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  • [[Image:Sevw890-across-richmond.jpg|720px]] '''Southeast view across the Richmond District towards Golden Gate Park and Mt. Sutro, 1890.'''
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  • [[Image:richmond$richmond-residents-1899.jpg]] '''Richmond residents photograph in 1899, at 14th Ave. and Lake Street'''
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  • ...serve the congregation of Star of the Sea Catholic Church in the Richmond District. [[category:1920s]] [[category:schools]] [[category:Richmond District]]
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  • [[Image:Plowing dunes with horses richmond wnp15.352.jpg]] '''Grading dunes at the edge of the Richmond District looking south toward Golden Gate Park ca. 1910.'''
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  • [[Image:Sevw890-across-richmond.jpg|720px]] '''Southeast view across the Richmond District towards Golden Gate Park and Mt. Sutro, 1890.'''
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  • '''View across Richmond District, 1912.''' [[Image:Richmond%24richmond-street-w-trolley.jpg|720px|thumb]]
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  • [[Image:richmond$muni-geary-blvd-1912.jpg]] '''Last of the cable cars into the Richmond District.''' This photo, taken on Geary St. at 4th Avenue in April, 1912 of the cabl
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  • ''by Renee Renaud, Richmond Review, June 1990'' ...ello) to the ocean and from Fulton Street to Fort Presidio as the Richmond District...
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  • [[Image:richmond$richmond-aerial-view-1901.jpg|720px|thumb]] '''North West Aerial View of the Richmond District in 1901.'''<br> ''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
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  • ''by Renee Renaud,'' The Richmond ReView, ''November 1989'' [[Image:richmond$richmond-banner-cartoon.jpg|720px|thumb]]
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  • [[Image:richmond$russian-orthodox-church.jpg]] '''This Russian Church dominates its stretch of Geary Boulevard in the Richmond, Holy Virgin Cathedral at 26th Avenue.'''
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  • [[Image:Richmond%24camera-obscura-closeup.jpg]] [[Image:Richmond%24camera-obscura-1995.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:richmond$sutro-rail-road-cars.jpg|720px|thumb]] [[Image:richmond$cablecar-clement-st-1940s.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:Quake-shacks-in-Richmond.jpg]] '''Richmond District'''
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  • [[Image:Richmond%24seacliff%24bikes_itm%24bikes-in-1958-w-gg-bridge.jpg]] [[Image:richmond$gg-bridge-from-seacliff.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:richmond$simmons-family-1903.jpg]] ...picture, later became the matriarch of the family and lived in the Sunset District until her death in 1983. She had two sons, Harold Warren Levitt (architect)
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  • [[Image:Richmond%24ocean-beach-c-1920s.jpg]] [[Playland|Prev. Document]] [[Russians in the Richmond|Next Document]]
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  • '''1901 view north, Golden Gate Park in foreground, sand dune in Richmond District around 20th to 35th Avenues, a few residences scattered around today's Seac
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  • [[Russians in the Richmond |Prev. Document]] [[Get Your Ashes Hauled |Next Document]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:religion]] [[category:LGBTQI]] [[category:J
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  • For seven frolicking years from 1902-1907, the Richmond District was home to the "largest pleasure resort in America" - the Chutes! ...l in the background and west across the [[From the Great Sand Waste to the Richmond|"sand waste"]] to the Pacific Ocean. Four boats a minute carried eight ride
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  • ''by Renee Renaud in'' The Richmond ReView, ''February 1989'' [[Image:richmond$odd-fellows-cemetery-1899.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:richmond$geary-and-43rd-in-1917.jpg]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:Transit]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:190
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  • [[Image:richmond$cliff-house-and-dunes.jpg|720px|thumb]] '''Sand dunes in the Richmond, c. 1890. Cliff House is barely visible, left of center; Sutro's Mansion is
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  • '''Conservatory in Golden Gate Park, 1904, looking northward across Richmond District.'''
