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Leidesdorff Street in San Francisco, California [17] and Leidesdorff Street in Folsom, California are named for him. 15 miles (24 km) of U.S. Route 50 was dedicated the William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway along the boundary of "Historic Leidesdorff Ranch", his 35,000-acre (140 km 2 ) cattle and wheat ranch along the southern ...
The first proto-leather bar in San Francisco was the Sailor Boy Tavern, which opened in 1938 near the Embarcadero YMCA and catered to U.S. Navy Sailors looking for same-sex sexual encounters. [8] Folsom Street has been the center of San Francisco's men's leather community since the mid-1960s.
Joseph Folsom was born on Monday, May 19, 1817, in Meredith, New Hampshire.He was the fourth child of Abraham Folsom and Mary Libbey. Descendants of a family that first arrived at Hingham, Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and subsequently moved on to Exeter, New Hampshire, Abraham Folsom and his wife lived in a home near the northwest corner of Lake Winnipesaukee.
the first Chinese sex worker in San Francisco George Treat: 1819–1907 Frankfort, Maine, U.S. businessman, abolitionist pioneer in the Mission District, San Francisco Matthew Turner (shipbuilder) 1825–1909 Geneva, Ohio, U.S. shipbuilder considered "the 'grandaddy' of big time wooden shipbuilding on the Pacific Coast" Mark Twain: 1835–1910
The Nisenan tribe of Native Americans had long inhabited the area. [8] The Gold Rush of 1849 brought violence, disease and overwhelming loss for the tribes. [9]Joseph Libbey Folsom purchased Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff, and laid out the town called Granite City, mostly occupied by gold miners seeking their fortune in the ...
Since 1984, the street has been home to the Folsom Street Fair, an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held in September in the South of Market portion of Folsom Street, which, from approximately 1975–84, was the center of San Francisco's gay and lesbian BDSM community. [1] In 2008 and 2012, Folsom Street Events received the Large ...
Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline. This is a list of notable people from San Francisco, California.It includes people who were born or raised in, lived in, or spent significant portions of their lives in San Francisco, or for whom San Francisco is a significant part of their identity, as well as music groups founded in San Francisco.
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.