图片题注:Lake Merced, located in southwestern San Francisco参考译文:梅塞德湖位于旧金山西南部。图片作者:Dicklyon The nearby San Andreas and Hayward Faults are responsible for much earthquake activity, although neither physically passes through the city itself. The San Andreas Fault caused the earthquake...
there are still some (San Francisco Columnist, Carl Nolte, comes to mind) who look at the City the way Saroyan saw it. However, the day before I took my updates for this
the hilltop is the home of the city’s finest hotels, the only Gilded Age mansion to survive the 1906 earthquake and fire (built by James Flood), and beautiful Huntington Park—a
Just as San Francisco was beginning to settle down from the booms and busts of the Ore Rushes, the San Andreas Fault shrugged her shoulders. In the early hours of April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, leveling the area South of Market and rattling the rockier parts...
The Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill was one of the few buildings who was not destroyed by the 1906 earthquake: the small building opposite the hotel withstood it too. The hotel was used in the 1980s TV-show “Hotel” with James Brolin, and it still looks the same. The lobby with the gran...
Dennis T. Sullivanwas the revered chief engineer of the San Francisco Fire Department at the time of the Great Earthquake and Fire. He was at the Chief’s Quarters, 410 Bush Street, during the disaster, and was mortally injured when he fell through the floor and into the cellar. According...
Such was apparently the case in the mid-1990s, when the Public Utility Commission (PUC) prepared a document called San Francisco Groundwater Master Plan. Published in 1997, it displays the label "Final" across its cover, but it may as well have been labeled "Dead in the Water."...
isthebackboneoftheSanFranciscoeconomy.Itsfrequentportrayalinmusic,film,andpopularculturehasmadethecityanditslandmarksrecognizableworldwide.LombardStreet九曲花街Sincethe1990s,SanFrancisco'seconomyhasincreasinglybecometiedtoSanJoseandSiliconValley,itsBayAreaneighborstothesouth,sharingtheneedforhighlyeducatedworkerswith...
1915. Though the purpose of the exposition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, it was widely seen as San Francisco’s opportunity to showcase its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. The fair was built on a 636-acre site along the northern shore, between the Presidio andFort...
the ballot. Voter support for the measure seemed overwhelmingly strong leading up to the election. Then, as game three of the World Series was starting, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. Abruptly rebuilding devastated areas of San Francisco assumed much higher priority than replacing the stadium ...