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  • ''Interviewed in the Mission District in 2016 by Chris Carlsson'' ...at just moved from [[Ethnic Cleansing in San Francisco|the Fillmore to the Richmond]] where he is befriended by a white officer on horse patrol, but ends in a
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  • ...f Chinese were able to freely move out of Chinatown and settle here in the Richmond, so much so that as many of you know, Clement street became home to what wa ...e tubes on our TV. Our family seemed to know all of them, their kids, what district in China they came from, and more.
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  • [[Image:Richmond%24sutro-steam-train-1890s.jpg|720px|thumb]] [[Image:Richmond%24sutro-steam-locomotive.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:Richmond%24richmond-trolley.jpg]] [[category:Western Addition]] [[category:1880s]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1890s
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  • [[Image:richmond$cliff-house-1880s.jpg|720px]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1870s]] [[category:1880s]] [[category:1890s]] [[category:1900s
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  • ...ts bought a home, moving out to the Avenues in Ocean Beach in the Richmond District, which made it easier for papa to commute to and from Westlake. He went on [[category:Italian]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Foo
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  • [[Image:richmond$cliff-train.jpg]] [[Pre-Urban Richmond District |Prev. Document]] [[C L I F F H O U S E |Next Document]]
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  • ...t Street, so his Chutes Realty Company purchased some land in the Richmond District and begin building a new Chutes theme park. The [[The Chutes at Fulton and ...a movie theater, the Chutes Theater was the first theater in the Richmond District to show “moving pictures.” Hardy Downing and his “loop-the-loop” bi
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  • ...ry:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:Jordan Park]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1890s]] [[category:1900s]] [[category:1910s
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  • [[Image:Richmond$city-view-east-1938.jpg]] '''Bird-eye view of the Richmond District, looking east in 1938. The Columbarium is the round structure, lower right.
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  • ...e was often spelled “Sweeney”) owned a lot of land in today’s Inner Sunset District. From his home, about where 7th Avenue and Judah Street meet today, he had '''c. 1898 Looking northwest. Taken from Sweeny Observatory. Richmond District. Sutro line carhouse. Sand dunes, Golden Gate, Point Bonita in distance, Pr
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  • Pulling down unsafe walls in the great fire-swept business district (Photographed by Underwood & Underwood) c. 1906 ...ory:1900s]] [[category:1906]] [[category:Photography]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:North Beach]]
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  • ...aks Tunnel]] to establish the West Portal neighborhood, and developing the Richmond. ...1903. Perhaps more notable is that he [http://www.outsidelands.org/nelson-richmond.php?utm_source=story&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=stories set the record] fo
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  • ...s]] [[category:species]] [[category:Golden Gate Park]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Presidio]]
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  • '''The Sunset district, c. 1910 (windmill in Golden Gate Park is near right edge on horizon)''' ...tions against building houses in the sand: filled lands such as the Marina district sustained considerable damage during the 1989 earthquake.
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  • ...nd and Sunset Districts had First through Forty-ninth avenues. The Bayview District had a similar list of avenues, First through Forty-fifth, which were suffix ...at finding distinct names for all the numbered or lettered streets. In the Richmond and Sunset districts they devised a full set of Spanish names to conform to
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  • ...tyre is the fellow to thank for getting bike lanes rolling in the Richmond District. He still lives nearby, on the shoulder of Lone Mountain, and he just celeb ...lebrated with a noontime parade this Sunday on Lake Street in the Richmond District. San Francisco’s first traffic lane reserved exclusively for bicycles wil
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  • ...ry:1880s]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:The Argonaut]][[category:Richmond District]]
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  • [[Image:Richmond%24sutro-statue-looking-south.jpg]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1870s]] [[category:1860s]] [[category:1890s]] [[category:1900s
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  • [[Image:richmond$columbarium-photograph.jpg]] '''The Neptune Society Columbarium in the Richmond, 1995.'''
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  • ...all the way to Union City and Pleasanton, hug the bayside from Fremont to Richmond, and grace the banks of the river from Martinez to Antioch. The question, then, is whether the East Bay Regional Park District can cope with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse bearing down on Californi
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  • ...returned to their homes in Nihonmachi, some chose to move to the Richmond District. ...Boulevard was widened to provide middle-class residents of the Sunset and Richmond districts a major thoroughfare into downtown. This widening also effectivel
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  • ...smen could be found down the peninsula or, in the 1920s, in the new Marina District between Pacific Heights and the bay. The bulk of Irish Catholics may have l ...ion to adult status. The existence of South of Market, a large lower-class district catering to young single males, reinforced this tendency.
