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• 140 New Montgomery : it's all about communication
• 826 Valencia : reading, writing, and "Ahoy, matey!"
• 1450 Noriega Street : where the heiress robbed a bank
• 4 Alhambra Theater : a cinematic workout
• Anchor Brewing Company : born and brewed in San Francisco
• The Antique Vibrator Museum : a history of good vibrations
• Arion Press : lost and foundry
• The Armory : where kink is king
• The Audium : seeing with your ears
• Balmy Alley Murals : struggle and change
• Bar Agricole : keeping it local
• The Battery Club : old world, new school
• The Bay Lights : The Bay Bridge gets its bling
• The Beach & Park Chalet : upstairs, downstairs, in Golden Gate Park
• The Beat Museum : still on the road
• Billionaires' Row : life on the Gold Coast
• Bliss Dance : forty feet of female energy
• The Bohemian Club : a private place for powerful men
• Bourbon & Branch : the password-protected speakeasy
• Buena Vista Park : a magical hush
• Building One : a sinking treasure
• Building 95 : if a tree falls,in the forest...
• Candlestick Park : long live the 'stick
• Casa Cielo : "Sunny Jim" Rolph's love nest
• Chinese Telephone Exchange : 1500 names on the tip of the tongue - Clarion Alley : these walls can talk
• The Cloud Forest : communing with nature on Mount Sutro
• The Condor Club : death by piano
• Conservatory of Flowers : home to the beautiful and the bizarre
• Cow Palace : from moo to Who
• Creativity Explored : art for all
• Crissy Field : from airfield to House of Air : Dashiell Hammett's Apartment : where the Maltese Falcon took flight
• The F-Line : a journey back in time
• Flora Grubb Gardens : coffee and air plants, anyone?
• The Fly-Casting Pools : angling for a good time
• Fog Bridge : a walk in the clouds at the Exploratorium
• Forbes Island & The Taj Mahal : boats by any other name
• Foreign Cinema : dinner and a show
• Fort Funston : where humans take to the sky
• The Frank Lloyd Wright Building : a mid-century jewel in the Barbary Coast
• Gallery 6 : the ghosts of Vertigo at the Legion of Honor
• The Gardens of Alcatraz : planting life on "the Rock"
• Glen Canyon Park : a time machine to the San Francisco of yore
• Glide Memorial Church : can get an amen?
• Grace Cathedral Labyrinths : a maze for meditation
• The Green Roof : the Academy of Sciences goes "underground"
• The Hallidie Building : ahead of its time
• Headlands Center for the Arts : using creativity as a weapon
• Heath Ceramics : very 'Made in America"
• Hunter S. Thompson's House : Fear & Loathing in San Francisco
• Hunter's Point : a flourishing artist colony in a shipyard
• Ingleside Terrace Sundial : time is on its side
• Institute of Illegal Images : a "trip" to the museum
• The Interval at Long Now : for thinkers and drinkers
• Kabuki Springs & Spa : wet, naked, and hot
• Lands End : a mystical walk through history
• The Lefty O'Doul Bridge : in memory of a hometown hitter
• LeRoy King Carousel : round and round we go
• Levi Strauss & Co. : birthplace of the 501
• Lyon Street Steps : where health meets wealth
• Macondray Lane : tales of the city
• The Malloch Building : for those who appreciate curves
• Maritime Museum : a "shipshape" exhibition space
• Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial : a fountain for reflection in Yerba Buena Gardens
• Mavericks : a surfer's nirvana
• Mechanics' Institute : home to books and rooks
• Mission Creek Houseboats : islands in the storm
• Mission Dolores Cemetery : where the bodies are buried
• The Monastery Stones : relics in the Botanical Garden
• Moraga Street Steps : stairway to Heaven
• Musée Mécanique : a penny arcade on the Embarcadero
• National Cemetery Overlook : a graveyard with a view
• Nimitz Mansion : secret views from Yerba Buena
• The Observation Tower : a castle in the trees at the de Young
• Ocean Beach : hanging ten on city waves
• ODC : put on your dancin' shoes
• Old Skool Café : serving up second chances
• The Parrots of Telegraph Hill : as free as a bird
• Patricia's Green : from parkway to park
• The Phoenix Hotel : rock 'n' roll crash pad
• Pier 24 Photography : a private collection goes public
• Pier 70 : industrial ruins with a waterfront view
• Pink Triangle Park : the only memorial of its kind
• Point Bonita Lighthouse : overlooking an underwater graveyard
• Portals of the Past : a bit of history and the occult on Lloyd Lake
• The Presidio Pet Cemetery : final resting place for the furry and feathered
• Project Artaud : the artist factory!
• The Ramp : Fog City's hangover cure
• The Rock Colony : where music legends lived and 'free loved"
• The Rousseaus : one man, many facades
• Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church : worship in the house of jazz
• Saints Peter and Paul Church : home base of a neighborhood
• Sam's Grill : a historic chophouse with a fishy past
• San Francisco Art Institute : all hail Diego Rivera
• Slovenian Hall : the past is present here
• Stow Lake : the ghost of the White Lady
• Sutro Heights Park : a garden of earthly delight
• Swedenborgian Church : sacred space hidden in plain sight
• Tenderloin National Forest : a quiet sliver of green amid the chaos
• Tessie Wall Townhouse : home of a trigger-happy madam
• Tin How Temple : the How of Tao
• Tosca Café : still cool (thanks to Sean Penn)
• Toy Boating on Spreckels Lake : it's anything but child's play
• Transamerica Redwood Park : secrets of the pyramid
• UCSF Medical Center Park : public art en plein air
• Van Ness Auto Row : when cars were kings
• Vermont Street : the thrill of S curves
• Warrior Surfer Mural : reflection of a neighborhood
• Wave Organ : shhh... listen
• Wood Line : the art of sticks and stones.

