"Before cars existed, Golden Gate Park was created as an escape from urban pressures. Instead, it turned into a test tube for the cultural shift from horses and coal gas balloons to bicycles and motor-carriages, from the spectacle of the "Gilded Age" robber barons to a literal refuge for refugees."
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