San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
San Francisco's Lost Landmarks

Author: James R. Smith

Publisher: Quill Driver Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781884995446

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With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than one hundred and fifty years. It not only tells of the lost landmarks, but also dishes up the flavour of what it was like to experience these past treasures.

San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
San Francisco's Lost Landmarks

Author: James R. Smith

Publisher: Linden Publishing

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1610351916

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With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, this collection showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than 150 years.

Lost Department Stores of San Francisco
Lost Department Stores of San Francisco

Author: Anne Evers Hitz

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1439669198

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In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.

Larry Gets Lost in San Francisco
Larry Gets Lost in San Francisco

Author: John Skewes

Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1570615675

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Follow the fun adventures of the dog Larry, who after chasing down a donut, loses his owners and travels around the city's landmarks and cultural attractions before reuniting with his family. Filled with candy-colored retro illustrations, this book provides children with a dog's eye view of the City by the Bay. Among Larry's stops are such classic locations as Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Coit Tower, Ghirardelli Square, Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, AT&T Park, Mission Dolores, and Cliff House. Sidebar entries add to the story, offering factoids about the places Larry visits.

The San Francisco Cliff House
The San Francisco Cliff House

Author: Mary Germain Hountalas

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 158008995X

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The history of this fabled site spans 150 years, beginning in

Seattle ABC: A Larry Gets Lost Book
Seattle ABC: A Larry Gets Lost Book

Author: John Skewes

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1632170930

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Featuring new artwork and a new trim size perfect for gift giving, this companion to the best-selling Larry Gets Lost in Seattle follows Larry and his owner, Pete, on an alphabetical journey throughout Seattle. A playful, colorful alphabet book based on the popular Larry Gets Lost in Seattle children’s book. Larry the pup and his best friend, Pete, discover Seattle from A (Seattle Aquarium) to Z (Woodland Park Zoo), and everything in between. H is for houseboats and hydroplanes. O is for orcas. Kids will have fun discovering their city as they learn their ABCs.

The Barbary Coast
The Barbary Coast

Author: Herbert Asbury

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2022-08-17

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1667622730

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The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.

Good Night San Francisco
Good Night San Francisco

Author: Adam Gamble

Publisher: Good Night Books

Published: 2006-10-28

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 1602197636

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Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of San Francisco, through a full day of sightseeing.

Color this Book: San Francisco
Color this Book: San Francisco

Author: Abbi Jacobson

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781452117348

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From co-star and co-creator of Comedy Central's Broad City, Abbi Jacobson! A fun keepsake for visitors and SF natives of all ages, this coloring book includes over 30 unique illustrations of San Francisco sites by artist and comedienne Abbi Jacobson. From architectural landmarks and cultural attractions to must-see neighborhoods and everyday street scenes, Color this Book captures the beauty and personality of San Francisco. Includes the Castro, the Ferry Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Mission, North Beach, Union Square, and more!

Murder by the Bay
Murder by the Bay

Author: Charles F. Adams

Publisher: Quill Driver Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781884995460

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Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendour of its misdeeds -- murders that have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair. The homicides chronicled in Murder by the Bay have been selected because a convergence of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them peculiarly San Franciscan. Each of these crimes illustrates an historic importance, each has impacted its times -- either in the course or application of the law or in the manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society. They range from the Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St. Francis Hotel to the shocking "City Hall Murders" in which former city supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Most were solved, some were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.