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| Near Baker Street north of Beach Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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"Therefore, let us preserve our Palace of Fine Arts as long as possible, six months, six years, or any length of time — maybe someday it can be made permanent…” Willis Polk, 1915
It is difficult to contemplate San . . . — — Map (db m131097) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | She was a steady little ship. She wasn't too fast to sail and beat, or anything like that, but she was a solid-built ship. - Captain Emil Anderson, Master 1915
Thayer was one of 123 three-masted schooners built on the West Coast . . . — — Map (db m101805) HM |
| On Point Lobos Avenue west of El Camino del Mar/48th Avenue. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m48586) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | "The bay used to be full of them... They worked on the tide, they'd go up the cricks and riser's and lay on the flat until they got their cargo in and then out they'd go. Got, they were a busy outfit... What load they carried. - F.H. Wade, . . . — — Map (db m101838) HM |
| On Powell Street near Sutter Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1924, Hilda and Ben Sears opened a restaurant in San Luis Obispo, California. Their signature dish was "Dollar size little pancakes" from an old family recipe. The restaurant was relocated in 1938 and over the years has become a "Landmark family . . . — — Map (db m143247) HM |
| Near San Francisco Bay Trail near Marine Drive. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m63415) HM |
| On Bush Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Two plaques are found on this building City of San Francisco
Designated Landmark No. 143
SFFD
Engine Co. No. 2
Newton J. Tharp • Architect • 1908
Carey & Co. • Restoration Architect • 2001
SFFD
Engine Co. No. . . . — — Map (db m71996) HM |
| On New Montgomery Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Constructed 1912
Architect: George Kelham
Historical Landmark #163 — — Map (db m72363) HM |
| On Hyde Street near Jefferson Street. |
| | "No one who has not been there can imagine the strain on the captain in trying to get around Cape Horn. This passage in the Balclutha was about my hardest time. - Captain Alfred Durkee, Master 1894-1899
Balclutha was a . . . — — Map (db m101819) HM |
| On Broadway, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Commemorating the landing at this point of the ship Brooklyn, July 31, 1846. A 370 ton vessel, carrying Mormon Colonists and crew of nearly 300 under the leadership of Samuel Brannan.
In the hold was a printing press, 179 books for education . . . — — Map (db m72005) HM |
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This shipbuilding site was known
to have state-of-the-art equipment
throughout its existence. Recovered
from historic Union Iron Works
Building 113, this massive drive
shaft connected a ship's engine
with its propeller, turning it . . . — — Map (db m159388) HM |
| On King Street / The Embarcadero near Townsend Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | At the time of the Gold Rush, Tichenor's Ways built and repaired early wooden steamboats and vessels. Calm but deep water near Steamboat Point helped this industry thrive. Henry B. Tichenor built a marine railways in 1851, but shipbuilding moved . . . — — Map (db m92817) HM |
| On Post Street at Grant Avenue on Post Street. Reported missing. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m9163) HM |
| On Embarcadero near Market Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Embarcadero did not exist at the water’s edge until the late 19th Century. Wharves reached out, some for more than a thousand feet from the historic shoreline that was gradually filled and extended to create the roadway landscape that you see . . . — — Map (db m72611) HM |
| On Bush Street east of Montgomery Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m637) HM |
| On Commercial Street near Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m9156) HM |
| On California Street at Grant Avenue, on the right when traveling west on California Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m9176) HM |
| On Albion Street at Camp Street on Albion Street. |
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On June 29, 1776, Father Francisco Palou, a member of the Anza Expedition, had a brushwood shelter here on the edge of a now vanished lake, Lago de los Dolores (Lake of the Sorrows), and
offered the first mass. The first mission was a . . . — — Map (db m32067) HM |
| On Walter U Lum Place near Clay Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m71465) HM |
| On Clay Street near Sansome Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m41125) HM |
| On Jackson Street at Montgomery Street on Jackson Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m33402) HM |
| Near Clay Street at Walter U Lum Place. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m53965) HM |
| On Kearny Street near Merchant Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The third Jenny Lind Theatre was opened by Tom Maquire on October 4, 1851 on the same site as the two preceding it, which were destroyed in the fires of 1851. In 1852 the City of San Francisco purchased this theatre for use as the City Hall. — — Map (db m143439) HM |
| On California Street near Mason Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In February 1893, Mr. Edward F. Searles donated the Hopkins Mansion to the University of California in trust for the San Francisco Art Institute for the “instruction in and illustration of the fine arts, music and literature,” and as . . . — — Map (db m143440) HM |
| On Leidesdorff Street at Sacramento Street on Leidesdorff Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m33319) HM |
| On King Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | In 1852 you would have been standing on a bluff overlooking the narrow beach just below that followed the approximate line of King Street. First accurately charted by the U.S. Coast Survey topographical engineers in 1852, the shoreline was named . . . — — Map (db m72544) HM |
| On Embarcadero near Spear Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain . . . — — Map (db m72564) HM |
| On The Embarcadero near Market Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This marker is one of a series intended to commemorate the 150 years of the Port of San Francisco. It is composed of a captioned photograph and text entitled Did you know... mounted on a cylindrical metal pylon.