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  • ...by on the corner of 47th Avenue and Cabrillo Street, in the Outer Richmond District. According to SF Planning Department records, it was relocated in 1923 by a
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  • ...isco newspapers frequently ran stories covering violence in the Bayview, a district described as a dangerous ghetto. These reports caught my attention because ...in 1928, when there was still small beaches along the shore of the Bayview district.'''
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  • Between 1970, when Richmond Environmental Action (REA) was founded, and 1979, there had grown up a doze ...the City office of Recycling, the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council and Richmond Environmental Action responded to the impending dissolution and reformed SF
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  • ...ly time that the fathers of our playmates socialized together. The Bayview District in the 1920s and 1930s was comprised of immigrants of differing nationaliti When we packed to move from Le Conte Avenue to the Richmond District in 1939 we came across one bottle of wine. Its golden liquid gleamed clearl
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  • [[category:Transit]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Bicycling]]
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  • ...y:habitat]] [[category:species]] [[category:Presidio]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Potrero Hill]]
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  • San Francisco (Mission District, Chinatown, Hunters Point, the Fillmore) Richmond
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  • ...//sfrichmondreview.com/2017/11/02/plan-to-protect-neighborhoods-abandoned/ Richmond Review], and the Ingleside-Excelsior Light under the title "Plan to Protect ...Hollywood, Merced Manor, Mission Terrace, Oceanview, Outer Mission, Outer Richmond, Outer Sunset, Parkside, Portola, Sea Cliff, Stonestown and Sunnyside.
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  • Anyone who has driven east on Geary Boulevard from the Richmond District knows that, as you pass Gough, the road bends to the south and then east ag 1. “Looking Back – Starr King,” ''Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon'', July 4, 2020. https://sfrichmondreview.com/2020/07/
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  • <font size=4>The Changing Physical Landscape of the Sunset District:<br><br> San Francisco's "Sunset District" is bordered on the north by Lincoln Way, on the west by the Great Highway,
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  • ...long ago, San Francisco was home to about 100,000 Blacks, and the Fillmore district was a thriving Mecca of African American life. Today, the Fillmore is gone Alan Goodspeed was my next door neighbor in the Ingleside District on the south side of Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. He was a Black man from
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  • ...ry:species]] [[category:habitat]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Bernal Heights]] [[category:2020s]]
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  • [[Image:richmond$playland$playland_itm$playland-north-1940.jpg]] [[Image:Richmond%24playland%24%24playland-playbeauties.jpg]]
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  • ...o begins its story in 1993, on the rooftop of an apartment in the Richmond District inspired by Free Radio Berkeley. It quickly became a voice of and integrate ...y were produced. In June 1995, a gang of police officers from the Richmond district station, led by Officer Mark Andaya, beat and pepper-sprayed Aaron Williams
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  • ...ade to move the Chinese sector away from San Francisco's lucrative central district when it was rebuilt, the courts finally ruled that the Chinese had the righ ...italizing not only Chinatown but creating new Chinese neighborhoods in the Richmond and Sunset Districts. Many have come seeking refuge from political instabil
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  • ...San Francisco, the hills separating the Western Addition and the Richmond District were the final resting place (not! learn why not!) of more than 100,000 peo <font size=4>Food and Baseball in SOMA and the Mission District</font size>
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  • ...ican West.[5] His photograph of the storefront shows Boudin Bakery at this Richmond location back in 1931. ...840s]] [[category:Gold Rush]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Power and Money]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1980s]] [[cate
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  • ...ght lane expressway to move traffic through the Fillmore into the Richmond District with tunnels under Fillmore St. and Presidio/Masonic. The dislocated famili
