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  • [[Image:Russian-Hill-plaque P1100017.jpg]] ...lbrith Park, describing how the burial of several Russian sailors gave the hill its name.'''
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  • #REDIRECT [[Russian Hill Naming]]
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  • <font size=4>Little House on Russian Hill—When Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in a Willis Polk Home during the Pan-Paci ..., from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, seen here from Russian Hill.'''
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  • [[Image:Russian-Hill-plaque P1100017.jpg]] ...lbrith Park, describing how the burial of several Russian sailors gave the hill its name.'''
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  • #REDIRECT [[Russian Hill Naming]]
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  • [[Image:pothill$pot-hill-neighborhood-house.jpg]] '''Neighborhood House at the top of De Haro on Potrero Hill.'''
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  • [[Image:July 4 1862 Washington Square Looking west on Filbert St. to Russian Hill on July 4, 1862. Muster of soldiers parading into Washington Square in Nort '''July 4, 1862, Washington Square looking west on Filbert Street to Russian Hill. Muster of soldiers parading into Washington Square. Lombard Street Reservo
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  • [[Image:Marina-district-Golden-Gate-View-from-Russian-Hill-1899.jpg|720px]] '''Golden Gate view from Russian Hill, c. 1899.'''
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  • [[category:1920s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Russian Hill]] [[category:roads]]
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  • [[Category:Nob_Hill|Nob Hill]] [[Category:Potrero_Hill|Potrero Hill]]
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  • '''Washerwoman's Lagoon, View from Russian Hill, showing Presidio, view West, Strawberry Island, 1856''' Although it was beyond Russian Hill and out by the Presidio and almost three miles from the plaza, several ente
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  • ...ance hearings. Diego went so far as to script an article for the ''Russian Hill Runt'', “I Am Not A Communist.” [[Image:Russian-Hill-Runt-p1-Dec-6-1940.jpg|320px|left]] [[Image:Russian-Hill-Runt-p2-Dec-6-1940.jpg|325px|right]]
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  • ...70 View southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Catholic Church up on hill side at Broadway and Van Ness. Corner estate with gardens in foreground bel ...70 view southwest to Pacific Heights. Old St. Brigid Catholic Church up on hill side at Broadway and Van Ness. Corner estate with gardens in foreground bel
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  • '''On the east side of Telegraph Hill, a small portion of Lombard Street runs from Montgomery to the Embarcadero. [[category:North Beach]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:Russian Hill]] [[category:buildings]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:R
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  • [[Image:tendrnob$nob-hill-to-city-hall-1906.jpg]] '''Looking from Nob Hill across the devastated Civic Center area, 1906.'''
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  • ''Material presented in much of the Potrero Hill chapter is excerpted from a study written in 1964 by Cheryl and Clark Kapla ...nded on three sides by industry and on the fourth by bloody bay shore, the hill is almost an island, adrift on a sea of the city: Seventeenth and Nineteent
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  • Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill (Photographed by J. J. Reilly) Telegraph Hill, from Russian Hill (Photographed by Edward J. Muybridge)
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  • '''Vallejo Street wharf seen from Telegraph Hill, 1864.''' '''Vallejo Street wharf and Green Street dock, with Telegraph Hill rising behind it, 1864.'''
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  • ''Photo: [http://www.potreroarchives.com Potrero Hill Archives Project]'' ...1900, there appeared several groups of immigrants, who settled on Potrero Hill; the Scotch and Irish predominating.
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  • '''Telegraph Hill from Black Point in 1895 ... now Fort Mason ''' ...th Irish, Germans, and others. Chiletown, located at the foot of Telegraph Hill in the early 1850s, evolved into Mexican and Spanish speaking settlements.
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  • ...s that settled in San Francisco during those early years worshipped at the Russian Orthodox Church until Holy Trinity was founded in 1904. ...as a third Greek Orthodox Church that existed for a brief period on Rincon Hill.
