...s and the San Francisco Peninsula. That they actually survived the journey and reached Acapulco is a testimony to the sailing skills of its Filipino crew. ...on Dolores can still see the tabernacle manufactured by Filipino craftsmen and brought over by galleons crewed by Filipino sailors.

...age:C1952 Looking north along San Francisco peninsula toward San Francisco and Marin;. SFO at right wnp27.5576.jpg|792px]] ...SFO airport]] at right, [[San Bruno Mountain|San Bruno Mountain]] dividing peninsula communities from San Francisco proper.'''

[[Image:Rincon-Hill-and-dunes-1851-A11.35.815pl.jpg]] ...ill, Twin Peaks in the distance. Native scrub dominates the sandy terrain, and the tall ridge just west of Second Street is long gone, turned into landfil

''by Cheryl and Clark Kaplan, 1964'' [[Image:pothill$mission-bay-1863-lrgr.jpg]]

...Serra]], founder of the California Missions, looms over the I-280 Freeway and the Crystal Springs reservoir, artificial lagoons holding San Francisco's d ...brings fresh water from Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite 280-odd miles to the city and [[Who Pays for Public Water? S.F. vs. Suburbs|its suburbs]].

...uno Mountain|San Bruno Mountain]] to well beyond this map, south along the peninsula in what becomes Millbrae.''' ...subdivide and sell the land by 1851. But due to the rapacious landgrabbing and corrupt lawyering of the early American period, by the time the legal wrang

[[Image:San-Bruno-Ave-now-Bayshore-Blvd-north-south-of-Sunnydale-Ave-1928-SFPL.jpg|720px]] ...evard, at intersection with Sunnydale Avenue, 1928. Southern Pacific yards and roundhouse are to the east (right) of this photo, where they were establish

...new site. Leonard Stefanelli was by then the President of Sunset Scavenger and, egged on by his attorney, was driving the truck that blew through a police ...current operations on the west side of the freeway in the City of Brisbane and begin dumping garbage at Sierra Point.”</blockquote>

[[Image:Interurban-streetcar-south-of-SB-Mtn-in-San-Mateo-c-1940s.jpg|720px]] '''Interurban streetcar south of San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo, c. 1940s.'''

...rn neighborhoods. Today's Marina District still carries the old moniker "[[AND THEY CALLED IT "COW HOLLOW" |Cow Hollow]]" dating from its 19th century lif ...he cultivation of grain in Guadalupe Valley (now Crocker Industrial Park), and erected a house for his four Indian ''vaqueros''. In Visitacion Valley he e

...recycling system was under construction in new parts of town (like Mission Bay); additional plans to construct a new graywater treatment plant are being d ...he last quarter of the 19th century. Chronic battles between Spring Valley and the city government over rates led [[Mayor James Phelan|Mayor James Phelan]

...d endangered San Francisco Garter Snake now makes its home in the [[Pulgas and J Serra |Crystal Springs]] reservoir watershed.''' ''Photo: Kennan Ward'' ...grounds of Christen's Dairy Ranch provided acres of habitat for the snake, and its numerous ponds abounded in red-legged frogs, the snake's favorite food.

...and description courtesy [https://www.ssfhistory.org Historical Society of South San Francisco] '' ...ation, the conductor would call out, “Next stop, the home of the quacks!” And, the 19.7 acres of Otto H. Reichardt Duck Farm was home for … thousands W

[[Image:Detail-of-view-south-from-Ferry-Bldg-c-1901-1906-w-Mission-Rock-and-Avisadero-Pt.jpg|800px]] ...sh island in bay, and in distance Avisadero Point at end of Hunter's Point peninsula. Most of the water has been filled in in the last century.'''

...Pacific Railroad Station at Third and Townsend. Ca. 1875. Central Pacific and Southern Pacific office building I0012573A.jpg]] ...wnsend, c. 1875. Office building behind is headquarters of Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.'''

...ed for its strategic position allowing surveillance of the entrance to the bay. ...e land seemed fertile enough to support a mission. The party set camp here and named the site of the future mission Laguna de los Dolores because it was t

...Mills estate, which in turn was later subdivided into the town of Millbrae and the airport.''' ...ecretary of War for Roosevelt and William McKinley), J.P. Morgan (banker), and Ogden Mills, at the Mills estate in Millbrae, long before air travel, c. 19

...se categories: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.''' Here are videos of the Talks we held at the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics at 518 Valencia Street in Spring 2019.

