Legends of San Francisco
Author: George Walter Caldwell
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
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San Francisco, Portrait of a City: 1940-1960
Author: Fred Lyon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2014-09-16
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1616893680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a landmark around every corner and a picture perfect view atop every hill, San Francisco might be the world's most picturesque city. And yet, the Golden City is so much more than postcard vistas. It's a town alive with history, culture, and a palpable sense of grandeur best captured by a man known as San Francisco's Brassai. Walking the city's foggy streets, the fourth-generation San Franciscan captures the local's view in dramatic black-and-white photos— from fog-drenched mornings in North Beach and cable cars on Market Street to moody night shots of Coit Tower and the twists and turns of Lombard Street. In San Francisco, Portrait of a City 1940–1960, Fred Lyon captures the iconic landscapes and one-of-a-kind personalities that transformed the city by the bay into a legend. Lyon's anecdotes and personal remembrances, including sly portraits of San Francisco characters such as writer Herb Caen, painters Richard Diebenkorn and Jean Varda, and madame and former mayor of Sausalito Sally Stanford add an artist's first-hand view to this portrait of a classic American city.
500 Year Journey
Author: Corey Piper
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2023-09-12
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1636980457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK500-Year Journey examines historical and scriptural evidence to identify the date Christ was born, which wasn’t December 25th! For more than two-thousand years, Christians and skeptics have sought the truth of Jesus’ birth—with many looking in the wrong places. One group studied the stars and astrology for answers, to determine what the Magi might have seen, but that only created more questions. Others looked to mathematical calculations and tradition, but mistaken variables led them astray. Both of these approaches have contributed to the modern version of Christmas, but they have also obscured God’s truth. Corey Piper’s 500-Year Journey makes the case that God revealed exactly when the Messiah would be born. The answer is in his Law, foreshadowed with biblical and historical events and confirmed by what the Magi saw. This resource will take readers from the exile in Babylon to the manger in Bethlehem, to a stunning encounter with God’s elaborate plan.
Legions of Boom
Author: Oliver Wang
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015-05-17
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0822375486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArmed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture writer and scholar Oliver Wang chronicles this remarkable scene that eventually became the cradle for turntablism. These crews, which were instrumental in helping to create and unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave young men opportunities to assert their masculinity and gain social status. While crews regularly spun records for school dances, weddings, birthdays, or garage parties, the scene's centerpieces were showcases—or multi-crew performances—which drew crowds of hundreds, or even thousands. By the mid-1990s the scene was in decline, as single DJs became popular, recruitment to crews fell off, and aspiring scratch DJs branched off into their own scene. As the training ground for a generation of DJs, including DJ Q-Bert, Shortkut, and Mix Master Mike, the mobile scene left an indelible mark on its community that eventually grew to have a global impact.
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection
Author: Terry Austin
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Published: 2022-12-14
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1302944177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects Star Wars: Splinter Of The Mind's Eye #1-4, Star Wars: Shadow Stalker, Star Wars: Rebel Heist #1-4, Star Wars: A Valentine Story, Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back #1-2, Star Wars: Tag And Bink Are Dead #2 And Material From Star Wars Tales #4-6, #15-17 And #20.The Empire strikes back! As the Rebellion expands, Luke and Leia find themselves on a mysterious world holding an ancient Jedi relic that could change their destinies forever, but Vader has his own plans for it - and for them! Then Han Solo and Chewbacca join Luke and Leia for a daring heist whose success may depend on the Rebellion's newest recruits. And when the Empire assaults the rebels' base on Hoth, Luke is sent in an unexpected new direction - leading him to Yoda…and a terrible truth about his father!
Literature
Author: Henry Duff Traill
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoliday Symbols & Customs, 5th Ed.
Author: James Chambers
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 2004
ISBN-13: 0780813650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to the legend and lore behind the traditions, rituals, foods, games, animals, and other symbols and activities associated with holidays and holy days, feasts and fasts, and other celebrations.
Black Fire
Author: Robert Graysmith
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307720578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer, told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco. When San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. He learned that Sawyer was a volunteer firefighter, local hero, and a former “Torch Boy,” racing ahead of hand-drawn fire engines at night carrying torches to light the way. When a mysterious serial arsonist known as “The Lightkeeper” was in the process of burning San Francisco to the ground, Sawyer played a key role in stopping him, helping to contain what is now considered the most disastrous and costly series of fires ever experienced by an American metropolis. By chronicling how Sawyer took it upon himself to investigate, expose, and stop the arsonist, Black Fire details Sawyer’s remarkable life and illustrates why Twain would later feel compelled to name his iconic character after him when writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A vivid portrayal of the gritty, corrupt, and violent world of the Gold Rush-era West, Black Fire is the most vibrant and thorough account of Sawyer’s relationship with Mark Twain, and of the devastating fires that baptized San Francisco.
