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    Windmills at Park Brought McLaren Joy (Part 7)

    January 20, 1943 /

    Wednesday, January 20, 1943 The Call-Bulletin presents, herewith, the seventh in a series of articles on the life of Uncle John McLaren “father” of  Golden Gate Park, who died here last week. The articles were written by the late J. Lawrence Toole, noted San Francisco newspaperman. By J. Lawrence Toole “From out of wastes of windswept sand, little by little there grew into existence what is generally conceded to be the most artistically conceived and the best planted park in the world… The innumerable steps in its splendid process of evolution are plainly evidenced to the beholder today in the great stretches of meadowy playgrounds, densely forested hillsides and swales,…

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