| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — "The Family" |
| | “The Family”, one of San Francisco’s oldest and most distinctive social clubs, was founded on this site on April, 1902
This plaque dedicated on the Club’s centennial — Map (db m58397) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — "The Holocaust" — by George Segal |
| | We will never forget the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews, including one and a half million children in the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945.
We will never forget the cruel apathy of a world which allowed that Holocaust and the deliberate murder of millions of other people to happen.
We will never forget the martyrs of that evil abyss in human history. Nor will we forget those Jews and the righteous of all faiths who resisted and fought that evil.
In the memory of those and . . . — Map (db m56540) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 56 Gold Street |
| | Jackson Square
Historic District
Has been place on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior
1971 — Map (db m58549) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Ashurbanipal Monument — The Assyrians |
| | The Assyrians formed one of the earliest great empires in the world. Their civilization dates from 2700 B.C. with the important cultural centers at Ashur and Nineveh north of modern Baghdad. Beginning as a river civilization in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates, the empire spread east and west to touch the lives of all Near Eastern people.
This is a statue of Ashurbanipal, one of the great kings of Assyria. A noted patron of the arts, he helped to build a culture that inspired . . . — Map (db m32080) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Braving Wind and Waves — Fort Point Life-Saving Station |
| | Activated in 1890, this U.S. Life-Saving Station was built to aid endangered seafarers in the days when San Francisco was one of the world’s busiest ports. “Surfmen” braved wind and waves to rescue victims from distressed sailing ships and steamships off the central California coast and in the bay’s treacherous waters. Nearly a dozen shipwrecks still lie buried along the Presidio shore.
Finding a Safer Haven
In 1990, the U.S. Coast Guard (the successor of the U.S. . . . — Map (db m63414) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Bummer and Lazarus |
| | Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs who roamed this part of San Francisco in the 1860s. Their devotion to each other endeared them to the citizenry, and the newspapers reported their joint adventures, whether sealing a bone from another dog, uncovering a nest of rats or stopping a runaway horse. Though authorities destroyed other strays on sight, the city permitted these two to run free. Indeed, they were welcomed, regular customers at popular eating and drinking establishments on Montgomery . . . — Map (db m58394) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Cadillac Hotel — Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — c. 1907 |
| | Designed by Frederick H. Mayer in 1907. First structure built in the Uptown Tenderloin after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire. San Francisco Landmark No. 176. Boxer Muhammed Ali (known as Cassius Clay at the time) trained in the Hotel's Newman's Gym in 1960 after winning an Olympic gold medal. Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead founder/musician, lived here in 1961.
This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. — Map (db m63863) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — California Electric Building — 166-178 Townsend Street — Percy and Hamilton, Architects, 1888/1906 |
| | A contributory building within the South End Historic District, designated by the City and County of San Francisco in 1990. The warehouse and industrial buildings from the District's period of significance (1867-1935) reflect the City's preeminence during that time as an international port and the center of Pacific Coast commerce. This building served as an electric generating plant through 1895. It survived the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, and has had a variety of uses since then. The . . . — Map (db m63844) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — California Volunteers' Memorial |
| | Erected by the Citizens of San Francisco in Honor of the California Volunteers Spanish-American War 1898
“First to the Front” — Map (db m36691) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 82 — Castillo de San Joaquin |
| | The first ship to enter San Francisco Bay, the San Carlos (Captain Ayala), dropped anchor off this point August 5, 1775. Lieutenant-Colonel Don Juan Bautista de Anza planted the cross on Cantil Blanco (White Cliff) March 28, 1776. The first fortification, Castillo de San Joaquín, was completed December 8, 1794 by José Joaquín de Arrillaga, sixth Governor of California. In 1853 United States Army engineers cut down the cliff and built Fort Point, renamed Fort Winfield Scott in 1882. This . . . — Map (db m10742) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — China Beach — 灘海國中 |
| | Since Gold Rush times, this cove was used as a campsite by many of the Chinese fishermen who worked in and around San Francisco Bay. Their efforts to supply the needs of a young city helped establish one of the area's most important industries and traditions. — Map (db m52925) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — CHL 81 — Commander John B. Montgomery's Landing Site |
| | On July 9, 1846, in the early morning, in “the days when water came up to Montgomery Street,” Commander John B. Montgomery – for whom Montgomery Street was named – landed near this spot from the U.S. Sloop-of-War “Portsmouth,” to raise the Stars and Stripes on the plaza, now Portsmouth Square, one block to the west. — Map (db m58398) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Crissy Field — A Place of Renewal |
| | The land known today as Crissy Field has undergone many changes. Once a rich salt marsh and homeland of Ohlone people, it was later a landing site for Spanish and Russian explorers, a venue for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and a pioneering United States military airfield.
Along with the entire Presidio, Crissy Field was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962. With generous community support, Crissy Field has been transformed into a spectacular 100-acre shoreline park . . . — Map (db m63413) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Crocker Mansions |
| | At this location, "1150" California Street, now the site of the Choir, stood William H. Crocker's Queen Anne style mansion (1888). The Deuxieme Empire-Italian Villa style mansion (1877) of his father, Charles Crocker, was at the N.W. corner of California & Taylor. Both buildings were destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Subsequently, the Crocker family, in consultation with the Rt. Rev. William Ford Nichols, second Bishop of California, donated this entire block as the site for Grace . . . — Map (db m63582) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Dewey Monument |
| | (Panel 1)
On the night of April Thirtieth 1898 Commodore Deweys squadron entered Manila Bay and undaunted by the danger of submerged explosives reached Manila at dawn of May First 1898 • Attacked and destroyed the Spanish fleet of ten war ships • Reduced the forts and held the city in subjection until the arrival of troops from America
(Panel 2)
Erected by the citizens of San Francisco to commemorate the victory of the American Navy under Commodore George Dewey at Manila . . . — Map (db m15075) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 784 — El Camino Real |
| | This plaque is placed on the 250th anniversary of the birth of California’s apostle, Padre Junípero Serra, O.F.M. to mark the northern terminus of El Camino Real as Padre Serra knew it and helped to blaze it.