The Ferry Building . . . — — Map (db m73333) HM |
| On The Embarcadero near Mission Street. |
| | In the cool, sweet pre-dawn silence of April 18, 1906, clocks marked 5:00 am. Empty streets picked up the clip-clop of the milkman's horse. At the wholesale market, as men unloaded produce wagons, horses suddenly reared up, snorting and neighing. . . . — — Map (db m92847) HM |
| On Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue on Vallejo Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m58386) HM |
| On Market Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This marker is composed of two plaques, one mounted on top of the other.
On this site
was erected
the first
St. Ignatius College
and
Church
May • 1855
Dedicated by
The Society of California Pioneers
May 22, 1930 . . . — — Map (db m71898) HM |
| On Arguello Boulevard at Lake Street, on the left when traveling north on Arguello Boulevard. |
| | Registered Landmark Number 83
City and County of San Francisco — — Map (db m121755) HM |
| On College Avenue, in the median. |
| | In August 1863, Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. opened St. Mary's College at this location with a faculty of two diocesan priests, four laymen, and two student teachers in August 1868. At the invitation of Archbishop, Brother Justin McMahon . . . — — Map (db m115443) HM |
| On Mission Street at Crescent Avenue on Mission Street. |
| | Located in the University Mound/College Hill neighborhood, St. Mary's Pub is the oldest repeal bar in San Francisco with the same name. It is named for St. Mary's College, which was located nearby from 1863 to 1879.
The first business here was . . . — — Map (db m115438) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Donkey engines like this one were common along the waterfront from the 1880s into the 1920s. These portable steam winches were used as auxiliary power for loading and unloading cargo.
The name donkey comes from there fact that the engines . . . — — Map (db m101851) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | ... we picked up six million feet of timber in a raft to tow South to San Diego. Long, slow lazy days, making no more than three knots. We rigged a fishing line and caught beautiful King Salmon on the way." - Albert Hody, Hercules . . . — — Map (db m101809) HM |
| On King Street near 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | It was along this shoreline, named Steamboat Point in 1851, and extending from 500 feet west of Third Street to the Foot of Second at Townsend, that the most able shipbuilders of the times built and repaired every type of vessel, from the largest . . . — — Map (db m72543) HM |
| Near Illinois Street north of 18th Street. |
| | This shipbuilding site was known
to have state-of-the-art equipment
throughout its existence. Recovered
from historic Union Iron Works
Building 113, this lathe was fitted
with cutting tools used for planing
and milling machinery parts . . . — — Map (db m159378) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The helmsman, standing behind the wheel of the a sailing ship seldom looked ahead.
He looked down into the compass, if ordered to steer a compass course.
Or he looked alternately at compass and up at a sail (the mizzen royal) when the . . . — — Map (db m101876) HM |
| On Lombard Street at Larkin Street, on the right when traveling east on Lombard Street. |
| | George Sterling’s romantic, lyrical poetry won him the unofficial title of poet laureate of San Francisco. Jack London was his close friend and Ambrose Bierce, his mentor. Sterling’s charisma and high spirits inspired fellow writers and artists to . . . — — Map (db m69985) HM |
| On Lands End Trail west of El Camino del Mar & north of Seal Rock Drive when traveling south. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m48714) HM |
| On Market Street west of Sanchez Street. |
| | Built in 1907, Swedish American Hall is home to the
Swedish Society of San Francisco, founded in 1875.
At the turn of the 20th Century, this neighborhood was a
large Scandinavian enclave. The hall housed businesses serving
the community, . . . — — Map (db m134684) HM |
| Near Castro Street south of 18th Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Multi-gold singer and songwriter known as the “Queen of Disco” and “a visionary of queerness, race and music” — — Map (db m98043) HM |
| On Pacific Avenue at Franklin Street, on the right when traveling west on Pacific Avenue. |
| | Circa 1869
Talbot-Dutton House
Registered Landmark 57
City and County of San Francisco — — Map (db m18095) HM |
| On The Embarcadero, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The marker is primarily composed of photographs and illustrations and the captions that accompany them. Photographs or illustrations are sequentially numbered from the top.
