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  • [[Image:Telegraph-Hill-circa-1885.jpg]] '''Telegraph Hill, circa 1885, showing 230 Filbert (1858) and 228 Filbert (1869) on the Filbe
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  • ...arrying of Telegraph Hill, the Gray Bros. continued past 1909, leaving the hill scarred and subject to winter landslides.''' ...ft permanent scars on Telegraph Hill. In 1924 landslides still plagued the hill regularly.'''
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  • ...e City of San Francisco Planning Code, Appendix G to Article 10: Telegraph Hill Historic District, passed Nov. 13, 1986.'' [[Image:Tel-hill-from-bay-1870.jpg]]
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  • ...ecies|exotic non-native species]] in San Francisco. These are on Telegraph Hill in the mid-1990s.''' | colspan="2" |'''Free Parrots living on Telegraph Hill were first documented in 1911 and still have a home there today. A new spec
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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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  • [[Image:Telegraph Hill from Bay 1940s wnp25.0462.jpg|792px]] '''Telegraph Hill from the bay, 1940s.'''
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  • ...rving a stint in the Army, 26-year-old Jeffory Morshead moved to Telegraph Hill, the neighborhood was undergoing a kind of bargain-basement gentrification. Like Jeffory, these young professionals walked down the Hill each day to their jobs in the Financial District. But to hear Jeffory tell
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  • ...at [https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/revolutionary-art-on-telegraph-hill-the-coit-tower-murals/ counterpunch.org], December 15, 2023'' ...the news of the incoming ships to San Francisco’s business sector down the hill on Montgomery Street.
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  • ...arf was off the Union Street and Filbert Street wharves, east of Telegraph Hill, before being moved to the north shore of San Francisco in the early 20th c ...'s Wharf, c. 1891, when it was still off the northwest corner of Telegraph Hill.'''
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  • ...arrying of Telegraph Hill, the Gray Bros. continued past 1909, leaving the hill scarred and subject to winter landslides.''' ...ft permanent scars on Telegraph Hill. In 1924 landslides still plagued the hill regularly.'''
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  • ...arf was off the Union Street and Filbert Street wharves, east of Telegraph Hill, before being moved to the north shore of San Francisco in the early 20th c ...'s Wharf, c. 1891, when it was still off the northwest corner of Telegraph Hill.'''
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  • [[Image:Telegraph Hill from Bay 1940s wnp25.0462.jpg|792px]] '''Telegraph Hill from the bay, 1940s.'''
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  • ...lhoun Terrace, c. 1860s. This slope is long gone due to [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918|quarrying]] below.''' [[Birdseye View of SF 1874 |Prev. Document]] [[Telegraph Hill Quarry |Next Document]]
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  • ...Tours-habitat.gif|link=Parrots on Telegraph Hill]] [[Parrots on Telegraph Hill|-->Open Space Habitat tour continues]]
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  • <font size=4>Electric Money— California's First Telegraph</font size> [[Image:Annals%24inner-telegraph-station.jpg]]
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  • ...Corona Heights|Corona Heights]] Quarry and Brick Factory on south slope of hill.''' ...ive, noisy, dirty quarries on [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918| Telegraph Hill]] and at today's [[30th and Castro South|30th Street]] and Castro. The Gray
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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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  • ...e City of San Francisco Planning Code, Appendix G to Article 10: Telegraph Hill Historic District, passed Nov. 13, 1986.'' [[Image:Tel-hill-from-bay-1870.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:ecology1$exotics$non-native_itm$parrots-on-telegraph-hill.jpg]] [[Parrots on Telegraph Hill| Parrots on Telegraph Hill]]'''?!?. . . [https://www.archive.org/details/ssfPR39SEAL Sea Lions] at [[N
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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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  • [[Image:Cushman-Dec-14-1952-Tel-Hill-from-Embarcadero-on-Filbert-P06512.jpg]] '''View from Filbert and Battery west towards Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill, December 14, 1952.'''
