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Anything can happen in Golden Gate Park. To symbolize this Babar, the little elephant invented by Laurent de Brunhoff, has arrived, using an under-sized parachute, to see the flower beds in front of the Conservatory. He is accompanied by a patriotic parachutist who may join the festivities on the hill to the right. Or he may land in the gigantic plane tree below. The tree frames the Alvord Lake Bridge, the first reinforced concrete bridge in the country, built in 1889 by Ernest Ransome, an Oakland manufacturer who invented the process. Its radical design may not be obvious, but its fake stalactites are.

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