1713 - November 24 - 1963
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 784. — Map (db m32169) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 941 — Farnsworth's Green Street Lab |
| | In a simple laboratory on this site, 202 Green Street, Philo Taylor Farnsworth, U.S. pioneer in electronics,invented and patented the first operational all-electronic "television system" on September 7, 1927. The 21 year-old inventor and several dedicated assistants successfully transmitted the first all-electronic television image, the major breakthrough that brought the practical form of this invention to mankind. Further patents formulated here covered the basic concepts essential to modern . . . — Map (db m20900) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — First Chinese Baptist Church — 華人浸信會 |
| | {The left side of the marker has the text in English:}
This church was organized on October 3, 1880. The congregation first met in rented quarters on Washington Street across from Portsmouth Square, and moved to the present location in 1888. The first church building on this site was destroyed in the Earthquake of 1906. The present structure was built in 1908. Through the years, the Church has served the community by providing language classes; conducting various programs for . . . — Map (db m52875) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 462 — First Jewish Religious Services |
| | In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.
State Registered Landmark No. 462
Tablet placed by the California Centennials Commission with the cooperation of the Society of California Pioneers
Dedicated September 6, 1950 — Map (db m40514) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 236 — First Ship into San Francisco Bay |
| | On August 5 1775, the Spanish Packet San Carlos, under the command of Lieutenant Juan Manuel Ayala, became the first ship to sail into San Francisco Bay. A month and a half was spent in surveying the Bay from its southern most reaches to the northern end of present-day Suisun Bay. The San Carlos departed on September 18, 1775.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 236.
Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the San . . . — Map (db m64008) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Former Film Exchange — Uptown Tenderloin Historic District |
| | 144 Leavenworth Street
c. 1922
Former Film Exchange
Originally owned by legendary
San Francisco real estate developer
Louis R. Lurie.
This building is listed in
The National Register of
Historic Places
Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — Map (db m63655) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Fort Point |
| | Fort Point is considered one of the finest examples of military architecture in the United States and is San Francisco’s only major building constructed before the Civil War which has remained basically unchanged since it was completed and garrisoned in February 1861. Two months later the firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, marked the beginning of the Civil War, but the bombardment also clearly demonstrated that brick and granite fortresses could not withstand the devastating power of the . . . — Map (db m10677) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Frances E. Willard |
| | Inspired by San Francisco in 1883
Became the first world organizer of women.
Standing here in 1883 she said "We are one world of tempted humanity" — Map (db m18462) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 27 — Graceful Brick Building |
| | Constructed in 1858, this graceful brick building played an important role in the financial and entrepreneurial development of frontier San Francisco. From his offices in this building, William M. Lent, President of the Savage Mining Company, organized the financing of the Comstock Lode. The wealth created by the successful mining of the Comstock provided capital for the development of the West in the years following the Civil War. — Map (db m58395) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary |
| | Within the ocean swells, beyond the Golden Gate, is an underwater world of astoundingly rich and diverse marine life. Few regions on earth host the multitude of marine species found in the sanctuary’s open waters an estuaries, within its sea floor, and along its rocky shores and sandy beaches.
The 1,255 square mile Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary protects the region’s extraordinary resources. Past human impacts such as seal and whale hunting, egg harvesting, oil spills, . . . — Map (db m63424) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Harvey Milk — May 22, 1930 - November 27, 1978 |
| | Harvey Milk Plaza is named in honor of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, California’s first elected official to be openly gay.
In 1975, Harvey Milk opened Castro Camera at 575 Castro Street and moved into the apartment upstairs. Harvey’s store soon became a center for politcal meetings and voter registration drives. Through his involvement in neighborhood issues, he soon became known as “The Mayor of Castro Street”.
As the influx of gay men and lesbians revitalized the . . . — Map (db m21067) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Harvey Milk — May 22, 1930 - November 27, 1978 |
| | Harvey Milk made history as the first openly-gay elected official in California, and one of the first in the nation, when he won election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 1977. His camera store and campaign headquarters at 575 Castro Street and his apartment upstairs were centers of community activism for a wide range of human rights, environmental, labor and neighborhood issues. Harvey Milk's hard work and accomplishments on behalf of all San Franciscans earned him . . . — Map (db m64066) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Heavy Cruiser USS San Francisco (CA38) |
| |
Honor-Courage-Commitment These are the remains of the flag bridge of the cruiser USS San Francisco, badly damaged in battle against Japanese naval forces on the night of November 12-13, 1942. The shrapnel-torn holes in her bridge bear mute testimony of to the ferocious combat and enormous casualties suffered by the warship during the encounter near Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
War in the Pacific
On December 7, 1941 San Francisco was at . . . — Map (db m59868) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Historic Shipwrecks - Lost at the Golden Gate |
| | Swift tides, treacherous rocks, dense fog, and a narrow harbor entrance have always made San Francisco’s coast and port difficult to navigate. Over 300 known vessels have failed to make the passage and sank in the cold, treacherous waters.