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  • [[Category:Nob_Hill|Nob Hill]] [[Category:Potrero_Hill|Potrero Hill]]
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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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  • '''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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  • ...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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  • '''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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  • ...iew southeast from Buena Vista hill. Corona Heights in foreground, Liberty Hill with a smattering of houses on it behind that. The [[Jewish Cemetery|Jewish [[Image:Corona-hts-from-top-of-gold-mine-hill-overlook 0679.jpg]]
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  • [[Image:View north from Rincon Hill 1860 from J Paul Getty Museum Open Content Program 1149340 221475424674879 '''View north from Rincon Hill across the urbanizing Yerba Buena Cove, mostly filled but still some areas
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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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  • ...ewspapers coming from home. The [[California's First Telegraph|[semaphore] telegraph]] has some hours before announced that the ''Golden Gate'' is approaching t ...cisco!'' they say to each other, as they mark the forest of masts, and the hill-sides covered with buildings. ''Well! It exceeds all my expectations!''
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  • Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill (Photographed by [[Stereographs|J. J. Reilly]])
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  • ...rving a stint in the Army, 26-year-old Jeffory Morshead moved to Telegraph Hill, the neighborhood was undergoing a kind of bargain-basement gentrification. Like Jeffory, these young professionals walked down the Hill each day to their jobs in the Financial District. But to hear Jeffory tell
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  • [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918 | Saving Telegraph Hill]]
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  • [http://www.potreroarchives.com/Archives/Welcome.html Potrero Hill Archives]<br> [https://archive.org/details/telegraphhillpapers?&sort=date ''The Telegraph Hill Semaphore''] <br>
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  • ...ecies|exotic non-native species]] in San Francisco. These are on Telegraph Hill in the mid-1990s.''' | colspan="2" |'''Free Parrots living on Telegraph Hill were first documented in 1911 and still have a home there today. A new spec
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  • [http://www.thd.org Telegraph Hill Dwellers] [http://www.potreroarchives.com/ Potrero Hill Archives Project]
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  • ...s) is at 1st and Howard Street. Old St. Mary's is visible on slopes of Nob Hill in distance, and Mt. Tam is in the distance.''' ...s later, this area quickly sank economically when the wealthy moved to Nob Hill and elsewhere.'''
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  • ...e twenty-five artists painted murals in the cylindrical tower on Telegraph Hill, it was the four artists' criticisms of American society that attracted the [[Revolutionary Art on Telegraph Hill: the Coit Tower Murals|Coit Tower loop]]
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  • [[North Beach from Telegraph Hill |Prev. Document]] [[Finocchio's, a Short Retrospective|Next Document]]
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  • Carlo Middione, who arrived in [[Bachelors on Telegraph Hill in the 1950s|North Beach]] around 1958, describes his life during those ear
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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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  • '''View west towards Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill from [[LEVI'S: Blue Jean Kings|Levi's]] Plaza, 2012.''' ...h. The building makes a point of not intruding on the Coit Tower/Telegraph hill cityscape. The surfaces echo the texture of the historic Italian Swiss colo
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  • ''An excerpt from the [http://www.thd.org Telegraph Hill Dwellers] Oral History Project’s Interview with Ines Belli, by Audrey Tom Ines Belli told this story, and many others, as part of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers’ Oral History Project. Reading these interviews, one enters a No
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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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  • ...ww.thd.org The Semaphore]'' #196, Fall 2011 under the title "Castle on the Hill"'' Rarely does one find a castle clinging to a hill in the center of an urban area. Julius’ Castle, at 302 Greenwich St. wher
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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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  • [[Image:Telegraph-Hill-circa-1885.jpg]] '''Telegraph Hill, circa 1885, showing 230 Filbert (1858) and 228 Filbert (1869) on the Filbe
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  • ...years on Telegraph Hill. He was instrumental in establishing the Telegraph Hill Historic District, helping drive some of the early planning and political e [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Telegraph Hill]] [[category:Gardens]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1
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  • ...ow a 21-Year-Old Genius Invented the Television—In the Shadow of Telegraph Hill</font size> It may be just a book blurb but those of us who live on Telegraph Hill have reason to take notice. On the back cover of Even Schwartz’s recent b
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  • '''Montgomery Street as seen in this 1850 postcard shot, with Telegraph Hill sloping up in the background.'''