San Francisco: the home of hills and valleys, of dreamers and trailblazers, of hippies and hipsters. From the gold rush to the Golden Gate, the City by the Bay has always basked in the glow of its colourful and celebrated history and world-renowned landmarks. But for those who live and love on this compact seven-mile by seven-mile metropolis, San Francisco is a treasure trove of unusual neighbourhood sights and places that sparkle with the allure of hidden pleasures and local lore. Discover a stairway that transports you from the depths of the ocean to the heights of outer space; take a spin class amidst the grand elegance of a repurposed 1920s movie palace; or slide down a century-old sundial that sits at the centre of what was once California's first racetrack for cars. This is the real San Francisco. Strung together, the 111 experiences gathered here tell the B-side story of the city once romantically known as the Paris of the West.
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San Francisco: the home of hills and valleys, of dreamers and trailblazers, of hippies and hipsters. From the gold rush to the Golden Gate, the City by the Bay has always basked in the glow of its colourful and celebrated history and world-renowned landmarks. But for those who live and love on this compact seven-mile by seven-mile metropolis, San Francisco is a treasure trove of unusual neighbourhood sights and places that sparkle with the allure of hidden pleasures and local lore. Discover a stairway that transports you from the depths of the ocean to the heights of outer space; take a spin class amidst the grand elegance of a repurposed 1920s movie palace; or slide down a century-old sundial that sits at the centre of what was once California's first racetrack for cars. This is the real San Francisco. Strung together, the 111 experiences gathered here tell the B-side story of the city once romantically known as the Paris of the West.
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• Road Map : California, Nevada
• Map of Yosemite National Park
• Map of Sequoia & Gen. Grant National Parks
• Road Map : United States
• Oakland, Cal.
• San Diego, Cal.
• San Francisco, Cal.
• Los Angeles & Vicinity

Contains color digital images of San Francisco, Calif. derived from aerial photographs taken by Western Aerial Contractors (WAC) Corporation. Images are referenced by township, range, and section. A basic overview map of the San Francisco area is also included. Images are stored in TIFF format.

