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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2013 with a giant patch the size of a maxi pad covering my left eye. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music starts\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just a week before my move, I had eye surgery to repair a partially detached retina, a condition that could have left me blind. The first month or so after surgery was tough. Anytime my pulse got a little elevated, I would feel it pounding in my eye. And so my first month in San Francisco was profoundly dark and lonely. I spent most of it lying in bed, listening to audiobooks in a darkened room. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As healing progressed, though, I started to venture outside. First on short walks to the coffee shop, but soon on little runs through Golden Gate Park. I started off on the main thoroughfares. I’d pass by the Conservatory of Flowers, loop around Blue Heron Lake, stop to admire the bison. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As my body recovered, my runs grew longer. And it was the sense of discovery in the park that propelled me to add a mile or two here or there on my run each day. Follow an uncertain path into the woods only to find a new garden I’d never seen. My run stretched out first to six miles, then eight miles, 10 miles, and finally 13.1 miles when I kicked my way across the finish line of my very first half marathon which, fittingly, finished in Golden Gate Park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music ends\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park revived me, gave me a space to rebuild myself after feeling pretty broken. And that’s why I’m excited to share today’s episode where we dig in on how it was created more than 150 years ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But first, let me introduce our special guest. Marta Lindsay has combed over every dell, every stone, every pathway to write a new book, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discovering Golden Gate Park, a Local’s Guide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And she’s here to share some hot tips about the park today. Welcome, Marta. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me. This is a delight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I’m so glad you could join us. What is it that captured your imagination about Golden Gate Park enough to spend all the time that I know it takes to write a book about it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, end of the day, I just really love Golden Gate Park, but I got into it in part because of having a fussy baby. If she was having one of those days where she’s super fussy, like you just have to get outside, right? And for us outside basically was Golden Gate park in the inner sunset area. And I think as I started to spend so much more time in the park, I just saw there was so much more to it than first meets the eye.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1625030704&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your book has so much information about the different spaces within the park, but today you’ve brought a few things to talk about that even the most devout park lovers might not know. Let’s start with some of those unique stones found in the park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monastery stones. Yes. Once you know about these, then you’re always looking for them and it’s really fun because they are scattered all around the park. Go back in medieval times everyone, and we’re in Spain…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Around the year 1,200 at a monastery overlooking the Tagus River.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there is this incredibly beautiful series of buildings, kind of castle-like. And they were all made by hand by these monks who hand-carved all these limestones, thousands and thousands of stones.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monastery built of these beautiful stones flourished for hundreds of years until the 1830s, but was shut down by royal decree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And over the years, it was not used, and it was kind of falling apart. And enter William Randolph Hearst. He was, like, kind of the ultimate rich guy of the era. He owned the San Francisco Examiner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, of course, Hearst Castle, the sprawling estate down in San Simeon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had someone who had scoped out this old monastery in Spain and was like, I think we should take the whole thing apart! Ship it to America and build another amazing castle, but in Northern California this time. 11 ships had to transport the stones of these multiple ancient buildings all the way to San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Depression takes enough wind out of the sails of Hearst’s fortune that this is an impossible thing. And so he ends up selling the stones to the city of San Francisco in 1941. So these stones are just sitting in this warehouse in San Francisco and they’re all marked by the way, when they took them apart, it was like, we got to be able to reassemble them. So they were marked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">essentially packed in wooden crates with instructions on the outside. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there’s this idea to build a medieval art museum in Golden Gate Park using the stones. The stones are moved to Golden Gate Park, and then right away there’s a fire. And then there’s some more fires, which burned the markings off. This made it, at the time, impossible to reassemble. Then you’ve just got all these monastery stones sitting in Golden Gate park and what’s gonna happen to them. And eventually they just start using them for gardening. There’s a ton of them in the botanical gardens used in a variety of ways. And then also sometimes you’ll just find one here or there along a path. Some of them are really ornately carved and have like. You know, rounded edges and lots of, like, designs in them. If you go right into the main gate at the botanical garden, immediately to your left, they’ve built this whole wall and structure using them, and so you get to see kind of a variety of the design.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11915008 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Conservatory-of-flowers.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And also how neat to be able to touch these stones and think about the journey they took to get there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Them every day and have no idea that they’re walking by this medieval treasure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music starts\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of folks are probably familiar with the Beach Chalet, the restaurant at the very end of the park that borders on Ocean Beach. They have a lovely view of the Pacific, if you can get a spot in the dining room, which is tricky on the weekends, some solid food, but it can also get pretty crowded on a sunny day. I have heard that you have a tip about somewhere else to try just a short walk away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s the golf clubhouse. I do not golf, but when I went there for researching the book, I was like, oh my gosh, this is a little hidden secret. They redid it a couple years ago and the patio is beautiful. And because of the way they redid the golf course, you can now see through the trees to the ocean, which I think is one of the very few places in the park that you’re actually like having ocean-ness in the background. And they have got this little clubhouse and they’re like serving up. Bill’s burger dog, trademark, which is one of three places you can get a Bill’s Burger Dog, which is basically a hamburger shaped like the size, like a hot dog bun size, but even better. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did they put it in a hot dog bun?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t’s on a hot dog bun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Then i\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t’s a burger?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t is a burger.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you put burger toppings on it or hot dog toppings on?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I think you could go either way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the height of the COVID-19 shutdowns, the park really became, I think, a sanctuary for a lot of people, maybe including yourself. It was a way to get out of your house. It was way to interact with other people in a way that was, you know, a bit safer. Do something with your body. In this book, you mentioned that some people really started to make the park their own during that time. Can you tell us about some of those folks?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would say quietly during the pandemic, some parts of the park really were transformed in these really magical ways and a lot of people don’t know about them. One of them is if you’re walking along JFK Promenade and you get almost to the whale sculpture that’s in the middle of JFK promenade, on your right side would be 14th Avenue Meadow, which is where they have the beer garden in the summer with the free live music. And then right past that is, you’ll see like a lot of succulents and stuff. And this woman, Marta, happens to share my name.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the pandemic. She’s like, ‘I was, you know, it was two weeks in, I was depressed, I had a house cleaning business and I couldn’t do that anymore.’ And she’s like I just started going to the park and then there was a rec and park gardener and I told them I was a hard worker and I needed something to do. And so she started tending that area and it’s totally transformed it. And again, like. You’ve got to get off the main path and then you’ll be on these little magical trails and it’s so pretty back there. And she has said, if you see her there, and she’s always wearing this large brimmed hat, like she has extra gloves, and you can go help her anytime.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The little paths that she’s created are especially cool because it looks like there’s just bushes lining the sidewalk there, but if you follow the woodchip paths that she has created back sort of beyond the bushes, there’s a whole little world back there that you can’t see from the main road. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11915065 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/GettyImages-1322040719-scaled-e1653522839658.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One name that people have probably heard a lot related to Golden Gate Park is John McLaren. He was an early park superintendent who served for more than 50 years, and he did a lot to make the park the special place it is today. His fingerprints are really all over it. He comes up a lot in your book. Can you tell us what it is about him that captured your imagination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So John McLaren oversaw the park starting in 1890. And William Hammond Hall created the canvas, but then John McLaren was the artist and he really ran with it. And at that time he took over half of the park still had nothing had happened to it yet. Half of the Park, the dunes had been reclaimed and things were starting to be planted, but that was still a whole half of park to deal with, and John McLaren oversaw it all. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His vision for the park was just right on, with wanting it to really feel like an escape into nature. And he had to fight a lot of fights during those years to try to hold to that. But he also was this master gardener with this just eye for design that was. Really special for the time too because the parks that existed at that time were mostly European parks but nature doesn’t run in a straight line was one of his quotes. His favorite thing was the dells. He loved to have flowers growing within a grove of trees somewhere so it’s like you stumble on to this little magical scene right and because he was on the job for so long he was really able to realize that. I just think of how much of what we think of as the look and feel of the park it’s John McLaren.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find much more about John McLaren in Marta’s book, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discovering Golden Gate Park, A Local’s Guide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Find it wherever books are sold. Marta Lindsay, thank you so much for talking with us today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we return, The Making of Golden Gate park. Stay with us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsor message\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next up, producer Katrina Schwartz and I are exploring the early history of how Golden Gate Park was built.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of stories about how this park came to be. One tale goes that only a magical combination of horse manure and spit was enough to tame the sandy soil and make it rich enough for plants to grow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, I’m no gardener, but even to me, that sounds a little far-fetched. To find some definitive answers, we headed over to the northeast corner of the park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz in scene:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So this little path says Oak Woodland Path. should we go up there? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, let’s check it out. Yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trees we walked through were here before anything else in the park. It’s one of the few areas that remains relatively unchanged.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an old-growth forest. These would be descendants of the trees that were cut down for firewood during the gold rush. It predated the park, it predated European colonization here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re here with Nicole Meldahl, the executive director of the Western Neighborhoods Project, a community history nonprofit focused on the west side of San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s just behind the conservatory flowers, kind of hidden.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We decided to start here because it was this corner of the park where trees grew naturally that gave park creators the confidence they could make the rest of the Park green.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As beautiful as the Oak Grove is, we are still surrounded by the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trucks that back up are the worst. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We kept going deeper and deeper into the park, hoping to find a quiet spot for our interview.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorry, we’re off-roading a little. I thought it was a path, but then it became not a path.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicole says what we now know as Golden Gate Park, a lush place with winding pathways, protected dells and lots of recreation, wasn’t even part of the city at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What did this place look like at the beginning of the gold rush?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An 1853 map of this area, called it the Great Sand Bank. So yeah, it was very empty, isolated. There were a few scattered beach cottages for some adventurous folks. There were homesteaders out here.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco’s population skyrocketed during the years after the gold rush, and city leaders had big ambitions. But first, they needed more space. In the Outside Lands Act of 1866, the western half of the city became part of San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco has always thought of itself as like a great, amazing city, right? And it is, we definitely know it is. But really it was the new kid in town. So at some point they decided they needed a park that was befitting of the amazing city that they hoped to build this into.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As luck would have it, the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for designing Central Park in New York, was traveling in California. City leaders asked for his opinion about building the new park in the newly acquired Outside Lands.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he was like, oh no, no, you can never build a park here. Trees won’t grow in these sand dunes, so I recommend the other side of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City leaders did not like that recommendation, so instead of following Olmsted’s advice, they found someone else who promised he could transform the dunes into forest. A young surveyor from Stockton named William Hammond Hall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how did Hammond Hall turn the Great Sandy Bank into this park that we know and love?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, there’s a legend about that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some with less veritable facts…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend goes Hammond Hall is out with his team surveying the land after the city designated it for the park in 1870.