San Francisco S Lost Landmarks

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 0981890806

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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks by Anonim Pdf

Author : James R. Smith
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1884995446

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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks by James R. Smith Pdf

With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than one hundred and fifty years. It not only tells of the lost landmarks, but also dishes up the flavour of what it was like to experience these past treasures.

Author : Mary Germain Hountalas
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580089951

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The San Francisco Cliff House by Mary Germain Hountalas Pdf

The history of this fabled site spans 150 years, beginning in

Author : Carol S. Prentice
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813700076

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1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides by Carol S. Prentice Pdf

The twenty field trip guides in this volume represent the work of earthquake professionals from the earth science, engineering, and emergency management communities. The guides were developed to cross the boundaries between these professions, and thus reflect this diversity: trips focus on the built environment, the effects of the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas fault, and other active faults in northern California.

Author : Stephen M. Silverman
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316416474

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The Amusement Park by Stephen M. Silverman Pdf

Experience the electrifying, never-before-told true story of amusement parks, from the middle ages to present day, and meet the colorful (and sometimes criminal) characters who are responsible for their enchanting charms. Step right up! The Amusement Park is a rich, anecdotal history that begins nine centuries ago with the "pleasure gardens" of Europe and England and ends with the most elaborate modern parks in the world. It's a history told largely through the stories of the colorful, sometimes hedonistic characters who built them, including: Showmen like Joseph and Nicholas Schenck and Marcus Loew DIV 0pt? 0in MARGIN:Railroad barons Andrew Mellon and Henry E. Huntington/div DIV 0pt? 0in MARGIN:The men who ultimately destroyed the parks, including Robert Moses and Fred Trump/div DIV 0pt? 0in MARGIN:Gifted artisans and craft-people who brought the parks to life/div DIV 0pt? 0in MARGIN:An amazing cast of supporting players, from Al Capone to Annie Oakley/div And, of course, this is a full-throttle celebration of the rides, those marvels of engineering and heart-stopping thrills from an author, Stephen Silverman, whose life-long passion for his subject shines through. The parks and fairs featured include the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Dreamland, Euclid Beach Park, Cedar Point, Palisades Park, Ferrari World, Dollywood, Sea World, Six Flags Great Adventure, Universal Studios, Disney World and Disneyland, and many more.

Author : Chris Epting
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781595807762

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Lost Landmarks of Orange County by Chris Epting Pdf

Since forming in 1889, Orange County, California has become famous all over the world for being home to such popular attractions as Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. But there are also many other places that helped establish the county as not just a popular tourist destination, but also home to countless cultural landmarks that served the local communities for generations. Stretching across the 34 cities that comprise “The OC,” Lost Landmarks of Orange County brings back fabulous memories of music venues, restaurants, theaters, theme parks, attractions, and more. Everybody knows the aforementioned Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm, but Orange County was also home to Lion Country Safari, the California Alligator farm, the Buffalo Ranch, Japanese Deer Park, Movieland Wax Museum, the Orange County International Speedway, and many other large-scale attractions. Concert venues including the Golden Bear, Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, and the Cuckoo’s Nest, which all featured some of the biggest names in rock and roll and popular music. Tiki bars, airports, drive-in movie theaters, themed restaurants . . . these were the places where generations of OC natives and visitors from around the world created memories that would last a lifetime. Today, all of these locations are gone, but utilizing firsthand accounts, rare photos, artifacts, and other resources, Lost Landmarks of Orange County keeps the colorful memories of Orange County’s past alive.

Author : Timothy B. Riordan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 078645511X

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Prince of Quacks by Timothy B. Riordan Pdf

This is a biography of the controversial and flamboyant nineteenth century doctor Francis Tumblety. The doctor’s exploits include arrests for complicity in the Lincoln assassination, selling abortion drugs, killing patients, indecent assault, and scrutiny as a possible suspect in the “Jack the Ripper” murders. Tumblety’s sheen of respectability appeared crafted to cover his homosexuality and his provocative fields of practice.

Author : Nancy Simons Peterson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780978569457

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Raking the Ashes by Nancy Simons Peterson Pdf

This handbook is a "must have" for researching San Francisco ancestors, providing invaluable guidance on which records were lost in the 1906 earthquake and fire, which records survived, and where to find them.

Author : Larry Karp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476663456

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Brun Campbell by Larry Karp Pdf

At fifteen, Sanford Brunson Campbell (1884-1952) became enchanted with the new sounds of ragtime and ran away from his rural Kansas home, hopping a train to Sedalia, Missouri, determined to take piano lessons from a black musician he had never met. Scott Joplin nicknamed his white protege "The Ragtime Kid." A composer and entertainer at the dawn of the ragtime era, "Brun" was a prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1940s and helped establish Joplin's prominence as one of America's most innovative composers. Campbell's own legacy was tarnished by his inability to tell a straight story and he was often dismissed as a liar and a clown. Based on his memoirs, musical compositions and correspondence with music industry notables, this first comprehensive biography of Campbell reveals an engaging storyteller and a devotee wholly dedicated to a musical genre that had been largely forgotten. His firsthand account of life as an itinerant pianist in the Midwest provides a unique picture of life a century ago.

Author : Erica J. Peters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780759121539

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San Francisco by Erica J. Peters Pdf

San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San Francisco's famous restaurant scene has been the subject of books but the full complexity of the city's culinary history is revealed here for the first time. This food biography presents the story of how food traveled from farms to markets, from markets to kitchens, and from kitchens to tables, focusing on how people experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.

Author : Matthew J. Davenport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250279286

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The Longest Minute by Matthew J. Davenport Pdf

Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.

Author : Charles F. Adams
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1884995462

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Murder by the Bay by Charles F. Adams Pdf

Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendour of its misdeeds -- murders that have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair. The homicides chronicled in Murder by the Bay have been selected because a convergence of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them peculiarly San Franciscan. Each of these crimes illustrates an historic importance, each has impacted its times -- either in the course or application of the law or in the manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society. They range from the Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St. Francis Hotel to the shocking "City Hall Murders" in which former city supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Most were solved, some were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.

Author : Anne Evers Hitz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Allen Herr
Publisher : Stansbury Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781935807537

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Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939 by Allen Herr Pdf

Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939: Vol. 1, San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Area. Historian Allen Herr recalls the aviation pioneers who flew weekly exhibitions promoting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fifteen months prior to its San Francisco opening. These pioneers formed flying schools, built airports, manufactured aircraft, and competed against each other. Herr captures the energy behind the Bay Area aviation movement, tells who was involved, and describes the effects of their extraordinary determination and achievements. This edition is one of three in Herr's series of Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939.

Author : Rand Richards
Publisher : Heritage House Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.