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  • ...l Sinton did leave this capitalists’ corner of Pacific Heights for Russian Hill—not for a funky studio by any means but to a neighborhood which with its Nell Sinton had already studied at that Russian Hill school, the California School of Fine Arts (now the Art Institute) before s
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  • [[Image:Irish-hill-1890s.jpg]] '''Irish Hill c. 1890'''
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  • [[Image:Tel Hill 1890 View north from Alta Street of three boys and a girl standing on hills ...Hill, during the early period of organizing to stop the destruction of the hill by quarrying. [[Julius' Castle|Layman's Castle]] is visible at upper left o
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  • [[Russian Hill Hangings |Prev. Document]]  [[View across Polk Gulch |Next Document]] [[category:TenderNob]] [[category:Russian Hill]] [[category:buildings]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1
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  • The other is on Russian Hill on Chestnut Street. [[Image:Octagon-House-on-Russian-Hill P1100020.jpg]]
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  • ...ly upper-class San Franciscans, organized opposition through their Russian Hill Improvement Association (RHIA). What now can be seen as a curious irony a h ....” (S.F. Chronicle, Dec. 7, 1960). But the well-heeled denizens of Russian Hill began their campaign too late to stop the Fontana Towers, which were built.
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  • ...The Semaphore'' #207, the publication of the [http://www.thd.org Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association]'' ...nt Association, Aquatic Park Neighbors, North Beach Neighbors, and Russian Hill Neighbors. Their persistent, extraordinary effort will benefit San Francisc
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  • ...Street Pier San Francisco Maritime Museum National Park, seen from Russian Hill, [[Ghirardelli Square|Ghirardelli Square]] at left, [[The Unselling of Alca ...gory:Famous characters]] [[category:Fisherman's Wharf]] [[category:Russian Hill]]
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  • ...nitial support for these improvements the public began to turn against the hill flatteners. The grading was messy work, adding yet more mud to the as yet u ...atteners continued to have their way. The Second Street Cut through Rincon Hill was made in 1869. Behind the plans for a cut was the wealthy land owner, Jo
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  • ''by Chris Carlsson, from [http://www.potreroarchives.com Potrero Hill Archives Project] papers'' '''Carving the east side of Potrero Hill for a railroad line, c. 1870s'''
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  • [[Image:View E from Russian Hill circa 1890 wnp37.00922.jpg|800px]] '''View east from Russian Hill over North Beach, c. 1890.'''
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  • ''Photo: Potrero Hill Archive Project'' ...untry, and 5% were Negro. Of the immigrants, 29% were Italian and 18% were Russian.
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  • '''31 Alta Street on Telegraph Hill, 2012.''' ...rinted cards were sent to a prospective clientele announcing her Telegraph Hill Tavern as having “all the atmosphere of the Montmarte with a Marine view.
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  • ...Russian Hill (Jones & Vallejo); Clarke's Point (eastern side of Telegraph Hill); 1st & Clementina; North Beach (near Powell & Lombard) ...es: [[For Whom the Belle Toils:|Mission Dolores]]. Russian Hill. Telegraph Hill. North Beach, Yerba Buena, and Presidio.
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  • ...ies in the Inner and Outer Mission, Excelsior, Bernal Heights, and Potrero Hill where they could work in nearby factories, warehouses, workshops, and railr ...eel and spectacular views, residing on the slopes of Telegraph and Russian Hill, where the rents are very high. North Beach has gradually evolved into a ne
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  • ...nn, originally published on [http://www.fog-city.de/stone-quarry-telegraph-hill/ San Francisco Fog City/Stadt Des Nebels]'' [[Image:30th and Castro c 1915 Looking west at Gold Mine Hill. Gray Brothers quarry building on left. (Manning Collection) wnp26.1126.jpg
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  • <font size=4>Little House on Russian Hill—When Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in a Willis Polk Home during the Pan-Paci ..., from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, seen here from Russian Hill.'''
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  • [[Image:C1957 View west from The Embarcadero near Lombard toward Telegraph Hill. Belt Line locomotive 22 and Belt Line Railroad roundhouse at right, Julius [[Image:Norbeach%24telegraph-hill-history%24school-street_itm%24school-st1.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:View W from Russian Hill 1890s wnp71.1498.jpg|800px]] ...len Factory and pumping station with twin stacks for reservoirs on Russian Hill. Water flume from Lobos Creek at right.'''
