From K-QED. Was it all just a dream?

Back in the day, Bay curious listener Lisa Schwartz remembers seeing something odd in Emryville.

Nestled in the armpit of the maze, sort of across the interstate from where IKEA is today,

was a stretch of muddy tidal flat, full of creatures.

There was a ramshackle warrior riding a horse into battle. 50 feet away, a wooden dog playing an electric

guitar. And when the sun was setting just right, the silhouette of a toy sea monster emerged from the muck.

If you were a kid in the backseat of the car in the 70s,

driving by the Emoryville mudflats was magical.

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podcast. Our listener, Lisa Schwartz, she wants to know what happened to those

sculptures. Or was it all just a dream.

Lucky for us,

reporters Jessica Plachik and Maddie Gobo

made an episode about the Mud Flats

for the art podcast, Raw Material.

It was not a dream.

It was a very real sculpture park that flourished through the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

The road to San Francisco had become a drive-through art gallery. There were

giraffes, wooden ships and kangaroos along the three-way each morning.

People came from all over to build Chinese dragons, elephants,

fish, and totem poles.

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