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They’ve got their horses with them\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and one of the horse’s feed buckets that hangs around their nose drops, and the barley that’s in their feed spills out into the sand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, of course, you need a little fertilizer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, manure from the same horse that the barley fell out of the feed bag from landed directly on top of this little patch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Hammond hog comes back through that area in a week or so, the quick growing barley from the horse’s bucket has already taken root and is growing. And William Hammond Hall goes…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is going to be the secret recipe for how we tame these dunes, because if you combine the quick growing barley with native lupine here, that will sort of stabilize the dunes long enough to allow for these trees that he wanted to put through the park as wind breaks to grow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s all a little convenient, isn’t it? Nicole thinks elements of this story are true, but the mythical telling leaves out some context. First, historians have recently discovered that there was a farm on the eastern edge of the park that grew barley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Hammond Hall probably already knew barley could grow here. And second, the process of reclaiming sand by starting with small, quick-growing grasses to build up topsoil before planting trees on top of them was already a well-established practice in Europe. As for the horse manure part of the legend, that is where we get to street sweepers. And no, I’m not talking about the kind that get you a parking ticket.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was common practice for the city to use horse manure they collected in the streets because this is still an era where people used horses on a daily basis so it was a sort of thrifty way to fertilize city parks and areas around town.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s how acres and acres of sand dunes were transformed into forest. No spit, but there was definitely manure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were just about to ask Nicole about the park’s many hills and dells, when who should come strolling by but the guy who literally wrote a book on Golden Gate Park’s history? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Pollock?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh my god! Hi! We’re from Be Curious. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park’s historian in the park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi! Lovely to meet you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What a coincidence!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a happy meeting because in addition to the land reclamation technique Nicole has been describing, Hammond Hall did something else pretty ingenious when he was superintendent of the park. Chris Pollack calls it respecting the genius of the place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what the genius of the place means is utilizing what you’ve got to work with to the best ability you can.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically respect that the landscape looks the way it does for a reason.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What that meant was a very efficient way of using the sand dunes as the existing topography, for the most part, to create this undulating, kind of interesting landscape, because to have it just flat would have been rather boring and counterintuitive to the idea of sustainable environment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They knew that the wind coming off the ocean was their worst enemy. If they leveled the park, the wind would continue to push sand eastward and kill new plantings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the area behind the sand dune, it wouldn’t be so windy there, and it might be more hospitable to plant something there as opposed to on the windy side of the sand dunes. So there was a lot of selection being done.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hidden dells, small hills, and winding paths in the park are the result of using the genius of the place in the design.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Hammond Hall started greening the eastern end of the park, slowly moving westward. But he simultaneously took on the far west end near the beach. Stopping the sand dunes from encroaching was critical to the success of the project. Here’s Nicole again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like okay we’re gonna build a fence and we’re going to put the planks really close together and the dunes will come up and it will hit against that fence. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the sand piled up it made a windbreak \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And on the other side of the fence you know where the dunes aren’t we’re start planning all these things and it’ll start growing up and the Dunes will up to the top of the fence and then we’ll build the fence higher.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, at the far western end of the park, you can still see Hammond Hall’s idea at work. Large trees and bushes protect the intersections of the Park from the sand that comes whipping across the Great Highway, and little sand dunes sometimes pile up at the park’s edges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within five years, San Franciscans were delighted by their new park. An 1875 article in the San Francisco Examiner said,\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Newspaper clip: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calling to mind the inhospitable desolate aspect of the region a few years since, we cannot but regard with favor the result.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hammond Hall had the sand mostly under control, but something else had become unruly. The politics of the park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In general, there was a lot of graft in the city at the time, and William Hammond Hall didn’t like it. So he tried to control what he could with his powers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Superintendent of the park. He fired a blacksmith for padding his contract. A blacksmith who, unfortunately for Hammond Hall, ended up becoming a state legislator. He sought his revenge by blocking funding for the park and accused Hammond hall of misusing park resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The allegations were completely false. However, William Hammond Hall had enough. In 1876, he resigns and the entire Park Commission resigns because they’re so disgusted by what they’re seeing as politics getting in the way of a beautiful city park that the city wanted.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The years that followed were bad ones for Golden Gate Park. Hammond Hall’s plans were neglected.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this sort of falls to the wayside because there’s no money and more people who come to power on the Commission aren’t there for the right reason.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many men with railroad interests were appointed to the Park Commission and lo and behold a railroad gets built to the park — and is barely taxed. And more buildings are popping up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these things start to materialize that aren’t the wilderness that was initially envisioned here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though some of the park’s most beloved attractions did come from this time period.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have the Conservatory of Flowers, which was a bunch of very wealthy men who purchased it from another wealthy man, James Lick, who had passed away and gifted it to the city that put it here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without a fierce defender of the initial vision for the park, tensions arose over what the park should be. A wild green space where people could connect with nature, or a cultural center to showcase the growing wealth and power of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1890, the Park Commission promoted a man named John McLaren from assistant superintendent up to superintendent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John McLaren, I think he’s one of the most universally beloved city employees of all time. They built him a giant house. McLaren Lodge was built in 1896 specifically for him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people think John McLaren was the first superintendent of the park. He wasn’t, but he did continue to build it up in line with the vision Hammond Hall set forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He just did it without making so many enemies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This is the most famous story you’re ever gonna hear when it comes to John McLaren, is he hated statues in the park, hated them. So he would let them put it wherever it was. They’ve always made a big deal. And then John McLarin would very quietly plant things around the monuments that would grow up over time and totally obscure them so you couldn’t see them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can still find statues nearly hidden by bushes around the music concourse today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McLaren worked in the park for more than 50 years, overseeing its transformation into the urban gem it is today. Millions of people visit the park each year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Hammond Hall, on the other hand, often gets forgotten. But the two men had a lot in common.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They really stuck to their principles. They didn’t like graft. They didn’t like to see people throwing their weight around for other reasons than making this park better.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were truly public servants who loved the park. Hammond Hall once wrote:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Voice over: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With drives and rides for the rich, and pleasant rambles for the poor, quiet retreats for those who would be to themselves, and thronged promenades for the gaily disposed, and open grounds for lovers of boisterous sports, and tracks adapted to the special wants of children. The modern urban park is, indeed, the municipality’s open-air assembly room, acceptable, alike to all, and pleasing to each of her citizens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During our day in the park, it was inspiring to see how vibrant this place is. We saw school kids volunteering, cyclists whizzing by, couples out for a romantic stroll, and folks enjoying a quiet moment on a bench.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clear the park is a place for everyone, just like Hammond Hall imagined it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivia Allen Price: And I’m Olivia Allen Price. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special thanks to Chris Pollock, whose book, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, 1,017 Acres of Stories, has all kinds of fun facts about the park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Nicole Meldahl, who you can hear on the Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast. They go deep on the history of the city western neighborhoods. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thanks to Brendan Willard, Sebastian Mino-Buccelli, Kiana Mogadam, Sarah Rose Leonard, Lance Gardner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebekah Kao, Christopher Beale, Katie Springer, Maha Sanad, Jen Chien, and Ethan Tovan Lindsay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a few Bay Curious events coming up. First up is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6151\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious Trivia\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on April 8th here at KQED’s headquarters in the Mission District. If you’ve been following the show for a while, you know to scoop up tickets quickly because they will sell out. Details at kqed.org slash live. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other event we have coming up is a brand new one for us, and it’s in Golden Gate Park at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6232\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conservatory of Flowers on June 20th and 21st\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We are creating a historically-themed, immersive experience that is going to bring the past of this beautiful building and all its incredible exhibits to life. Join us for an interactive game that will allow you to explore the history of the conservatory and the people who created it. Space is limited. There are timed tours that will be running throughout the evening on both nights. So go ahead and register. That’s also at kqed.org slash live. Hope to see you there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for listening.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Welcome, Marta. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much for having me. This is a delight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I’m so glad you could join us. What is it that captured your imagination about Golden Gate Park enough to spend all the time that I know it takes to write a book about it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, end of the day, I just really love Golden Gate Park, but I got into it in part because of having a fussy baby. If she was having one of those days where she’s super fussy, like you just have to get outside, right? And for us outside basically was Golden Gate park in the inner sunset area. And I think as I started to spend so much more time in the park, I just saw there was so much more to it than first meets the eye.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1625030704&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your book has so much information about the different spaces within the park, but today you’ve brought a few things to talk about that even the most devout park lovers might not know. Let’s start with some of those unique stones found in the park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monastery stones. Yes. Once you know about these, then you’re always looking for them and it’s really fun because they are scattered all around the park. Go back in medieval times everyone, and we’re in Spain…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Around the year 1,200 at a monastery overlooking the Tagus River.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there is this incredibly beautiful series of buildings, kind of castle-like. And they were all made by hand by these monks who hand-carved all these limestones, thousands and thousands of stones.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monastery built of these beautiful stones flourished for hundreds of years until the 1830s, but was shut down by royal decree.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And over the years, it was not used, and it was kind of falling apart. And enter William Randolph Hearst. He was, like, kind of the ultimate rich guy of the era. He owned the San Francisco Examiner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, of course, Hearst Castle, the sprawling estate down in San Simeon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had someone who had scoped out this old monastery in Spain and was like, I think we should take the whole thing apart! Ship it to America and build another amazing castle, but in Northern California this time. 11 ships had to transport the stones of these multiple ancient buildings all the way to San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Depression takes enough wind out of the sails of Hearst’s fortune that this is an impossible thing. And so he ends up selling the stones to the city of San Francisco in 1941. So these stones are just sitting in this warehouse in San Francisco and they’re all marked by the way, when they took them apart, it was like, we got to be able to reassemble them. So they were marked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">essentially packed in wooden crates with instructions on the outside. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there’s this idea to build a medieval art museum in Golden Gate Park using the stones. The stones are moved to Golden Gate Park, and then right away there’s a fire. And then there’s some more fires, which burned the markings off. This made it, at the time, impossible to reassemble. Then you’ve just got all these monastery stones sitting in Golden Gate park and what’s gonna happen to them. And eventually they just start using them for gardening. There’s a ton of them in the botanical gardens used in a variety of ways. And then also sometimes you’ll just find one here or there along a path. Some of them are really ornately carved and have like. You know, rounded edges and lots of, like, designs in them. If you go right into the main gate at the botanical garden, immediately to your left, they’ve built this whole wall and structure using them, and so you get to see kind of a variety of the design.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And also how neat to be able to touch these stones and think about the journey they took to get there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Them every day and have no idea that they’re walking by this medieval treasure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music starts\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of folks are probably familiar with the Beach Chalet, the restaurant at the very end of the park that borders on Ocean Beach. They have a lovely view of the Pacific, if you can get a spot in the dining room, which is tricky on the weekends, some solid food, but it can also get pretty crowded on a sunny day. I have heard that you have a tip about somewhere else to try just a short walk away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s the golf clubhouse. I do not golf, but when I went there for researching the book, I was like, oh my gosh, this is a little hidden secret. They redid it a couple years ago and the patio is beautiful. And because of the way they redid the golf course, you can now see through the trees to the ocean, which I think is one of the very few places in the park that you’re actually like having ocean-ness in the background. And they have got this little clubhouse and they’re like serving up. Bill’s burger dog, trademark, which is one of three places you can get a Bill’s Burger Dog, which is basically a hamburger shaped like the size, like a hot dog bun size, but even better. