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This September will be the 140th birthday of Lotta’s Fountain at the intersections of Kearny. Geary, and Market, dedicated September 9th 1875. Nobody pays much attention to this ugly and neglected fountain, but like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Ferry Building, San Francisco will never get rid of it. For over one hundred years … Read more Cops

Built in 1907, the International Hotel, on the southeast corner of Kearny and Jackson Streets, was a low income residential hotel in an area next to Chinatown. The area would become known as Manilatown because of the Filipino American neighborhood that was located there from the 1920s to the 1970s. In the mid 1960s the … Read more The International Hotel (For Raquel)

This is a collection of interesting stories concerning San Francisco’s history that you may not be aware of. Some of them are quite historic. (Thumbnail images) On January 25, 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call was made from New York to San Francisco by the same two people who are credited with making the first … Read more Did you know?

{San Francisco Monday, July 13th Arrived in port: Stmr. Araby, Captain Jarvis; general cargo from New Orleans and Gulf ports. Docked at Pier 43. S. F. Shipping Guide} {In silence, Greg turned. Yes, he understood only too well! He had heard enough tales about the San Francisco waterfront to know that there was truth in … Read more ‘Foghorns’

I know, winter is still three weeks away, and anyway I took these pictures the last week of November. Also, the aftcast of the weather conditions when I took most of these pictures, (I wonder if I made that word up) was sunny although chilly, which is more in line with fall. After I took … Read more Winter weather at the Wharf

Although, for about the third year in a row the Internal Revenue Service has found a way to postpone the second part of that famous axiom, temporarily. The latest update is that the IRS will not process any tax returns until January 29th 2018. That gives me a little time to catch up on my … Read more ‘Death and Taxes’

‘The Crowded City’; that sounds like the title of a film noir movie, huh? “As night falls, on the crowded city, the dames, the drifters, the dopers, and the deadbeats shuffle off, each to their destinations. In his dimly lit office away from the crowd, a weary tax consultant takes another shot from the whisky … Read more ‘The Crowded City’ (For Alison)

I got a chance to check out the second day of the Muni Heritage Weekend Festival today. Muni and the Market Street Railway brought out all of the old stuff to ride on, some of them for free. $2.75 was all it cost for unlimited riding on most of them with a transfer as they … Read more Muni Heritage Weekend Festival

When we last stepped into the WABAC Machine with Mr. Peabody and Sherman we traveled back to the 1980s. That doesn’t seem that far back to me, I think I’m still wearing some of the clothes I bought back then. Today we’ll take one step farther back to the 1970s. (Vintage photos / San Francisco, … Read more Segue to the 1970s

   In 1922 Buster Keaton filmed what was probably the first chase scene to use San Francisco locations, if you don’t count Charlie Chaplin’s drive along the Great Highway in his 1915 short film ‘Jitney Elopement’. Chase scenes would later be a highlight in many movies set in San Francisco such as ‘Impact’ from 1949, … Read more The chase scene from ‘Daydreams’