would be enough to send Jerry Lewis into an alpha trance.
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	~~Contributors to this page include~~:		[[Image:Ggpk lawnbowlers-cu2961.jpg]]

	~~''Gaar Collection,San Francisco,CA~~ - ~~Publisher or Photographer ''~~

	~~Weirde,Dr~~. ~~- Writer~~		[[Conservatory \|Prev. Document]] [[The 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park \| Next Document]]

	[[~~Conservatory Prev. Document~~]] [[~~The 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park Next Document~~]]		[[category:Golden Gate Park]] [[category:1890s]] [[category:2000s]]

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[[Image:ggpk$bicycles-1890s.jpg]]

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

The Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens, Golden Gate Park.

It's just a few minutes' walk from the underage neo-hippies and 60's-style booze and drug casualties gathered on the green across from the butt-end of Haight Street. But the Lawn Bowling Club seems like an opium dream from another era, a bad-tripping hippie's weirdest nightmare. Dozens of old folks dressed entirely in white, the men in safari hats, the women in equally antiquated headgear, are standing around a lawn so perfectly manicured it looks like sixty-ninth generation astroturf, rolling their balls the length of the green in hopes of hitting the balls rolled by somebody else, who rolled those balls in hope of hitting those of somebody else, who rolled those balls ... well, frankly, Dr. Weirde doesn't pretend to understand the intricacies of lawn bowling. In any case, if you've had too much of the wild weird & wooly side of San Francisco, and feel an urge to go into a soothing trance for a few hours, check out the lawn bowling scene. The oldsters moving in slow motion, as if underwater, and the gentle clacking of balls, would be enough to send Jerry Lewis into an alpha trance.

''--Dr. Weirde''

Contributors to this page include:

''Gaar Collection,San Francisco,CA - Publisher or Photographer ''

Weirde,Dr. - Writer

[[Conservatory Prev. Document]] [[The 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park Next Document]]