[[Image:View from Sacramento and Taylor towards Mission Bay 1860 wnp24.0149a.jpg|793px]] ...tance is the original 3rd peak of Potrero Hill, known as [[Irish Hill then and now| Irish Hill]]. To it's left is Mission Rock.'''

...he banks of a stream, where a lake has been formed and fresh water bathing and boating made possible. ...t, over Six-mile hill and into the city again by way of the San Bruno road and Folsom street.

...a Clara County Historic Heritage Commission & The Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department, March 25, 2005'' ...d a brisk commerce including travelers principally bound for San Francisco and Sacramento.

''by Cheryl and Clark Kaplan, 1964'' '''Bay shore at Potrero Point, 1862.'''

...-round tidal waters, light green areas are year-round salt marsh wetlands, and light blue indicates seasonal freshwater wetlands. A blue line also outline ...hird Street, marks the contemporary site of the long gone ornate pavillion and racetrack.

[[Image:David-schooley-and-kids-on-SB-Mtn-1994.jpg]] ...ill there? Backed into on every side by cities and industries of the North Peninsula, one last hold-out of wild Franciscan land.

...city of San Francisco is planted right in the heart of the Franciscan zone and the geographers, botanists, taxonomists, zoologists have flirted around the ...inson Beach. It's on the seaward side. If we preserved the Marin Peninsula and let everything go on the San Francisco side, we'd lose everything.

...rthwest with the Golden Gate visible at the northern edge of San Francisco and Marin County across the water. Highway 101 runs across the lower right hand ''“Here lies one of the greatest assemblages of rare and endangered plants and animals in an area of such small size anywhere in the continental United St

''Excerpted from '''Betty June: My Life During the Great Depression and World War II: 1926 to 1946''', self-published, Pasadena, CA: 2020'' ...io-transmitter tubes were manufactured; the tubes were to be used on ships and submarines.

'''South of Market Ball at the Civic Auditorium.''' ''Photo: South of Market Journal, January 1926''

...lding is the State Asylum for the Blind and Deaf, southeast corner of 15th and Mission wnp26.1107.jpg|800px]] ...lding is the State Asylum for the Blind and Deaf, southeast corner of 15th and Mission.'''

...finds today a stock exchange, a theater, churches of all Christian cults, and a large number of quite beautiful homes." As the years went by the astonish ...relations and communities took root slowly because of the gold rush fever and the transient nature of the population.

...the vegetation that kept its sandy cover in place. Great dunes climbed up and over the 700-foot hilltop on their way from Ocean Beach towards downtown. ...on on its lower slope. Bowing to public pressure, the city reversed itself and in the mid-1970s finally purchased the lots for much more than what they ha

...the Peninsula is left with a faulty transit system whose need for upgrades and strange configuration will continue to cause inconvenience for years to com ...g four separate vessels: a ride to a Caltrain station, the Caltrain, BART, and Airtrain to their terminal. A personal taxi from Palo Alto, for comparison

...ame time, the sign simplifies the human stories behind the city’s industry and how the meaning of “industry” has changed over time.''' '''South San Francisco hillside sign in 1987.'''

...a replica of the historical monument displayed at the intersection of Camp and Albion, showing a freshwater lake that Richard disputes.''' '''Historical marker at Camp and Albion, showing the mythical Lake Dolores.'''

...liographic references in the text go [[Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions#biblio|here]].'' ...it seemed a natural evolution in a region that has been the scene of radio and electronics pioneering since early in the Century." ''<br>—Frederick Term

...bay is still plagued by toxic pollution though the rampant filling of the bay has been largely halted.''' [[Image:Save the Bay cofounders Kay Kerr Sylvia McGlaughlin and Esther Gulick.png|left]]

''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' ...n as the Latin Quarter and had included French, Italian, Mexican, Spanish, and Portuguese residents, living “in low houses, which they transformed by ba

''Text originally published in ''BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System'' Heyday Books: Berkeley CA, 2016'' ...nine Bay Area counties. Most of the members were appointed by the governor and were certainly not beholden to the idea of a regional transit system.

...n Church of San Francisco: A Description of its Symbolisms, Art Treasures, and excerpts from Historical Documents.''''' ...he lot (now 2107 Lyon Street at Washington) for this church was purchased, and on August 20 the building contract with Mr. Gallagher was signed.