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  • ...ors for Rivera’s use. Morse had obliterated time with his invention of the telegraph and Morse code. Now messaging was “instantaneous.” (It is a revelation ...ance hearings. Diego went so far as to script an article for the ''Russian Hill Runt'', “I Am Not A Communist.”
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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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  • ''Photo: [http://www.thd.org Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association]'' [[Parrots on Telegraph Hill |Prev. Document]] [[Coit Tower National Historic Site |Next Document]]
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  • ...t it was born as a small fair on upper Grant Avenue. Many of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers’ board members volunteered at THD’s Green Street booth, and we ...strumental in the formation of this group, including Bufano. The Telegraph Hill Dwellers have always been an essential part of the Fair’s backbone.
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  • ...icopter drone launched from a Chilean warship. Bombs fell around Telegraph Hill, and near the Southern Pacific Railways Co. at Fourth and Townsend Streets.
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  • '''View of the city of San Franciso in 1849 from California Street; Telegraph Hill on the left and Rincon Point to the right.'''
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  • ...riedlander Warehouse 1869 Southwest corner Sansome and Chestnut, Telegraph Hill behind. wnp27.3812.jpg|792px]] ...er Warehouse, 1869, on southwest corner of Sansome and Chestnut, Telegraph Hill rising up behind.'''
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  • [[Image:Tel Hill Aug 1974 View from Embarcadero of construction crane, new buildings - Juliu '''Telegraph Hill, August 1974, northeast waterfront historic warehouses under construction.'
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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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  • ...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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  • ...ph Hill is still coming down to its back edge. Today the edge of Telegraph Hill is two blocks further west.'''
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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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  • ...ith Clay Street and its men's clothing stores at lower left, and Telegraph Hill looming in the background to the right (north).'''
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  • North Beach and Telegraph Hill — The Last Bohemia. Now that almost a generation has passed since the fir ...heir customers were deserting Bohemia for the Establishment; the Telegraph Hill Tavern, run by a great cook and great lover and bad poet, a lady who called
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  • ...y:North Beach]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:Telegraph Hill]]
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  • ...cological treasures of San Francisco, home too to a [[Parrots on Telegraph Hill|big flock of much-celebrated parrots]]. '''Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill, Grace Marchant Garden to right in photo.'''
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  • ...air stylist Joe Jachetta, interviewed by Audrey Tomaselli of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers oral history project, talks about how folks in his building kept t ...born 75 years ago at 334 Vallejo Street on the eastern slope of Telegraph Hill. His personal history is entwined with that of our neighborhood's. Joe's ma
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  • ...ason) across North Beach when it was heavily industrialized, and Telegraph Hill was still largely unoccupied, c. 1890s.'''
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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 ...inatown site and that winding streets might be created along the steep Nob Hill sides. Other improvements called for taking property for public use. For th
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  • I still remember this statement from a Telegraph Hill Dwellers’ board member after Gary Kray and I made our presentation asking Thirty years ago, Telegraph Hill nearly lost the famous Grace Marchant Garden. At the time, I had no idea if
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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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  • ...characters]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Labor]] [[category:Telegraph Hill]]
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  • [[Image:Abernyte 44c Bark-rigged sailing ship moored at foot of Telegraph Hill. Lombard Warehouse and North Point Warehouse in background. c1900 wnp71.238 ...e ''Abernyte,'' a bark-rigged sailing ship moored at the foot of Telegraph Hill, c.1900.'''
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  • '''The Telegraph Hill that might have been.'''
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  • .... elliptica'' (silk tassel bush), ''Sambucus'' (elderberry), etc., and the hill tops were crowned by a very extensive chaparral of robust ''Ceanothus thyrs ...), once abundant still survives in a few localities, principally in Laurel Hill Cemetery, but will probably disappear shortly ''[it is now extinct in the w
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  • ...at [https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/revolutionary-art-on-telegraph-hill-the-coit-tower-murals/ counterpunch.org], December 15, 2023'' ...the news of the incoming ships to San Francisco’s business sector down the hill on Montgomery Street.