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  • [[category:Power and Money]][[category:famous characters]][[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1850s]]
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  • ...heart of the business district, and enjoyed direct access to the Richmond District, ripe for development. After three unsuccessful efforts at the polls, a bon [[Image:richmond$muni-geary-blvd-1912.jpg]]
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  • ...led when the county’s Board of Supervisors voted to withdraw from the BART district in late 1961. This decision is commonly attributed to the high cost that BA ...(5). Though Santa Clara county was not officially a member of the transit district, one BART line was also planned to end in Palo Alto after traversing San Ma
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  • ...ing campaign, and subsequent sit-in, at one point occurred in the Fillmore District, with organizers announcing plans to picket with a loudspeaker.(6) On Novem [[category:African-American]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:Racism]] [[category:Dissent]]
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  • ...ordinance requiring a union label on city printing jobs, and the recall of District Attorney Fickert. The same six districts also formed the core support for m ...rjury and despite revelations of dealings with McDonough's vice interests, district 31 still gave him 60 percent of its vote, compared with only 40 percent of
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  • '''Gaby and her daughter wait for a bus in the Mission District, July 2, 2018.''' Gaby started up with a boyfriend in Richmond, and the abuse immediately began both from him and his mother. They had her
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  • ...filled. The San Francisco and Oakland airports were expanding, the city of Richmond planned to fill in thousands of tidal acres for further expansion of its in ...Reagan signing the 1969 law that made the Bay Conservation and Development District permanent, with Save the Bay co-founders Gulick, McGlaughlin, and Kerr look
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  • ...he Fourth of July approached each year, young people would stream into the district from all over the Bay Area to score firecrackers and other forbidden pyrote ...in what was thought to be a reprisal attack by the Wah Ching at a Richmond District residence. It was then that the “Chinatown Squad” was re-established as
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  • ...eleven-year old sister announced that she would be moving to the Richmond district, one of her girlfriends asked if she would now be required to say “isn�
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  • ...or, “The Slot.” North of the Slot were, the theatres, hotels, and shopping district, the banks and the staid, respectable business houses. South of the Slot we :2. Mission District: an area of family units and home ownership, with family heads often skille
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  • ...egory:1900s]] [[category:Women]] [[category:Presidio]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Food]] [[category:Pacific Heights]] [[category:Marina]] [[cate
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  • ...n at PPIE was located just south of the Palace Of Fine Arts, in the Marina District.''' [[category:Public Art]] [[category:French]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:Fairs]] [[category:Mari
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  • The West Portal shopping and residential district takes its name from the [[Twin Peaks Tunnel|Twin Peaks Tunnel]], which ushe ...hly along present-day Ridgewood Avenue, continuing south to the Ocean View district, then north along Junipero Serra Boulevard to the Laguna Honda reservoir.
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  • [[Ships under Financial District|Ships under Financial District]] [[Why is it called "Richmond"?|Why is it called "Richmond"?]]
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  • ...Lusk cannery with 400 acres of fruit and vegetable gardens in the Temescal district. (Pacific Coast Borax and N. Clark & Sons Brick Works were across the estua ...spaces to the west, but after 1869 that area blossomed as a working class district and the rich were displaced to the northeast around and across Lake Merritt
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  • ...hts, and at high water cut a 30-foot wide path across the southern Mission District, along today's Cesar Chavez Street. Its waters dispersed on the way to Potr ...are no longer active, as they deliver waste to the Southwest plant by the Richmond Transport, a big tunnel under Sutro Heights.
