{"id":8998,"date":"2020-02-24T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2023-07-10T00:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T00:49:44","slug":"rest-in-pieces-at-buena-vista-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/rest-in-pieces-at-buena-vista-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in pieces at Buena Vista Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Buena Vista Park on Haight Street is one of San Francisco’s oldest public parks. Built on the side of a hill, on a clear day one can see the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and downtown between the trees at the top of the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today you’ll find everyone from wanna-be hippie kids to dog walkers to young couples having picnics in the park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you look closely you’ll also find something else: pieces of old headstones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When San Francisco started evicting graveyards in the early 20th century to make more room for the living, many headstones were scrapped for material — recycled rock, basically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1930’s a WPA project was tasked with updating Buena Vista Park’s pathways and addressing flooding issues. Many of these new pathways were lined with gutters paved from rocks; including old headstones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part the headstones aren’t noticeable, aside from the unusual decision to pave gutters with white stone. However in a dozen or so places around the park, parts of the original engravings are easily to spot. Three of these are in the photos above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information can be found on Wikipedia<\/a> and on Atlas Obscura<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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