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  • ...ount was omitted from Mark Bittner’s book'' “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.” ...Steps from Battery Street looking up at Coit Tower on the top of Telegraph Hill.'''
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  • The activism of the [[The History of Telegraph Hill Dwellers|Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association (THD)]], combined with a newer group [[The House That
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  • ...thousands, who otherwise would not survive. Here at the foot of Telegraph Hill, from June of 1931 through September of 1933, one woman carried out her own
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  • [[Image:Feb-28-1941-Ferryboat-Tamalpais-off-Telegraph-Hill-AAH-0279.jpg|800px]] '''Ferryboat ''Tamalpais'' off Telegraph Hill, February 28, 1941.'''
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  • ...became the best investment he had ever made when their house on Telegraph Hill burned down during the great fire of 1906 There were only a few scattered h ...wagon with its tiny brown horse would labor with great effort to climb the hill, pulling that wagon up 19th Avenue back home to the ranch for a night's res
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  • We descended Telegraph Hill by Dupont Street [Grant Avenue] as far as Pacific Street. So steep was the ...ench, Italian, and Chinese. We knew the Spanish Quarter at the foot of the hill by the human types that inhabited it; by the balconies like hanging gardens
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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:Police-and-strikers-on-Rincon-Hill-July-10-1934-aad-5139.jpg]] '''Police and strikers on Rincon Hill, July 10, 1934.'''
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  • ...k Hopkins Institute of Art, which was located in the Gothic mansion on Nob Hill designed by Wright &amp; Sanders for Mark Hopkins, treasurer of the Central ...19). Examples of his commercial work in the City can be found on Telegraph Hill at 1736 Stockton (1907-28), now the 'Maybeck Building' offices, and the Ear
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  • ...able to help derail plans to run a northern Bay Bridge from apx. Telegraph Hill to Angel Island to a new freeway up the Tiburon Peninsula. Below are images
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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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  • ...re [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918|quarried and removed]], and the solid hill deeply excavated, whereby much new and valuable space was gained for buildi ...d in some life and death struggle. In 1851, the city was like the same ant-hill when the cause of fright had been removed and order restored. The old tenan
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  • [[Image:View-of-Malt-House-w-Telegraph-Hill-and-nhood 0036.jpg|720px]]
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  • ...Hill (KDN played music) and for the Mercantile Trust Company on Telegraph Hill (KFTB ran stock quotations and played music). Heintz built these systems fr ...co ham radio operator who immediately went to the cable station and sent a telegraph message the cable operators in Fiji asking them to turn on their lighthouse
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  • [[1885 View from Nob Hill South|1885 View from Nob Hill South]] [[Kite Hill views|Kite Hill views]]
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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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  • [[Where Topless Dancing Began |Prev. Document]] [[Parrots on Telegraph Hill |Next Document]]
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  • ...the Battle of Filbert Steps|save the Grace Marchant Garden]] on Telegraph Hill.
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  • ...isco and El Salvador|Hills Brothers coffee]] and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Buildings the most prominently visible at the time.''' ...om Oakland Point to Goat [now Yerba Buena] Island, and thence to Telegraph Hill; provided such bridge can be built without injury to the navigable waters o
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  • ...'''The Semaphore''' #185, publication of the [http://www.thd.org Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association].''
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  • ...ts. As a result, the storeship ''Dryade'', moored at the foot of Telegraph Hill, was removed “two miles from town, where in the winter the wind blows hea ...kets and also went from door to door in the better neighborhoods of Rincon Hill and South Park carrying baskets of fresh vegetables swinging from their sho
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  • ...Street after the devastating 1906 quake and fire, viewed from today's Mint Hill above Market.''' ...e's and was spreading down Kearny toward the Hall of Justice and Telegraph Hill. That is, it was moving in two directions at right angles and was already h
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  • [[SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN WATCH | Prev. Document]] [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918 | Next Document]]
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  • ..., Hattie Diety, Ray Schiller, Elizabeth Harang, William Benn, and Harriett Hill.''' Shaw, Annie. “Art Speaks: Love and Drama.” ''Nob Hill Gazette''. May 4, 2019.