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did they put it in a hot dog bun?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t’s on a hot dog bun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>Then i\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t’s a burger?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t is a burger.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you put burger toppings on it or hot dog toppings on?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I think you could go either way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the height of the COVID-19 shutdowns, the park really became, I think, a sanctuary for a lot of people, maybe including yourself. 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And she has said, if you see her there, and she’s always wearing this large brimmed hat, like she has extra gloves, and you can go help her anytime.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The little paths that she’s created are especially cool because it looks like there’s just bushes lining the sidewalk there, but if you follow the woodchip paths that she has created back sort of beyond the bushes, there’s a whole little world back there that you can’t see from the main road. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One name that people have probably heard a lot related to Golden Gate Park is John McLaren. He was an early park superintendent who served for more than 50 years, and he did a lot to make the park the special place it is today. His fingerprints are really all over it. He comes up a lot in your book. Can you tell us what it is about him that captured your imagination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So John McLaren oversaw the park starting in 1890. And William Hammond Hall created the canvas, but then John McLaren was the artist and he really ran with it. And at that time he took over half of the park still had nothing had happened to it yet. Half of the Park, the dunes had been reclaimed and things were starting to be planted, but that was still a whole half of park to deal with, and John McLaren oversaw it all. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His vision for the park was just right on, with wanting it to really feel like an escape into nature. And he had to fight a lot of fights during those years to try to hold to that. But he also was this master gardener with this just eye for design that was. Really special for the time too because the parks that existed at that time were mostly European parks but nature doesn’t run in a straight line was one of his quotes. His favorite thing was the dells. He loved to have flowers growing within a grove of trees somewhere so it’s like you stumble on to this little magical scene right and because he was on the job for so long he was really able to realize that. I just think of how much of what we think of as the look and feel of the park it’s John McLaren.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find much more about John McLaren in Marta’s book, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discovering Golden Gate Park, A Local’s Guide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Find it wherever books are sold. Marta Lindsay, thank you so much for talking with us today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marta Lindsey:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we return, The Making of Golden Gate park. Stay with us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsor message\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next up, producer Katrina Schwartz and I are exploring the early history of how Golden Gate Park was built.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of stories about how this park came to be. One tale goes that only a magical combination of horse manure and spit was enough to tame the sandy soil and make it rich enough for plants to grow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, I’m no gardener, but even to me, that sounds a little far-fetched. To find some definitive answers, we headed over to the northeast corner of the park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz in scene:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So this little path says Oak Woodland Path. should we go up there? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, let’s check it out. Yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trees we walked through were here before anything else in the park. It’s one of the few areas that remains relatively unchanged.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an old-growth forest. These would be descendants of the trees that were cut down for firewood during the gold rush. It predated the park, it predated European colonization here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re here with Nicole Meldahl, the executive director of the Western Neighborhoods Project, a community history nonprofit focused on the west side of San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s just behind the conservatory flowers, kind of hidden.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We decided to start here because it was this corner of the park where trees grew naturally that gave park creators the confidence they could make the rest of the Park green.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As beautiful as the Oak Grove is, we are still surrounded by the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trucks that back up are the worst. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We kept going deeper and deeper into the park, hoping to find a quiet spot for our interview.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz in scene: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorry, we’re off-roading a little. I thought it was a path, but then it became not a path.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicole says what we now know as Golden Gate Park, a lush place with winding pathways, protected dells and lots of recreation, wasn’t even part of the city at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What did this place look like at the beginning of the gold rush?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An 1853 map of this area, called it the Great Sand Bank. So yeah, it was very empty, isolated. There were a few scattered beach cottages for some adventurous folks. There were homesteaders out here.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco’s population skyrocketed during the years after the gold rush, and city leaders had big ambitions. But first, they needed more space. In the Outside Lands Act of 1866, the western half of the city became part of San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco has always thought of itself as like a great, amazing city, right? And it is, we definitely know it is. But really it was the new kid in town. So at some point they decided they needed a park that was befitting of the amazing city that they hoped to build this into.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As luck would have it, the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for designing Central Park in New York, was traveling in California. City leaders asked for his opinion about building the new park in the newly acquired Outside Lands.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he was like, oh no, no, you can never build a park here. Trees won’t grow in these sand dunes, so I recommend the other side of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City leaders did not like that recommendation, so instead of following Olmsted’s advice, they found someone else who promised he could transform the dunes into forest. A young surveyor from Stockton named William Hammond Hall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how did Hammond Hall turn the Great Sandy Bank into this park that we know and love?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, there’s a legend about that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some with less veritable facts…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend goes Hammond Hall is out with his team surveying the land after the city designated it for the park in 1870.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They’ve got their horses with them\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and one of the horse’s feed buckets that hangs around their nose drops, and the barley that’s in their feed spills out into the sand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, of course, you need a little fertilizer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, manure from the same horse that the barley fell out of the feed bag from landed directly on top of this little patch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Hammond hog comes back through that area in a week or so, the quick growing barley from the horse’s bucket has already taken root and is growing. And William Hammond Hall goes…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is going to be the secret recipe for how we tame these dunes, because if you combine the quick growing barley with native lupine here, that will sort of stabilize the dunes long enough to allow for these trees that he wanted to put through the park as wind breaks to grow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s all a little convenient, isn’t it? Nicole thinks elements of this story are true, but the mythical telling leaves out some context. First, historians have recently discovered that there was a farm on the eastern edge of the park that grew barley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Hammond Hall probably already knew barley could grow here. And second, the process of reclaiming sand by starting with small, quick-growing grasses to build up topsoil before planting trees on top of them was already a well-established practice in Europe. As for the horse manure part of the legend, that is where we get to street sweepers. And no, I’m not talking about the kind that get you a parking ticket.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was common practice for the city to use horse manure they collected in the streets because this is still an era where people used horses on a daily basis so it was a sort of thrifty way to fertilize city parks and areas around town.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that’s how acres and acres of sand dunes were transformed into forest. No spit, but there was definitely manure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were just about to ask Nicole about the park’s many hills and dells, when who should come strolling by but the guy who literally wrote a book on Golden Gate Park’s history? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Pollock?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh my god! Hi! We’re from Be Curious. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park’s historian in the park. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi! Lovely to meet you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What a coincidence!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a happy meeting because in addition to the land reclamation technique Nicole has been describing, Hammond Hall did something else pretty ingenious when he was superintendent of the park. Chris Pollack calls it respecting the genius of the place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what the genius of the place means is utilizing what you’ve got to work with to the best ability you can.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically respect that the landscape looks the way it does for a reason.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What that meant was a very efficient way of using the sand dunes as the existing topography, for the most part, to create this undulating, kind of interesting landscape, because to have it just flat would have been rather boring and counterintuitive to the idea of sustainable environment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They knew that the wind coming off the ocean was their worst enemy. If they leveled the park, the wind would continue to push sand eastward and kill new plantings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Christopher Pollock: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the area behind the sand dune, it wouldn’t be so windy there, and it might be more hospitable to plant something there as opposed to on the windy side of the sand dunes. So there was a lot of selection being done.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hidden dells, small hills, and winding paths in the park are the result of using the genius of the place in the design.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Hammond Hall started greening the eastern end of the park, slowly moving westward. But he simultaneously took on the far west end near the beach. Stopping the sand dunes from encroaching was critical to the success of the project. Here’s Nicole again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like okay we’re gonna build a fence and we’re going to put the planks really close together and the dunes will come up and it will hit against that fence. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the sand piled up it made a windbreak \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And on the other side of the fence you know where the dunes aren’t we’re start planning all these things and it’ll start growing up and the Dunes will up to the top of the fence and then we’ll build the fence higher.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, at the far western end of the park, you can still see Hammond Hall’s idea at work. Large trees and bushes protect the intersections of the Park from the sand that comes whipping across the Great Highway, and little sand dunes sometimes pile up at the park’s edges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within five years, San Franciscans were delighted by their new park. An 1875 article in the San Francisco Examiner said,\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Newspaper clip: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calling to mind the inhospitable desolate aspect of the region a few years since, we cannot but regard with favor the result.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hammond Hall had the sand mostly under control, but something else had become unruly. The politics of the park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In general, there was a lot of graft in the city at the time, and William Hammond Hall didn’t like it. So he tried to control what he could with his powers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Superintendent of the park. He fired a blacksmith for padding his contract. A blacksmith who, unfortunately for Hammond Hall, ended up becoming a state legislator. He sought his revenge by blocking funding for the park and accused Hammond hall of misusing park resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The allegations were completely false. However, William Hammond Hall had enough. In 1876, he resigns and the entire Park Commission resigns because they’re so disgusted by what they’re seeing as politics getting in the way of a beautiful city park that the city wanted.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The years that followed were bad ones for Golden Gate Park. Hammond Hall’s plans were neglected.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this sort of falls to the wayside because there’s no money and more people who come to power on the Commission aren’t there for the right reason.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many men with railroad interests were appointed to the Park Commission and lo and behold a railroad gets built to the park — and is barely taxed. And more buildings are popping up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these things start to materialize that aren’t the wilderness that was initially envisioned here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though some of the park’s most beloved attractions did come from this time period.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have the Conservatory of Flowers, which was a bunch of very wealthy men who purchased it from another wealthy man, James Lick, who had passed away and gifted it to the city that put it here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without a fierce defender of the initial vision for the park, tensions arose over what the park should be. A wild green space where people could connect with nature, or a cultural center to showcase the growing wealth and power of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1890, the Park Commission promoted a man named John McLaren from assistant superintendent up to superintendent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John McLaren, I think he’s one of the most universally beloved city employees of all time. They built him a giant house. McLaren Lodge was built in 1896 specifically for him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people think John McLaren was the first superintendent of the park. He wasn’t, but he did continue to build it up in line with the vision Hammond Hall set forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He just did it without making so many enemies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This is the most famous story you’re ever gonna hear when it comes to John McLaren, is he hated statues in the park, hated them. So he would let them put it wherever it was. They’ve always made a big deal. And then John McLarin would very quietly plant things around the monuments that would grow up over time and totally obscure them so you couldn’t see them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can still find statues nearly hidden by bushes around the music concourse today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McLaren worked in the park for more than 50 years, overseeing its transformation into the urban gem it is today. Millions of people visit the park each year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Hammond Hall, on the other hand, often gets forgotten. But the two men had a lot in common.