During the 1870s, Stanford and Hopkins built enormous, ostentatious mansions on San Francisco's Nob Hill, a neighborhood dominated by the very rich. The two men personified San Francisco's easy-come economy, and they intended their houses as public monuments to their wealth and power. Completed...
Technology is ever changing, and by 1892 the first electric streetcars were invented. These street cars proved to be more efficient, and less expensive to build and maintain. Electric street cars quickly became the preferred method of transportation around San Francisco. The 1906 earthquake destroyed...
For decades it sat largely empty and neglected, cordoned off by the Embarcadero Freeway. After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, the damaged highway was eventually removed, freeing up the Ferry Building, which was given new life as a transportation hub, food hall, and office building. Last...
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
Every January, Pier 39 invites you to join them to celebrate the arrival of the sea lions. These playful creatures started arriving shortly after the 1989 earthquake and continue to come back each year. The event is free. Tulipmania
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In an effort to raise spirits during the arduous and lengthy rebuilding process that followed the 1906 earthquake and fire, William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner started this grandaddy of all San Francisco events in 1912. In 1986, it even set a Guinness World Record for world’s ...
That year, Mayor James Phelan signed the order forbidding burial inside the borders of San Francisco after August 1, 1901. In April 1906, the great earthquake caused wide-spread damage to monuments. Most no longer had family to repair them. Looking across California at Laurel Hill Cemetery “...
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Bernal Hill was where some earthquake shakes were built after the great 1906 earthquake and where many of the people who rebuilt San Francisco lived too. The neighborhood was also to home to some of the countless people who worked in the shipyards near where Dogpatch is currently. Considering ...