Flashback Friday: The Japanese Tea Garden and the Family ThatWas Forced to Leave It
The Hagiwara family tended the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden
Gate Park for four generations. Then the government forced them to
leave. This is what we lost.
Flashback Friday: The Richmond District… Why Richmond?
The Richmond District wasn't named after a city in Virginia. It was named after a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, by a teenage art dealer who couldn't stop collecting Japanese vases.
Flashback Friday: The Fountain That Raised Us (and the Vaillancourt of it all)
The Vaillancourt Fountain has divided San Francisco since 1971. Part Brutalist sculpture, part childhood memory, it remains one of the waterfront’s most debated landmarks.