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Nicole Meldahl: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They really stuck to their principles. They didn’t like graft. They didn’t like to see people throwing their weight around for other reasons than making this park better.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were truly public servants who loved the park. Hammond Hall once wrote:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Voice over: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With drives and rides for the rich, and pleasant rambles for the poor, quiet retreats for those who would be to themselves, and thronged promenades for the gaily disposed, and open grounds for lovers of boisterous sports, and tracks adapted to the special wants of children. The modern urban park is, indeed, the municipality’s open-air assembly room, acceptable, alike to all, and pleasing to each of her citizens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During our day in the park, it was inspiring to see how vibrant this place is. We saw school kids volunteering, cyclists whizzing by, couples out for a romantic stroll, and folks enjoying a quiet moment on a bench.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clear the park is a place for everyone, just like Hammond Hall imagined it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivia Allen Price: And I’m Olivia Allen Price. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special thanks to Chris Pollock, whose book, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, 1,017 Acres of Stories, has all kinds of fun facts about the park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Nicole Meldahl, who you can hear on the Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast. They go deep on the history of the city western neighborhoods. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thanks to Brendan Willard, Sebastian Mino-Buccelli, Kiana Mogadam, Sarah Rose Leonard, Lance Gardner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebekah Kao, Christopher Beale, Katie Springer, Maha Sanad, Jen Chien, and Ethan Tovan Lindsay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a few Bay Curious events coming up. First up is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6151\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious Trivia\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on April 8th here at KQED’s headquarters in the Mission District. If you’ve been following the show for a while, you know to scoop up tickets quickly because they will sell out. 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"content": "\u003cp>The rainstorms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068281/bay-area-braces-for-storm-that-could-become-a-rare-bomb-cyclone-ahead-of-holiday-travel\">this week\u003c/a> have you feeling a little less joyous about the holidays this year? While thousands flock to San Francisco’s Union Square to ice skate under the Christmas tree or catch a glimpse of the \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2025/11/17/those-puppies-and-kittens-return-to-the-macys-union-square-windows-for-the-holiday-season-this-friday/\">puppies in the Macy’s window displays\u003c/a>, you may be looking to do something completely different — and that’s okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re not the Grinch if you’re not “doing” Christmas this year. Maybe you grew up not celebrating Christmas, are processing a tough year or just want to try something completely new. The good news is that you have plenty of options if you want to get away from Santa for a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many businesses and public spaces have closed down for the week, some places in the Bay Area are still open and available to offer you distraction, solace or just a different experience from the more traditional Christmas gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Man wearing blue is about to dunk a basketball.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25061168611400-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden State Warriors will play the Dallas Mavericks on Dec. 25, 2026 at 2 p.m. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Matt Slocum/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Watch the Warriors take on the Dallas Mavericks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is the last chance fans have to see Steph Curry and the rest of the team play at home in 2025. After a sluggish start to the season, the Golden State Warriors are coming fresh off a 120-97 win against the Orlando Magic, an opponent they have yet to play this season.[ad fullwidth]Chase Center will be already decked out in holiday regalia and guests will receive a complimentary holiday scarf before the game, but expect the thrill of the game to pull you straight into the dimension of basketball. \u003cstrong>The Golden State Warriors play against the Dallas Mavericks in San Francisco on Dec. 25 at 2 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00630BB0966619\">Tickets available\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00630BB0966619\"> here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlideChurchSFGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlideChurchSFGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlideChurchSFGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlideChurchSFGetty-1536x1057.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident eats a holiday meal at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Share a meal with folks at Glide Memorial Church\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It may sound a bit counterintuitive to say you’re getting away from Christmas and then spend Dec. 25 at a church. But each year, thousands of different folks from different faiths and life experiences go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/holidays-at-glide/\">Glide\u003c/a> — in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District — for a warm meal and a chance to meet new people, many who are far away from loved ones during the holidays. All volunteer slots for Christmas Day have already been taken up, but Glide invites anyone who is hungry to come in from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘Queersada’ in San Francisco’s Castro District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In many Spanish-speaking countries, it’s common for families during the December holidays to come together and host a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/15/788261154/a-latin-american-christmas-tradition-takes-on-new-meaning-along-the-border\">“posada”\u003c/a> — a reenactment of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph’s search through Bethlehem for a safe haven where Mary could give birth to Jesus Christ. While many families actually embark on a whole reenactment through their neighborhood, others opt to honor the experiences of the Nativity with a large dinner, featuring songs, gift exchanges and dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit BOSS Idea House has partnered up with the nightclub Beaux to host a free dinner on Thursday night for LGBTQ+ folks and allies who want to come together, either with their chosen family or to make new friends — and have named the event “Queersada,” or a queer posada. A dinner, which will include chicken pozole and pan con pavo, will be provided for free to all guests, who can also bring a dessert to share. \u003cstrong>Queersada will take place at Beaux in San Francisco on Dec. 25 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and requires an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queersada-tickets-1971504787892\">RSVP ahead of time\u003c/a> (21+ event).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Moon-View-e1758300999218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1265\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Platform viewing deck over pond in Moon Viewing Garden in San Francisco Botanical Garden with fall foliage color in Japanese Maple trees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Saxon Holt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Wander the San Francisco Botanical Garden for free — and stay for a light show\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many museums, like the Oakland Museum of California or SFMOMA, are closed on Thursday. But not only does one of San Francisco’s most popular outdoor museums stay open on Christmas, it’s also free that day. The San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park confirmed that it’ll be offering free admission to everyone on Thursday, regardless of where you live (free admission is usually based on San Francisco residency). \u003cstrong>The garden opens on Dec. 25 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/strong>[aside postID=news_12068281 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GettyImages-2252559644-2000x1334.jpg']However, it’s also important to mention that the Bay Area is expecting strong storms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999678/bay-area-you-just-might-have-yourself-a-soggy-rainy-christmas\">on Thursday\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>They say good things come in threes, and for San Francisco’s music lovers, Golden Gate Park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050476/the-deadheads-are-coming-and-sf-is-ready-next-up-2-more-weekends-of-live-music\">trifecta of summer concerts\u003c/a> has been solid proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iepe5Obqzjo\">revival\u003c/a>” of the past two music-filled weekends is set to be headlined by country star Zach Bryan, who’ll be joined by the Kings of Leon, Turnpike Troubadours and Noeline Hoffman for a one-day show hosted by Another Planet Entertainment, the concert promoter behind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979898/photos-outside-lands-fan-festival-fashion-and-hot-looks-2025\">Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group launched its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955656/deftones-system-of-a-down-tickets-presale-code-san-francisco-golden-gate-outside-lands\">Concerts on the Polo Fields\u003c/a> series last summer with a sold-out show by System of a Down and Deftones and has expanded this year, effectively shutting down Golden Gate Park to host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050567/grateful-dead-fans-descend-on-san-francisco-for-three-days-of-shows\">Dead & Company\u003c/a>, Outside Lands and Bryan on consecutive weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan’s appearance in San Francisco is one of few he’s making this year, after wrapping up the main portion of his nearly 40-city “Quittin’ Time” tour in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, he played his first-ever stadium show in Oakland, gracing the Coliseum with his 2024 album “The Great American Bar Scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance sign to the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park. Polo was the main attraction of the field through the early 1960s, but has not been played there regularly for decades.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance sign to the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This summer, he’s played shows across Europe with stops in London and Dublin, and is expected to hit a small selection of outdoor venues in the U.S. throughout August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While after three nights of 60,000-person Dead & Company shows and last weekend’s blockbuster festival, concertgoers are likely feeling prepared — and maybe even a little tired — ahead of the grand finale, here’s what you should know before the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What time does the concert start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The park’s doors will open at 1:30 p.m., and the first act is scheduled to come on around 3 p.m., though Bryan probably won’t hit the stage until hours later. People can start lining up for entry at 12:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concert is set to end at 10:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s performing, and when?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another Entertainment hasn’t announced what order the bands opening for Bryan will play in, but Kings of Leon will almost certainly be last.[aside postID=arts_13976542 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240524_BottleRockDay3_EG_16-1020x680.jpg']The rock band boasts a sizable audience of its own, with 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify and Top-100 hits like “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also been teasing two recent projects with Bryan: a feature on the country star’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_bWfvdeOrA\">newly-released single “Bowery\u003c/a>,” and a snippet of an unreleased song featuring Bryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DNTv9CHSXcR/?hl=en\">posted an audio clip\u003c/a> of the track on social media with the caption “we’re onto something (??)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xGbY9iFLZqd9BK0YV1aKW\">Noeline Hoffman\u003c/a>, who is also featured on a Bryan track, and the country rock band \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/1YSA4byX5AL1zoTsSTlB03\">Turnpike Troubadours\u003c/a> should get the crowd warmed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How should I get to the show?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any way but your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking around the park is already limited, and will be reserved for neighbors during the show. The 5-Fulton and N-Judah Muni lines will offer free rides to ticketholders through their “Your Ticket, Your Fare” program, shuttling concertgoers from Ocean Beach and the Outer Richmond to Mission Bay and the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052314 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muni Metro cars run along Judah Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also drop-off points for rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, and options to purchase \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/event/zach-bryan/\">round-trip shuttle tickets\u003c/a> to and from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the Cow Palace Park and Ride and even the State Capitol Park in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike parking is also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is a limited number of VIP parking passes, they require prior purchase and are sold out on Ticketmaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Entrances and Exits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Similar to the last few weekends, there’ll be set pathways in and out of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can access the North Main Gate Entrance on 30th and JFK Drive, though Muni riders will be dropped off on Fulton and walk into the park from there. The box office for tickets is east of the bus stop, just inside the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052315 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concertgoer wears three pairs of sunglasses as he watches Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso perform at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields last weekend. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The South Gate is located at Middle Drive and Metson Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone taking the shuttles home should exit through the south tunnel or south polo field exits after the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those with VIP tickets have their own choice of quieter north and south entrances, on 36th and JFK Drive and MLK Jr. Drive, respectively. There’ll also be ADA access near the north VIP entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can, and can’t, I bring?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Clear backpacks and bags of any size are permitted, as well as small non-clear bags, like fanny packs and purses smaller than 6” x 8” x 3”. You can also bring in an empty hydration pack as long as its capacity is less than 2.5 liters or 150 inches. Reusable water bottles are recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camping chairs, stools and inflatables are not permitted, but a folding chair that doesn’t have legs or a telescoping stool can be brought in. Blankets are okay, so long as they don’t encroach on others’ space (and are smaller than 2’x3’).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concertgoer wears a bandana and large sunglasses to Outside Lands on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You technically can bring cash, but credit and debit cards, or digital payment methods, can be used at all vendors in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glass, weapons, alcohol — and some \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/info/\">fairly obvious items\u003c/a> — are prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets will be available at the box office beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, or can still be purchased online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the park’s roads, including stretches of JFK Drive and Middle Drive, will be closed to all cars and pedestrians throughout the day. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The rock band boasts a sizable audience of its own, with 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify and Top-100 hits like “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also been teasing two recent projects with Bryan: a feature on the country star’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_bWfvdeOrA\">newly-released single “Bowery\u003c/a>,” and a snippet of an unreleased song featuring Bryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DNTv9CHSXcR/?hl=en\">posted an audio clip\u003c/a> of the track on social media with the caption “we’re onto something (??)