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  • ...lass businessmen and professionals were to be found throughout the Mission District, these groups appeared in larger proportions elsewhere in the city. Before ...e both larger and architecturally more elaborate than those of the Mission District. Harriet Lane Levy’s description of the 900 block on O’Farrell could ha
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  • ...support of the application by the Dogpatch neighbors to receive historical district status.'' ...al architects who took part in rebuilding downtown and the South of Market district. One of the most notable examples of this work is a small terra-cotta clad
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  • ...He was working at the VA Hospital on Clement Street in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco. “Every lunch break I would go out there and for 15 or 2
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  • “Varicolored flags and pennants stretched across principle streets of the district and all along Hayes Street the buildings are decorated with bunting.” — ...st was judged by people from North Beach, Mission, Noe Valley, Sunset, and Richmond. Prizes were supplied by Hayes Valley businesses. A concert by the Harmony
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  • ...akland evolved through a series of identities as ranchland, slaughterhouse district, industrial area, center of entertainment and vice, destination for sailors ...Western labor practices, and cattle ranching. Much of what is now known as Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland was once Rancho San Antonio, miles of ranchland for
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  • ...tury streetcars were big business. First demonstrated in the late 1880s in Richmond, Virginia, the electric streetcar was considered a utopian vision of using ...of these lines converged on Market Street and terminated in the Financial District. With the coming of [[BART: Bechtel's Baby| BART]] and the MUNI subway, str
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  • ...ded in the District. The irony of the county’s decision to pull out of the District became clear in the 1970s and 1980s, when a burgeoning Silicon Valley, with ...unty on the west side of the bay. In the East Bay, the line would run from Richmond in western Contra Costa County to Fremont in southern Alameda County, and o
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  • ...tra Costa County Historical Society Collection, via East Bay Regional Park District'' '''Giant Powder Company's installations at Point Pinole northwest of Richmond.'''
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  • ...on center, marking the transformation of fully half of the South of Market District. Similar initiatives from the business community, operating through private As San Francisco’s business community began to transform its central business district into a mini-Manhattan, critics of high-density development emerged and bega
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  • ...to San Francisco to work during World War II mostly landed in the Fillmore District (aka Western Addition) from where the Japanese had recently been [[Japanese ...vice to Anyone.” The Negro newcomer who walked into a lunch counter in the Richmond, the Sunset or the Mission was never sure whether he would get a sandwich o
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  • ...throughout the Bay Area. This is his map of the water flow in the Mission District, including historic streams, tidal inlets and marshlands that no longer exi ...s teased her that she sounded like a 30 year old Mission mom moving out to Richmond with her family. But the place was such a dump that they had to cancel the
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  • ...ory:Ecology]] [[category:Presidio]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:species]] [[category:habitat]]
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  • ...We felt so superior to the people who lived out in the Sunset and Richmond district and were fogged in during school vacation. We always headed for the cove ar In 1939 we moved to the Richmond. I never went back. Our neighborhood had disappeared completely when the fr
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  • ...oint in the southeast corner of San Francisco, the docks across the bay in Richmond, and those in Marin City. In San Francisco, 30,000 war workers were housed ...city. Today, with the exception of the Western Addition and the Ingleside district, much of the black population of the city is focused around the neighborhoo
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  • [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:1900s]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1960s
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  • ...Francisco outside the city]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:Bernal Heights]] [[categor
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  • [[Image:View of business district on Post Street Nippon-Drug-becomes-Bop-City-by-Dorothea-Lange NARA - 536044 '''Business district on Post Street in 1942, as [[Japanese Internment in San Francisco|Japanese
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  • ...followed that with Good Karma Café natural foods restaurant in the Mission District, New Age Distributing Company in San Jose, and Organic Merchants natural fo 15. Robert Neptune, ''California’s Uncommon Markets'', (Richmond, CA: Associated Cooperatives, Inc, 1971), 51.<br>
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  • ...xpanded and residential suburbs grew in the Mission, Western Addition, and Richmond districts. For licensing purposes both kinds of vehicles were termed “hac
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  • In the Mission district, where I live and work, it was almost impossible to ignore the election—a ...t bitterly reviled among progressive hipsters, the tragically unhip Marina district, home to our archnemesis, Gavin Newsom? My hope was that walking precincts
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  • [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Landmarks]] [[category:Buildings]] [[category:1860s]] [[catego
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • [[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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • 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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...Cabaret and Juice Joint, a small gay comedy club in San Francisco’s Castro district. He had led the opposition to City Hall on behalf of tenants and neighborho ...to run parallel to 19th Avenue and would have bisected both the Sunset and Richmond districts, turned the working class and petit bourgeois of the city’s wes
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  • ...support of the application by the Dogpatch neighbors to receive historical district status, which was officially designated by the City in 2003.'' ...sidential architecture from 1870-1930 has led to its recent local historic district status.'''
