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Print/export Download as PDF ... "Chinese tea shop in San Francisco." From Die Gartenlaube (Germany, 1884) ... German map of San Francisco Bay Area, ca. 1893-1897.
The city of San Francisco considers the area below 20th Street between Potrero Ave and Route 101 to be part of Potrero Hill as well, as outlined in the Eastern Neighborhood Plan. [ 7 ] The area east of Highway 280 between Mariposa and Cesar Chavez (and west of the waterfront) is known as Dogpatch .
“The sand dunes of Golden Gate Park before they were converted into a garden; view from the old Seal Rock House, taken in 1865”. Outside Lands was the name used in the 19th century for the present-day Richmond District and Sunset District in San Francisco.
By the turn of the 20th century, it had built a three-story headquarters and printing plant on the site of Peter Donahue's mansion at Bryant and Second Streets in San Francisco. [2] This building was destroyed in the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake , and in 1907 the company built a new plant on the same site, which opened in 1908.
Edwin Klockars' Blacksmith Shop is a historic 1912 building in the Rincon Hill neighborhood at 443 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California, United States. [2] It remained an active blacksmith shop within multiple generations of the same family, from 1912 until 2017. [3] It has been listed by the city as a San Francisco Designated Landmark ...
In 1967, the city of San Francisco, California, adopted Article 10 of the Planning Code, providing the city with the authority to designate and protect landmarks from inappropriate alterations. As of June 2024, the city had designated 318 structures or other properties as San Francisco Designated Landmarks. [1]
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
These connections facilitated the growth of communities in the Sacramento-and San Joaquin Valleys and fostered California's agricultural business. [citation needed] Today, these piers comprise the Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District. The Delta Queen docked at Pier 1½, ferrying people between San Francisco and Sacramento. There was once ...