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  • [[Image:Ft-mason-garden-w-russian-hill-and-flag 1206.jpg]]
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  • ...rom Islais Creek near Glen Park around the south and east slopes of Bernal Hill to a reservoir at 16th and Brannan. The barn in the distance was in the sou A cousin of my father's had been drowned in the Russian River. His body was to be buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, which was
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  • ...against the small hill that rose immediately above San Bruno Avenue was a Russian family; the neighbors were impressed when they added a sauna to the house. [[Image:Hill-above-San-Bruno-Ave-Pauline-Aldredge-watercolor.jpg]]
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  • ...n Richard Longstreth's On the Edge of the World and Bill Kostura's Russian Hill - the Summit 1853-1906. He remodeled the Horatio Livermore home at 1045 Val ...l on Jones, but look like simple cottages when you are standing on Russian Hill Place. Among other notable post-earthquake residences in Pacific Heights de
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  • '''Looking west along Union and Washington Square c. 1860s, Russian Hill in distance.''' ...the year of Washington Square. In its 150th year, the [http://www.thd.org Hill Dwellers] are celebrating the heart of North Beach and their achievement in
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  • ...ired while a refugee in Harbin, Manchuria, from associating with the large Russian colony there. She was quick to learn to speak English. She had to. No one e ...a and Pauline’s mother. She had accompanied us that day on our hike up the hill where we picked Johnny-jump-ups and rolled from the top to the plateau. Mrs
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  • ...ter Street lines eased the trip from downtown San Francisco beyond Russian Hill and the Western Addition to the edge of the city’s built-up territory in ...d Stanford moved to the city, where they built elaborate mansions atop Nob Hill.
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  • ...open expanses of the Presidio to the north, and the great cathedral on the hill at USF. ...[[category:1970s]] [[category:Immigration]] [[category:Irish]] [[category:Russian]] [[category:African-American]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:transit]] [[c
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  • ...fornia Fur Rush began. Before 1825, American, English, Spanish, French and Russian fur hunters were drawn to the northern and central California coast to harv .... Bering and his crew suffered a shipwreck on the Commander Islands in the Russian far east. They discovered the sea otters that they hunted for survival were
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  • ...at studios in Chinatown, Jackson Square and, most prominently, on Russian Hill. When she first began pursuing ceramics, she persuaded a Grant Avenue merch
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  • Tucked between Telegraph Hill and Russian Hill, the financial district and the bay, San Francisco’s North Beach carried ...of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1960) on Russian Hill, along with the migration to North Beach of a group of poets trained at the
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  • [[Image:Russian-Hill-Runt-p6-FInocchios-Dec-6-1940.jpg]] '''Ad for Finocchio's in the ''Russian Hill Runt'' community newspaper, Dec. 6, 1940.'''
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  • ...l gatherings were planned as Sunday breakfasts at Bowman's home on Russian Hill, though they often lasted through dinner and involved proportionate amounts ...t was such a success the club began planning a property purchase along the Russian River, quickly transforming the "leveling" experience into an elitist acqui
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  • ...Ghosts." Hartmann had rented the old Hanford Mansion on the top of Russian Hill, which was rumored to be haunted. As a dramatic gesture, Hartmann had order
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  • ...d to some 20 million military and civilian deaths, the rise of Nazism, the Russian Revolution, and another even more destructive world war. On the centennial ...cerpts from his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUZ6qhcI7fg&t=38s Potrero Hill History Night presentation]), and Marti McKee</strong>
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  • ...borers, but Irish Catholics were also the masters of [[Nob Hill Hotels|Nob Hill palaces]] and Pacific Heights mansions, including the Floods and Fairs, the ...e scattered through the Richmond during the 1920s and 1930s. There the new Russian Orthodox Cathedral was built in the early 1960s. (It had previously been lo
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  • '''At end of Meigg's Wharf. View west toward Russian Hill. Smokestack of Selby Smelting works at foot of Hyde Street visible at right ...cks for commercial boats had been at [[Fisherman's Wharf East of Telegraph Hill|the foot of Vallejo and the foot of Union]], but as San Francisco Bay shipp
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  • ...two bedroom flat at 1952 Taylor Street on the north east slope of Russian Hill, considered one of the better parts of town. Their bay window caught a tiny
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  • ...Clark's Point, they would inter the body on the rising slope of Telegraph Hill, in a dreary spot, which, by common tacit consent had been set apart for su
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  • ...grey above Telegraph Hill, was a tiny white dot—the very summit of Russian Hill. And just like that, I realized what a fool I had been. ...it and have since made my home in SF. In 1892, I built a house on Russian Hill which I now occupy. (1897)"
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  • ...ively removed upper stories. The first was at 1055 Green Street on Russian Hill where she did so for a client in 1916. The second was her own property in P
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  • ...City's hotels. But what if the racial composition of the east side of Nob Hill were largely black? Far fetched? Perhaps not. After all, Hunters Point almo The Chinese scattered in all directions—to the waterfront, up Nob and Russian Hills, to Union Square and to [[Portsmouth Square: The Plaza|Portsmouth Squ
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  • [[Satanist Curses High-Rise|Prev. Document]] [[Russian Hill Hangings|Next Document]]
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  • ...but it wasn’t the first occupant. Until 1906, this spot housed the elegant Russian Orthodox Cathedral, destroyed in the earthquake and fire. ...the Battle of Filbert Steps|save the Grace Marchant Garden]] on Telegraph Hill.