For ships coming through the Golden Gate, Telegraph Hill could . . . — — Map (db m73350) HM |
| Near Telegraph Hill Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. |
| | During Gold Rush days a look-out stationed in a structure on this spot observed and signalled (sic) the arrival of incoming vessels. By adjusting movable arms high on a tall pole and by hoisting national colors, he identified the nature of the ship . . . — — Map (db m143441) HM |
| On Montgomery Street at Union Street, on the right when traveling north on Montgomery Street. |
| |
1254-62 Montgomery Street
has been place on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United State
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m70019) HM |
| | Two-time Pulitzer prize winning dramatist whose powerful, timeless portraits of the human condition revolutionized American theatre and whose works are regularly revived
Tennessee Williams — — Map (db m98042) HM |
| Near Market Street near Embarcadero, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial is part historical marker, part veterans memorial and entirely a work of art. It consists of a number of panels. The panels are in 15 columns of three rows each. Not all panels contain text, and some panels of . . . — — Map (db m72028) HM WM |
| On The Embarcadero near Brannan Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The Fremont Street Wharf angled 500 feet northeast into the bay from this place from 1869 to 1907. At that time the Alaska Packers; fleet of wooden and iron square rigged ships and barks loaded here, sailing 2,500 miles north to Alaska each spring . . . — — Map (db m92933) HM |
| | This place and its vicinity have abundant pasturage and fine water, all good advantages for establishing here the presidio or fort which is planned. It lacks only timber, for there is not a tree in all those hills...nearby the lake there are . . . — — Map (db m155202) HM |
| On El Camino del Mar at 34th Avenue, on the right when traveling west on El Camino del Mar. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m18266) HM |
| On Jackson Street at Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling east on Jackson Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m40508) HM |
| On 5th Street near Mission Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On May 12, 1848 Samuel Brannan rode through the streets of San Francisco waving a bottle of gold and yelling, “Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!” Struck with gold fever, almost every resident headed for the foothills, beginning . . . — — Map (db m71899) HM |
| On The Embarcadero near Beale Street. |
| | Begun in 1933 in the depths of the Depression, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge put hundreds of men to work on two six-hour shifts, morning and night, for three years and seven months, to finish two months ahead of schedule on November 12, . . . — — Map (db m92904) HM |
| On The Embarcadero near Howard Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Revolution in San Francisco; July 6. 1934...Blood ran red in the streets of San Francisco yesterday. In the darkest day this city has known since April 18, 1906, one thousand embattled police held at bay five thousand longshoremen and their . . . — — Map (db m92869) HM |
| Near Grant Avenue near Clay Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Here, June 25, 1835, William A. Richardson, founder of Yerba Buena, (later San Francisco) erected its first habitation, a tent dwelling, replacing it, in October 1835, by the first wooden house, and on this ground, in 1836, he erected the large . . . — — Map (db m70835) HM |
| Near Montgomery Street at Washington Street. |
| | For 30 years (1933-1963) The Black Cat Café was at the heart of the City’s Bohemian life – providing a welcoming saloon for artists, gay people and North Beach characters, often entertained by the operatic voice and bawdy humor of Jose Sarria, . . . — — Map (db m98102) HM |
| On Turk Street west of Taylor Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| |
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 |
| On Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive at Bowl Drive, on the left when traveling west on Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. |
| |
The 1906 earthquake had devastating consequences for the California Academy of Sciences. Immediately following the earthquake, dedicated staff members were able to rush to the Academy before the fire arrived and saved one carload of precious . . . — — Map (db m132051) HM |
| Near Music Concourse Drive north of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, on the left. |
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The Midwinter Exposition covered 160 acres and opened officially on January 27, 1894. 180 structures representing all California Counties, 4 other states, the Arizona Territory, and 18 foreign nations and villages, including a Japanese Village, . . . — — Map (db m132056) HM |
| On Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The usual ship's carpenter was a Northerner - a Scot, a Finn, a Swede, a Norwegian, or a Nova Scotiaman. All of these were superb woodworkers and equal to the to the variety of tasks found on shipboard.