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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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  • ...bers San Francisco when it was a little village clustered around Telegraph Hill. To few people is it given to enjoy such a long and useful life as Colonel
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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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  • '''Longshoring along Pier 17 with Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill in background.'''
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  • ...Big Cyn. Big Cyn told the audience she was having a hard time on Telegraph Hill because as “a German, a secretary and a virgin” she was not readily acc
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  • ...in a crude laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco, near Telegraph Hill. He brought in his new wife, Pem, and his friend, Cliff Gardner, from Utah.
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  • '''Big sand dunes on Black Point, with Telegraph Hill in distance.'''
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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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  • ...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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  • ...e indigent in Health District IV (Chinatown-North Beach) was the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Clinic, located in North Beach and funded in part by the Unite
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  • ...he whole of its northeast quadrant (coating the flanks of Nob, Russian and Telegraph hills from the Van Ness corridor east and Market Street north, as well as s ...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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  • ...[[category:Famous characters]] [[category:Religion]] [[category:Telegraph Hill]]
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  • ...ated nodes in Golden Gate Park, Lincoln Park and Harbor View, on Telegraph Hill and along the waterfront would have been connected by splendidly lit and pl
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  • Ralston converted his Comstock capital into coastal transport, insurance, telegraph lines, currency speculation, woolen and silk mills, canal companies, hydrau ...Such an extension would require cutting through city blocks and leveling a hill on which his fellow magnates had built their mansions. No matter how powerf
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  • ...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 ...a Briones built an adobe house on the western side of Alta Loma (Telegraph Hill). It was located at today's Powell and Filbert Streets. As de Haro had desi
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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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  • ...osal to develop a massive complex at Piers 27-31, at the base of Telegraph Hill. The Waterfront Land Use Plan identified the piers as an appropriate locati 38. Aaron Peskin, an attorney and member of Telegraph Hill Dwellers, has been a powerful voice in waterfront development issues. He te
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  • ...rth Beach with the exception of a few structures near the top of Telegraph Hill and a couple on Water Street at the shores of the then Beach of the North.
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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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  • ...groups kept growing. For example, an April 1974 statement from the Potrero Hill Community Government asked its readers “to meet and plan a coalition of n ...od entities like the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council and the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, community outreach programs like Clayton Street's 409
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  • ...issue 186, Winter 2009, a publication of the [http://www.thd.org Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association].''
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  • ...Association asking for help to open the strike-bound port, Dr. Heil had to telegraph Forbes Watson in Washington requesting guidance in what was about to become ...scene: police had cut off the approach to the Tower halfway down Telegraph Hill, saying "someone might throw rocks, or give signals" to the waterfront belo
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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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  • ...Lincoln's assassination by way of the new mechanical marvel, the magnetic telegraph, and led the largest-ever procession in the city's young history. He fought A flamboyant millionaire, Selby threw lavish parties in his Rincon Hill mansion, helping establish San Francisco's reputation for wealth and gentil
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  • The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill<br> The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Directed by Judy Irving, 2005 (first screened at the Austin Film Festival i
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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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  • ...porate agenda has been thwarted again and again in the saving of Telegraph Hill, stopping freeways, and resisting redevelopment. This public talk takes a l
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  • ...bridge be built from Oakland Point to Goat Island, and thence to Telegraph Hill; provided such bridge can be built without injury to the navigable waters o
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  • ...o California by the Gold Rush, became the next owner of the City's highest hill. Born in France in 1818, he left home to become chancellor to the French co ...hool Parent-Teacher Association "to preserve for San Francisco this wooded hill, Mt. Davidson, which will serve to provide our school children with the env
