San Francisco's Arguello Park community builds a neighborhood park / interviewed 1993-1994 by Suzanne B. Riess for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

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San Francisco's Arguello Park community builds a neighborhood park / interviewed 1993-1994 by Suzanne B. Riess for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

Unbound, edited transcripts of interviews with six participants in planning and successfully completing Arguello Park, 7th Avenue, between Anza and Geary Streets in the Richmond district of San Francisco, a park which stands as the result of community activists working with the San Francisco American Friends Service-originated Youth for Service agency in the period from 1960-1965. With these, related correspondence and supplementary material, including correspondence with the City of San Francisco, planning documents, fund-raising appeals, and assorted newsletters from Youth for Service.

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UC Berkeley Libraries

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