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Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park (Photo/Flickr-Patrick G CC)
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These are the 12 names in the running to replace Stow Lake

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher June 15, 2023June 20, 2023

Though suggestions continue to trickle in, San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar this week gave J. a list of 12 prime contenders to replace the name “Stow Lake” after it became […]

Stow Lake today in Golden Gate Park. (Wikimedia/Brocken Inaglory)
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S.F. supes’ resolution urges renaming Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake, named for politician who proposed ‘Jew-tax’

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher October 19, 2022October 19, 2022
Stow Lake is named for William W. Stow, speaker of the Assembly in 1855 who railed against the state’s Jews. (Photos/Wikimedia Commons, Souvenir Evening Post; Collage/Gabriel Greschler)
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Will antisemite’s name finally be stripped from Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park?

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher July 25, 2022August 2, 2022
Stow Lake is named for William W. Stow, speaker of the Assembly in 1855 who railed against the state’s Jews. (Photos/Wikimedia Commons, Souvenir Evening Post; Collage/Gabriel Greschler)
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This S.F. lake is named after California’s most anti-Semitic politician. One man is trying to change that.

by Gabriel Greschler December 6, 2019December 9, 2019

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