For instance, windjammers always carried . . . — — Map (db m102168) HM |
| On Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This timber to support the anchor ready for "letting go" has been a fixture on shipboard for hundreds of years. As the ship approached port, the anchor was hung from the cathead by a chain called a ring stopper. One end of this chain (distinct from . . . — — Map (db m101918) HM |
| On La Playa Street at Cabrillo Street, on the right when traveling north on La Playa Street. |
| |
In the mid-1800s, the Gold Rush brought San Francisco new residents, booming business, and the need for a place to celebrate. Ocean Beach, with its unparalleled views, fresh air, and vast stretch of smooth sandy shoreline, offered the perfect . . . — — Map (db m131914) HM |
| Near North Point Street near Larkin Street. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m64330) HM |
| On 16th Street near Albion Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | We lived in harmony with the planet for thousands of years. We respected the earth and we were thankful for all the gifts it gave us.
With the invasion of outsiders our lives were shattered. We were imprisoned, forced into slave labor and . . . — — Map (db m72504) HM |
| On Columbus Avenue at Broadway Street, on the right when traveling north on Columbus Avenue. |
| | 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 |
| Near John F. Kennedy Drive, on the left when traveling east. |
| | California’s first municipal greenhouse was completed in 1879. It was patterned after the Conservatory, Kew Gardens, England. A distinguished example of late Victorian style using early techniques of mass production and assembly of simple glass . . . — — Map (db m143442) HM |
| On Music Concourse Drive south of Bowl Drive, on the left when traveling east. |
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In 1919, major portions of the second de Young museum were completed in the Spanish Plateresque style. The central section and the tower were added in 1921, and the west wing in 1925. The original building was deemed unsafe and demolished in . . . — — Map (db m132072) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This structure contains the galley, the carpenter's shop, as well as quarters for apprentices and the "idlers." These men, the bosun, sailmaker, carpenter, and cook were actually among the hardest workers of the crew, beginning at six in the morning . . . — — Map (db m101877) HM |
| On Jefferson Street west of Hyde Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Dolphin Club, in cooperation with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, maintains this facility to accomodate it program of open water swimming and rowing in San Francisco Bay.
It was founded in 1877 as a small boat club at the . . . — — Map (db m65562) HM |
| On John F. Kennedy Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This grove is dedicated to the memory of the members of the San Francisco Parlors, Native Sons of the Golden West, who gave their lives in the World's Wars I and II.
World War I 1917-1918
Thomas J. Brady • Sylvan Brilliant • Herman . . . — — Map (db m155273) WM |
| On Embarcadero at Washington Street, on the right when traveling south on Embarcadero. |
| | The Embarcadero “Freeway to Nowhere” 1956 – 1991
The first proposal for an elevated Embarcadero roadway appeared in 1927 when the Regional Planning Association published their plan for an aviation platform on the . . . — — Map (db m71454) HM |
| Near U.S. 101 at Lincoln Boulevard. |
| | Armored vessels and rifled artillery developed during the Civil War could destroy brick forts like Fort Point. As a consequence, these walled forts were replaced by earthen gun emplacements with underground ammunition magazines like Battery East, . . . — — Map (db m131192) HM |
| Near Kezar Drive north of Martin Luther King Jr Drive. |
| |
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 . . . — — Map (db m40374) HM |
| On Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The sailors lived forward in the forecastle ( pronounced foc's'le); the captain and mates lived aft in more comfortable surroundings.
Sailors found the Balclutha's cramped quarters a great improvement over those earlier, smaller ships . . . — — Map (db m101886) HM |
| On Dolores Street near 16th Street. |
| | Frank J. Portman, president of the Frank Portman Company and our Restoration Project contractor was called to God one week before our celebration to mark the completion of the Old Mission Dolores Restoration Project. From the inception of the . . . — — Map (db m72505) HM |
| On 136 King Street near Second Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m21179) HM |
| Near Clay Street at Battery Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The remains of the gold rush supply ship, the General Harrison, lie beneath this building. The sidewalk treatment reminds us that Clay Street was once a wharf at the edge of San Francisco Bay with tidal mud flats to the north, and in 1850 ships like . . . — — Map (db m70839) HM |
| Near Lincoln Boulevard west of Chrissy Field Avenue. |
| | "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 . . . — — Map (db m31685) HM |
| On Church Street at 20th Street, on the right when traveling north on Church Street. |
| | Though the water mains were broken and dry on April 18, 1906 yet from this GREENBERG hydrant on the following night there came a stream of water allowing the firemen to save the Mission District.
DEDICATED to Chief Dennis Sullivan and the men who . . . — — Map (db m120358) HM |
| Near Hyde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Life in the half deck was, perhaps, the bravest start in this mortal life ever made by human beings. The stripling of 15 or 16 years of age had to pass through the fire, had to face the elements of wind and sea in their fury had to do a man's work . . . — — Map (db m101885) HM |
| On Brannan Street near 2nd Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m21021) HM |
| On Duboce Avenue near Market Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| |
During the first half of the 20th century, electric streetcars reigned.