One of the worst maritime disasters along the coast was the wreck of the City of Rio de Janeiro in 1901. The iron-hulled steamer hit a submerged ledge off Fort Point, in the Presidio, and flooded and sank within eight minutes. One hundred and . . . — Map (db m48638) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Hotaling Building |
| | Built in 1866 and occupied by A.P. Hotaling & Co., this building housed the largest liquor repository on the West Coast. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire due to a mile long fire hose laid from Fisherman's Wharf over Telegraph Hill by the U.S. Navy. This prompted the famous doggerel by Charles Field:
"If, as they say, God spanked the town
for being over frisky,
why did he burn the churches down
and save Hotaling's Whiskey?" — Map (db m40165) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Hudson's Bay Company |
| | On this block, then on Yerba Buena's waterfront, stood the California headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1841, their chief trader, William G. Rae, purchased the property and started operations. This venture caused wide speculation about British intentions. Inadequate profits, a declining fur catch, and pressure of U.S. expansion caused Hudson's Bay Company to end California operations.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 819
Plaque placed by the State Department of . . . — Map (db m41292) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Huntington Park/Fountain of the Tortoises |
| | Huntington Park
On this site in 1872, General David D. Colton, a railroad attorney, built one of the most elaborate residences ever seen in San Francisco. The classic white wooden mansion featured an entry flight of marble steps leading to a portico of Corinthian columns. General Colton, his wife, and his two daughters entertained in the mansion with style and splendor. General Colton died in 1878 and shortly thereafter his widow, Ellen, closed the mansion and moved to Washington, D.C. . . . — Map (db m63532) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Hyde Street Pier — San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park |
| | This pier, home of the museum’s fleet of historic ships since 1963, was built in 1922 as the terminal of the Golden Gate Ferry Company service to Sausalito. Additions were completed in 1931 and 1932.
Service to Berkeley was added by Golden Gate in 1927, and in 1929 the company was taken over by Southern Pacific. The ferryboat Eureka docked here during the 1930s as Sausalito relief boat.
The use of Hyde Street Pier as a public terminal ended in 1938, fourteen months after the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. — Map (db m63394) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — In Memory of Adolph Sutro |
| | Mining Engineer — Philanthropist — Pioneer Builder in San Francisco. Born April 29, 1830, in Prussia. Came to the United States 1850. Settled in San Francisco 1854. Built Sutro Heights which he presented to San Francisco as a public park. Also gave to this city the site of the University of California hospital. As an engineer designed Sutro drainage and ventilating tunnel for the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada. Died in San Francisco July 8, 1898.
This commemorative plaque . . . — Map (db m21262) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — In Memory of Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise |
| | In memory of Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise, who gave their lives on Bloody Thursday, July 5, 1934, so that all working people might enjoy a greater measure of dignity and security.
Sperry and Bordoise were fatally shot by San Francisco police at the intersection of Mission and Steuart Streets, when longshoremen and seamen attempted to stop maritime employers from breaking joint strike. Community outrage at these killings sparked a general strike by all San Francisco unions.
The maritime . . . — Map (db m26162) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Jack London |
| |
To mark the birthplace
of the noted author
Jack London
January 12, 1876
The original home on this
site, then known as 615
Third Street was destroyed
in the fire of April 18, 1906
Placed by the
California Historical Society
January 12, 1953 — Map (db m21203) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Java House — Established 1912 |
| | Good food here! The oldest eatery on San Francisco's Embarcadero, Java House has served breakfast and lunch at this Pier 40 location since 1912. The classic menu appeals to all who have stopped in from sailors, longshoremen, tourists and politicians including cultural celebrities Herb Caen, Harry Bridges, Carl Wheat, to baseball's Joe Dimaggio and Willie Mays. Its hosts through time represent those who sail the seas: Italians, Portugese, Norwegians, Irish, Scots and Greeks. The waterfront has . . . — Map (db m20934) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — CHL 1024 — Juana Briones Y Tapia de Miranda — 1802 – 1889 — North Beach Pioneer |
| | Juana Briones, born in Hispanic California, was a preeminent woman of her time. In the 1830s and 1840s she transformed an isolated cove in the then Mexican hamlet of Yerba Buena into her rancho. At the site of this park she raised cattle and grew vegetables for sale to ship crews. She gave sanctuary to refugees and was revered as a healer and care-giver. She is honored as a humanitarian, astute businesswoman, community builder, and devoted mother of eight children. — Map (db m58383) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Leonard Matlovich — A Gay Vietnam Veteran |
| |
In memory of
Leonard Matlovich
who lived in this building for several years.
His epitaph reads:
A Gay Vietnam Veteran
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
Never Again Never Forget
6 July 1943 22 June 1988
In 1975, Tech. Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, winner of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star made the military's ban on gays in the military a national issue when he appeared on the cover of . . . — Map (db m64100) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 937 — Liberty Bell Slot Machine |
| | Charles August Fey began inventing and manufacturing slot machines in 1894. Fey pioneered many innovations of coin operated gaming devices in his San Francisco workshop at 406 Market Street, including the original three-reel bell slot machine in 1898. The international popularity of the bell slot machines attests to Fey's ingenuity as an enterprising inventor whose basic design of the three reel slot machine continues to be used in mechanical gaming devices today.
