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1964 – City's "San Francisco History Center" established. 1965 – Intersection for the Arts incorporated. The musical group the Jefferson Airplane is created. 1966– The Compton's Cafeteria riot breaks out when transgender patrons become angry over police harassment. [62] 1967 – Summer of Love.
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0-88029-428-7. OCLC 22719465. Kazin, M. (1987). Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (1st ed.). University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252013454. Lotchin, Roger W. (2003).
The Sisters of Mercy open St. Mary's Hospital on Stockton Street in San Francisco, the first Catholic hospital west of the Rocky Mountains (hospital ruins in 1906 pictured) Minns Evening Normal School is founded in San Francisco by George W. Minns; George Kenny starts construction of an octagonal house at Russian Hill in San Francisco
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]
Only a handful of studies attempt a global history of cities, notably Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961). [5] Representative comparative studies include Leonardo Benevolo, The European City (1993); Christopher R. Friedrichs, The Early Modern City, 1450-1750 (1995), and James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru. eds. Edo and Paris (1994) (Edo was the old name for Tokyo).
First Jewish religious services in San Francisco 735 Montgomery St., between Washington and Jackson sts. 37°47′46″N 122°24′13″W / 37.796133°N 122.403517°W / 37.796133; -122.403517 ( First Jewish religious services in San Francisco
Beginning in the early first millennium, independent city-states in Greece began to flourish, evolving the notion of citizenship, becoming in the process the archetype of the free city, the polis. [16] The agora, meaning "gathering place" or "assembly", was the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the polis. [17]
California Street (San Francisco) Calle 24 Latino Cultural District; Camp Alert (California) Carville, San Francisco; SS Charles L. Wheeler Jr. Chinese Americans in San Francisco; Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; Chung Fook v. White; Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples; The Chutes of San Francisco; City of Paris Dry Goods Co.