The Making of Golden Gate Park

The Making of Golden Gate Park
Title The Making of Golden Gate Park PDF eBook
Author Raymond H. Clary
Publisher
Pages 216
Release 1980
Genre Travel
ISBN

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Building the Golden Gate Bridge

Building the Golden Gate Bridge
Title Building the Golden Gate Bridge PDF eBook
Author Harvey Schwartz
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 201
Release 2015-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 0295806206

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Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-Fiction Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression. Labor historian Harvey Schwartz has compiled oral histories of nine workers who helped build the celebrated bridge. Their powerful recollections chronicle the technical details of construction, the grueling physical conditions they endured, the small pleasures they enjoyed, and the gruesome accidents some workers suffered. The result is an evocation of working-class life and culture in a bygone era. Most of the bridge builders were men of European descent, many of them the sons of immigrants. Schwartz also interviewed women: two nurses who cared for the injured and tolerated their antics, the wife of one 1930s builder, and an African American ironworker who toiled on the bridge in later years. These powerful stories are accompanied by stunning photographs of the bridge under construction. An homage to both the American worker and the quintessential San Francisco landmark, Building the Golden Gate Bridge expands our understanding of Depression-era labor and California history and makes a unique contribution to the literature of this iconic span.

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge
Title The Golden Gate Bridge PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher LernerClassroom
Pages 36
Release 2010
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0761350128

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Guess how many vehicles drive across the Golden Gate Bridge each year?

The New Urban Park

The New Urban Park
Title The New Urban Park PDF eBook
Author Hal Rothman
Publisher
Pages 280
Release 2004
Genre Nature
ISBN

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From Yellowstone to the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks are sprawling tracts of serenity, most of them carved out of public land for recreation and preservation around the turn of the last century. America has changed dramatically since then, and so has its conceptions of what parkland ought to be. In this book, one of our premier environmental historians looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype for the twenty-first century. Cobbled together from public and private lands in a politically charged arena, the GGNRA represents a new direction for parks as it highlights the long-standing tension within the National Park Service between preservation and recreation. Long a center of conservation, the Bay Area was well positioned for such an innovative concept. Writing with insight and wit, Rothman reveals the many complex challenges that local leaders, politicians, and the NPS faced as they attempted to administer sites in this area. He tells how Representative Phillip Burton guided a comprehensive bill through Congress to establish the park and how he and others expanded the acreage of the GGNRA, redefined its mission to the public, forged an identity for interconnected parks, and struggled against formidable odds to obtain the San Francisco Presidio and convert it into a national park. Engagingly written, The New Urban Park offers a balanced examination of grassroots politics and its effect on municipal, state, and federal policy. While most national parks dominate the economies of their regions, GGNRA was from the start tied to the multifaceted needs of its public and political constituents-including neighborhood, ethnic, and labor interests as well as the usual supporters from the conservation movement. As a national recreation area, GGNRA helped redefine that category in the public mind. By the dawn of the new century, it had already become one of the premier national park areas in terms of visitation. Now as public lands become increasingly scarce, GGNRA may well represent the future of national parks in America. Rothman shows that this model works, and his book will be an invaluable resource for planning tomorrow's parks.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
Title San Francisco's Golden Gate Park PDF eBook
Author Chris Pollock
Publisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Pages 130
Release 2001
Genre Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
ISBN 1558685456

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This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.

The German Way

The German Way
Title The German Way PDF eBook
Author Hyde Flippo
Publisher McGraw-Hill Education
Pages 148
Release 1996-06-01
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780844225135

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For All Students Ideal for a variety of courses, this completely up-to-date, alphabetically organized handbook helps students understand how people from German-speaking nations think, do business, and act in their daily lives.

Birds of Golden Gate Park

Birds of Golden Gate Park
Title Birds of Golden Gate Park PDF eBook
Author Golden Gate Audubon Society
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016-03-14
Genre Birds
ISBN 9781583559734

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The Golden Gate Park National Recreation Area is the permanent or migratory home of over 250 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map of the park. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized folding guide is an excellent source of portable information and ideal for field use by visitors and residents alike. Researched by the Audubon Society of Golden Gate.