California Registered . . . — Map (db m29118) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Little Chile |
| | The area bounded by Montgomery, Pacific, Jackson and Kearny streets was known as “Chilecito” or “Little Chile” & was established during the gold rush period by Chilean settlers. — Map (db m58384) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Military Intelligence Service Language School — November 1941 - April 1942 |
| | This building was the site of the first class of the Military Intelligence Service Language School
November 1941 - April 1942
Eventually, six thousand Japanese-American soldier graduates served their country valiantly in the Pacific area during World War II.
The United States of America owes a debt to these Nisei linguists and their families which it can never repay.
Dedicated by the Military Intelligence Service Association of Northern California on November 1, 1993 — Map (db m29989) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Navigating the Golden Gate - Bonfires, buoys, and foghorns |
| | Deep channels make San Francisco’s remarkable harbor accessible to immense ships. On the other hand, a narrow entrance, swift currents, high winds, rocks, and fog make navigating the Golden Gate treacherous. Early mariners looked for on-shore bonfires, painted rocks, and natural landmarks to find their way. Today, navigators rely on buoys, beacons, foghorns, charts, sonar, and satellite-based global positioning systems.
Distinctive characteristics make some individual navigation aids . . . — Map (db m48641) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — North West Corner of Original Presidio |
| | This Tablet Marks
the North West Corner
of the Original Presidio
of San Francisco
Founded
by the Spaniards
Under Lieutenant Moraga
September 17, 1767 — Map (db m12616) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Officer Jane Warner |
| | Jane Warner spent two decades keeping the peace in the city's Castro, Noe Valley and Mission neighborhoods as a San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officer. To her many friends, she was simply known as "Officer Jane".
She was dedicated not only to the business owners who contracted with her for her neighborbood safety services, but also to protecting the residents and visitors in the area she patrolled. She was a long time columnist for the Bay Area Reporter, penning the LGBT crime column. . . . — Map (db m64229) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Old Ship Saloon |
| | After a 178 day voyage from New York via Cape Horn in 1849 the sailing ship "Arkansas" arrived in San Francisco Bay. Among her 112 passengers were 76 Methodists, all bound for the gold fields or church propagation. The ship was nearly lost while anchoring off Bird Island, now Alcatraz, then was towed and purposely grounded in Yerba Buena Cove. Here an entrepreneur cut a hole in her bow creating an instant saloon. The ship's colorful past has included a seaman's bar, boarding house, bordello, . . . — Map (db m33272) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 1010 — Original Site of Third Baptist Church — The First African American Baptist Church West of the Rocky Mountains |
| | In August 1852, Abraham Brown, Thomas Bundy, Thomas Davenport, Willie Denton, Harry Fields, George Lewis, Fielding Spotts, and Eliza and William Davis organized the church in the Davis home. The congregation purchased the old First Baptist Church and moved it to this location in 1854. The present church is now located at 1399 McAllister Street.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 1010
Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with Third . . . — Map (db m52644) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Peoples of the Coast - Why did they live here? |
| | Alson, Aptos, Carquin, Huchiun, Oljon, Tamien, Matsun, Rumsen, Yelamu … these are jst a few of the 50 or so Indian tribes that populated the coastal area from Carquinez Strait to south of Monterey Bay. For at least 10,000 years prior to European settlement, native peoples made this land their home. Each of these small tribes, consisting of 3 to 10 villages, had it sown leader and occupied its own established territory. Although the tribes were politically independent, they were related by . . . — Map (db m48640) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Petaluma's Sternwheel — Hyde Street Pier — San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park |
| | “After 35 years, 8 months and 10 days we tie up for good. This ends 103 years of stern wheel navigation of S.F. Bay and tributaries. John H. Urton, Master”
Final Log Entry, dated August 24, 1950.
The Petaluma was the last of the San Francisco riverboats. During the nineteenth century, these passenger and cargo boats, operating on the inland river systems, were the primary link between San Francisco and the towns and farming communities of the . . . — Map (db m63393) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Pioneer Monument / California Native Americans |
| | [Panel 1:] Pioneer Monument
Sculptor, Frank Happersberger (1859-1932)
Dedicated to the City of San Francisco on November 29, 1894, the Pioneer Monument was a gift of philanthropist James Lick. Lick, who died in 1876, left $100,000 to the City for the creation of “statuary emblematic of the significant epochs in California history” dating back to the missions’ early settlement. The monument stood in Marshall Square facing Market Street in front of the Old City . . . — Map (db m32183) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Pony Express |
| | The first Pony Express rider to reach San Francisco on the final relay carrying mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to California, arrived in this city Apr. 14, 1860 aboard the River Str. ‘Antelope’. Led by a band and several engine companies, a concourse of citizens escorted the rider, mounted on his gayly decorated pony, to the office of the Alta California Telegraph Company, headquarters of the Pony Express, which stood on this spot. The Pony Express in operation from Apr. 3, 1860 to Oct, 26, 1861. — Map (db m58489) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Pony Express Wharf |
| | Nearby was the location of the Broadway Wharf. The wharf extended from Broadway and Davis Streets east to this location. All of the Pony Express mail that was delivered to and from San Francisco used this wharf. The Pony Express ran from April 3, 1860 to November 20, 1861.
