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Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846–1906. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1980). Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from its Beginnings to the Present Day. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-250325-1. OCLC 6683688. Maupin, Armistead (1978). Tales of the City. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-096404-7. OCLC 29847673.
1935 – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens as San Francisco Museum of Art in Veterans Memorial Building. 1936 – Bay Bridge opens. [55] 1937 – May 27: Golden Gate Bridge opens. [9] 1940 – Holly Courts housing project built. [9] 1944 – Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples established. [56] 1945 Tonga Room in business.
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]
San Mateo County History Museum, formerly the San Mateo County Courthouse. Ezra Decoto, an Alameda County landowner, sells land to the railroads, and an eponymous small settlement begins at the location; Redwood City in San Mateo County is incorporated (historic building pictured) Hill Park is established in San Francisco
The Museum of the City of San Francisco was founded in 1991 by Gladys Hansen, who had recently retired as the city archivist of San Francisco. It was recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco by the Board of Supervisors in 1995. [3]
However, in his history of the development of San Francisco from the 1950s to the 1990s Chester Hartman recounts that the entire Yerba Buena project was long drawn out over 3 decades, born of a local struggle that included evictions and harassment of the previous tenants in the area, most of them old and poor, but who had joined to fight for ...
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The Fillmore district was created in the 1880s to provide new space for the city to grow in an effort to address overcrowding. [11] After the 1906 earthquake Fillmore Street, which had largely avoided heavy damage, temporarily became a major commercial center as the city's downtown rebuilt and began a period where the district where migrant groups from Jews to Japanese and then African ...