Leslie Santarina lives and works in San Francisco. In The 500 Hidden Secrets of San Francisco she tells you where to go in her hometown. Like the other guides in the The 500 Hidden Secrets series, this book contains 500 places to eat, sleep, drink, shop, discover and visit, as well as fun and good-to-know facts about one of the United States' coolest towns.
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"The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman, but rather finds his old master gone mad, haunting the ruins like a ghost. Out of pity for the now mentally ill Colonel, Jupiter strangles him and heads west to seek a new life in San Francisco. When the Colonel's son, Confederate soldier Archer Smith, arrives at home and finds his father murdered, he vows revenge upon Jupiter for all he has lost, following his former slave to the far reaches of the continent"--Amazon.com.

"... a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner, who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power."--Publisher

Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges. Emigrating from Prussia to the U.S. at age 20, the California gold rush lured him west. At the Comstock Lode in Nevada, he conceived an idea for a tunnel to drain the hot water that made the mines perilous and inefficient. But he would have to overcome both physical obstacles and powerful opposition by the Bank of California to realize his vision. Back in San Francisco, Sutro bought one twelfth of the city, including the famous Cliff House perched over the Pacific Ocean. When it burned to cinders on Christmas Day, 1894, he built a massive, eight-story Victorian replacement. He used his expertise in tunneling and water solutions to create the world's largest enclosed swimming structure, the Sutro Baths-six glass-covered heated saltwater pools with capacity of 1,000 swimmers. Other challenges followed but Sutro was not invincible. After a two-year term as mayor of San Francisco, he succumbed to debilitating strokes which left him senile. His death in 1898 started disputes among his heirs-six children by his wife and two by his mistress-that lasted more than a decade.
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• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductio
• n1. Growing Up in Chinatow
• n2. A Chinese Cowboy in Texa
• s3. A Good Soldie
• r4. A Prisoner of the Japanes
• e5. A POW Survivo
• r6. Learning to Live with MyselfChronologyNotesBibliographyIndex.
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Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle. Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life.
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The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. But now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay. An adventure tale, an elegy to one of the greatest writers of our language, a time-traveling plunge into The City by the Bay during its own energetic youth, The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World is entertaining, poignant, and sensual.
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• 1840
• 1900: San Francisco's early black pioneers
• 1900
• 1950: war, migration, employment opportunities
• 1950
• 1980: reshaping African American communities, leadership, civil rights, students rights, and redevelopment
• 1980
• present: after the turmoil

"Beginning in the 1840s, black men and women heard the call to go west, migrating to California in search of gold, independence, freedom, and land to call their own. By the mid-1850s, a lively African American community had taken root in San Francisco. Churches and businesses were established, schools were built, newspapers were published, and aid socieites were formed. For the next century, the history of San Francisco's African American community mirrored the nation's slow progress toward integration with triumphs and setbacks depicted in images of schools, churches, protest movements, business successes, and political struggles"--Page 4 of cover

• Foreword, by Harry S. Parker III
• Acknowledgments
• Mark Klett, Rephotography, and the Story of Two San Franciscos
• An Interview with Karin Breuer
• Hell on Earth
• Philip L. Fradkin
• The Ruins of Memory
• Rebecca Solnit
• Photographs
• Maps of Photograph Locations
• List of Photographs and Credits.
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five compelling historic photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake and fires and precisely duplicated each photograph's vantage point. The result is an elegant and powerful comparison that challenges our preconceptions about time, history, and culture. 'I think the pictures ask us to become aware of the extraordinary qualities of our own distinct moment in time. But it is a realization that a particular future is not guaranteed by the flow of time in any given direction.' So says Mark Klett discussing this multilayered project in an illuminating interview included in this lavishly produced volume, which accompanies an exhibition at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006" features a vivid essay by noted environmental historian Philip Fradkin on the events surrounding and following the 1906 earthquake, which he describes as 'the equivalent of an intensive, three-day bombing raid, complete with many tons of dynamite that acted as incendiary devices.' A lyrical essay by acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit considers the meaning of ruins, resurrection, and the evolving geography and history of San Francisco.
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• Lists characters, cast, and credits of production of After the war
• From the playwright / [by Philip Kan Gotanda]
• "The Fillmore was tough but happenin' " / by Elizabeth Broderson
• Japanese-American `internment during World War II: a timeline
• Who's who in After the war
• A.C.T. Profiles.

