San Francisco and thereabout 1902
The Tea garden in Golden Gate Park
No spot in the park is more fascinating to me than the quaint Japanese garden and tea house, where dwarf trees and evergreen carpets cling amid the rocks bordering pools spanned by rustic bridges, where cozy nooks invite you to linger for the refreshing bowl of tea and crisp crinkly little rice cakes.
The Tea Garden was
built for the Midwinter Exposition of 1894. It proved so popular with the people
that it was saved.
San Franciscans would feel the same way about the Palace of Fine Arts of the
Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. It also would be saved.