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• Playland at the Conservatory: A Garden Railway Celebrating San Francisco's West End
  Take a trip down memory lane as a bygone era of seaside amusement comes to miniature life in this season¹s Conservatory of Flowers garden railway exhibition

Recent Press Coverage

• SFGate
  December 3, 2011
  Replaying memories of Playland-at-the-Beach
  

• ABC7 News
  Don Sanchez explores the thrills of Playland and chats with Exhibit Director Lau Hodges.
  
  

• KTVU - Video
  Lau Hodges explains the Seaside Amusements of San Francisco's past, highlighted in this year's Garden Railway, and demonstrates the charms of the 1930s bumper car.
  

• Richmond Blog SF
  November 21, 2011
  Dig into the stories behind the exhibit to learn how the Conservatory accumulated all the nostalgic and novel elements of the Playland exhibit.  
  

•  KTVU.com
  A photo slideshow of the Playland Exhibit.    
  

• The Western Edition 
  November 1, 2011
  Go behind the scenes on one of our Jungle Tours!
  

• San Francisco Chronicle
  August 9, 2011
  Leah Garchik gets literary with Quiet Lightning. 
  

• SF Recreations & Parks Get Out & Play
  features interviews with Amy Stewart and Exhibits Director Lau Hodges, and introduces viewers to the bewitching plants. 
   
  

• SFGate
  December 29, 2010
  Broke Guy Day Care: Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
  

• Contra Costa Times
  November 27, 2010
  Conservatory of Flowers recreates Golden Gate Park in miniature
  
  
• China News
  November 19, 2010
  Garden Railway
  
  
• San Francisco Chronicle
  July 14, 2010
  nared by a taste for carnivorous plant life
  
  
• San Francisco Chronicle
  December 9, 2009
  Conservatory of Flowers' model city, railroad
  
  
• San Francisco Examiner
  May 14, 2009
  Plant life reveals origins of food
  
  
• San Francisco Chronicle
  May 9, 2008
  Exotic fruit plants show in Golden Gate Park
  
  
• San Francisco Chronicle
  November 20, 2008
  Train exhibit a labor of love for Cal professor
  
  
• San Francisco Chronicle
  February 6, 2008
  Penjing: Miniature landscapes are rock solid

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