While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.

Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband

Seventeen-year-old Xochi's life changed when she became governess to precocious twelve-year-old Pallas, but the duo unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures determined to right the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence.
Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. She accepts a position as governess to Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions. On the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a pagan ritual that unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures devoted to righting the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence. With the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who've hurt her, no one in Xochi's life is safe-- not the family she's chosen, nor the one she left behind.

In February 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing an enigmatic feature called "All Over Coffee." Almost immediately, letters of love and hate, confusion and praise poured in. Accustomed to the familiar formats of comic strips and cartoons, some readers struggled to understand a creation that seemed to live both within and beyond those boundaries. All Over Coffee blends the timing of comics with the depth of poetry. Artist and writer Paul Madonna has fused art, literature, and comics by pairing timeless cityscapes with philosophical musings and poignant stories in masterfully rendered ink-wash drawings that surpass the art of Ben Katchor in elegance and architectural detail. His work has been compared to "a meeting of the tone of Edward Gorey, the uniqueness of Chris Ware, and the artfulness of Raymond Pettibon." Quirky, whimsical, and often profound, All Over Coffee's stunning imagery and thoughtful writing combine to create a conceptual world, both dreamlike and familiar. This selection will delight anyone who has ever lived in or visited San Francisco-or dreamed of doing so-with its original, off-the-beaten-path view of the city and its inhabitants. Paul Madonna moved to San Francisco and began to self-publish comics after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University's fine arts program and an internship at MAD magazine. In 2002 he launched his incredibly popular website, www.paulmadonna.com, posting a new cartoon each week. In 2004 the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com picked up his strip "All Over Coffee, " which continues to appear weekly.
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"In this thoughtful, mesmerizing tale with echoes of Station Eleven, the author of An Uncommon Education follows a group of survivors thrown together in the aftermath of two major earthquakes that strike San Francisco within an hour of each other--an achingly beautiful and lyrical novel about the power of nature, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring strength of love. On Valentine's Day, two major earthquakes strike San Francisco within the same hour, devastating the city and its primary entry points, sparking fires throughout, and leaving its residents without power, gas, or water. Among the disparate survivors whose fates will become intertwined are Max, a man who began the day with birthday celebrations tinged with regret; Vashti, a young woman who has already buried three of the people she loved most. but cannot forgot Max, the one man who got away; and Gene, a Stanford geologist who knows far too much about the terrifying earthquakes that have damaged this beautiful city and irrevocably changed the course of their lives. As day turns to night and fires burn across the city, Max and Vashti--trapped beneath the rubble of the collapsed Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium--must confront each other and face the truth about their past, while Gene embarks on a frantic search through the realization of his worst nightmares to find his way back to his ailing lover and their home"-- Provided by publisher.

From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert a world disaster. It is due to occur on a bridge in San Francisco, now home to squatters, and is part of a rich man's bid for world domination.

This book deals with a sequence of lively and often bizarre episodes within San Francisco's Russian community set in motion in early 1888 by the arrival in San Francisco of a new Russian Orthodox bishop and his entourage, which included some twenty clergymen and eleven boys. It did not take long for the bishop to clash with Dr. Nicholas Russel, a colorful Russian revolutionary exile who was one of the leaders of the Russian community. They became bitter enemies, and Bishop Vladimir's three-and-a-half-year tenure in San Francisco was punctuated by a series of remarkable scandals and lawsuits, by an excommunication, by an unconsummated duel, and by a host of lurid allegations that received extensive local publicity including charges of arson, perjury, attempts to hire potential assassins, bigamy, and, most sensationally, sodomy and child abuse.
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Documentary on the pioneering Jews of San Francisco, who built the second largest Jewish community in the United States, after New York. Integrated into mainstream San Francisco society, they reinvented what it meant to be Jewish.

• Introduction
• Early Chinatown architecture
• The new Chinatown skyline
• Approaches to Oriental design
• Julia Morgan's interpretation
• Occidental style
• A dwindling heritage
• A glossary of architectural terms
• Endnotes
• About the author