'''San Quentin from the bay, 1999.''' ...From the private leasing of convicts stored on boats in the San Francisco Bay, to land speculation on the first building site, the state prison instituti

...ldlife Service, the county of San Mateo, a handful of nearby local cities, and the Committee to Save San Bruno Mountain. Even after 15 years into its 30-y Section 10a originally allowed developers to destroy endangered species and their habitat as an "incidental take" only if the destruction would somehow

[[Image:Southwest-from-Dalys-Hill-in-Daly-City-Hillside-Ave-in-foreground-and-Mission-St-at-right-Westlake-District-is-open-area-in-distance-c-1930-Daly- '''Southwest from Daly's Hill in Daly City. Hillside Avenue in foreground and Mission Street at right. Westlake District is open area in distance, c. 193

[[Image:annals$wahla-and-wild-indian.jpg]] ...itants.''' Caption reads "1.''Wahla'', chief of the Yuba tribe,--civilized and employed by Mr. S. Brannan. 2. A partly civilized Indian. 3. A wild Indian.

...) and Hayes Valley Creek where it drained into Mission Bay south of Market and just east of the old City Hall. ''' ...ancisco earthquake. The city has many obstacles around fragile water mains and adequate transportation it must tackle in order to insure certain areas of

''Text originally published in ''BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System'' Heyday Books: Berkeley CA, 2016'' [[Image:1957-bay-area-bart-plan.jpg|800px]]

''based on the work of Dr. Weirde, with additions from Stuart Coulthard and Chris Carlsson'' ...out of ticky tacky? Colma has hundreds of thousands of them, two feet wide and six feet long, laid out end to end in rows that stretch to the horizon like

[[Image:Baybridge-thru-old-east-span-to-west-and-SF 5288.jpg]] '''View through old east span of west span of Bay Bridge and downtown San Francisco, September 2013.'''

[[Image:View-of-Mission-Bay-in-1863-aac-2292.jpg]] ...Mission Bay. Note the tall sand dunes still covered in scrub in foreground and middle distance. Third Street runs to Steamboat Point at left edge of photo

''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' [[Western Addition Early 20th Century Life and Work|continued from part four]]

...account and shows her evident familiarity with the flora of San Francisco--and the popular 1897 guide to '''Wild Flowers of California '''by Mary Elizabet [[Image:Wild Heliotrope and Poppies San Francisco by John Marshall Gamble betw-1893-1906.jpg|800px]]

''Originally published in [https://baynature.org/article/never-give-up/ ''Bay Nature'' January 1, 2011]'' ...as conveyed the depth and breadth of Bay Area environmental issues as ably and effectively over such a long period.

| colspan="2" |'''The original plans for BART included a “Peninsula Line” traversing San Mateo county; however, the construction of this line ...ainst San Mateo’s inclusion in the transit system, as well as the economic—and perhaps racialized—motives behind his fierce opposition to BART.

...th hazel [''Corylus cornuta'' var.'' californica''], manzanitas, low oaks, and other shrubs. Climbing over them was the Dutchman's pipe, ''Aristolochia ca ...r because each flower formed the face of an owl. Everywhere golden poppies and ''amsinckias'' [fiddlenecks] glorified the landscape.

...69: Crowds celebrate completion of Transcontinental Railroad at Montgomery and Washington Streets.''' ...n. The four investors--Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker--had to wait a few years for the pay-off on their seed mone

...BLING FRENZY!!! | gamehouses]], bars and brothels. These were seedy times and in the words of one observer named Hinton Helper San Francisco had the hand ...ace I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. ''</blockq

[[Image:West-Portal-and-tracks-pre-urbanization-c-1917.jpg|720px]] '''West Portal and MUNI tracks before urbanization, 1917.'''

...itutions including Langendorf Bakery, the Heineman and Stern Meat Factory, and Jefferson Market, whose descriptions make you wish you could walk through t ...tores opened after sundown when the twenty-four hour Jewish Sabbath ended, and stayed open until eleven o'clock.

...appropriating what they could. Between the announcement of the new policy and the appointment of the local administrator, the 5,000 cattle at Mission San ...ign origin as well, provided they formally adopted both the Catholic faith and Mexican citizenship; many of these petitioners married the daughters of Mex

...wer projects were some of the most expensive public works in city history, and these projects’ different priorities give insight into the changing balan ...hat in summer and fall become almost dry, rocky flats, surrounded by reeds and grasses.