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  • ...block after block after treeless block in the foggy west side (the Sunset District) and zig-zagging over hill and dale across the southern half of the city an ...more upscale areas of the 1920s such as the northern waterfront, or Marina District). Nor was modernism much appreciated in small home styling. Joseph Eichler
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  • ...in the West Portal District has been but four feet. West Portal is a home district and we do not feel there is a need for fencing in the Library yards. This n ...urs of the morning use this new route, thereby saving the residents of the district considerable annoyance.”
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  • ...through distributing the magazine directly on the streets of the Financial District on Friday lunch hours. [[Image:Cc milk-of-amnesia1 1983.jpg|230px|right]] D ...as bicycling past the Mills Building on Montgomery Street in the Financial District. Imagine an immersive multimedia experience in which you (the user) could b
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  • ...tivist artists whose public murals were just then beginning to glorify the district. LRSC had a small, stable core of artists and printers (Melara, Linda Lucer ...one designs over the next decade. [39]. [[Image:M1-108.jpg|330px|left]] In Richmond, Doug Minkler began designing political serigraphs in 1979, with jagged, en
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  • ...ve covenants to confine African Americans to the Western Addition/Fillmore district and Chinese Americans to Chinatown. As the city’s population continued to ...logues and community-building among residents. African-American tenants in Richmond, California leveraged their tenants’ organization, as Baranski notes, “
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  • ...xperience as a post-World War II White, Irish-American child of the Sunset District who attended parochial schools—Holy Name grammar school and Mercy High Sc ...South. By this time the Tutorial Program had expanded outside the Fillmore District and operated at nearly a dozen sites with a few hundred volunteers. More st
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  • ...idio]] [[category:Bernal Heights]] [[category:Sunset]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Civic Center]] [[category:Anarchism]] [[category:Housing]] [[c
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  • ...lition was cobbled together to raise the necessary funds. First, a special district stretching all the way to the Oregon border had to be created for the tax b ...the initial investment after thirty-five years. Yet the Golden Gate Bridge District remains politically aloof from regional government and transportation polic
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  • '''San Francisco State College students parade through the Fillmore District with banners denouncing segregation, May 18, 1963.''' Mother called from Richmond this evening. She said she had just been nominated to a new city commission
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  • ...of whom had come to the Fillmore and Hunters Point (as well as Oakland and Richmond in the East Bay and Marin City in Marin County) during the war, and now com ...|African American Western Addition]], the [[Produce Market|Italian produce district]], and the South of Market single-room-occupancy hotels that housed thousan
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  • The Richmond District’s abysmal summer weather was no secret or recent phenomenon. In 1871 a Ch ...the representative of San Francisco, but also as a resident of the Mission District. However, the ceremonies were postponed until the Missions returned from a
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  • ...The Pomo people in and around Clear Lake which can be seen as the “capitol district” for north central Indian culture seem to have had the greatest impact on ...s|lakes partly filled]] from the drains and faucets of the Richmond-Sunset District.
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  • ...flowers and delicate shrubbery, but also sickened and killed people in the district. Physicians refused to treat patients who lived near the works. By 1877 the ...1900s]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:Haight-Ashbury]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:Western Addition]]
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  • ...the court. The African American players would frequent the nearby Fillmore district, a vibrant center of black culture in the 1950s. Bill Russell discovered th ...ard Gene Brown had starred for Washington High in San Francisco’s Richmond District, and K.C. Jones of course had been a star for Commerce High and lived in Hu
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  • ...but large sections of workers' cottages. The Western Addition and Mission District look like the central city today, but these were suburban homes in the 19th ...rn of the last century, in developments such as Kansas City's Country Club District, and big developers like Levitt finally become dominant after World War II.
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  • ...e]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Bernal Heights]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:LGBTQI]] [[category:Women]] [[category:Noe Valley]] [[category
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  • ...ch project by the author tracing the history of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District from its origins in the 1840s to the present.'' ...block closest to Kearny Street, which was becoming a fashionable shopping district, while white collar occupations tended to congregate on the block closest t
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