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Levi Strauss was never married, and died on September 26, 1902 in San Francisco. His estate was worth about $30 million (equivalent to $855 million in 2023). [1] Levi's nephew Sigmund Stern's only child, Elise Fanny Stern, [19] married Walter A. Haas, the son of Abraham Haas, whose descendants are the current owners of Levi Strauss & Co. [20]
Wagner was the son of a liquor merchant from Stundwiller Bas-Rhin, France. In 1836 Wagner migrated to Louisiana, married a native of Cannes nine years later, to eventually open a saloon there. [4] [5] By 1852 Wagner had relocated to San Francisco, to first work as a hotel manager and then as a fruit vendor. [6]
Murder. On June 22, 2008, Tony Bologna (age 49) and his sons, Michael and Matthew (ages 20 and 16, respectively), were shot dead near their residence in the Excelsior district of San Francisco as they returned home in the afternoon from a family barbecue in Fairfield. Bologna was on his way home to rest before reporting to his job as night ...
The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA. Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver baron. It was the first brownstone building west of the Mississippi River, and the only mansion on Nob ...
The Tool Box was a leather bar for gay men in San Francisco that operated from 1962 to 1971 on the east corner of 4th Street and Harrison Street. [1] It was the first leather bar in the South of Market, [2] and a meeting spot where influential personalities of the early San Francisco leather scene gathered.
Scott McKenzie singles chronology. "No, No, No, No, No". (1966) " San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) ". (1967) "Look in Your Eyes". (1967) " San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) " is an American pop song, [1] written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. [4] It was produced and released in May 1967 by ...
The Admission Day Monument is an 1897 sculpture by Douglas Tilden, located at the intersection of Market Street and Montgomery Street in San Francisco, California, United States. [1] It commemorates California Admission Day (September 9, 1850), the date on which the state became part of the Union, following the Mexican–American War of 1848. [1]
Culture of San Francisco. The culture of San Francisco is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture but also is influenced heavily by Mexican culture due to its large Hispanic population, and its history as part of Spanish America and Mexico. San Francisco 's diversity of cultures along with its ...