Download or read book Hometown Memories written by Thomas Kinkade and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forgotten Pioneers written by Thomas F. Prendergast and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive look at the Irish in Northern California from 1835 to 1900. Filled with anecdotes and insider history - this book is a unique piece of California history. The title, Forgotten Pioneers, embodies only half a truth in its application to the subject --- those early settlers in the wilderness of California, men of Irish birth or ancestry who contributed lavishly toward laying the foundations of a new commonwealth on the Pacific. It is the purpose of this book to reinstate in the rank where they belong, some, at least, of these overlooked men "whose character and achievement entitle them to the highest place in the respect and esteem of the people."
Download or read book San Francisco s Market Street written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market Street forms the vertebrae of San Francisco. First surveyed in 1847 by Jasper O’Farrell, the boulevard was laid out to provide a transition between two opposing grids. Intended to become the city’s main and widest thoroughfare, it rapidly became the busiest. In the mid 19th century, San Francisco was regarded as the most developed western American outpost of urbanity, sophistication and refinement. By the conclusion of the century, its reputation rivaled many East Coast cities. Market Street became the base for cable car and horse car lines providing service along the local commercial corridor and connections to distant transfer destinations. The 1906 catastrophic San Francisco Earthquake and Fire briefly halted development. During the reconstruction, the Market Street cable car lines would be entirely removed and replaced by electric streetcars. Automobiles would replace streetcars. During the 1970s, the introduction of the subterranean Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) alleviated some of the traffic congestion. This edition is an architectural survey of Market Street’s historical and contemporary buildings accompanied by historical profiles. The narrative begins from the Embarcadero until the Tenderloin district. Architectural Properties Photographed: “Cupid’s Span”, The Embarcadero and Folsom Streets The Embarcadero, Piers 1, 1½, 3 and 5 Hyatt Regency Hotel, 5 Embarcadero Center Robert Frost Memorial Plaque, California and Drumm Landmark Building, 1 Market Federal Reserve Bank Building, 101 Market One California Building, 1 California Mattson Building, 245 Market 101 California Building Pacific Gas and Electric Building, 77 Beale 333 Market Building 388 Market Building Liberty Bell Slot Machine Marker, 406 Market 425 Market Building One Front Building Mechanics Monument, Market at Battery and Bush Central Plaza, 455 Market One Bush Building Battery Bridge Public Art, Between Market and Bush First Market Tower, 525 Market 525 Market Fountain American Trust Bank Building, 532 Market Flat Iron Building, 544 Market 550 Market Building 554 Market Building Patrick & Company, 560 Market Chancery Building, 562-566 Market 570-572 Market Building Market Center Building, 555-575 Market The Finance Building, 576-580 Market 581-585 Market Building Hobart Building, 582 Market 595 Market Building West Coast Life Building, 601-605 Market Building 607-611 Market Building Metropolis Trust Building, 625 Market 44 Montgomery Building California Admission Day Memorial, Market and Montgomery One Montgomery Tower, 120 Kearny One Post Building 652-660 Market Building De Young Building, 690 Market Lotte Crabtree Fountain, Market and Geary and Kearny Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Monadnock Building, 685 Market One Kearny Building Hearst Building, 5 Third Mutual Savings Bank Building, 700-716 Market Central Tower, 701-705 Market 711-713 Market Building 717 Market Building 720 Market Building 721 Market Building 722-742 Market Building Bancroft Building, 731 Market Union Trust Building, 744 Market Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, 757-765 Market Savings Union Branch of Security Pacific National Bank, 1 Grant Phelan Building, 760-784 Market Humboldt Saving Bank Building, 785 Market 799 Market Building 2 Stockton Building Hotel Zelos, 12 Fourth James Bong Building, 825-833 Market California Savings Bank Building, 830 Market Parrot Building/The Emporium, 835 Market 838-842 Market Street 856 Market Building James Flood Building, 870 Market Hallidie Plaza, Public Square at Powell Station 901 Market Building One Hallidie Plaza 944 Market Building Bank of America Building, One Powell
Download or read book Lost Department Stores of San Francisco written by Anne Evers Hitz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.
Download or read book The White Front Cars of San Francisco written by Charles A. Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco s Interurban to San Mateo written by Robert Townley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's strange to think that an electric commuter rail line rivaling BART in efficiency, speed, and comfort ran over 100 years ago between San Francisco and San Mateo, but run it did. The 40 Line, or San Mateo Interurban, began in 1892 with an initial segment operating between Market and Steuart Streets out to the county limits on San Jose Avenue. Three years later, the line reached Baden in present-day South San Francisco, and by 1903 service was opened all the way to downtown San Mateo. During the line's heyday, there was talk of extending it down the peninsula from San Mateo to Palo Alto to connect with the Peninsular Railway to San Jose. The 1906 earthquake put this plan on hold. Following much the same route as today's Mission Street, El Camino Real, and Caltrain, the San Mateo Interurban carried over four million passengers a year along its main and spur lines until 1949, when the system was shut down amidst much fanfare.
Download or read book San Francisco s Market Street Railway written by Walt Vielbaum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the citys early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged by the emergence of the automobile, cheaper motor coaches, and nickel jitneyscompeting cars on the same routes. The MSRy painted the fronts of its cars white to show up well in San Franciscos misty weather, and for many years people called them the White Front cars. Franchise competition and city regulations undid MSRy, and its assets were absorbed into MUNI in 1944. However, the name lives on as the nonprofit Market Street Railway organization, dedicated to preserving the history of this company and also to retrofitting early streetcars from across the globe, putting them back in service on Market Street.
Download or read book San Francisco s Market Street Railway written by Walt Vielbaum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Stop on Market Street written by Matt de la Peña and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller Winner of the Newbery Medal A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book This award-winning modern classic—a must-have for every child’s home library—is an inclusive ode to kindness, empathy, gratitude, and finding joy in unexpected places, and celebrates the special bond between a curious young boy and his loving grandmother. Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don’t own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn’t he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty—and fun—in their routine and the world around them. This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights the wonderful perspective only grandparent and grandchild can share, and comes to life through Matt de la Peña’s vibrant text and Christian Robinson’s radiant illustrations.
Download or read book San Francisco Lithographer written by Robert J. Chandler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.
Download or read book Market Street written by Anita Hughes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes discussion questions and excerpt from the author's next novel, Lake Como.
Download or read book The Trees of San Francisco written by Michael Sullivan and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
Download or read book Face written by Ce Ce Iandoli and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco s Transportation Octopus written by Emiliano Echeverria and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illuminations on Market Street written by Benjamin Heim Shepard and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. He finds himself working in a housing program for people with HIV/AIDS. The entire city is reeling. His clients are dying. Cab records their every word. He starts drafting a narrative of every person with whom he's slept: those who dropped him, those he adored, and those he let go of without a second thought, to reassess what he has left behind from the South of his childhood of dyslexia and infatuations, football and ecstasy, divorce and sex panics. In between girlfriends, acting up, attempts at romance, and trying to find his place in the greater San Francisco narrative, Cab is looking for something, tracing the interconnecting stories of the people he's meeting, sleeping, and drinking with, as everyone tries to find a space in the city. As treatments emerge and the economy changes, a new story takes shape in Cab's life and the city.
Download or read book Points of Interest in San Francisco written by Market Street Railway and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidebook to attractions in San Francisco, with directions on which streetcar route to use, car routes, times of first and last cars.
Download or read book History of Public Transit in San Francisco 1850 1948 written by San Francisco (Calif.). Technical Committee of the Departments of City Planning, Public Works, Public Utilities, and Police and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
