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The Ghost Detectives' Guide to Haunted San Francisco. Linden Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61035-007-5. Champion, Jr., Jerry Lewis (26 April 2012). Alcatraz Unchained. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4685-8753-1. Vercillo, Kathryn (15 July 2007). Ghosts of San Francisco. Schiffer Pub Limited. ISBN 978-0-7643-2765-0
Kiehn also found a San Francisco newspaper article published on March 29, 1906, describing the Miles Brothers' intent to film aboard a cable car. [ 12 ] In 2011, Richard Greene, an engineer with Bio-Rad Laboratories , published research dating the film to March 24–30, 1906, based on the sun throwing well-defined shadows on the Ferry Building .
The Barbary Coast Trail is a marked trail that connects a series of historic sites and several local history museums in San Francisco, California.Approximately 180 bronze medallions and arrows embedded in the sidewalk mark the 3.8-mile (6.1 km) trail.
Manohla Dargis called the film a "masterpiece…that turns San Francisco and beyond into a mesmerizing Cubist tableau." [10] Slant Magazine ranked Side/Walk/Shuttle 100th on its list of the best films of the 1990s. [11] J. Hoberman listed it as one of the best films of 1992 and later placed it 9th on his 1990s list. [12] [13]
Drawbridge (formerly Saline City) [2] is a ghost town [3] with an abandoned railroad station located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, next to Station Island, now a part of the city of Fremont, California, United States. It is located on the Union Pacific Railroad 6 miles (10 km) south of downtown Fremont, [2] at an elevation of 7 ...
Modern-day Raffles Place, the financial heart of Singapore. The first underground car park in Singapore was constructed in 1965 under Raffles Place. It was replaced in the 1980s by the Raffles Place MRT station, which opened in December 1987. [14] [15] The station entrance features details from the 1911 facade of the old John Little building. [3]
The I-Beam was a former popular nightclub and live music venue active from 1977 to 1994, and located in the Park Masonic Hall building on the second floor at 1748 Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. [1] The I-Beam served as one of San Francisco's earliest disco clubs, as well as serving as a "gay refuge". [1] [2]
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Fugazi Hall was a common venue for poetry reading by members of the beat community. Although many might believe that Club Fugazi is referenced in Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": "Noon in desolate Fugazzi's, listening to the crack...", this actually refers to Fugazzi's in New York City, another Beat hangout (note the two z's in the name in the poem, as well as all the ...