A downward view, from SkyStar Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park, of the monument Monumental Reckoning that pays homage to the first 350 Africans “stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in 1619.”
Looking Down from SkyStar
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Looking Up at Skystar Wheel
A view of the SkyStar Ferris wheel looking up with a gondola on the side.
Views of San Francisco from SkyStar
Sitting in the gondola at the top most position on the SkyStar Ferris wheel when it was in Golden Gate Park, these are the wonderful views of San Francisco.
Music Concourse from Skystar
A wide view, from atop the SkyStar Ferris wheel, of the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The 122-year-old Golden Gate Bandshell is the oldest structure in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse, an open-air plaza built for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. It is also called the Spreckels Temple of Music.
Skystar Wheel
Golden Gate Park’s Ferris wheel SkyStar was installed as part of the park’s 150th anniversary celebration and claimed to be the first such Ferris wheel in the park since the 1890s. Skystar has now moved to Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, but we were able to capture our images in August 2023. The wheel and its 36 gondolas have 1 million lights and weigh nearly half a million pounds.
