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Outside Lands Podcast Episode 408: Uncle John McLaren
Incredulously, after 400+ podcasts, we are only now devoting one to John McLaren, the Superintendent of San Francisco parks - for life. The pod looks at McLaren's lasting legacy throughout the City and beyond.
Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Dec 5, 2020
(above) John McLaren,
Dec 20, 1937
John McLaren outside McLaren Lodge in Golden Gate Park on his 91st birthday
The story of a peripatetic statue, that looks like a wedding cake top, in Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse. (Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Dec 15, 2018)
The Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park has been THE event location for over a hundred years. After our June hiatus, Nicole and Michael return to tell the origin story and the major events that continue to be held there to this day. Anyone heard of Outside Lands? (Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Jul 3, 2021)