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The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
Swedish flat-pack furniture giant Ikea opened its doors to a new store in downtown San Francisco on Wednesday, bucking the trend of big retailers such as Nordstrom and Old Navy closing shops amid ...
Until 1966, CHSA held meetings in different peoples' homes, when the Shoong Foundation "donated" (rented at a low cost) a small space in a building that the foundation owned at 17 Adler Place [3] (Off 1140 Grant Avenue) (now Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA 94133) to function as a museum, and a first permanent headquarters.
Ikea is opening a new store in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, bucking the trend of retailers closing in the city.. Ikea will be the anchor tenant for a new mixed-use development on Market ...
Takahashi Trading Company is a former Japanese-import home goods retail and wholesale business in the United States, and is the name of a 1912 warehouse building that once housed the business headquarters in the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, California, U.S.. The business was active from 1945 until 2019, and had various retail ...
The Ying On Association building in Chinatown, San Francisco at 745–747 Grant Avenue.The prominent first-floor retailer is "New Peking". The Ying On Labor & Merchant Association (Chinese: 英端工商會) or simply Ying On Association is a historical Chinese American association that was established in the 1930s for the purpose of assisting members of the Chinese community when they were ...
October 10, 1975 (Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas.
San Jose's first Chinatown was located at the southwest corner of Market and San Fernando streets, near the present-day Circle of Palms Plaza. City officials noted the Chinese presence by 1866. [ 3 ] By January 1870, white residents had begun complaining to the San Jose City Council about the concentration of Chinese people in the neighborhood.