The Pony Express mail was carried by either the "River Steamers" of the California Steam Navigation Company that operated between here and Sacramento or the ferry "Oakland" that operated between Oakland and here. . . . — Map (db m63717) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 79 — Presidio of San Francisco |
| | Formally established on September 17, 1776, the San Francisco Presidio has been used as a military headquarters by Spain, Mexico, and the United States. It was a major command post during the Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War, and remains a symbol of United States authority in the Pacific. — Map (db m10743) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Roald Amundsen — 1872-1928 |
| | Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer, was the first to detect the magnetic North Pole and to navigate the Northwest Passage, the Arctic water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He left Norway with a crew of six on June 16 of 1903 in 1 69-foot converted herring boat named Gjoa. Amundsen spent three years on the perilous journey. The Gjoa continued on, sailing through the Bering Strait and anchored off Point Bonita, outside the Golden Gate, on October 19, 1906. The San Francisco . . . — Map (db m21336) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Robert Lee Frost |
| | 1874–1963.
This great poet was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874. First child of William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost. He lived in seven houses here all east of Van Ness Avenue and North of Market Street. Upon his father’s death in 1885, his mother took him and his sister back to Massachusetts. Frost was four times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; received forty-three honorary degrees and the Congressional Medal from President Kennedy; was appointed Consultant . . . — Map (db m639) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Robert Louis Stevenson |
| | Lodged at 608 Bush Street, December 1879 - March 1880, and there wrote essays, poems autobiography and fiction.
Plaque placed by admirers of the author in cooperation with the California Historical Society.
July 26, 1972 — Map (db m18388) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — San Francisco Bay Shore Line Marker |
| | This tablet marks the shore line of San Francisco Bay at the time of the discovery of gold in California, January 24, 1848. Map reproduced above delineates old shore line.
Placed by Historic Landmarks Committee, Native Sons of the Golden West, 1921.
— Map (db m638) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — San Francisco Brewing Company |
| | This building is the last of the Barbary Coast saloons. Prior to the great earthquake and fire of 1906, this was the site of the infamous Billy Goat Saloon, operated by Pigeon-Toed Sal.
After reconstruction, the original Andromeda Saloon opened here in 1907. World Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey worked the door in 1913 before his historic July 4, 1919 fight in which he took the title from Jess Willard with a TKO. The massive ‘Punkah’ ceiling fan is vintage 1916. The magnificent flame mahogany . . . — Map (db m58491) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — San Francisco Lawn Bowling Clubhouse and Greens |
| | A San Francisco City
Landmark No. 181
California's
First Municipal
Lawn Bowling Greens
Established 1901 — Map (db m28756) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — San Francisco Port of Embarkation (1932-1962) — Headquarters |
| | Critical Logistics Center for the Army’s Pacific Operations.
From its start in 1902 as an army hospital, built to accommodate twelve patients, this building went on to become the U. S. Army’s headquarters for troop and supply transport to the Pacific.
By 1906, most of Fort Mason’s sick soldiers were sent to the Presidio’s larger facility and much of the hospital here was used for temporary barracks, storage, and other non-critical functions. Then in 1912 the army established a . . . — Map (db m63580) HM WM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Schooner Parallel “Blown to Atoms” 1887 |
| | The two-masted, 148-ton Parallel left San Francisco for Astoria, Oregon, with a mixed cargo & 42 tons of black powder & dynamite. Capt. W.C. Miller, fought against difficult winds for two days & finally gave up. The abandon-ship order put the 7-man crew into a lifeboat before the ship went on the rocks off Pt. Lobos & the Cliff House. The crew rowed to Sausalito but told no one of the dangerous cargo. Miller later was criticized for his actions.
A crew from the life-saving station at . . . — Map (db m48586) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Setting A Deadly Obstacle Course — Fort Point Mine Depot |
| | The Fort Point Mine Depot was created to defend the West Coast’s greatest harbor from enemy attack. Here, U.S. Army personnel assembled mines, loaded them on ships and planted them in minefields outside the Golden Gate. An enemy ship attempting to enter San Francisco Bay would have had to maneuver through a deadly obstacle course. Completed in 1910, the depot remained in service through World War II. — Map (db m63415) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Shreve & Co. — A San Francisco Institution since 1852. |
| | From the time of the Gold Rush, Shreve & Co. has been the premier jeweler in the city, first making its home in this building in March 1906. This was one of the only structures to survive The Great Earthquake of April 18, 1906.
It was here that Shreve & Co. exhibited the 720 carat Yonkers diamond, the jewelry of Catherine the Great of Russia and created the State of California’s coronation gift to Queen Elizabeth II of England.
And it is here that this unique history lives on . . . — Map (db m9163) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 861 — Site of First California State Fair |
| | California’s first state fair was held on this site on October 4, 1854. Sponsored by the California State Agricultural Society, the exhibition of “horses, cattle, mules and other stock, and agricultural, mechanical and domestic manufacture and productions” promoted the new state’s growing agricultural industry. A different city held the fair each year, until Sacramento became the permanent location in 1861.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 861.
Plaque placed by . . . — Map (db m637) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 87 — Site of First U.S. Branch Mint |
| | The first United States Branch Mint in San Francisco was authorized by Congress July 3, 1852, and opened for operation on April 3, 1854. Dr. L.A. Birdall was the first superintendent: J. Huston, first minter: A. Haraszthy, first assayer.
