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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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53.00 3. Peralta Park 30.00 4. San Antonio Park 12.00 5. East Shore Park 11.00 6. Mosswood Park 13.00 7. De Fremery Park 12.40 8. Linda Vista Park 8.50 9. Lakeshore Willows Park 9.00 30. .\dams Park 4.10 11. Edge Lake Park 8.66 12. Clinton Square Park 2.40 13. Harrison Square 1.82 14. Jefferson Square 1.82 15. Lafayette Square • 1.82 16. Lincoln Square 1.82 17. Madison Square 1.82 18. City Hall Plaza 1.00 19. Bushrod Park 3.00 20. Bay View Park 4.00 21. Bella Vista Park 75 22. Union Plaza 75 23. Brooklyn Boulevard Plaza 80 24. Rockridge Park 1.00 25. Colby Plaza 70 26. Santa Fe Plaza SO 27. Ridgeway Park 40 28. Aloha Park 1 29. Chetwood Plaza 2 30. Brooklyn Plaza 6 31. Mandana Boulevard Plaza 6 32. Third .\venue Plaza 4. 33. Lake Merritt 160.00 472.96 Most of the above are typical city squares and plazas—breathing placesfor office workers and children from the apartment houses and hotels, andlunch places for hundreds of shop girls and school children. The Architect and Engineer 69
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FOUXTAI.V. WITH COXCRETE II,ILK J.VD SEATS. Lll.lWalter D. Ri-cJ, Anhilecl Mossvvood Park, however, is entirely ditiereiU Inuii the unliiiaiv smallpark, and has a charm and wildness that one would never expect within afew feet of a principal cit) street. Its wonderful trees, soft lawns and shadycreek, with its vine-covered banks, make it one of the most loved spots inOakland. San .\ntonio Park is interesting because of its early history, thestory being- that, in the years gone by, our early citizens held their publiccelebrations, bull fights and executions here, and had established an observa-tion station at the highest point to report ships coming through the (lolden(iate. As is the case in most large cities, the park system of the city of Oaklandis controlled by a Board of Park Directors, three in number, who are ap-pointed by the Mayor and who serve, without com()ensation. for a i)eriod ofsix years, a new memlier being appointed every two years. The framers ofthe charter evidently

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