Pacific Avenue

A collection of 9 posts

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #60

The problems of man, more Barbary Coast history, and SFPD's first woman officer.

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Grab Bag #58

A night owl reporter wanders across San Francisco in 1887.

Vigilance Committee

Return of the Vigilantes

On May 14, 1856, a public shooting catalyzed a vigilante (and political) movement in San Francisco.

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Grab Bag #50

Apartments in a park, baseball in a pasture, parents in a nightclub, and one goat.

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Grab Bag #48

Woody goes artifact-hunting in San Francisco's past.

Jackson Square

International Settlement

The exotic restaurant row that was the last gasp of San Francisco's Barbary Coast.

Chinatown

Chinatown Demolition

Plague fears led to chopping down parts of San Francisco's Chinatown in 1903.

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Grab Bag #027

Tales from one of San Francisco's pre-1906-earthquake dens of iniquity, plus taxi cabs and sheep.

Pacific Heights

The Orphaned Pillar

San Francisco's Pacific Heights has a 7-foot remnant from a moved house that escaped the 1906 earthquake and fire.