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xGbY9iFLZqd9BK0YV1aKW\">Noeline Hoffman\u003c/a>, who is also featured on a Bryan track, and the country rock band \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/1YSA4byX5AL1zoTsSTlB03\">Turnpike Troubadours\u003c/a> should get the crowd warmed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How should I get to the show?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any way but your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking around the park is already limited, and will be reserved for neighbors during the show. The 5-Fulton and N-Judah Muni lines will offer free rides to ticketholders through their “Your Ticket, Your Fare” program, shuttling concertgoers from Ocean Beach and the Outer Richmond to Mission Bay and the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052314 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muni Metro cars run along Judah Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also drop-off points for rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, and options to purchase \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/event/zach-bryan/\">round-trip shuttle tickets\u003c/a> to and from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the Cow Palace Park and Ride and even the State Capitol Park in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike parking is also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is a limited number of VIP parking passes, they require prior purchase and are sold out on Ticketmaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Entrances and Exits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Similar to the last few weekends, there’ll be set pathways in and out of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can access the North Main Gate Entrance on 30th and JFK Drive, though Muni riders will be dropped off on Fulton and walk into the park from there. The box office for tickets is east of the bus stop, just inside the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052315 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concertgoer wears three pairs of sunglasses as he watches Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso perform at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields last weekend. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The South Gate is located at Middle Drive and Metson Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone taking the shuttles home should exit through the south tunnel or south polo field exits after the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those with VIP tickets have their own choice of quieter north and south entrances, on 36th and JFK Drive and MLK Jr. Drive, respectively. There’ll also be ADA access near the north VIP entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can, and can’t, I bring?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Clear backpacks and bags of any size are permitted, as well as small non-clear bags, like fanny packs and purses smaller than 6” x 8” x 3”. You can also bring in an empty hydration pack as long as its capacity is less than 2.5 liters or 150 inches. Reusable water bottles are recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camping chairs, stools and inflatables are not permitted, but a folding chair that doesn’t have legs or a telescoping stool can be brought in. Blankets are okay, so long as they don’t encroach on others’ space (and are smaller than 2’x3’).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concertgoer wears a bandana and large sunglasses to Outside Lands on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You technically can bring cash, but credit and debit cards, or digital payment methods, can be used at all vendors in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glass, weapons, alcohol — and some \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/info/\">fairly obvious items\u003c/a> — are prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets will be available at the box office beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, or can still be purchased online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the park’s roads, including stretches of JFK Drive and Middle Drive, will be closed to all cars and pedestrians throughout the day. 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"content": "\u003cp>Music festivals in the Bay Area are upon us. And it takes a lot to leave no trace after a 3-day festival like Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Golden Gate Park prepares for another music event this weekend, SFGate’s Melissa Cho takes us behind the scenes at Outside Lands, where the majority of waste is diverted from landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2840690046&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cspan class=\"\" title=\"\">\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"e-91036-text encore-text-body-medium\" data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cspan data-slate-node=\"text\">\u003cspan class=\"sc-dhKdcB cgUUbz\" data-slate-leaf=\"true\">\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"sc-jXbUNg bUSqAF\" data-slate-node=\"element\" data-slate-fragment=\"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\">\n\u003cli data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNO9fMNJp3A/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Where Your Trash at Outside Lands Goes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/5448\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LaRussell and Good Compenny Present: A Bay Area Music Showcase Tickets!\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:16] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. I have this vivid memory of going to a big music festival and watching one of my friends pick up this empty metal water bottle that someone had just tossed on the ground. And she was pretty irritated when she swooped it up. “That’s how people twist their ankles out here,” I remember her saying. And I’m grateful for people like her at music festivals where it’s pretty common to see trash sprinkled on the grounds after the crowds disperse at the end of a performance. And with music festivals upon us here in the Bay Area, it’s easy to take for granted all that it takes to leave no trace after a big event like Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] By the next morning I come back, the park looks spotless. It’s like it’s day one of the festival again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] As Golden Gate Park prepares for yet another big concert this weekend, SFGate’s Melissa Cho takes us behind the scenes at Outside Lands to see what happened to all your waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] From the most recent data that Outside Lands has provided, last year they’ve produced 321,000 pounds of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] Melissa Cho is a social video producer for SF Gate. She’s also known as SF Gate Girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Which I’ve done my calculations, and that’s roughly 71,000 chihuahuas. So that’s a lot of little dogs that are going into — I have nothing against them. But just for some simple calculation, that’s lot of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] How is that trash generated? I mean, I’ve been to Outside Lands before. There’s a ton of vendors selling food and stuff like that, I imagine. Like, what kinds of trash are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] Lots of different types. So there’s a lot of the compost trash that gets produced by the vendors and the customers buying the food. So all of the utensils, the bowls, the plates, the cups, the food, you know, if you don’t finish your food, all of that goes into compost. And then you’re talking about wood, a lot a wood for the structure of a lot of buildings there, you now, a lot, they use wood material. There’s metal that gets produced. There’s plastic sheeting that gets produced. There’s a lot of cans and bottles and there’s also the waste that people bring into the festival because, you know, sometimes you want to bring your own snack, you know. There are different streams of waste definitely coming from not just inside the festival but outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] And how, over the years, has Outside Lands tried to tackle all of the waste that the festival produces?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] That’s a great question because Outside Lands has actually tackled the issue of sustainability since its inception in 2008. They from the beginning partnered with a company called Clean Vibes and the first ever festival 2008 for those who attended that first festival the headliners were Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, and Radiohead and back then 64% of the total waste was diverted from landfill. Fast forwarded now, it’s now 89% from our most recent data in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Yeah, and you actually went to see for yourself how this all works. Who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Yes, I met Anna Barofsky, she is the co-owner of Clean Vibes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] We’ve got over 470 volunteers that are part of our waste diversion efforts here at Outside Lands to help make the magic happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] Clean Vibes is responsible for all things trash, compost, recycling at not just Outside Lands but numerous festivals across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] So, at night we get all the big stuff up and then in the light of day we get every last little candy wrapper, cigarette butt, every tiny little thing to make sure that when the gates open today it looks just as good as when they opened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] It is certainly peak season for Anna’s team in San Francisco. She’s probably at Golden Gate Park now, still getting ready for the Zach Bryan Golden Gate park festival this weekend. And then there was Outside Lands this past weekend. Before that there was Dead and Co the previous weekend. And then, there was also Lollapalooza, which Clean Vibes was also a part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Oh, wow, she’s busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] She is busy. So it’s a nationwide operation and she’s not even based here in San Francisco. She’s actually based in North Carolina. So she comes here for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] What did you see in terms of, like, how this all works? Like, what exactly are volunteers doing with the waste at Outside Lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:18] At around, I would say, 11.30 a.m., we golf carted to where all the volunteers were doing their morning debrief session, so that’s when the morning crew comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Yeah, so these guys are checking in for an 1130 shift. They work, I believe, 1130 to five. And then we’ve got another shift that starts at 430, works until 1030. And then, we also have a big group of nightly after show cleanups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] The volunteer spots, they fill up in a week or two. So there’s like a high demand for volunteers to want to work at the festival because I think the main pro is that you get to go for free to the festival. But I’ve noticed that there were a lot of repeat volunteers and a lot of them were just really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Awesome to be able to interact with more people in a different way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] So I spoke to two veteran volunteers, one of them though, her name is Lauren Schuck, she’s been volunteering for Clean Vibes for five to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] Keep the Golden Gate Park really clean and nice and hopefully have Outside Lands continue returning back here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] Then after that, we went to the cabanas where they had, where I saw recycled carpet. 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Food is, in fact, compost, and it’s amazing how many people question that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] So I see like tables of people, they each have their desk and then below their desk they have the three bins and then they’re sorting through the trash bags to see like okay this one is not compostable I have to fish it out of the compost bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] That’s the sound of recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] What’s like the craziest thing they’ve had to like fish out of the bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:09:25] I asked Anna that question and I think because she’s worked so many festivals it’s all a blur to her so that’s what she said. She works a lot of like camping festivals and she says that we won’t even go into that like on what she’ll find. But when I asked Lauren on what’s the craziest trash they fished out you know what they said fake IDs, a lot of fake IDs at Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Besides trash too, how else has Outside Lands tried to make the festival more sustainable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:10:14] The artist dressing rooms and the towers are solar powered. Outside Lands, they have a refillable water station, which I see a lot of people using. So I wasn’t able to cover this in my video due to time constraints, but Extra Food is a Bay Area nonprofit. They come in at the end of the festival every night, and they take all the surplus food and distribute it amongst people and communities who are facing food insecurity so that no food goes to waste. So that’s a really neat touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:45] Just all around the Bay Area? Yeah, yeah. That’s amazing. How does someone like Anna talk about the ultimate goal here? Why put in this much work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] She told people at the end of our interviews that we want to leave the park cleaner than when we first found it. What’s interesting is that throughout the parks that there are so little landfill bins. So most of the bins that you see are either recyclables or compostable bins. And because she says that, okay, we should be producing so little waste that, you know, our landfill should certainly be the minority of all the waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:11:26] So obviously as you can see everywhere that we have receptacles, we never put a landfill without a recycling and compost next to it. And we take that actually a step further that a lot of places we don’t put a landfill at all because there should be so little landfill waste out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] I certainly can feel that the work that she’s doing is very meaningful. And when I posted that video, it was, I mean, it was just a 90 second story that I did. The response was so positive. People were just saying like, how could I volunteer for the next one? Or like, thank you guys so much for what you do. So I called Anna about that and she was thrilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:05] How much of a difference does the work that Clean Vibes is doing, how much of difference does it make?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:12:13] I think it makes a huge difference for the festival goers and for just the image of San Francisco. I mean, even though I was going for work, I was still going. I’m there all three days. And by the next morning I come back and clock in for work. The park looks spotless. It’s like, it’s day one of the festival again. San Francisco, I mean all these festivals, it’s a huge revenue driver. And there’s a lot of traffic coming in from different cities, even different countries. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Music festivals in the Bay Area are upon us. And it takes a lot to leave no trace after a 3-day festival like Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Golden Gate Park prepares for another music event this weekend, SFGate’s Melissa Cho takes us behind the scenes at Outside Lands, where the majority of waste is diverted from landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2840690046&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-encore-id=\"text\" data-slate-node=\"element\">\u003cspan class=\"\" title=\"\">\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:16] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. I have this vivid memory of going to a big music festival and watching one of my friends pick up this empty metal water bottle that someone had just tossed on the ground. And she was pretty irritated when she swooped it up. “That’s how people twist their ankles out here,” I remember her saying. And I’m grateful for people like her at music festivals where it’s pretty common to see trash sprinkled on the grounds after the crowds disperse at the end of a performance. And with music festivals upon us here in the Bay Area, it’s easy to take for granted all that it takes to leave no trace after a big event like Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] By the next morning I come back, the park looks spotless. It’s like it’s day one of the festival again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] As Golden Gate Park prepares for yet another big concert this weekend, SFGate’s Melissa Cho takes us behind the scenes at Outside Lands to see what happened to all your waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] From the most recent data that Outside Lands has provided, last year they’ve produced 321,000 pounds of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] Melissa Cho is a social video producer for SF Gate. She’s also known as SF Gate Girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Which I’ve done my calculations, and that’s roughly 71,000 chihuahuas. So that’s a lot of little dogs that are going into — I have nothing against them. But just for some simple calculation, that’s lot of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] How is that trash generated? I mean, I’ve been to Outside Lands before. There’s a ton of vendors selling food and stuff like that, I imagine. Like, what kinds of trash are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] Lots of different types. So there’s a lot of the compost trash that gets produced by the vendors and the customers buying the food. So all of the utensils, the bowls, the plates, the cups, the food, you know, if you don’t finish your food, all of that goes into compost. And then you’re talking about wood, a lot a wood for the structure of a lot of buildings there, you now, a lot, they use wood material. There’s metal that gets produced. There’s plastic sheeting that gets produced. There’s a lot of cans and bottles and there’s also the waste that people bring into the festival because, you know, sometimes you want to bring your own snack, you know. There are different streams of waste definitely coming from not just inside the festival but outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] And how, over the years, has Outside Lands tried to tackle all of the waste that the festival produces?