State Registered Landmark No. 87
Tablet placed by California Centennial Commission with the Cooperation of the Society of California Pioneers. Dedicated October 21, 1949 — Map (db m9156) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 810 — Site of Old St. Mary’s — Cornerstone 1853 - Dedicated 1854 |
| | The first building erected as a cathedral in California, Old Saint Mary’s served the archdiocese of San Francisco in that capacity from 1854 to 1891. Once the City’s most prominent building, much of its stone work was quarried and cut in China and its brick brought “around the Horn” in sailing ships.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 810
Plaque placed by California State Park Commission in cooperation with the Paulist Fathers and the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, May 7, 1966 — Map (db m9176) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 327-1 — Site of Original Mission Dolores Chapel and Dolores Lagoon / Rammaytush |
| | [FrontLargo de los Dolores (Lake of the Sorrows), and
offered the first mass. The first mission was a log and thatch structure dedicated on October 9, 1776 when the necessary church documents arrived. The present Mission Dolores was dedicated in 1791.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 327-1
Plaque placed by the . . . — Map (db m32067) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Site of Ship Niantic |
| | The emigrant ship Niantic stood on this spot in the early days "when the water came up to Montgomery Street." Converted to other uses, it was covered with a shingle roof with offices and stores on the deck, at the level which was constructed a wide balcony surmounted by a verandah. The hull was divided into warehouses, entered into by doorways on the sides.
The fire of May 3, 1851, destroyed all but the submerged hulk which was later utilized as the foundation for the Niantic Hotel, a . . . — Map (db m41125) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 453 — Site of the Bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. — (Sherman's Bank) |
| | William Tecumseh Sherman established the branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco in 1853. He settled the firm in their own building on the northeast corner of Jackson and Montgomery Streets in the spring of 1854. Sherman successfully carried the bank through the financial crisis of 1855, and remained until they discontinued business in 1857.
State Registered Landmark No. 453
Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission with the cooperation of The Society of California . . . — Map (db m33402) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 587 — Site of the First Public School in California |
| | This marks the site of the first
public school in California
Erected in 1847 — Opened April 3, 1848
This commemorative marker was erected
in 1957 by the Grand Lodge of Free
and Accepted Masons of the State of California
California Historical Landmark 587 — Map (db m53965) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 650 — Site of What Cheer House |
| | This is the site of the famous What Cheer House, a unique hotel opened in 1852 by R. B. Woodward and destroyed by the fire of 1906. The What Cheer House catered to men only, permitted no liquor on the premises, and housed San Francisco's first free library and first museum.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 650
Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with the California Historical Society and the American Trust Company, April 24, 1959. — Map (db m33319) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — St. Francis of Assisi Church |
| | Founded June 17, 1849
Pro-cathedral 1852-54
Present church dedicated March 17, 1860
First parish church in San Francisco. In 1850 the first parochial school in California was established here, and the first ordination to the priesthood was held here in 1852. — Map (db m58386) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 83 — St. John's Presbyterian Church |
| | Registered Landmark Number 83
City and County of San Francisco — Map (db m18419) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Sutro’s Steam Train — All aboard for Lands End |
| | In the early 1880s, three miles of sand dunes separated the developed areas of San Francisco from Lands End, where Adolph Sutro was developing popular seaside attractions – Cliff House, the gardens of Sutro Heights, the seven swimming pools at Sutro Baths. A private rail line ran out to Ocean Beach, but Sutro felt its ten-cent fare was outrageous.
To provide affordable public transit, Sutro funded the Ferries & Cliff House Railway. Beach-goers could transfer from cable cars . . . — Map (db m48714) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Talbot-Dutton House |
| | Circa 1869
Talbot-Dutton House
Registered Landmark 57
City and County of San Francisco — Map (db m18095) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Arrival of the First Japanese Naval Ship |
| | This monument is erected to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese naval ship Kanrin Maru in San Francisco Bay on 17 March, 1860. The Kanrin Maru crossed the Pacific at the same time as the U.S.S. Powhatan which brought the first Japanese Embassy to the United Stated. Presented to the City of San Francisco by its sister city Osaka as a token of its sincere desire to further strengthen the ties of friendship and goodwill between the United States and Japan and as part of the . . . — Map (db m18266) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Banking Firm of Pioche et Bayerque |
| | On this site in the mid-1850's Francois L.A. Pioche built an office building which housed the banking firm of Pioche et Bayerque, one of the most important financial institutions in the West during the two decades after the Gold Rush. The financing and development of many important companies resulted, such as the San Francisco Market Street Railroad, the San Francisco & San Jose Railroad, and the Sacramento Valley Railroad, the first railroad in the West. Additionally, financing for the Jackson . . . — Map (db m40508) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Bulldog Baths — Uptown Tenderloin Historic District |
| |
130 Turk Street
c. 1923
Formerly housed the Bulldog Baths.
This building is listed in the
National Register of
Historic Places
— Map (db m63787) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Clock Tower |
| | Built in 1915
in honor of
California Pioneer
Domingo Ghirardelli
1817-1894
Founder of
D. Ghirardelli Company
in 1852
Placed by
Landmarks Council of California
San Francisco - 1966
— Map (db m64330) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Condor — Where It All Began |
| | The birthplace of the world’s first topless & bottomless entertainment.
Topless • June 19, 1964
Bottomless • September 3, 1969
Starring Ms. Carol Doda
San Francisco, California — Map (db m9238) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The First Public Children's Playground in the United States |
| |
The first public children's playground in the United States was established here in 1887 by gift funds received from the Sharon bequest. The east expansion and rehabilitation work of 1977 were funded by Walter and Elise Haas, by Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein, the Fuhrman Bequest, & Friends of Recreation and Parks
Text of second side of marker:
George R. Moscone mayor
Recreation & Park Commission
Eugene L. Friend president
Loris DiGrazia . . . — Map (db m40374) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Garcia and Maggini Warehouse — San Francisco Landmark No. 229 |
| | At this location, on July 3, 1934, a dramatic clash occured, one that eventually touched the nation. Longshoremen, sailors, teamsters, and other waterfront workers had closed down Pacific coast shipping since May, in what came to be known as "The Big Strike". Business interests and employers, attempting to break the strike, or "open the port", formed the Industrial Association, and created the Atlas Drayage Company, which then rented space in this building, Garcia & Maggini Warehouse. On July . . . — Map (db m21179) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Golden Gate Bridge: Vision, Genius and Expert Care |
| | "The Golden Gate!" Army explorer John Charles Fremont named the entrance to San Francisco Bay in 1846. His Majesty Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton decreed in 1869 that a bridge be built “…across the Golden Gate to Sausalito Ridge.” Work finally began 64 years later.