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  • ...ent $2,000 on hangings for each window of his 20-bedroom town house on Nob Hill and $140 for every pillowcase, according to ''San Francisco's Golden Era, ' Throughout northern California, people gathered around the telegraph offices to await the verdict of the bitterly fought case, which had pitted
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  • ...specialization by industrial sector: particularly machining around Rincon Hill, foodstuffs north of Market, luxuries Downtown, lumber and woodproducts alo ...ch. This zone stretched from Black Point to the northwest around Telegraph Hill to the foot of Broadway on its southeast flank. It's first big factory was
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  • ...the Samoan Islands….Dr. Wm. P. Gibbons spoke about the rocks of Telegraph Hill and the coast of the Bay.” ...The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth Century America'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 102-9 <br>
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  • ...People from Red Star started Left Wing Poultry and opened a farm in Morgan Hill. An autonomous trucking collective, Truckaderos, worked closely with the sy ...ategory:2010s]] [[category:2020s]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Bernal Heights]] [[category:Noe Valley]] [[category:Bayview/Hu
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  • ...ss the United States. Champagne corks popped as the golden spike set off a telegraph connection across the nation—“The work of the age is complete.”'' ...y:Transit]] [[category:water]] [[category:Real estate]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Dogpatch]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:Power and Money]]
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  • ...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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  • ...et; and a few shacks scattered among the dirt roads and goats on Telegraph Hill.”(18) ...ural project in the U.S. — [[Coit Tower Politics|Coit Tower]] on Telegraph Hill.(24) This project, the combined work of 26 artists and their assistants, t
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  • ...et up its first free public tuberculosis clinic on the slopes of Telegraph Hill, which neighbors vociferously objected to, demanding that at least the word
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  • ...isco’s most desirable neighborhoods cover Sutro’s farms and forest: Forest Hill, [[St. Francis Wood|St. Francis Wood]], [[Ingleside Terrace c 1910|Inglesid ...ost of the year. A ridge of tall hills, three times taller than Telegraph Hill, cut off the western part of San Francisco from the Bay side.
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  • [[Image:Wpa-workers-excavating-bayview-hill.jpg]] '''Relief workers excavating [[Bayview Hill|Bayview Hill]], site of the future Bayshore Avenue.'''
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  • ...05 Daniel Burnham proposed a colossal monument for the summit of Telegraph Hill. For the 1915 world's fair, a permanent 850-foot Tower of the Pioneers was ...ice. Two workers were shot and killed in a fusillade at the foot of Rincon Hill. Within days, forty thousand men marched silently down Market Street (Fig.
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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 ...e Mercantile Trust Company, chairman of the board of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, and president of the Burlingame Land and Water Company), John D. M
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  • ...Centennial Story of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1852-1952'', McGraw-Hill, New York. ...965): ''The Founder's Touch: The Life of Paul Galvin of Motorola'', McGraw-Hill, New York.
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  • ...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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  • ...to, and polenta with cioppino; the expensive Julius' Castle atop Telegraph Hill, which served zucchini Florentine; the popular Lucca's at the corner of Pow
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  • ...ds of strikers and police exploded along the southeastern slopes of Rincon Hill and the waterfront. After a holiday truce, July 5, 1934, became memorialize ...ng. The ferryboatmen, the printing trades, electricians, and telephone and telegraph workers were never brought in on the strike. Typographical workers and repo
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  • ...rancisco. The church’s real estate agent also showed Ewing another College Hill site as well as two parcels the Church owned on Lone Mountain. Once conditions returned to “normal” at Lone Mountain (cold), the telegraph operators in the press boxes of other league cities resumed their favorite
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  • ...he decade before the Civil War in a small valley just east of the big sand hill covering the block that later became Union Square. (21) The first hint of t ...arket Street began at the Bay and ended a few blocks later at a giant sand hill just past its intersection with Kearny and Third Streets, a half-block from
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  • ...ional Recreation and Parks (meeting at Dorothy Erskine’s home on Telegraph Hill) and in 1969 renamed People for Open Space.
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  • ...co. His name is Herman Gallegos. Mr. Gallegos is also a trustee of Pacific Telegraph and Telephone. This is nice since PT&T is practically a sister corporation ...Kerr won the senatorial election and began spreading money around Capitol Hill in the form of "loans" and "campaign contributions", anywhere he could buy
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