''by John Dury and Laird Townsend, 1995'' ...f the Emeryville Shellmound 1924 from Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology and UC Regents catalog no 15-7792 920x920.jpg|792px]]

...“in a kind of sing-song,” repeating the names of boulders, trees, canyons, and other landmarks until the children had learned every foot of their domain. ...ht that by learning more about them, I might be able to imagine that harsh and innocent terrain.

...liographic references in the text go [[Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions#biblio|here]].'' ...ight, what Silicon Valley was once known as, long before industrialization and suburbanization altered it forever.'''

...,000 years ago when the sea was more than 300 feet below its present level and the coastline was west of the Farallon Islands.3 The ocean did not spill th [[Image:2-indans-with-bow-and-arrow-brk00001577 24a.jpg]]

...liographic references in the text go [[Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions#biblio|here]].'' ...fifteen, Farnsworth wedding the concepts of the photocell (for the camera) and the cathode ray tube (for the picture tube), thereby conceiving a full-blow

...Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in 2010 and 2011.''' ...as benign. But digging under the streets of early San Francisco, architect and mapper Glenn Lym finds that much of San Francisco&rsquo;s flatland was crea

...hellmound sites and raising awareness of Native American history, culture, and rights.''' ...s.[9] The connections that materialized between Native American organizers and Nipponzan Myohoji monastics during the 3-month Longest Walk laid the founda

...g arms, many tech workers were encouraged to talk about defense employment and even take action on the job or join the demonstrations or encourage their e ...lifornia's "Silicon Valley," the concentration of high-technology industry south of San Francisco, nearly $4 billion in defense contracts were received in f

...Spanish map of the Bay Area from the Presidio in Monterrey (sic) to Bodega Bay in the north.''' San Francisco Bay, one of the great natural harbors of the world, lay undiscovered for over t

''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' [[Image:Streetcar-tracks-construction-at-24th-and-Bryant-looking-south-to-Bernal Feb-4-1913 U03873.jpg|720px]]

<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sf-airport-1941-and-clipper-cove-from-lost-landscapes-no-1" width="640" height="480" frameborde ...fied by the aerial acrobatics of Lincoln Beachey as he did stunts over the bay as part of the [[PPIE: A Festival of Empire Wrapped in Technological Hubris

'''Aerial view from south to north, San Francisco's Financial District and environs, 1953.''' <font size=4>Downtown Expansion: Property and Progress</font size>

'''The Presidio and Golden Gate, 1920s''' ...d just as easily become yet another victory, however, for monied interests and unsustainable development.

...ial that San Francisco’s monied interests should control railroad strategy and protect the city’s future. But the most able proponent of the railroad to ...d the problem and took into his confidence a few businessmen in Sacramento and urged the formation of a company.”87

[[Image:Presidio-Loop-with-D-Line-Streetcar-and-Golden-Gate-Bridge-Visible-in-Background -September-11-1935 A4609.jpg]] ...d just as easily become yet another victory, however, for monied interests and unsustainable development.

...Alameda Creek, one of the original waterways owned by the private [[Sunol and Crystal Springs|Spring Valley Water Company]] before municipalization. Spri ...e mounted after the failure of the water supply during the 1906 Earthquake and fire. Eventually the Hetch Hetchy source was secured for the city, ending S

...Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in 2006 and 2007.''' ..., past and present; Willow Rosenthal with the story of City Slicker Farms; and Jason Mark, editor of ''Earth Island Journal'', about the work of Alemany F

...se categories: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.''' ...Walk and Talks" since Fall 2020. This page has the Walk & Talks from 2022 and if we get to hold some indoor Talks later this year, we'll add them here to

[[Image:Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen 7786ps.jpg|720px|thumb]] ...(Potrero Hill at right of Mission Creek) from Corona Heights above Castro and 15th as it probably looked around the year 1701... Photo below taken 2001 f

''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' ...and were to be found South of Market, in the Mission and Western Addition, and on Pacific Heights.(48)

...saw "known communists" leading the demonstrations, although he was in the peninsula suburb of Burlingame when the police attacked in the rotunda.'' ...hey passed another act, the Smith Act, making it a crime to be a communist and they went around actively putting people in prison for that. It really was

...soner for an hour; neither have you a place to shelter, while living, sick and unfortunate strangers who may be cast upon our shores, or to bury them when ...nan). San Francisco became a state-approved chartered city on May 1, 1850, and Geary became Mayor, dropping the Mexican title of alcalde.

