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  • [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Landmarks]] [[category:Buildings]] [[category:1860s]] [[catego
    11 KB (1,775 words) - 17:25, 25 May 2018
  • ...us routes in San Francisco. The Route Number One Line crossed the Richmond District and Golden Gate Park to Mount Davidson. Edgehill is in the upper left fores
    11 KB (1,682 words) - 23:06, 17 August 2019
  • ...entered struggles, African-Americans in South Berkeley, Oakland and nearby Richmond responded to violent police oppression through a variety of means including ...tiatives in four different cities in the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley.[5] Shortly after the referendum was written, Seale was arrest
    24 KB (3,668 words) - 18:28, 24 April 2017
  • ...ncisco lawyer and unofficial golf historian. Links grew up in the Richmond District and played the game at various uninspiring venues, but he quickly discovere Venturi grew up in the Ingleside District, not far from the 12th hole at Harding. He played his first round there, wi
    18 KB (2,978 words) - 18:07, 26 March 2014
  • [[Image:richmond$legion-of-honor-photo.jpg]] ...wers. Born in 1881 to poor Danish immigrants trying to [[Sand Dunes in the Richmond|farm the sand dunes]] at the edge of San Francisco, Alma de Bretteville was
    21 KB (3,318 words) - 20:34, 8 July 2020
  • ...he San Francisco Labor Council, the city’s small Republican Party, and the Richmond Review newspaper all opposed Prop E, consistent with the city’s political ..., West of Twin Peaks, Visitacion Valley, Ingle-side, Excelsior, Chinatown, Richmond, Sea Cliff, Marina, Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights, and Laurel Heights.
    34 KB (5,119 words) - 15:15, 29 November 2021
  • ...he Communication Company (“CC”), founded in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward in January of 1967. This was the epi ...hat he shanghaied the machines and ran off with them. He had some place in Richmond or Alameda, and I remember going out there to talk to him and he took a sho
    12 KB (1,942 words) - 14:14, 18 August 2021
  • ...he current Bay Bridge and the other at the approximate location of today’s Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. While the tops of the structures would serve as transpor ...was once wetlands and open water. The largest fill would have been off the Richmond, Berkeley, Albany, and Emeryville shoreline. The plan envisioned a twelve-m
    33 KB (5,176 words) - 00:31, 9 March 2023
  • ...American]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1960s]]]
    16 KB (2,456 words) - 23:12, 11 July 2021
  • ...and billiard tables. This was part of the separation off the main shopping district from the merchant-financial center along Montgomery Street. Centered around ...it shipped throughout the west and around the world.(15) From there, the district branched into ship engines, flour mills, fruit presses, sugar mills, sawmil
    60 KB (9,436 words) - 21:13, 12 December 2022
  • ...ial property in Richmond, participated in a joint venture with the city of Richmond to develop terminal facilities, and operated that city’s wharf and wareho ...markable pipeline (owned by a subsidiary) extended from the Central Midway district across Tejon Pass and down to that company's refinery and to tidewater—a
    34 KB (4,954 words) - 16:05, 19 November 2021
  • ...k couplet, as well as with some residents and businesses of the Sunset and Richmond Districts. These west-side interests wanted to preserve automobile access t ...nd stated that the Academy of Sciences and the Exploratorium in the Marina District had a decline in patronage attributable to ramp removal. Last, the report r
    35 KB (5,382 words) - 15:15, 29 November 2021
  • ...e for a state orphan asylum. (For reference, 20 acres is six square Sunset District blocks.) Despite publishing his offer in the ''Sacramento Transcript'' ever ...e problem and the children were moved to another orphanage in the Richmond District. The property was eventually sold to the State of California.
    22 KB (3,487 words) - 18:33, 12 October 2015
  • ...zcab founded Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant on Geary Boulevard in the Richmond District, with his wife Elmy, in 1965. Since then, Mayans from Mexico’s Yucatán p ...rtraits of the traditional working class and poor residents of the Mission District for an exploration of Latino identities and histories. This is a collaborat
    25 KB (4,450 words) - 16:55, 21 April 2021
  • ...jobs up there. And then Kaiser started building those yards over there in Richmond. They needed hands to work in those places. ...use I had a friend of mine, she was a psychologist with the Oakland school district. She said a lot of the black teachers over there didn't want to be bothered
    20 KB (3,392 words) - 00:00, 25 May 2018
  • [[category:Book Excerpts]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Landmarks]] [[category:Buildings]] [[category:1940s]] [[catego
    15 KB (2,672 words) - 17:04, 10 January 2023
  • ...1920s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Haight-Ashbury]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Western Addition]]
    17 KB (2,818 words) - 16:15, 8 November 2020
  • The Sunset and Richmond districts are known for fog and sand. These features made the land west of ...Francisco and the undeveloped land west of Twin Peaks, later to become the Richmond and Sunset districts. He eventually owned about one-twelfth of the city.7
    37 KB (5,984 words) - 16:17, 16 June 2014
  • ...the Jackson Square historical district at the north edge of the financial district, once filled with notorious [[BARBARY COAST|Barbary Coast]] dives. <br> ...ghts, Albany, El Cerrito, and central-east Oakland, with outlyers in Point Richmond, Crockett and South San Francisco. There is no comprehensive study of gentr
    23 KB (3,551 words) - 14:07, 28 May 2021
  • ...thern part, in the [[1920s Melting Pot in Bayview|San Bruno Avenue/Portola District]]. That was certainly a working class, Jewish neighborhood, Jews and Itali ...as to bring people in and out of the center of the city into the Financial District. The subway system here doesn’t move people around the city, it moves pe
    41 KB (7,267 words) - 15:18, 26 February 2023
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