Hills were soon surmounted by the cable car.
The Industrial Age created the need for efficient urban transportation, which came first in the form of horse-drawn . . . — — Map (db m72657) HM |
| On 11th Street at Folsom Street, on the left when traveling south on 11th Street. |
| | Established in the 1850's, the Jackson Brewing Company operated under the ownership of the Frederick family at this site from its completion in 1912 until the onset of Prohibition in 1919. James T. Ludlow, an engineer, designed this building brew . . . — — Map (db m120151) HM |
| | Opened in 1957, the Jazz Workshop at 473 Broadway
was one of the premier clubs to hear live jazz in
San Francisco from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.
In 1959, saxophonist Julian Edwin "Cannonball"
Adderley helped put the Broadway jazz club on . . . — — Map (db m152646) HM |
| Near Mason Street 0.3 miles west of Halleck Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | U.S. Army Coast Defense Air Station From 1921 to 1936, Crissy Field was at the forefront of military air operations. Home of the U. S. Army Air Corps' Coast Defense Air Station, the site included a grassy landing strip and the barracks, offices . . . — — Map (db m131187) HM |
| On 19th Street at Lexington Street, on the right when traveling west on 19th Street. |
| | Here marks the site of the Lexington Club,
"your friendly neighborhood dyke bar" where "every night is ladies' night",
which cultivated a close knit community
among San Francisco's LGBTQ community
over the course of two decades and touched
many . . . — — Map (db m145200) HM |
| On Kearny Street north of Columbus Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Opened in 1976, the Lusty Lady started out as a private-booth theatre showing 16mm adult films. By 1983, the
theater had incorporated live performances into the mix,
a move that would engender a landmark workers' rights
win just thirteen years . . . — — Map (db m152594) HM |
| Near Htde Street near Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | When the Balclutha towed to sea in the old days, twenty five sails were ready to set as soon as the tug let go the towrope. To handle this canvas a great deal of additional cordage was rove off - buntlines, leech-lines, clew garnets, . . . — — Map (db m101875) HM |
| On The Embarcadero near Bryant Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | From 1926 until 1970, Piers 30 and 32 were famous as the San Francisco base of operations of the Matson Line, founded by Captain William Matson, who in 1882 borrowed $4,000 from a scow schooner man to buy shares in the sailing schooner Emma . . . — — Map (db m92899) HM |
| On Post Street when traveling west. |
| | Founded in 1854 for the ‘diffusion of knowledge at the least possible expense to the seeker’, the Institute’s Library and Chess Room and its literary and social activities are intertwined with the history of San Francisco and California. James Lick . . . — — Map (db m71800) HM |
| On New Montgomery Street at Jessie Street, on the right when traveling south on New Montgomery Street. |
| | 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, . . . — — Map (db m21393) HM |
| Near Montgomery Street near Washington Street, on the left when traveling north. |
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This, San Francisco’s first fireproof building erected in 1853 by Henry Wager Helleck, was the headquarters for many outstanding lawyers, financiers, writers, actors and artists. James King of William, editor of the Bulletin, died here . . . — — Map (db m143443) HM |
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Although death on the island was seldom, both the U.S. military and the Federal Bureau of Prisons had to deal with the inescapable reality of death on Alcatraz.
In 1910, the military constructed the morgue to store the bodies of the . . . — — Map (db m133598) HM |
| Near Music Concourse Drive north of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, on the left when traveling north. |
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The general arrangement of the Music Concourse is based upon Michael O'Shaughnessy's design of the Grand Court for the California Midwinter Exposition of 1894. Remnants of the Midwinter Exposition can still be seen today; the dome-topped bollards . . . — — Map (db m132132) HM |
| On El Camino Del Mar north of Sea Rock Drive, on the left when traveling north. |
| | 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, . . . — — Map (db m75499) HM WM |
| On Point Lobos Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m155186) HM |
| On Broadway at Romolo Place, on the right when traveling west on Broadway. |
| | Constructed at the foot of Telegraph Hill in 1851, the Old Broadway Jail was San Francisco's first real prison, a three-story brick fortress consisting of 60 cells that could house up to 200 prisoners. In 1856, the jail saw hundreds of members of . . . — — Map (db m116076) HM |
| On Pine Street near Liedesdorff Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Original Construction 1917
Architect: Benjamin G. McDougall (1865-1937)
The Old Chamber of Commerce Building or 333 Pine was built in 1917 by the Mills Estate Co. for Aetna Insurance Co. and designed by Benjamin G. McDougall.
In . . . — — Map (db m73066) HM |
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