Just to set the record straight: the name of this website presents several untruths, but rather than think of them as "lies," I invite you to consider them "figurations." The website is indeed named after an actual park in San Francisco, but its official name is Sutro Heights Park, not Sutro Park. However, for me it's always been Sutro Park, and since the concept for the name is nostalgic ("Sutro Park" as a frame of mind, etc. etc. etc.), the official name seems less significant than the remembered name. Additionally, it's not technically true that Sutro Park is a place "where the pacific ocean merges with the waters of san francisco bay." Well, maybe yes, maybe no: it all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. The park is separated by road (and cliffs) from places that have more immediate contact with the water - Land's End, for example, and the remains of Sutro Baths (named - naturally - for the same Adolph Sutro behind the park) - but the view from the park contains them all, offering a panoramic view of ocean, bay, city, and opposing highlands. So, figuratively speaking, memory merges with fact (take that, T.S. Eliot!) just as ocean merges with bay, and Sutro Park represents a happy remembered place, where I hope to return sometime soon.
Posted by gminter at March 24, 2004 07:04 PM