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  • ...sting against the I-280 Freeway route cutting off the east side of Potrero Hill marching at City Hall, April 18, 1961.''' '''Early plan for 8-lane freeway to cut under Russian Hill on its way from the Embarcadero to the Golden Gate Bridge'''
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  • ...is sharply different than the challenge faced 45 years ago by five Potrero Hill residents who wanted to keep their neighbors informed about important going ...d of the meeting Eileen was on board as editor. Thanks to her, the Potrero Hill Mob, as they called themselves, produced the [https://archive.org/details/p
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  • ...es resting in two different monuments in Golden Gate Park, under a Russian Hill apartment building, in a Union Square hotel, on Angel Island and on Mount D ...California Historical Society and Ann Halstead, president of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary. Also present was a di
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  • ...g a skeleton unearthed in 1861 at Beach and Hyde, at the bottom of Russian Hill where the Buena Vista bar now stands. Some are in the western part of the c ...tanding at dusk on the little lawn at the top of Vallejo Street on Russian Hill, drinking a margarita in a red plastic cup and looking out at downtown and
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  • ...he Russian settlement at Fort Ross. It was to be a bulwark against further Russian encroachment into Alta California. In 1834, Vallejo recommended that the Sa ...The shore line of the Bay ran south from the foot of Loma Alta (Telegraph Hill) to Rincon Point, along today's Montgomery St. At the time, Candelerio Mira
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  • ...two-block ride down to Green Street by gravity car of the unique Fillmore Hill Counterbalance, built in 1895. This electric line ran from 16th Street alon ...isco: A City of Contests|St. Mary’s Cathedral]]. A bit later a significant Russian community developed in the Western Addition, complete with church and schoo
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  • Across the street from the Workshop was Sugar Hill where Carmen McRae was a regular. On one occasion she was joined by Dizzy G On one evening during this run, Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich was in the audience for his first experience
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  • '''The Fontana Towers at the foot of Russian Hill, built in the early 1960s after sparking a wide protest movement that succe ...to Jerry Cauthen —then coming to the end of his tenure as president of the Hill Dwellers, that a broadly based organization able to draw strength from all
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  • ...f present-day California. Cabrillo sailed as far north as the mouth of the Russian River passing by the coast of Marin County and Point Reyes. Cabrillo and hi ...tablished in northern California in 1812. The Spanish monarchy had noticed Russian ambitions in this area almost from the beginning, and in 1768 King Carlos I
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  • [[Image:Tel-Hill-view-southeast-to-Ferry-Bldg-1970-by-Jonathan-S-Blair.jpg]] '''Telegraph Hill view southeast to Ferry Building, 1970.'''
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  • ...hborhood organizations, including North Beach, Telegraph Hill, and Russian Hill. As noted in the introduction, Lawrence Ferlinghetti also chimed in in favo ...s, Russian Hill, Sunset-Parkside Education and Action Committee, Telegraph Hill Dwellers, and, of course, Hayes Valley. Supporting mer-chants’ organizati
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  • ...venue then. In 1904 he built a house at 2430 Leavenworth Street on Russian Hill above North Beach. The fire following the earthquake of 1906 took his studi [[Telegraph Hill Quarry |Prev. Document]] [[Filbert Steps and Grace Marchant Gardens |Next
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  • ...ch fill up the whole of its northeast quadrant (coating the flanks of Nob, Russian and Telegraph hills from the Van Ness corridor east and Market Street north ...wood (often stuccoed), while the larger ones on the southern flank of Nob Hill are usually brick. Stylistically, many of the smaller buildings appear to b
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  • ...f tourists. There were none! “San Francisco is tourist free,” I mused. The hill across from the famous Painted Ladies held maybe a dozen people. One small ...at Lyon and Turk, I saw no cars driving for blocks down and towards Sutro Hill. I had dreamed of a car-free city, and this sight made me smile.
