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  • ...of the hill. There was Paddy Kearns’ Hotel, and outside the gas house was Mike Boyle’s steam beer dump…''</blockquote> ...stern Sugar Refinery). The Scotchmen, all mechanical men, would go to work at the Scott Union Iron Works.''</blockquote>
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  • '''When built in approximately 1853, the house at 2475 Pacific between Webster and Fillmore, anchored a 25-acre dairy farm.'' .... When they reached here, they had with them a baby girl, born aboard ship at Valparaiso, and his mother used to recall that bewhiskered men would approa
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  • ...d ways of life in the face of homogenizing forces of modernization. A look at the distinctive residential landscapes of the San Francisco Bay Area can be ...ry,’ ''Society and Space'' 4, 3 (1986), pp 249-54. The best study of LA is Mike Davis, City of Quartz (New York, Verso, 1990). <br>
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  • ...ctually got a date at the glorious punk venue, The [[Negative Trend Erupts at Mabuhay Gardens|Mabuhay Gardens]]. '''April 4, 1981, Dead Kennedys at Mabuhay Gardens.'''
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  • ...between 1981 and 2004. As first-hand accounts of what it was like working at various jobs during those years, these accounts provide a unique view into ...called to just come on over that evening between 8 and 10 and take a look at the room.
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  • [[Image:800px-Four sea otters Morro Bay CA 2007 Mike Michael L. Baird.JPG|720px]] ''Photo: "Mike" Michael L. Baird, wikimedia commons''
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  • ...e middle of the photo was filled in to provide land for [[Union Iron Works at Potrero Hill|Union Iron Works]]' Machine Shop (1883) and to extend 20th Str ..., each hill has retained its name, recognized by most San Franciscans, and at least some evidence of its residents.
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  • '''At the peak of the Beat craze Henry Lenoir, proprietor of Vesuvio's and other <font size=4>LIVING HISTORY, ONE DRINK AT A TIME OR 60 YEARS AND NO END IN SIGHT</font size>
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  • ...d Lawrence Nicholson, who was also a rebellious black, you would call them at that time, 'cause his father was a black physician in El Paso, Texas and se ...e if their name was in there. That was a good seller for ''The Spokesman'' at that time. I know a few black professional people over there in the East Ba
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  • [[Image:1915-streetcars-at-Kearny-Geary-and-Market D-car-Lottas-Fountain-Palace-Hotel-in-background-D- '''1915 streetcars at Kearny, Geary, and Market, with the D-car heading to the PPIE.'''
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  • ''Originally published at [https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/revolutionary-art-on-telegraph-hil ...tower. The monument would be placed on the highest point on Telegraph Hill at Pioneer Part; Howard’s design possessed a symmetrical simplicity that gav
    21 KB (3,356 words) - 15:49, 14 January 2024
  • '''Almost 500 shows, events, concerts, readings, spectacles have been held at [[Komotion Gallery | Komotion]]. Many of the performers listed below have p Li'l Mike
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  • ''-- Henry E. North, foreman of the San Francisco grand jury at the time, conducted an investigation and called it a scandal. His grand jur ...lti-millionaire contractor named Charles Harney purchased 65 acres of land at Candlestick Point from the city of San Francisco for $2,100 an acre.
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  • ...ncisco Tomorrow (SFT)], was born and bred in environmental controversy and at the age of 15 the organization looks forward not to tranquility but to new '''The Fontana Towers at the foot of Russian Hill, built in the early 1960s after sparking a wide pr
    27 KB (4,684 words) - 14:38, 29 December 2012
  • ...between 1981 and 2004. As first-hand accounts of what it was like working at various jobs during those years, these accounts provide a unique view into ...rom? It reminded people of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble going to work at the stone quarry. Here we bring lunch in paper bags. That's progress.
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  • ...eled a “gang-affiliate” by the criminal justice system. He scaled the wall at the border when he was 11. Now, he is trying to life-hack his way out of th When he and his cousin were dropped at the foot of the building where his parents lived in San Francisco, his fath
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  • [[Image:CORE-shop-in-at-Lucky-grocery-store-1201-Gough-Street-1964 SFPL.jpg]] '''Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) shop-in at Lucky store at 1201 Gough Street, 1964.'''
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  • ...o find and fuck and befriend each other, to howl, occasionally, in unison, at how bad things are, how terribly and deeply unright the world is, the whole ...enter. A girl I was crashing with got arrested for chucking a stale bagel at a cop’s head. [[Arresting 'Food Not Bombs' is Censorship|Food Not Bomb]]s
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  • ...er propaganda designed to slander the state's pioneers and convert patrons at San Francisco's main post office to communism.(2) In its daylong deliberati ...hus did not support the social order and the state. In his subject matter, at least, Refregier had transgressed the official canon.(3)
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  • ...rding visits from government agents. The officials had been detaining them at the local justice departments for questioning on their relationship with th ...ro and Domenic Sallitto in Oakland, California, and raided the small space at the back of their business rented to Graham for use as the printing headqua
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