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VEDANTA TEMPLE

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The Vedanta Temple at Webster and Filbert in Cow Hollow. It was built in 1908. This picture from 1915 commemorates the neighboring Fire Department's adoption of motorized vehicles in place of horses.

Without doubt the most awesome, the most spooky, the most spine-tingling curiosity in all Cow Hollow [was] that which frightened "most" of us kids "the most." I describe none other than the Vedanta Temple #1. Well I've always tried to forget it! Once during late afternoon services some fanatic set off a bomb, and the Swamie died a week later because of the trauma. Not even the biggest clown among us ever made jokes about its weird signs and magic symbols; not even the bravest among us ever died to trespass its haunted, threatening soil. --from Walter de Vecchi

Contributors to this page include:

Gaar Collection,San Francisco,CA - Publisher or Photographer

California History Center; De Anza College,Cupertino,CA - Publisher or Photographer

de Vecchi,Walter - Writer

Gaar Collection,San Francisco,CA - Publisher or Photographer

Manning,Caitlin - Photographer-Artist

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