The vision and genius of Engineer Joseph Strauss together with the dedicated and fearless bridge workers, began construction 5 January1933. They completed the longest suspension bridge in the world in 1937. Innovative . . . — Map (db m31685) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Hawley Terminal Building — Constructed in 1924 — A Contributory Structure to the South End Historic District |
| | This reinforced concrete, stucco clad building is contributory to the South End Historic District, as a representative of a warehouse structure constructed within the Historic District's period of significance, 1867 to 1935.
The South End Historic District
The development of warehouses over a 120-year period along the southern waterfront provides a benchmark from which to architectural and technological responses to the rapid changes of a growing industrial nation, state and city. The . . . — Map (db m21021) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Montgomery — A Category 1 Historic Building |
| | This classic landmark building was built in 1914 as the headquarters for the San Francisco Call, a leading newspaper of its time.
This building was restored and re-dedicated as modern homes and shops by a committed team of developers, architects, contractors, engineers and craftsmen. It is our wish that all who live and work here in the 21st Century and beyond will continue to love and appreciate The Montgomery as much as we did.
February, 2008
New Urban Properties, LLC
and
The . . . — Map (db m21393) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal — Twenty-Four Minutes of Thundering Hell On Iron Bottom Bay |
| | Friday the 13th November 1942
By July 1942 Japan’s military juggernaut had invaded and occupied Korea, Manchuria, China, Hong Kong, Burma, Borneo, New Guinea, Rabaul, Truk, The Philippines, Aleutians, Marshalls, Carolines, and the Solomons, which includes Tulagi, Savo and Guadalcanal Island. “A steamy, tropical malaria infested jungle.”
The Japanese worked feverishly to build airfields on several islands. The airfield on Guadalcanal was their last and most important. It . . . — Map (db m60736) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The New Cliff House |
| | For nearly 150 years generations of visitors have traveled to the Cliff House to experience the magnificent natural setting and to enjoy recreation. There have been three different Cliff Houses on this site. The first two were destroyed by fire. The third one, built in 1909, has been remodeled several times and fallen into disrepair. The new building improvements now underway will renovate the original three-story 1909 Cliff House and add a new north wing. Site improvements include renovation . . . — Map (db m63585) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Ordoñez Gun — A “War Prize” from the Philippines – 1899 |
| | The Presidio’s Ordoñez gun was originally mounted in a Spanish coastal fort at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Undamaged during the Spanish American War, the gun was captured by Filipino nationalists, who were known as “Insurrectos” by the occupying Americans.
In September 1899, a combined U.S. Army-Navy force attacked the Filipino positions at Subic Bay. This gun was reported to have been destroyed by shellfire from the American cruiser USS Charleston. Some historians . . . — Map (db m12619) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Oriental Warehouse — San Francisco Historical Landmark |
| | Built in 1867, the Oriental Warehouse is all that remains in San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., a firm that was the first to establish regular mail, passenger and trade service between the U.S. and the Orient. The building played a central role as the primary storage and distribution point for imports of tea, rice and silk from Asia and was designated a landmark by the city of San Francisco in 1977. — Map (db m20997) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Rainbow Flag |
| | On November 8, 1997, this Rainbow Flag was installed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the election of Harvey Milk to the Board of Supervisors of voters of District 5. This victory by an openly gay man was a watershed for the Queer rights movement. Since then, open lesbians and gay men have been elected to many levels of government in the United States. After Milk's election on November 8, 1977, the following members of San Francisco's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community have . . . — Map (db m21083) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The River Lines — The Delta King and the Delta Queen — 1927 – 1940 |
| |
San Francisco - Daily - Sacramento
Leave 6:30 P.M. Arrive 5:30 A.M.
Marker 2:
June 1, 1927: The Delta King and Delta Queen begin the first of many two-day voyages between San Francisco and Sacramento, departing from Pier 3, the passengers and freight terminal of the California Transportation Company. Holding up to 3,000 guests, fare and accommodations were sold separately, with prices ranging $1 to $5 for accommodations and $3 for a round trip ticket.
Marker . . . — Map (db m54999) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Salvation Army |
| |
On this site the work of
The Salvation Army
on the Pacific Coast
was started by Major Alfred Wells
July 22nd, 1883
San Francisco
July 21st, 1939 — Map (db m40816) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
| |
Near this site occurred
the incident which led to the formation of
The San Francisco
Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals
on April 8, 1868
———————————
James Sloan Hutchinson, a pioneer banker witnessing nearby an act of cruelty to animals
a condition all too common at that time,
was aroused to put a stop to the offense.
