'''Heart of the City [[SF's Farmer's Market|Farmer's Market]] at UN Plaza, June 2010.'''
...st in a crowd at Market and 8th, milling around at the Heart of The City [[SF's Farmer's Market|Farmer's Market]] in UN Plaza. There is a murmur, a hum.
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'''5 vintage postcards of Le Penseur'''
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...l had been dry for weeks due to the Chinese crop failure. Rice had climbed from 4 to 36 cents a pound, so when Norton was offered an entire shipload of 200
...d opened in 1869, San Francisco merchants could taste the money to be made from luring tourists to the city. Emperor Norton, a "bummer" in many eyes (a pej
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...d in the year 1796 by an impressive baroque-style relief sculpture shipped from San Blas, Mexico called a ''reredos''. This reredos continues to stand as t
Mission San Francisco de Asís takes its “nickname” of “Dolores” from the nearby stream, Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. The friars hon
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...wo decades after the sudden emergence of a world-famous metropolis, rising from a sudden tent city of miners, sailors and merchants, organized steps were b
...twork for firefighting, built the Civic Center and City Hall in large part from concepts in the Report on a [[Burnham Plan 1905|Plan]] for San Francisco pr
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