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    S.F. Regarded “Unlovely City” Until — McLaren Put Beauty in Parks and Streets (Part 12)

    January 27, 1943 /

    Wednesday, January 27, 1943 The Call-Bulletin presents, herewith, the twelfth of a series of articles describing the life and work of Uncle John McLaren, “father” of  Golden Gate Park. The articles were written by the late J. Lawrence Toole, noted San Francisco newspaperman. By J. Lawrence Toole The San Francisco John McLaren saw in the early ’80s when he drove up from one or other of his tree-planting jobs in San Mateo, was a rather unlovely city. Around it, of course, just as they had been, possibly, since time began, were the bay and the mountains and the ocean, but within its incomparable setting the young city itself seems to…

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