Historic San Francisco

Author : Rand Richards
Publisher : Heritage House Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 187936705X

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Historic San Francisco by Rand Richards Pdf

No American city has a more colorful history than San Francisco. In this unique book, author Rand Richards not only provides a vivid narrative of this special city from its very beginnings all the way through to the modern era, but also tells where to find the historic buildings, sites, museums, and artifacts that make that history come alive. Just a few of the things you will find in Historic San Francisco are the locations of, and the fascinating histories behind: A 1623 Spanish cannon that once guarded the entrance to the Golden Gate. A gold nugget discovered by James Marshall at Coloma in January 1848. The last surviving Nob Hill mansion. Relics from the 1906 earthquake and fire including clusters of melted dimes and pennies found in the ruins. Book jacket.

Author : Rand Richards
Publisher : Heritage House Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1879367033

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Historic Walks in San Francisco by Rand Richards Pdf

Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Brimming with insight and the odd fact, laced with humor and drama, this unique guidebook sheds new light on the history of one of America's renowned cities. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs.

Author : Judith Lynch Waldhorn,United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000077234908

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Historic Preservation in San Francisco's Inner Mission by Judith Lynch Waldhorn,United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development Pdf

Author : Rebecca Schall
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9781596523074

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Historic Photos of San Francisco by Rebecca Schall Pdf

From the 1906 earthquake to famous sights like the cable cars, Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate Bridge, Historic Photos of San Francisco is a photographic history collected from the area's top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book highlights the historical growth from the mid 1800s to the late 1900s of ""the City by the Bay"" in stunning black and white photography. The book captures scenes of the people, places, and events important to the history of this unique city, accompanied by insightful captions and historical analysis. Spanning two centuries and two hundred photographs, this book is a must-have for any long-time resident or history lover of San Francisco!

Author : Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147200

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Quotable San Francisco: Historic Moments in Memorable Words by Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen Pdf

San Francisco surged from hamlet to boomtown overnight--the most meteoric "instant city" in history. From the Gold Rush to the Tech Rush, it's been the site of daring innovations, counterculture upheavals and social rebellions that shaped generations. Over the decades, residents have offered unique perspectives through journals, letters and newspapers, their words bringing another time to life. Discover San Francisco through the eyes of miners and "ladies of the night." Relive the experiences of robber barons and beatniks who flourished in a tiny corner of the world with fewer than one million souls. With commentary, background and extraordinary images, historians Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen guide you through these colorful quotes, showing the city as it once was and what it aspired to be.

Author : Tom Cole
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597143042

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A Short History of San Francisco by Tom Cole Pdf

A concise, “colorful, well-told” history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century (Los Angeles Times). This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the transcontinental railroad and the cable car, labor strife and political shenanigans, the 1906 earthquake and fire, two World Wars, two World's Fairs, two great bridges, the beatniks and hippies and New Left—a story that is so marvelous and wild that it must be true. A new afterword from the author in this updated third edition brings The City into the twenty-first century—a time just as hectic, experimental, and opportunistic as its rambunctious past.

Author : John Phillip Langellier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
ISBN : PSU:000023680357

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Historic Resource Study, El Presidio de San Francisco by John Phillip Langellier Pdf

Author : Judith Lynch Waldhorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCBK:C034925328

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Historic Preservation in San Francisco's Inner Mission & Take a Walk Through Mission History by Judith Lynch Waldhorn Pdf

Author : Anne Evers Hitz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439669198

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Lost Department Stores of San Francisco by Anne Evers Hitz Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.

Author : Philip P. Choy
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780872866027

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San Francisco Chinatown by Philip P. Choy Pdf

Winner of the American Book Award San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind—an "insider's guide" to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclaves by an author born and raised there. Written by architect and Chinese American studies pioneer Philip P. Choy, the book details the triumphs and tragedies of the Chinese American experience in the U.S. Both a history of America's oldest and most famous Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture, San Francisco Chinatown traces the development of the neighborhood from the city's earliest days to its post-quake transformation into an "Oriental" tourist attraction as a pragmatic means of survival. Featuring a building-by-building breakdown of the most significant sites in Chinatown, the guide is lavishly illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs and offers walking tours for tourists and locals alike. "A stunning new guidebook. . . . History buffs will be amazed by the wealth of lore, legend and radiant fact."—San Francisco Chronicle A Los Angeles Times summer reading pick "San Francisco Chinatown illuminates the untold history of the enclave . . . to consider the political, historical, and cultural implications of Chinatown's very existence."—San Francisco Bay Guardian "Part history book and part tour guide, San Francisco Chinatown is definitely niche, but wonderfully so. In it, Choy quickly outlines the history of San Francisco as a whole, then jumps into a section by section investigation of the city's famous Chinatown. . . . San Francisco Chinatown whets ones appetite to learn more about Chinese-American history."—Evelyn McDonald, City Book Review Retired architect and renowned historian of Chinese America Philip P. Choy co-taught the first college level course in Chinese American history at San Francisco State University. Since then he has created and consulted on numerous TV documentaries, exhibits and publications. He has served on the California State Historic Resource Commission, on the San Francisco Landmark Advisory Board, five times as President of the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) and currently as an emeritus CHSA boardmember. He is a recipient of the prestigious San Francisco State University President's Medal.

Author : James Brook,Chris Carlsson,Nancy J. Peters,City Lights Books
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0872863352

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Reclaiming San Francisco by James Brook,Chris Carlsson,Nancy J. Peters,City Lights Books Pdf

Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists-along with the stories of speculators, land-grabbers, and the land itself that need to be told differently. Contributors include historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.

Author : Gary Kamiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781635575897

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Spirits of San Francisco by Gary Kamiya Pdf

The bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco-a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. In Spirits of San Francisco, #1 bestselling Cool Gray City of Love author Gary Kamiya joins forces with celebrated, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before, Kamiya's illuminating narratives accompany Madonna's masterful pen-and-ink drawings, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. Paul Madonna's atmospheric images will awe: his wide-angle drawings offer a new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world” and vistas across the city. And Kamiya's engaging prose, accompanying each image, offers striking vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. Handsome and irresistible-much like the city it chronicles-Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed, personal, loving, informed portrait of a beloved city.

Author : Bailey Millard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005480608

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History of the San Francisco Bay Region by Bailey Millard Pdf

Author : Chris Carlsson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0745340946

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Hidden San Francisco by Chris Carlsson Pdf

San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city's most interesting stories are not the Summer of Love, the Beats or even the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley. Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology, labour, transit and dissent, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of San Francisco's history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries, secret music and poetry venues, forgotten terrorist bombings, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area's long prehistory as well, examining the region's geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything, setting in motion the clash between capital and labour that shaped the modern city. From the perspective of the students and secretaries, longshoremen and waitresses, Hidden San Francisco uncovers dozens of overlooked, forgotten and buried histories that pulse through the streets and hills even today, inviting the reader to see themselves in the middle of the ongoing, everyday process of making history together.

Author : Michael R. Corbett
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Harbors
ISBN : 0615398316

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Port City by Michael R. Corbett Pdf