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Sep 21, 2006 at 8:31 AM
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The other day, Schomer made a post about this series of iconic posters for the different parks and sites of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. I was sure I'd seen one for Crissy Field as well and I went in search of my own postcard book.

I was right, I found Crissy Field, Sutro Heights and Tennessee Valley in my book. Visiting the
Park Conservancy web site I found four more as well. I couldn't find a poster for Tennessee Valley and I haven't managed a good photo of it yet.

How many of these are there anyway? Rodeo Beach? Fort Kronkite?

The Cliff House is a recolored version of Lands End. That might have been intended from the start given the Cliff House is featured in the original, but at the time was closed to be completely rebuilt. I'm hoping it's a sign they intend to continue these long into the future as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) expands and parts are restored.

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By the way, I like that they worked in The Palace of Fine Arts and the city skyline into Crissy Field.

These are great! I had no idea there were more out there. I wonder how long ago I picked mine up down there. Seems like it would have to be 10 years or so.

Some of these sites are actually new since you bought that. The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is not that old (they actually just turned 25) and have managed a lot in that time. When they tied together all these different parks and landmarks they were able to raise a lot more money and been able to direct a lot of it to various projects that would have all struggled without enough funding on their own. The new Cliff House (the fourth one now I think) only opened a few years ago. Crissy Field is a recent restoration project.

I heard they've just aquired more open space further south to add. I hope they will just continue adding posters in this style as they add new parks and landmarks.

I just found a list on the National Parks Service site which has a lot more sites than we've seen posters for yet.

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