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] That’s a great question because Outside Lands has actually tackled the issue of sustainability since its inception in 2008. They from the beginning partnered with a company called Clean Vibes and the first ever festival 2008 for those who attended that first festival the headliners were Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, and Radiohead and back then 64% of the total waste was diverted from landfill. Fast forwarded now, it’s now 89% from our most recent data in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Yeah, and you actually went to see for yourself how this all works. Who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Yes, I met Anna Barofsky, she is the co-owner of Clean Vibes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] We’ve got over 470 volunteers that are part of our waste diversion efforts here at Outside Lands to help make the magic happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] Clean Vibes is responsible for all things trash, compost, recycling at not just Outside Lands but numerous festivals across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] So, at night we get all the big stuff up and then in the light of day we get every last little candy wrapper, cigarette butt, every tiny little thing to make sure that when the gates open today it looks just as good as when they opened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] It is certainly peak season for Anna’s team in San Francisco. She’s probably at Golden Gate Park now, still getting ready for the Zach Bryan Golden Gate park festival this weekend. And then there was Outside Lands this past weekend. Before that there was Dead and Co the previous weekend. And then, there was also Lollapalooza, which Clean Vibes was also a part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Oh, wow, she’s busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] She is busy. So it’s a nationwide operation and she’s not even based here in San Francisco. She’s actually based in North Carolina. So she comes here for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] What did you see in terms of, like, how this all works? Like, what exactly are volunteers doing with the waste at Outside Lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:18] At around, I would say, 11.30 a.m., we golf carted to where all the volunteers were doing their morning debrief session, so that’s when the morning crew comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Yeah, so these guys are checking in for an 1130 shift. They work, I believe, 1130 to five. And then we’ve got another shift that starts at 430, works until 1030. And then, we also have a big group of nightly after show cleanups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] The volunteer spots, they fill up in a week or two. So there’s like a high demand for volunteers to want to work at the festival because I think the main pro is that you get to go for free to the festival. But I’ve noticed that there were a lot of repeat volunteers and a lot of them were just really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Awesome to be able to interact with more people in a different way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] So I spoke to two veteran volunteers, one of them though, her name is Lauren Schuck, she’s been volunteering for Clean Vibes for five to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] Keep the Golden Gate Park really clean and nice and hopefully have Outside Lands continue returning back here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] Then after that, we went to the cabanas where they had, where I saw recycled carpet. Then we golf carted to this entire area of Golden Gate Park that’s not available and accessible to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:07:43] All right, so here we are at Middle Earth. Here’s some of my team who drive around the site collecting compost toters. And so they’ve just collected these from some of the food vendors on site. Oh, wow. They’re gonna get ready to dump a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] That’s where she took me to Middle Earth. It’s their sorting, their main sorting facility. I saw all the mounds of trash, all the compost, the landfill, the recyclables, the plastic sheeting, these huge dumpster bins, and there’s like a whole team of people. So Clean Vibes, they also partner with another Bay Area organization called Green Mary. Their crews together help sort out all the trash because believe it or not, sometimes people don’t dispose their trash properly in the proper bin. So if you don’t do that, then there are people who have to manually do it for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Oddly enough, one of the things people get most confused about in the compost, believe it or not, food. Food is, in fact, compost, and it’s amazing how many people question that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] So I see like tables of people, they each have their desk and then below their desk they have the three bins and then they’re sorting through the trash bags to see like okay this one is not compostable I have to fish it out of the compost bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] That’s the sound of recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] What’s like the craziest thing they’ve had to like fish out of the bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:09:25] I asked Anna that question and I think because she’s worked so many festivals it’s all a blur to her so that’s what she said. She works a lot of like camping festivals and she says that we won’t even go into that like on what she’ll find. But when I asked Lauren on what’s the craziest trash they fished out you know what they said fake IDs, a lot of fake IDs at Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Besides trash too, how else has Outside Lands tried to make the festival more sustainable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:10:14] The artist dressing rooms and the towers are solar powered. Outside Lands, they have a refillable water station, which I see a lot of people using. So I wasn’t able to cover this in my video due to time constraints, but Extra Food is a Bay Area nonprofit. They come in at the end of the festival every night, and they take all the surplus food and distribute it amongst people and communities who are facing food insecurity so that no food goes to waste. So that’s a really neat touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:45] Just all around the Bay Area? Yeah, yeah. That’s amazing. How does someone like Anna talk about the ultimate goal here? Why put in this much work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] She told people at the end of our interviews that we want to leave the park cleaner than when we first found it. What’s interesting is that throughout the parks that there are so little landfill bins. So most of the bins that you see are either recyclables or compostable bins. And because she says that, okay, we should be producing so little waste that, you know, our landfill should certainly be the minority of all the waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:11:26] So obviously as you can see everywhere that we have receptacles, we never put a landfill without a recycling and compost next to it. And we take that actually a step further that a lot of places we don’t put a landfill at all because there should be so little landfill waste out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] I certainly can feel that the work that she’s doing is very meaningful. And when I posted that video, it was, I mean, it was just a 90 second story that I did. The response was so positive. People were just saying like, how could I volunteer for the next one? Or like, thank you guys so much for what you do. So I called Anna about that and she was thrilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:05] How much of a difference does the work that Clean Vibes is doing, how much of difference does it make?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:12:13] I think it makes a huge difference for the festival goers and for just the image of San Francisco. I mean, even though I was going for work, I was still going. I’m there all three days. And by the next morning I come back and clock in for work. The park looks spotless. It’s like, it’s day one of the festival again. San Francisco, I mean all these festivals, it’s a huge revenue driver. And there’s a lot of traffic coming in from different cities, even different countries. 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And I look forward to seeing how they can continue improving and upping that percentage, you know, 89%. That’s pretty high. That is pretty high. Well, it’s a B plus, but let’s see. I’d love to see if they can get to an A minus, maybe next year or maybe when the data comes out this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> gears up for a weekend-long celebration of the Grateful Dead, one group brought flower power revival to Market Street on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people, laden with good vibes, descended on the thoroughfare for a so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kindnesscrawl.com/\">Kindness Crawl\u003c/a> — a spontaneous celebration of joy, marked by random acts of kindness to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group walked around four miles, from the Ferry Building to Golden Gate Park, handing out free flowers, art and hugs. The result: a trail of smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel happy. I love seeing stuff like this,” said Akira Green of Hayward, who was visiting the city with friends. “It’s really great that people are doing this just because they want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Longworth makes a sign in preparation for the Kindness Crawl at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people behind the effort are enrolled in Self Mastery Trilogy, a Healdsburg-based personal development program that requires a “Make a Difference” project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Gates gives away a free hug while wearing a “free hugs” sign at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl participant holds flowers in their tote bag. Right: Sebastian De Voogd wears a “Kindness Crawl’ T-shirt decorated with pins. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Ashley Gates (left) hands a flower to a pedestrian on Market Street during the Kindness Crawl. Right: A Kindness Crawl participant hands a flower. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This led to the Kindness Crawl, which the group first tested earlier this year at the farmers market in Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants give away flowers and postcards to a driver on Pine Street. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands a postcard to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We decided that something small, like spreading kindness, was actually the thing that could have the biggest impact and make the most ripples in the world,” said Kali de Voogd, a participant in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drea LaRox hands goodies to a bus driver in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian holds a flower she was gifted. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the group continued its crawl, some people ignored them or brushed away the free flowers. But even folks reluctant to deal with strangers — like Derek Stone, on his lunch break at Union Square — accepted the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands flowers to passersby in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant holds up a sign reading “Unified by Joy” in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Kindness Crawl participants gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Right: Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally shares an embrace with a passerby near City Hall. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally gives a hug to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I’m gonna carry on this energy,” said Stone, who said he often has his guard up. “I’m gonna try to give someone else a compliment. I might even give this flower to someone. So it’s gonna go full circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050577\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer fills a cart with bouquets of flowers at the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s to replenish the group’s supply of flowers. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants pause to buy more flowers midway through their walk to Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl volunteer beams while handing roses and sunflowers to two people inside a van during a moment of street-side joy. 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It feels connecting. It feels loving to me,” said Drea La Rox, another participant. “It feels like I am a part of their life just for a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel happy. I love seeing stuff like this,” said Akira Green of Hayward, who was visiting the city with friends. “It’s really great that people are doing this just because they want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Longworth makes a sign in preparation for the Kindness Crawl at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people behind the effort are enrolled in Self Mastery Trilogy, a Healdsburg-based personal development program that requires a “Make a Difference” project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Gates gives away a free hug while wearing a “free hugs” sign at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl participant holds flowers in their tote bag. Right: Sebastian De Voogd wears a “Kindness Crawl’ T-shirt decorated with pins. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Ashley Gates (left) hands a flower to a pedestrian on Market Street during the Kindness Crawl. Right: A Kindness Crawl participant hands a flower. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This led to the Kindness Crawl, which the group first tested earlier this year at the farmers market in Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants give away flowers and postcards to a driver on Pine Street. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands a postcard to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We decided that something small, like spreading kindness, was actually the thing that could have the biggest impact and make the most ripples in the world,” said Kali de Voogd, a participant in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drea LaRox hands goodies to a bus driver in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian holds a flower she was gifted. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the group continued its crawl, some people ignored them or brushed away the free flowers. But even folks reluctant to deal with strangers — like Derek Stone, on his lunch break at Union Square — accepted the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands flowers to passersby in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant holds up a sign reading “Unified by Joy” in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Kindness Crawl participants gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Right: Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally shares an embrace with a passerby near City Hall. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally gives a hug to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I’m gonna carry on this energy,” said Stone, who said he often has his guard up. “I’m gonna try to give someone else a compliment. I might even give this flower to someone. So it’s gonna go full circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050577\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer fills a cart with bouquets of flowers at the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s to replenish the group’s supply of flowers. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants pause to buy more flowers midway through their walk to Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl volunteer beams while handing roses and sunflowers to two people inside a van during a moment of street-side joy. Right: Kindness Crawl co-organizer Drea LaRox, 35, of Healdsburg, waves at passing cars while holding a sign that reads “Kindness is Gangster” in Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants believe even a small gesture, such as hugging a stranger, can make a positive impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer places flowers on washing machines inside a Hayes Valley laundromat. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vintage VW bus filled with flower recipients drives past Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A handwritten note reading “Even on your off days, you’re still worthy of love!” is left on a motorcycle seat near Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ It feels warm. It feels connecting. It feels loving to me,” said Drea La Rox, another participant. “It feels like I am a part of their life just for a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, August 1, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This weekend, San Francisco will once again become \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979310/dead-and-company-san-francisco-concerts-golden-gate-park-summer-of-love-grateful-deads-60th\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the center of the deadhead universe.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s because it’s the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Dead & Co., the band’s latest iteration, will be playing three shows in Golden Gate Park, starting Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kamala Harris’ decision not to run for California governor has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democrats-aec62ece092b994ca1a546095683c2e6\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened up the field\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ahead of next year’s election. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duplexes will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-fire-mayor-bass-governor-newsom-sb9-duplex-ban\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no longer be an option\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for homeowners starting to rebuild in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/07/california-glock-ban-kamala-harris-newsom/\">poised to ban the sale\u003c/a> of new Glock handguns.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979310/dead-and-company-san-francisco-concerts-golden-gate-park-summer-of-love-grateful-deads-60th\">\u003cstrong>Fans Pour Into SF For Grateful Dead’s 60th At Golden Gate Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fans of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grateful-dead\">Grateful Dead\u003c/a> are pouring into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people once wore flowers in their hair and made love, not war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead & Company, featuring original Grateful Dead members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11682940/bob-weir-criticizes-politicians-on-stage-at-bonnaroo\">Bob Weir\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201206251000/mickey-hart\">Mickey Hart\u003c/a>, will play \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-park\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s Polo Field starting Friday with an estimated 60,000 attendees each day. The last time the band played that part of the park was in 1991 — a free show following the death of concert promoter and longtime Deadhead \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11409279/bill-graham-the-personality-no-museum-could-possibly-contain\">Bill Graham\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, times have changed. A general admissions ticket for all three days is $635 — a shock for many longtime fans who remember when a joint cost more than a Dead concert ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formed in 1965, the Grateful Dead is synonymous with San Francisco and its counterculture. Members lived in a dirt-cheap Victorian in the Haight and later became a significant part of 1967’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-of-love\">Summer of Love\u003c/a>. That summer eventually soured into bad acid trips and police raids, and prompted the band’s move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a> on the other end of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913489\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a>. But new Deadheads kept cropping up — even after iconic guitarist and singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13342850/jerry-garcias-guitar-heads-to-auction-could-fetch-1m\">Jerry Garcia\u003c/a>’s 1995 death — aided by cover bands and offshoots like Dead & Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democrats-aec62ece092b994ca1a546095683c2e6\">\u003cstrong>2026 Race For CA Governor Goes Into New Gear And Directions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After months of uncertainty, the race to become California’s next governor started Thursday. Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-california-governor-2026-eeea5d7315d65cebb50692c5311379fb\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">decision\u003c/a>\u003c/span> Wednesday to bypass the 2026 contest pushed the campaign into a new phase, lacking its biggest potential star and the presumptive early favorite. Harris’ formal exit opens the door for additional candidates to venture in, while scrambling a crowded field with no dominant candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats remain favored to hold the seat now occupied by term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a state where Republicans have not won a statewide election in nearly two decades. Democrats hold a nearly 2-to-1 advantage over registered Republicans statewide. “The starting gun just popped,” said Democratic consultant Andrew Acosta, calling it the first truly wide-open governor’s race in over a quarter-century. “The race is on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-fire-mayor-bass-governor-newsom-sb9-duplex-ban\">LA Mayor Bans Duplexes In Palisades Burn Zone\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Duplexes can no longer replace single-family houses in the Pacific Palisades as rebuilding begins for the more than 5,000 homes destroyed by the January fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-emergency-executive-order-prohibit-sb-9-applications-within-palisades-burn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>ordered a ban\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on duplex projects in the Palisades. The move came after an order the same day from Gov. Gavin Newsom that granted local governments permission to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-palisades-fire-rebuilding-sb9-adu-mayor-bass-housing\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>suspend a state housing density\u003c/u>\u003c/a> law in burn zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law at play, Senate Bill 9, allows single-family homeowners across the state to build duplexes and split their lots, potentially creating up to four units of housing on land previously zoned for one unit. 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The switches can be made illegally on a 3D printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the bill targets only a narrow category of guns that are increasingly used in violent crimes. But critics argue the proposal opens the door to broader restrictions on all semi-automatic handguns. That, they say, potentially includes other popular models like the one Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/gavin-newsom-first-gun-shawn-ryan-podcast/65417617\">recently got as a gift\u003c/a> from a conservative podcaster. Newsom hasn’t indicated whether he’ll sign the measure.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Dead & Co., the band’s latest iteration, will be playing three shows in Golden Gate Park, starting Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kamala Harris’ decision not to run for California governor has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democrats-aec62ece092b994ca1a546095683c2e6\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened up the field\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ahead of next year’s election. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duplexes will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-fire-mayor-bass-governor-newsom-sb9-duplex-ban\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no longer be an option\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for homeowners starting to rebuild in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/07/california-glock-ban-kamala-harris-newsom/\">poised to ban the sale\u003c/a> of new Glock handguns.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979310/dead-and-company-san-francisco-concerts-golden-gate-park-summer-of-love-grateful-deads-60th\">\u003cstrong>Fans Pour Into SF For Grateful Dead’s 60th At Golden Gate Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fans of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grateful-dead\">Grateful Dead\u003c/a> are pouring into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people once wore flowers in their hair and made love, not war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead & Company, featuring original Grateful Dead members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11682940/bob-weir-criticizes-politicians-on-stage-at-bonnaroo\">Bob Weir\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201206251000/mickey-hart\">Mickey Hart\u003c/a>, will play \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-park\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s Polo Field starting Friday with an estimated 60,000 attendees each day. The last time the band played that part of the park was in 1991 — a free show following the death of concert promoter and longtime Deadhead \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11409279/bill-graham-the-personality-no-museum-could-possibly-contain\">Bill Graham\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, times have changed. A general admissions ticket for all three days is $635 — a shock for many longtime fans who remember when a joint cost more than a Dead concert ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formed in 1965, the Grateful Dead is synonymous with San Francisco and its counterculture. Members lived in a dirt-cheap Victorian in the Haight and later became a significant part of 1967’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-of-love\">Summer of Love\u003c/a>. 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Next to Lurie stood San Francisco law enforcement, fire and parks leaders who took turns assuring the public the event would be a safe one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our public safety teams and local law enforcement will be operating at full staffing, with additional personnel to manage the increases with all of these attendees and visitors,” Lurie said. “Our teams are equipped and trained to handle a variety of situations, and we are fully prepared for any emergencies that may arise during these weekends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050533 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations this weekend with multiple performances by Dead & Company. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910768/grateful-dead-keep-on-truckin-for-their-60th-anniversary\">Dead & Company shows\u003c/a> kick off a busy few weeks for the park, which is hosting two more events — Outside Lands and country musician Zach Bryan — over subsequent weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time ever there’s been three weekends of concerts in a row in Golden Gate Park,” said Allen Scott, president of concerts and festivals for Another Planet Entertainment, which produces Outside Lands as well as the new \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/\">Golden Gate Park Concerts series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the park hosted a bill led by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955656/deftones-system-of-a-down-tickets-presale-code-san-francisco-golden-gate-outside-lands\">System of a Down and the Deftones\u003c/a> the weekend after Outside Lands, the first such show put on by Another Planet after city officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960570/sfs-golden-gate-park-may-soon-host-new-concert-series-from-producers-of-outside-lands\">approved the expanded series\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12049174 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00014_TV-KQED.jpg']Scott said they’re expecting 450,000 people coming to San Francisco over the next three weekends, 290,000 of whom are from outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has always been a cultural destination and a world-class city, and this … these three weekends will prove it,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie encouraged all concertgoers to sign up for AlertSF by texting GGPC to 888777 and make plans with friends and family, as cellphone reception in San Francisco during large-scale events is notoriously unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next few weeks, we are going to keep everyone safe,” Lurie said. “We are going to shine on the global stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials estimate the three concert weekends will bring in over $150 million into the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Ginsburg, head of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department, said music is part of the city’s history, and the back-to-back-to-back festival weekends in Golden Gate Park are equally historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just hosting concerts; we’re bringing people together, boosting our economy, showing the world that San Francisco is alive and thriving and, perhaps most importantly, facilitating joy,” Ginsburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And I remember it clearly to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] For Chuck and many other deadheads, the Grateful Dead, best known for being pioneers of the jam band and the soundtrack of San Francisco’s Summer of Love, were renegades. They were these sort of outlaws whose shows were unique because they were freewheeling and surprising every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:01:10] We were on Phil Lesh’s side, the other side, and Bob Weir always played in the middle. To see it and be in the the middle of it was just, it just locked me in and it was just fantastic. It was hard to describe. And the world, of course, was a very different place then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:37] San Francisco is gearing up for Deadhead Disneyland. The city is hosting shows for the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, featuring a famous offshoot of the band, Dead and Company. Tickets are going for $635 for three-day general admission, and thousands of Deadheads are expected to attend the shows and related events. But not Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] It just feels super commercialized and just not the spirit that I felt when I attended shows and got involved in the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Today we talk with Chuck’s daughter and San Francisco-based writer Carly Schwartz about the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary shows and why some deadheads are boycotting them. Carly, Do you identify as a dead head?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:39] I feel like I might be disingenuous to say I’m, you know, a religiously fanatic deadhead. I am a religious fanatic fan of the band Phish, and so it’s kind of a cousin of the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] This is Carly Schwartz, a writer and author based in San Francisco. She recently wrote about the Grateful Dead for the San Francisco Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] That was my entry point into Grateful Dead, obviously I heard it around the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] The Grateful Dead got me my start in loving music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] My father’s name is Chuck Schwartz. He lives in Connecticut now. And he basically raised me the way I say it is as the gospel according to Jerry. I mean, Jerry Garcia, who is I guess for all intents and purposes, he was considered the front man. He was the lead guitarist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] I guess I just had it on all the time when they were kids. And so I guess they just assimilated it by osmosis if nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] This was just such a big part of his life and therefore my life as his daughter. I have these memories of him mowing the lawn on a Sunday and just belting out some Jerry lyrics. And my mother, funnily enough, could not stand the Grateful Dead. To this day, she brags about how she never accompanied him to a show. And she called it “neer-ne-neer” music. She’s like, oh, there’s your dad and his “neer-ne-neer”. And my brother and I are just rolling our eyes. There’s dad blasting his Jerry again. But it really was this omnipresent force. I mean, in the car, when he’s gardening around the house, it was just, yeah, it was a soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] As a kid I wanted to not be like my parents, so of course I found my way into the next generation Grateful Dead, which is Phish, and became equally fanatic about them. But yeah, I mean you can’t be as into Phish as I am without having deep respect for the Dead, what they do, the genre they basically invented. I think they’re the godfathers of just an incredible musical movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] Yeah, the jam Band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] Which I learned from your dad, actually, who I had the pleasure of speaking with on the phone. He was really breaking it down for me, because I have to admit, I’m not like, I didn’t grow up listening to Grateful Dead. It’s not something I’m totally familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:19] Well, it’s his favorite subject matter. He was telling me the one thing he was bummed that he forgot to tell you was his theory on the jam band gene. If you are at a show and you hear someone go off on a crazy guitar jam, you’ve got the gene if after 25 minutes you’re like, oh man, that wasn’t really long enough, but it was pretty good. But if after 90 seconds you’re like, ugh, I hope this ends soon, I just want to get back to the songs and the lyrics, then you do not have the gene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] I