This also lead him to gather a number of leading citizens to form the first . . . — Map (db m33538) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Screening Room - 1966-1980's — Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — Uptown Tenderloin Lost Landmarks |
| | Alex De Renzy produced "Pornography in Denmark: a New Approach", and billed it as a documentary to avoid legal problems. The film, the first full-length adult oriented hardcore feature legally shown in the U.S., premiered here in 1970 at The Screening Room. With this landmark success, De Renzy helped launch the U.S. adult movie industry. — Map (db m63752) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The South End Rowing Club — Since 1873 - San Francisco |
| | The South End Rowing Club was founded on San Francisco Bay in 1873 by a group of rowing enthusiasts who gathered at Jimmy Farrell's Saloon at the southern end of the City near 3rd and Berry Streets.
The Club became a dominant power in the Pacific Coast rowing regattas and attracted many great West Coast athletes. The original clubhouse was a rough redwood structure, built near the Belt Line Railroad that serviced all the shipping piers of the old San Francisco waterfront.
In 1884, club . . . — Map (db m61359) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — The Stinking Rose — A Garlic Restaurant — 1991 |
| | San Francisco’s first restaurant to celebrate the euphoria of garlic.
Ancient Roman soldiers dubbed the pungent herb garlic “the stinking rose”. They believed garlic made them extremely strong and extra virile and rubbed their bodies with garlic oil before going into battle.
The Stinking Rose: A Garlic Restaurant is known for seasoning its garlic with food.
North Beach, Little Italy of the West. — Map (db m58492) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — This Memorial to Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan |
| | [Main Marker - Mounted on base of the flag pole.]
This memorial to Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan, U.S.N. and his officers and men who gave their lives for our country, while fighting on board the USS San Francisco in the battle of Guadalcanal on the night of 12-15 November 1942, was formed from the bridge of their ship and were mounted on the great circle course to Guadalcanal by the grateful people of San Francisco on 12 November 1950.
[Second Marker:]
On 12 & 13 . . . — Map (db m59869) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Vernon Alley — Legendary San Francisco Jazzman |
| | The legendary jazz bassist Vernon Alley was born May 26, 1915, in Winnemuca, Nevada. His father was a barber, a railroad man, and a laborer. His mother was a hotel worker. He came to San Francisco as a child and has always called The City his home.
As a young man, his parents took him to see the jazz great Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton. From that moment, jazz was to become his first love in a magical life that touched many people and broke many barriers.
Vernon Alley's life as a . . . — Map (db m20985) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Wally Heider Recording - 1969-1980 — Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — Uptown Tenderloin Lost Landmarks |
| | The Greatful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane and many other bands created landmark albums at Wally Heider Recording, the City's first modern recording studio. The studio was a center of artistic collaboration. Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young recorded their historic album, "Deja Vu," with Jerry Garcia on "Teach Your Children". Eric Clapton jammed with the band, Santana, on their album, "Abraxas." Herbie Hancock recorded his best-selling jazz album, "Headhunters" here. — Map (db m63785) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — War in the Philippines — The Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and the Presidio — 1898 – 1902 |
| | On April 21, 1898, the United States declared war against Spain. The immediate causes were America’s support of Cuba’s ongoing struggle against Spanish rule and the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. This was the first overseas war fought by the United States, with campaigns in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
On May 18, 1898, the Spanish fleet guarding the Philippine Islands was defeated by the U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore George Dewey. Unaware . . . — Map (db m48530) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — 696 — Western Headquarters of Russell, Majors, and Waddell |
| | This was the site of the western business headquarters of Russell, Majors, and Waddell -- founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express, 1860-1861. The firm's main office was in Leavenworth, Kansas. W.W. Finney was the western representative in San Francisco.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 696
Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with the Society of California Pioneers, April 1, 1960. — Map (db m33775) HM |
| California (San Francisco City and County), San Francisco — Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway |
| | You are standing at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first direct coast-to-coast highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was conceived in 1912 by Carl Fisher (founder of the Indianapolis Speedway and pioneer developer of Miami Beach) who encouraged manufacturers of autos, tires and cement to contribute funds to establish a direct motor-vehicle route, traversing 3,300 miles through 12 states, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. . . . — Map (db m18145) HM |
| California (San Francisco County), San Francisco — American Zoetrope — The Historic Sentinel Building |
| | The historic
Sentinel Building
has been the home of American Zoetrope since 1971. We have written, edited, and sound mixed many of our films here including Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Black Stallion and Rumble Fish.
Other filmmakers who have worked here include Werner Herzog, Carroll Ballard, and George Lucas. At this moment, on the floors above us, there are ideas being hatched, scripts being written, and films being edited. — Map (db m58548) HM |
| California (San Francisco County), San Francisco — FDR's Salute — to the Officers and Men ... USS "San Francisco"' — USS San Francisco Memorial |
| | In Salute
to the Officers and Men, living and dead, of the
U.S.S. “San Francisco”
a warship named for our city, which though sorely wounded, emerged triumphantly from the Battle of Guadalcanal, November 12-13 1942 after inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
“A very powerful Japanese force was moving at night toward our position in the Solomon Islands. The spearhead of the force that we sent to intercept the enemy was under the command of Rear Admiral Daniel J. . . . — Map (db m60648) HM |
| California (San Francisco County), San Francisco — Liberty Ships – Born in World War II — 1941 to 1943 — Liberty Ship 'SS Jeremiah O’Brien’ - Alive and Steaming |
| | Visit America’s answer to Hitler’s U-Boats – one of the last 2,710 identical armed Merchant Ships built to carry “beans, bullets and black oil" to our fighting men around the world. The goal was to build them faster than the enemy could sink them. Their simple design originated in Britain, using identical parts, mass produced in factories across America. Liberty Ship construction set all time records: only 60 days from laying to launch.
The National Liberty Ship . . . — Map (db m60265) HM |
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