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Former San Francisco Schools Supt. Robert F. Alioto was killed when his Porsche smashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer on U.S. 101 near Morgan Hill, the California Highway Patrol reported Friday. Alioto was 54 and lived in Salinas. He was alone in his 1985 Porsche when it went out...
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"The years have sped by since Horace Stoneham announced the death of the New York Giants, ordered all old stationery thrown away, and changed the letters on the team's shirt fronts to 'San Francisco.'" - Bob Stevens in The Giants of San Francisco (Coward-McCann Publishers, 1963)...
San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town in the Spanish colony of Alta California. The city served as a farming community to support Spanish military installations at San Francisco and Monterey. When California gained statehood in 1850, San...
San Francisco, California 94121 Dedicated: September 21, 1991 Size: 7.5 acres Number of interred: unknown Open: Dawn to dusk Tours: Free tours of the AIDS Memorial Grove are available between 9 a.m. and noon on the third Saturdays of each month between March and October. The 20-minute ...
The stone wall and historical markers look out on Mule Hill, site of the climactic final stage of the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846, during the Mexican-American War. The US victory in that war in 1848 would transform California from a Mexican province to an American state. ...
The need for such hope remains — as does San Francisco’s instinct to fill it. “They need more than books, obviously, but this is what we have,” Robbins said. “This is a thing I can do that is concrete.” Customers shop at Fabulosa Books. ...
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He covers a phenomenal amount of oddball San Francisco and early California history, all neatly collected to satisfy the curiousity of his English reading public — the Chinese question, the Committee of Vigilance, squatter wars, bears, rats, oysters, gold, even the pickled head of Joaquin Muriet...