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Footnotes

1. James D Hart, Companion to California (New York: New York Oxford Press, 1970), pg. 155.

2. County of San Francisco, Union Square Fact Sheet in File on Union Square, McLaren Lodge, San Francisco.

3. Karl Otto Schmid, Union Square, San Francisco Student papers to City Planning 210, Orientation to Design, UC Berkeley, pg8. 4 Oscar Lewis, San Francisco, Mission to Metropolis (Berkeley: Howell North Books, 1966), pg. 134.

5. Julie's Column, "The Elite Frolicked in Union Square," San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco: The California Historical Society).

6. John Wood, 75 Years of the History of the Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco: Mechanics' Institute, 1930), pg. 13.

7. San Francisco History Room, Miscellaneous Photos (San Francisco: Main Library).

8. Robert O'Brien, "Union Square Soliloquy, Riptides," San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 3, 1947.

9. Schmid, Union Square, pg. 9.

10. Union Square Association, Fact Sheets, San Francisco.

11. Edgar M. Kahn, Cable Car Days in San Francisco (Pale Alto: Stanford University Press, 1944), pg 42.

12. Charles Aitken, 'A Young Sculptor and His 'Victory:" Sunset, March 1902, pg. 227.

13. Western International Hotels, "St. Francis News," vol. 1, no. 2, November 1970, pgs. 1-3.

14. San Francisco Examiner, unknown article, October 1, 1980. 15 San Francisco History Room, "Excerpts from CAL Bulletin:' Union Square File, Main Library, San Francisco.

16. San Francisco Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works, "Union Square Underground Garage," File X -1537, May 2, 1949, pg. 3.

17. S.A. Carrighar, "Union Square Garage, San Francisco," Architect and Engineer August 1942, pg 3.

18. A. Harney, Chief Deputy of San Francisco, "The Development of Union Square Garage, San Francisco," Union Square File (San Francisco: McLaren Lodge), pgs. 1-2.

19. Carrighar,"Union Square Garage:' pg. 21.

20. San Francisco History Room, Union Square Photo File (San Francisco, Main Library).

21. Douglas L. Stitzel and Ronald M. Blatman, "Union Square Is Magic for Retailers," Home Section, San Francisco Examiner, June 19, 1983.

22. Jim Burns, "Piercing the Walls of an Urban Room," AIA Journal, November 1983, pg. 64.

23. Stitzel and Blatman, "Union Square."

24. Beatrice Motamedi, "Changes Engulf Union Square," San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 1991, pg. B-l.

26. "Bay Area Tries to Prevent New Riots," San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 1992, pg. 12.

28. See above.