It looks like that era saw a lot of memorial crosses being built to remember WW1 dead. The one in San Francisco is in a city park on Mount Davidson in the southern part of town. In the 1990's the ACLU and affiliated leftist groups sued to have it removed. The case made it to the 9th circuit and you can imagine how they ruled.
Rather than face an expensive and uncertain appeal the city auctioned off about a quarter acre of land where the cross was located. An Armenian group bought the land and didn't make any changed other than installing a plaque commemorating victims of the Armenian genocide which also took place during WW1. Most people thought it was a good addition to the site - and the leftist were frustrated again.
Does anybody know what happened regarding the cross in San Diego county that the left wanted to tear down as well?