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  • [[Image:Craftsman-homes-on-Liberty-Hill 6165.jpg]] '''Craftsman style homes on Liberty Hill between 20th and 21st Streets in San Francisco, 2014.'''
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  • ...tion him about the attempted assassination of his former friend and exiled Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. ...en she arrived, she resided with Rivera at 42 Calhoun Terrace in Telegraph Hill before letting Eloesser admit her to St. Luke's Hospital in the Mission Dis
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  • ...he pressures of city life, you have probably gone north for a visit to the Russian River region, or east to the Stanislaus River in the Central Valley. Probab ...ral notice. Unless you have walked Caselli Street or [[Corwin Park to Tank Hill|Pemberton Steps]] in the early morning quiet, you have probably never heard
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  • Viceroy Antonio Maria Bucareli y Ursúa, concerned about the possibility of Russian encroachment on what he held to be Spanish territory, ordered Captain Juan ...r south as San Mateo and east to Alameda. Horses were corralled on Potrero Hill, and the milking sheds for the cows were located along Dolores Creek at wha
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  • ...in Idaho, Washington, and the Yukon. Financial headquarters of the Bunker Hill Company moved to San Francisco shortly after Crocker expanded its capital a ...d. The Lilienthal Company had agreed to work as a purchasing agent for the Russian government, and its chartered ships were trying to slip past the Japanese b
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  • '''Russian sailors visit various establishments in the Barbary Coast, 1914.''' ...he Red Rooster, Ye Olde Whore Shop'''. Extended from the foot of Telegraph Hill to the shoreline, largely along Pacific Street and Broadway. '''The Dew Dro
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  • ..., or mortgaged; and drove enslaved people to build their shining city on a hill on the land and bodies of indigenous people. Lest we forget, British prohib ...valry officer in World War I, then an officer in the White Army during the Russian Civil War. After the Bolshevik victory, he fled to China, where he studied
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  • ...anarchist communities in the Bay Area—including Chinese, Mexican, French, Russian, and Italian groups—and was, in part, modeled after the International Gro ...as part of the effort to arrange local demonstrations and inundate Capitol Hill with letters of protest. Another rally held at Irving Plaza in New York Cit
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  • [[Image:View from Strawberry Hill wnp15.081.jpg|720px]] '''View northeasterly from Strawberry Hill over grounds of the 1894 Midwinter Fair in Golden Gate Park.'''
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  • ...tled until the late 18th century, when the growing incursion of foreigners—Russian fur trappers slipping down from Alaska, and the British expanding in Canada ...ure, now in the hands of Californio aristocratic land barons. In 1823, the Russian Captain-Lieutenant Andrey Lazarev, while wintering in San Francisco aboard
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  • ...am) and also at the Bohemian Grove, a notoriously exclusive retreat on the Russian River that hosts an annual summer exercise in ruling-class cohesiveness, wh ...cing, picnics, and hiking trips. Out of this Libertarian Circle came Lewis Hill, who conceived the idea of a listener-sponsored, cooperative radio station
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  • ...depletion, the brothers invested in a sawmill seventy miles north near the Russian River, which had ample redwoods for cigar box-making. ...Violence, and the meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
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  • ...ervative group included longtime homeowners’ associations like the Potrero Hill Boosters, East Mission Improvement Association, and Noe Valley Improvement ...s), Puerto Ricans, and South Americans, as well as Irish, Italian, German, Russian, Filipino, Native American/Indian, Samoan, and African-American constituenc
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  • ...around in our heads. City by the Bay. Gateway to the Pacific. City on the Hill. It fills the postcard, frames the visit, defines the experience. It captur ...e, and the cars give birth, in turn, to wall-to-wall housing tracts in the Russian River country. A revived conservation movement is now fighting to save rema
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