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    McLaren’s Life: Dune Squatters Hard to Move (Part 2)

    January 14, 1943 /

    John McLaren, whose name is almost synonymous with Golden Gate Park, never wrote much about the great park created out of a waste of sand. He was too busy for fifty-one of his many years making it what is today one of the finest public parks in the world.

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