think with a jam band there comes a point where the players have played together for such a long time that they kind of morph into a single organism or they just can anticipate what their fellow musicians are going to play and I think that’s when the magic occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:06:20] I think they’re much more of a live band than a studio band. I guess the way I describe the music is kind of if rock music had improvisational jazz but done with rock instruments. Different every time. Sure, it’s different every time, I mean it really is like incomprehensible to someone who’s not into them, why anyone would like it, you know it’s nonsensical, it’s noise. But it’s so cool to hear these instruments together doing this magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:01] So Carly, there’s a bunch of stuff going on in San Francisco this weekend. Tell me about the 60th anniversary shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Yeah, so in celebration of the band’s 60th anniversary, or what would be the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, Dead and Company is playing three shows in Golden Gate Park. They are sold out. They have incredible headliners who are considered, you know, guitar gods in their own right. And around the city, a bunch of other stuff is happening. There’s a festival at one of the piers that’s put on by Phil Lesh’s son. There is a street naming after Jerry Garcia. Mickey Hart, the drummer, has an art exhibit somewhere in town, and then Jerry Day is also on Saturday. This is the annual celebration of Jerry Garcia, so I’m sure a lot of folks are coming out, even just for that in itself, is a huge celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] So there’s a 60th anniversary show happening in San Francisco this weekend with Dead and Co, which to be clear is not the same as Grateful Dead, but is sort of an offshoot, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:08:04] Yeah, so the Grateful Dead was started by Jerry Garcia. He is this mythological figure. I mean, Rolling Stone has ranked him, I think, in the top 50 guitar players of all time. He sort of invented this “neer-ne-neer” music, if you will, that my mother scorned in my childhood. And yeah, and he’s a local guy. He grew up in the Excelsior. We celebrate Jerry Day in San Francisco every year. And when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, a lot of people, my father included, considered that to be the end of the Grateful Dead. The Grateful dead, as it was known, was over. However many, many incarnations have sprouted in the subsequent years. And then Dead and Co. is the newest incarnation which has John Mayer playing Jerry’s guitar parts but has Bob Weir really as the front man. He’s still playing the rhythm guitar parts but he sings a lot of Jerry’s original lyrics and obviously his songs as well. That’s pretty much the closest we have to The Grateful Dead today, given two remaining members are in that band, including Bob Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] Dead in Company does this sort of bluesy, slower John Mayer fronted thing, which I personally, as a millennial who grew up with John Mayor and was a big teeny-bopper fan in my teens, I love. I think he’s one of the most talented living guitar players. I love his sort of, bluesy bent on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] It is absolutely not Jerry Garcia, and I think that’s kind of the point. If they had found a Jerry clone, it would have been, I think, more sad, and this is just breathing new life in an absolutely more mainstream sort of stadium theater way, but I’m not offended by that, and I’m stoked. I mean, it’s Bob Weir in Golden Gate Park. I gotta go pay my respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] It sounds like you were very excited about this show coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] Oh, yeah. I mean, when they announced, it didn’t even occur to me that this would be anything but something to celebrate, which is why I was shocked as I wrote in my Standard piece to hear my father’s response. I was thinking, oh my gosh, I’ll get my dad to come back to San Francisco, where I was born, and we’ll go to Golden Gate Park, where it all began, and see these shows together. And he was just like, abso-frickin’ Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Tell me a little bit more about your dad’s reaction and what about it was so surprising to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] I think the ticket price was what generated the most sort of indignance. I mean, I’ve heard words used like it’s unconscionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] As a deadhead, it just felt very commercialized and kind of like a money grab or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:23] I was, you know, a little eyebrow-raisey at the prices. Over $200 for a day, over $600 for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] I didn’t feel they were treating the long-time fan base barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] With the risk of sounding hyperbolic. It was kind of heartbreaking to talk to these folks for my article who just love this band and have built their lives around forming community around this band and are priced out of being able to do this really special thing, which is the 60th anniversary and the place where it all began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I feel like concert tickets these days are just very expensive generally. I mean, I’m thinking Taylor Swift, I think Beyonce, just the biggest shows of our time seem just like so out of reach. But what was it about ticket prices for a Grateful Dead sort of cover band, offshoot that was so irritating in particular to Deadheads?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] Right. I mean, I think deadheads are used to a culture where this band was playing for free or for very accessible prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] Their whole approach was that the band, the audience, was one big experience for everybody. And it just felt like they were integrated with their community. And this just doesn’t have that feel for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] You know, they did The Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park in the 60s for free. They did a free show in the early 70s. I ran the numbers as part of the Standard piece. And it was really fun tracking down old ticket stubs online. But I really didn’t see anything face value for more than, I think, $35 at the time, which translates to under $70 today, which even then, you know, is probably a hefty investment for some people, but orders of magnitude less than what you’re paying today. 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For me, I’m like, well, if I can, you know, have three days of something that makes me wildly happy and a couple of the folks I spoke to for the article feel the same way, then like, please give me this little bit of joy that I can hold onto right now. Please let me dance in the park with 60,000 of my closest friends. Life is short and this is what’s available to us now. It’s like my childhood come to life and the older I get, the more nostalgic I get. So I am just, it’s pretty cool that this band, that this city that was just so deeply celebrated in my household in Connecticut as a child is coming to life in now the city that I have the same reverence for that I consider my home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And I remember it clearly to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] For Chuck and many other deadheads, the Grateful Dead, best known for being pioneers of the jam band and the soundtrack of San Francisco’s Summer of Love, were renegades. They were these sort of outlaws whose shows were unique because they were freewheeling and surprising every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:01:10] We were on Phil Lesh’s side, the other side, and Bob Weir always played in the middle. To see it and be in the the middle of it was just, it just locked me in and it was just fantastic. It was hard to describe. And the world, of course, was a very different place then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:37] San Francisco is gearing up for Deadhead Disneyland. The city is hosting shows for the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, featuring a famous offshoot of the band, Dead and Company. Tickets are going for $635 for three-day general admission, and thousands of Deadheads are expected to attend the shows and related events. But not Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] It just feels super commercialized and just not the spirit that I felt when I attended shows and got involved in the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Today we talk with Chuck’s daughter and San Francisco-based writer Carly Schwartz about the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary shows and why some deadheads are boycotting them. Carly, Do you identify as a dead head?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:39] I feel like I might be disingenuous to say I’m, you know, a religiously fanatic deadhead. I am a religious fanatic fan of the band Phish, and so it’s kind of a cousin of the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] This is Carly Schwartz, a writer and author based in San Francisco. She recently wrote about the Grateful Dead for the San Francisco Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] That was my entry point into Grateful Dead, obviously I heard it around the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] The Grateful Dead got me my start in loving music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] My father’s name is Chuck Schwartz. He lives in Connecticut now. And he basically raised me the way I say it is as the gospel according to Jerry. I mean, Jerry Garcia, who is I guess for all intents and purposes, he was considered the front man. He was the lead guitarist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] I guess I just had it on all the time when they were kids. And so I guess they just assimilated it by osmosis if nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] This was just such a big part of his life and therefore my life as his daughter. I have these memories of him mowing the lawn on a Sunday and just belting out some Jerry lyrics. And my mother, funnily enough, could not stand the Grateful Dead. To this day, she brags about how she never accompanied him to a show. And she called it “neer-ne-neer” music. She’s like, oh, there’s your dad and his “neer-ne-neer”. And my brother and I are just rolling our eyes. There’s dad blasting his Jerry again. But it really was this omnipresent force. I mean, in the car, when he’s gardening around the house, it was just, yeah, it was a soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] As a kid I wanted to not be like my parents, so of course I found my way into the next generation Grateful Dead, which is Phish, and became equally fanatic about them. But yeah, I mean you can’t be as into Phish as I am without having deep respect for the Dead, what they do, the genre they basically invented. I think they’re the godfathers of just an incredible musical movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] Yeah, the jam Band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] Which I learned from your dad, actually, who I had the pleasure of speaking with on the phone. He was really breaking it down for me, because I have to admit, I’m not like, I didn’t grow up listening to Grateful Dead. It’s not something I’m totally familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:19] Well, it’s his favorite subject matter. He was telling me the one thing he was bummed that he forgot to tell you was his theory on the jam band gene. If you are at a show and you hear someone go off on a crazy guitar jam, you’ve got the gene if after 25 minutes you’re like, oh man, that wasn’t really long enough, but it was pretty good. 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But it’s so cool to hear these instruments together doing this magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:01] So Carly, there’s a bunch of stuff going on in San Francisco this weekend. Tell me about the 60th anniversary shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Yeah, so in celebration of the band’s 60th anniversary, or what would be the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, Dead and Company is playing three shows in Golden Gate Park. They are sold out. They have incredible headliners who are considered, you know, guitar gods in their own right. And around the city, a bunch of other stuff is happening. There’s a festival at one of the piers that’s put on by Phil Lesh’s son. There is a street naming after Jerry Garcia. Mickey Hart, the drummer, has an art exhibit somewhere in town, and then Jerry Day is also on Saturday. This is the annual celebration of Jerry Garcia, so I’m sure a lot of folks are coming out, even just for that in itself, is a huge celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] So there’s a 60th anniversary show happening in San Francisco this weekend with Dead and Co, which to be clear is not the same as Grateful Dead, but is sort of an offshoot, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:08:04] Yeah, so the Grateful Dead was started by Jerry Garcia. He is this mythological figure. I mean, Rolling Stone has ranked him, I think, in the top 50 guitar players of all time. He sort of invented this “neer-ne-neer” music, if you will, that my mother scorned in my childhood. And yeah, and he’s a local guy. He grew up in the Excelsior. We celebrate Jerry Day in San Francisco every year. And when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, a lot of people, my father included, considered that to be the end of the Grateful Dead. The Grateful dead, as it was known, was over. However many, many incarnations have sprouted in the subsequent years. And then Dead and Co. is the newest incarnation which has John Mayer playing Jerry’s guitar parts but has Bob Weir really as the front man. He’s still playing the rhythm guitar parts but he sings a lot of Jerry’s original lyrics and obviously his songs as well. That’s pretty much the closest we have to The Grateful Dead today, given two remaining members are in that band, including Bob Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] Dead in Company does this sort of bluesy, slower John Mayer fronted thing, which I personally, as a millennial who grew up with John Mayor and was a big teeny-bopper fan in my teens, I love. I think he’s one of the most talented living guitar players. I love his sort of, bluesy bent on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] It is absolutely not Jerry Garcia, and I think that’s kind of the point. If they had found a Jerry clone, it would have been, I think, more sad, and this is just breathing new life in an absolutely more mainstream sort of stadium theater way, but I’m not offended by that, and I’m stoked. I mean, it’s Bob Weir in Golden Gate Park. I gotta go pay my respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] It sounds like you were very excited about this show coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] Oh, yeah. I mean, when they announced, it didn’t even occur to me that this would be anything but something to celebrate, which is why I was shocked as I wrote in my Standard piece to hear my father’s response. I was thinking, oh my gosh, I’ll get my dad to come back to San Francisco, where I was born, and we’ll go to Golden Gate Park, where it all began, and see these shows together. And he was just like, abso-frickin’ Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Tell me a little bit more about your dad’s reaction and what about it was so surprising to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] I think the ticket price was what generated the most sort of indignance. I mean, I’ve heard words used like it’s unconscionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] As a deadhead, it just felt very commercialized and kind of like a money grab or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:23] I was, you know, a little eyebrow-raisey at the prices. Over $200 for a day, over $600 for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] I didn’t feel they were treating the long-time fan base barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] With the risk of sounding hyperbolic. It was kind of heartbreaking to talk to these folks for my article who just love this band and have built their lives around forming community around this band and are priced out of being able to do this really special thing, which is the 60th anniversary and the place where it all began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I feel like concert tickets these days are just very expensive generally. I mean, I’m thinking Taylor Swift, I think Beyonce, just the biggest shows of our time seem just like so out of reach. But what was it about ticket prices for a Grateful Dead sort of cover band, offshoot that was so irritating in particular to Deadheads?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] Right. I mean, I think deadheads are used to a culture where this band was playing for free or for very accessible prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] Their whole approach was that the band, the audience, was one big experience for everybody. And it just felt like they were integrated with their community. And this just doesn’t have that feel for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] You know, they did The Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park in the 60s for free. They did a free show in the early 70s. I ran the numbers as part of the Standard piece. And it was really fun tracking down old ticket stubs online. But I really didn’t see anything face value for more than, I think, $35 at the time, which translates to under $70 today, which even then, you know, is probably a hefty investment for some people, but orders of magnitude less than what you’re paying today. 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