Photographs by Ron Henggeler - a special presentation of the San Francisco Historical Society.

Music by Michael Masley: Six White Horses, from the album Mystery Repeats Itself

This year, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park celebrates its 150 Anniversary. On April 4th, Golden Gate Park was supposed to have its birthday party with an estimated 150,000 in attendance. Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, and California's shelter-in-place mandate, the party has been postponed until later this year. Until then, San Franciscans and Bay Area residents have been invited to celebrate the park's creation on-line.

Photographer Ron Henggeler and The San Francisco Historical Society are honoring Golden Gate Park's 150 Year Anniversary with a collection of photos taken in the park over the past 20 years. We created this video as a brief introduction to the body of his work featured on our dedicated page on the SFHS site, where you can view Ron's photographs as a gallery:
https://sfhistory.org/publications/sf...
Gallery page:
https://sfhistory.org/publications/go...

More photos from Ron's wonderful collections of Golden Gate Park and other San Francisco landmarks are posted on his website at:
https://sfhistory.org/publications/go...
http://www.ronhenggeler.com/index.html

Visit the official Golden Gate Park 150th Anniversary web site for timeless celebrations of beauty and magic: https://www.goldengatepark150.com

Michael Masley is an earth-folk musician in the Bay Area. http://www.artistgeneral.com/
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PHOTO CREDITS:
1. The pedestrian tunnel under John Kennedy Drive, near the de Young Museum
2. This observation ferris wheel is only 60% completed. It was meant to be part of Golden Gate Park's 150 Anniversary Celebration.
3. Dutch Windmill, Golden Gate Park, 1910 R. Henggeler’s photo of a photo by Willand Worden, from the show Portals of the Past at the de Young in 2015
4. The Cliff House (Low Tide) 1904 R. Henggeler’s photo of a photo by Willand Worden, from the show Portals of the Past at the de Young
5. The Garfield Monument sits on a prominent berm southeast of the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Dedicated on July 4, 1885, it is the oldest monument in the park.
6 In a clearing known as Hero's Grove, a large, three-sided granite boulder known as the Gold Star Mothers Rock is inscribed with the names of 748 local men and 13 women who died in World War I. Heroes Grove is located across John F. Kennedy Drive directly north of the deYoung Museum.
7. Detail of an enormous painted canvas mural from the 1915 PPIE. It hung in the Wilsey Court of the de Young Museum in 2015. The mural was part of an exhibition titled: Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition
8. In the mid-1960s, artists, activists, writers, and musicians converged on Haight-Ashbury with hopes of creating a new social paradigm. By 1967, the neighborhood would attract as many as 100,000 young people from all over the nation. The neighborhood became ground zero for their activities, and nearby Golden Gate Park their playground.From the Summer of Love Show at the de Young Museum in 2017 (see http://www.ronhenggeler.com/Newslette...)
9. A poster for a Human Be-in on the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. From the Summer of Love Show at the de Young Museum in 2017
10. A photo of the Polo Fields, from the Summer of Love Show at the de Young Museum in 2017
11. The entrance to Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
12. Impressions of a Saffron Tower. In 2008, a blown glass and neon tower by Dale Chihuly was installed in front of the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Titled Saffron Tower, it stood in the very center of the Pool of Enchantment. During the summer in 2008, an exhibition of Chihuly’s work opened on June 14th and ended on September 28, 2008.
13. The stairs leading up to Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park
14. The bison in Golden Gate Park
15. Detail of: Apple Cider Press, 1892 by Thomas Shields Clark
16. A stairway inside the de Young
17. Detail of the Sphinx. The pair of crouched Egyptian mythical figures by sculptor Arthur Putnam guards a walkway seemingly to nowhere . . . but this was once the pathway to the Egyptian-style Fine Arts Building for the 1894 Midwinter Fair.
18. Detail From the 2012 show at the de Young Museum: The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk To The Catwalk
19. Entrance to the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park
20/21 The 1905 Murphy Windmill, located at the south end of Golden Gate Park
http://www.ronhenggeler.com/Newslette...
22. This observation ferris wheel is only 60% completed. It was meant to be part of Golden Gate Park's 150 Anniversary Celebration.