...ore people in California by the end of 1849, overwhelming the institutions and facilities that had served the previous remote Mexican province. ...ere poor streets and lack of adequate transportation, both within the city and to other settlements.

[[Landscape and City Life: Four Ecologies of Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area|return to Introduction]] '''Craftsman style homes on Liberty Hill between 20th and 21st Streets in San Francisco, 2014.'''

[[Landscape and City Life: Four Ecologies of Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area|return to Introduction]] [[Image:South-Van-Ness-mansion 6098.jpg|400px|right]]

...sed World: A Political History|''Processed World magazine'']] between 1981 and 2004. As first-hand accounts of what it was like working at various jobs du ...iversity system, but now I'm looking at it from the inside as an employee, and, along with my fellow part­ time instructors, watching it disintegrate.

''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' ...-1891 and was formerly a liquor merchant, purchased house in 1877 or 1878, and replaced with new building in 1889.

...liographic references in the text go [[Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions#biblio|here]].'' <font size=4>Cyril Elwell and the McCarty Wireless Telephone</font size>

...900 show that a two-story house used to sit here, where the plums are now, and another house where the loquat trees are. Maybe it was one of those houses ...ug house, maybe burned down, became a dumping ground for old refrigerators and washing machines, but my friend Jenny who moved to Harrison Street in the 1

...vements. Here are the Talks we held at the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics from 2012-2014.''' ...everyone from right to left, from Venezuela to Argentina, Mexico to Chile and more. Co-hosted by [http://www.pmpress.org PM Press]

''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' ...topography, placed the Spanish presidio and mission at the entrance to the bay instead of in a more salubrious spot.(4)

...lished in 1977 by the [[Looking Back at the Frisco Bay Mussel Group|Frisco Bay Mussel Group]]. At the end of the pamphlet a brief description was presente ...But there is a spirit to alter the dominance of city demands on the region and extend a sense of regionhood to everyone living within it. Rather than rest

...This is part one focused on San Francisco. Part two on the East and North Bay is [[Oakland Rising: The Industrialization of Alameda County|here]].'' ...rancisco. By 1880 the mill ran day and night, producing 30,000 tons a year and employing 450 men at wages higher than on the East Coast. Irish immigrants

[[Landscape and City Life: Four Ecologies of Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area|return to Introduction]] [[Image:Daly-city-and-southern-sf-from-SB-Mtn 1353.jpg]]

...liographic references in the text go [[Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions#biblio|here]].'' ...if they'd blow their fetid breath at you, you were supposed to fall over. And they blew their fetid breath at us, but we didn't fall over." <br>—Robert

...n Gate anchors the San Francisco we carry around in our heads. City by the Bay. Gateway to the Pacific. City on the Hill. It fills the postcard, frames th ...in gray, in stipples of green and brown along the shore, in dots of brick and mortar tucked into the coastline. But it must also be called up from hidden

...rts with puffy black garbage sails. A homeless man passed by with his cart and took an interest in what I was doing. Posing his cart on the sidewalk for m ...two long eagle feathers. “I was part of the Alcatraz Occupation,” he said, and as he did, his eyes welled up with tears.

...ly proud of him for being a spokesperson for the citizens of San Francisco and for what I had learned from him in developing a progressive, humanistic wor ...San Francisco’s Mad Rush to the Sky'' was published by the ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'' around the time of the Yes on T campaign. Alvin wrote the intro

...would start the trip back to San Francisco. We were in a race against time and distance to comply with a U.S. federal court order. ...ts territory to the United States of America after losing to the invaders, and draw the borderline that gives Trump so much to talk about.

...liographic references in the text go [[Cooperation Among Electronics Firms and Conclusions#biblio|here]].'' '''Fritz Pfleumer and his 1931 magnetic tape machine.'''

'''San Francisco Water Department's [[Sunol and Crystal Springs|Pulgas Waterworks]]''' ...key to understanding the political thinking behind the November 1997 bonds and the PUC's ([http://sfwater.org/home.cfm Public Utilities Commission]) $2.36