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Business was slow, and I wasn’t too particularly overworked. I was rubbing two nickels in my pocket together to try and make a dime, (What movie did I get that from?) when a man came into my office. He wanted to hire me to find his missing daughter in her twenties who hadn’t been heard … Read more A Nob Hill Mystery

One of the earliest pictures I’ve seen pf the east side California drop from Nob Hill; probably, in the 1870’s, looking down from Powell to Stockton Street. Old St. Mary’s can still just barely be seen today behind the red building in the center. The premier thing to see on Nob Hill is the view … Read more Nob Hill

  We begin our climb at Clay and Taylor Streets on Nob Hill with Steve McQueen in the 1968 film ‘Bullitt’.  

San Francisco is a city of hills; from Bernal Heights to Sutro Heights, Buena Vista to Diamond Heights, Twin Peaks, to Mt. Davidson. I forget how many there are, but I’ve been on all of them. However, the three most famous hills in San Francisco are the three hills bordered by Market Street, Van Ness … Read more More hill climbing in the City; weather permitting

The origin of the word nabob come from the early 17th Century and refers to individuals who returned to England from India after acquiring a fortune from there. In San Francisco, the word had a slightly derogatory usage referring to the “snobbish” upper class citizens living in opulence up on “Nabob” Hill. By the mid … Read more Nineteenth Century views from “Nabob” Hill (Thumbnail images)

I’m never sure where Nob Hill ends and Russian Hill begins, or where Russian Hill ends and Nob Hill begins, if you’re coming from that direction. The boundary that separates Nob from Russian Hills is generally considered to be Pacific Ave, but the zip code directory that includes Russian Hill extends to Jackson Street. Yesterday … Read more Between two hills (For Tricia)

I thought I was through posting updates for 2017, but I headed up to Telegraph Hill on Christmas Eve. I had a feeling the crowds were going to be light and I wasn’t wrong. It was picture peaceful up there, and I felt like I could have stayed up there all day. So…… I stayed … Read more Telegraph Hill – Part 20 (Or maybe Part 30, I can’t remember how many posts I’ve done up there)

Elizabeth Gray Potter writes in her 1939 book ‘The San Francisco Skyline’ that early pioneers referred to Nob Hill as “The hill of golden promise”. In the late Nineteenth Century the railroad and mining barons build their mansions on the crest of Nob Hill. Opulence in the extreme, but almost all of their palaces were … Read more “The Hill of Golden Promise” (For the Roxanne Cafe)

http://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp25.1343.jpg Nob Hill got its name from the word “nabob” that originated from the country of India meaning a person of wealth, power, and influence. This was where the railroad tycoons of the Nineteenth Century built their mansions. Nabob is not a common word used in the New Millennium. We’ll start at California and Jones  … Read more A windy walk down “Nabob” Hill

“The Crookedest Street in the World.” It’s a nice Jigsaw Puzzle picture, but cable cars don’t run on Leavenworth at the bottom, only Hyde at the top, and I don’t think that the residents on Lombard are that happy to see tourists. A Downtown San Francisco painting of long ago from Ina Coolbrith Park: Legend … Read more Russian Hill