A 30-foot-tall statue of Junípero Serra, sculpted by David Tilden, was installed in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and sat on the plinth from 1907 to June 2020. The statue was toppled on June 19, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, as a “Juneteenth” commemoration. Also torn down were the bronze statues of Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key. All three reside in a secure and undisclosed location to this day. Leftists have a difficult time appreciating art unless it is Soviet socialist realism, and they are not fond of really anything besides graffiti or a street mural glorifying Che Guevara, long-dead Minister of Industries, Cuba. I worked there in GG Park as an assistant gardener one summer while in college and thought naively that the statue was permanent. left - empty plinth, photo via Google and taken by Piotr Biedacha nine months ago; right - Serra Serra given by California to the National Statuary Hall Collection (D.C.) in 1931 He was canonized on Sept. 23, 2015. One of the people under my direction at that time cleverly lured me into a discussion, and he was proud of himself for setting a trap full of nasty words when I defended Serra.
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