This is a close-up of the fountain in Viña del Mar Park, located in downtown Sausalito. This fountain, and two beautiful stone elephants which flank the fountain and grace the entrance to the park, came from San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition Fair.  

For more on the fountain, its place at the 1915 Fair, and how it came to Sausalito, visit this site.
http://www.ci.sausalito.ca.us/shs/hist-dist/bridgeway/plaza-his1.htm

For more on Sausalito:
http://www.ci.sausalito.ca.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausalito,_California

For more on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition Fair:    
http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/ppie/panamapacific.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/palace/index.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/history/PPIE-3D/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama-Pacific_International_Exposition_(1915)

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