This is the grave of Joseph Alioto. Born in 1916 in San Francisco, Alioto grew up in the large Italian community of that city. His father was a Sicilian immigrant.
I know this is published a bit late tonight, but daddy won't force you to go to bed without your bedtime story. In this case, your story is footage of.
Good piece here on one of the ways that the pandemic intersects with the criminal injustice system: Here in San Francisco, over 100 people are still languishing in jail awaiting.
Tonight's film is this 1912 footage of San Francisco's Chinatown, which may be the earliest film chronicling Asian-Americans that we have. I'm not sure about that as a fact, but.
I had the opportunity to review Peter Cole's excellent new book at H-Net and since that's a public resource, I thought I would share the first few paragraphs here: Peter.
I know that the real roots of homelessness are complicated. But in cities such as San Francisco, I'd go ahead and say that the fact that the median home price.
Probably the single biggest challenge facing American cities today is the lack of affordable housing. We are just finding out the details of why this has become such a problem..
Thanks to Barry Freed for this one. Sanborn's map of San Francisco, 1900. Note not only "Butcher Town" but the "Dead Horse Rendering Works" in the lower left.
