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Makoto Hagiwara (萩原 眞, Hagiwara Makoto) (15 August 1854 – 12 September 1925) [1] [2] was a Japanese-born American landscape designer responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, from 1895 until his death in 1925. [3]
In 1870 the Park Commission solicited bids for a topographical survey which was awarded to Hall. After the successful completion of that task, he was appointed Golden Gate Park's first superintendent in 1871. [1] Hall devised a plan to improve the Park. The design included a Panhandle along with two main drives.
Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the second-largest park in the city , containing 1,017 acres (412 ha), and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.
The Japanese Tea Garden (Japanese: 日本茶園) in San Francisco, California, is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. Though many of its attractions are still a part of the garden today, there have been changes throughout the ...
An early effort to build a gate which started in 1958 [15] was suspended in 1961 after funds and materials ran short, [16] then abandoned in 1962. [17] The budget for both gateways (Chinatown and Barbary Coast) was initially $50,000 each, but the San Francisco Arts Commission killed the Barbary Coast proposal and reduced the budget to $35,000 ...
Philip P. Choy was born in San Francisco in 1926; his father was a paper son who emigrated to the United States using a resident's identity papers, and his mother was born in America, but returned to China in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. He served in the Army during World War II and attended college using the GI Bill, earning a degree in ...
L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley played a part. Las Vegas' Asian American population has grown more quickly than nearly any other population in the last few years. L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley played a part.
In 1893, the San Francisco Call confidently bragged that according to an agent from the United States Department of Labor, there were no slums in the city. Although Chinatown was mentioned as a notable exception, the "unsavory, unsightly quarter" was thought to be "rapidly growing smaller and may finally reach the vanishing point" as immigration had been throttled by the Chinese Exclusion Act ...