The park lay just the other side of an ornate gate. The fence was painted black with gold painted highlights. Ornate bronze and glass lanterns hung over the entry.

Trees lined both sides of a walkway that bordered the park. This path was mirrored by another path on the other side of the park.

A war memorial lay at the far end of the park. It was built of black marble which contrasted well with the green lawn.

A sign etched into the black marble were the words:

Within this octagon of stone remembered earth from battlefields where Americans fought and died.
Here, we bear witness to their sacrifice.

An almost glass smooth pond was part of the war memorial. In the foreground, a narrow waterfall fell into a slot in the black marble.

A closer photograph of the waterfall at the end of the pond. The water fell glass smooth of the sharp edge of that end of the pond.

A quotation form a book by Archibald MacLeish was etched into one of the inner faces of the war memorial. It read, in part, "We cannot say, it is you who must say this."

Etched into the black marble under the quotation was a line of credit.

"The Young Dead Soldiers" from collected poems by Archibald MacLeish used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Two levels of ponds were next to the War Memorial. The upper level emptied into the lower level.

One of two tree lined paths that bordered the two sides of Memorial Court. Notice the handsome brick and concrete pattern embedded into the path. Also notice a plastic bag of litter to the left, and a dog on the grass to the right.

The sign that identified this Memorial Court was etched into concrete to one side of the park. It read, "War Memorial of San Francisco 1931."