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Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR.
Golden Gate Park [9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society [24] established. Population: 149,473. [17] 1871 – San Francisco Art Association and St. Luke's Hospital [14] [25] established. 1872 – Bohemian Club and Bar Association of San Francisco founded. [8] 1873 Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating. Polish Society of California ...
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Rueff's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. Carlsson, Chris; Elliott, LisaRuth (2011). Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978.
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within City and County of San Francisco, California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). The clubhouse is the former Flood Mansion, built as a home for silver magnate James ...
The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.
In 1965, San Francisco declared Ghirardelli Square (where many of the Ghirardelli buildings were constructed) an official city landmark. Two years later, production facilities moved to San Leandro, California ( 37°42′40″N 122°08′42″W / 37.711°N 122.145°W / 37.711; -122.145 ( Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory
Ambassador Hotel, San Francisco. Hotel Cecil (1906), 156–160 Eddy Street; designed by Mexican-born architect Albert Pissis [6] Cadillac Hotel (c. 1908), 366–394 Eddy Street; San Francisco Designated Landmark-listed [6] [7] Saint Boniface Church (1908), 133–175 Golden Gate Avenue; San Francisco Designated Landmark-listed [6]