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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ium at some length andthe following data is taken from this article: The high school building is i practii .aural ravine existing in the side of the bluff immediately beside the higand one which otherwise would have had to be tilled in theand property improvement. The street which passes in front ofalso crosses the head of this ravine, leaving on the downhill sihollow leading out to the Sound. To fill this land nearenoughgrade to make it valuable for building put ild have cos >um of money, so the idea ing it into a stadiui thus improving the site and at the same time furnishingthe high school. It was found thai the equivalent of thi 72 The Architect and Engineer
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The Irci 73 would cover a large part of the cosl of building the stadium, so the ;of the city loaned direcl assistano to the project, and by combination withthe regular board of education funds, means were provided to erect the$150,000 structure. A playground of ampli area for thi needs of aschool is thus provided, with a hoi of seats around it acco dating 30,000 spectators. The flat, graded floor of the playground is made by a fill in tinend of the ravine, up to an elevation oi I1- feel bi Sur- rounding it are the tiers of seal-, rising 50 feet Er< Id, or within 57 feet of street grade. Above the horseshoe are the natural slbpi s, • istainedin some places by heavy retaining walls, and instairways leading to the streel and schoolyard. The playground enclosed bj the horseshoe is about 400 feet wide and400 feet long on the central axis. At the upper end, in the curved sectionof the stands, it is circumscribed by a 128 fool radiu h arc of 153 degrees, the radius gradually lengthenin

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