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  • ...Chronicle'', founded by Charles and M.H. de Young aged 19 and 17. In 1887, young William Randolph Hearst took over his father's ''Daily Examiner'' which bec
    5 KB (692 words) - 18:04, 6 January 2011
  • ...:30 a.m. These long hours might have burned out the ordinary student but a young passionate scientist like Davidson, loved it. Next, he was made supervisor
    6 KB (971 words) - 13:27, 2 September 2019
  • ...felt the color thing or any of that. I was just accepted as a singer and a young person who was talented. And that was wonderful."
    4 KB (750 words) - 23:32, 21 October 2021
  • ...of present-day Chinatown. Its initial membership was comprised entirely of young Chinese immigrant men, most of whom had taken to oils only a few years befo ...rtistic and political implications of a mural practice, though none of the young men were likely to undertake anything so artistically ambitious.
    8 KB (1,164 words) - 20:38, 21 November 2021
  • ...ale and Market. I think we were on the fourth floor. It was a room full of young men and women sitting at long tables. In front of each of us was a cardboar
    2 KB (341 words) - 19:30, 14 September 2021
  • ...team got out and demanded that the crew "COME DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!!!" The young vandals explained that they just had a job to do and ignored these "Love it
    2 KB (393 words) - 17:44, 20 April 2020
  • ...rmed organizations and provided printing opportunities to employ and train young women. As a teacher, she pioneered a public evening school for girls in 186
    2 KB (323 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2021
  • ...d in boxing, basketball, industrial crafts, and the centers' social clubs. Young women found chances to sing, dance, sew, etc. The Negro Dramatics Club, as
    5 KB (691 words) - 23:37, 28 December 2008
  • ...with smiles, flowers and backpacks. It was predicted that at least 100,000 young people would flock to the Haight Ashbury district when school was out in 19 ...ness-altering properties of LSD were being explored by a growing number of young people. The term 'psychedelic' was coined for what experimenters called its
    9 KB (1,377 words) - 14:47, 14 May 2021
  • ...ers, seven settlers, an unknown number of women and children, and thirteen young Indian servants, including a California Indian from Monterey who spoke a la ...t exactly a year after the Franciscan fathers arrived, they baptized three young men who may not have realized all the implications of Christian baptism. Tw
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  • An old crippled sailor sat outside Abe's bar selling peanuts to young couples and children. Meant for tourists, the peanuts often found their way ...s Wharf and the Cobweb Palace exuded a carnival atmosphere. On any Sunday, young couples and families strolled on the wharf, taking in the sights, visiting
    5 KB (730 words) - 12:50, 24 September 2023
  • ...to 1. The gender imbalance encouraged prostitution rings that preyed upon young women from China, who were often forced into [[Sex Slaves for Sale or Rent| ...ht to bring wives and children to the U.S., and sold citizenship rights to young men in China who became their "paper sons." Many of these immigrants came t
    5 KB (792 words) - 23:28, 16 January 2024
  • ...f Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, The Tubes, Jesse Colin Young, Jerry Garcia Band. The place was always packed.
    2 KB (427 words) - 21:04, 20 September 2022
  • ...ew York Times'' in 1876. “The South San Francisco Anti-Coolie Club and the Young Men’s Universal Reform Society held meetings last night, and passed resol
    5 KB (827 words) - 12:54, 20 October 2022
  • ...riedlander, who came to San Francisco near the start of the gold rush as a young greenhorn. Like many who emerged from the crowds, he left the digging of go ...w York, a firm with extensive connections abroad, sent one of its smartest young men to San Francisco. This was a Mr. Walcott, who arrived with an almost un
    5 KB (789 words) - 13:59, 16 July 2020
  • ...sent to minister to the spiritual needs of the young people on the street. Young trendy Episcopalian priests soon realized that it wasn't spirituality that
    6 KB (858 words) - 15:50, 15 May 2019
  • ...an parties, attended by wealthy San Franciscan men and a bevy of beautiful young women. The mysterious death of one young woman at Geneva Cottage led to a consolidation of Mammy's influence as she
    8 KB (1,306 words) - 20:09, 1 August 2022
  • ...the “Infant Incubator,” where you could see a scientific demonstration of young babies being reared by artificial means. As with the Haight Street Chutes, 2. “Old And Young Shoot The Chutes,” ''San Francisco Chronicle'', May 2, 1902, p. 14.
    8 KB (1,173 words) - 15:03, 24 January 2022
  • ...t Rezanov, had special dreams. During the day, the Count had met Don Luis' young sister, the captivating Dona Concepcion. ...ssians (Rachmaninov) make romance of music and almost everything else. The young Russian Count Rezanov couldn't get Dona Concepcion out of his head. Her "vi
    7 KB (1,145 words) - 22:51, 21 February 2017
  • ...cans are forced to confront and at one point tries to lift the morale of a young man by expressing his conviction that: "There will be a Negro president of
    2 KB (352 words) - 22:20, 10 September 2021
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