San Francisco Unified School District s renaming committee decided Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed
Under his watch, Indigenous peoples had much of their land taken from them through the 1862 Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act
In 1864, the Lincoln administration oversaw the deportation of the Navajo tribe from their land in Arizona to march a brutal 450 mile journey to New Mexico
Lincoln was also behind the largest mass hanging in US history, where 38 Dakota men were condemned to death in Minnesota in 1862
But Lincoln also abolished slavery in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation
44 of the 125 schools in the San Francisco Unified School District to be renamed
Here s the fiery, doomed history of San Francisco s Cliff House
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The Cliff House, circa 1900OpenSFHistory
From a dynamite-laden exploding schooner to earthquakes and numerous fires, here s a closer look at the institution s often doomed history, and its repeated rebirths.
In 1858, Samuel Brannan the man who shouted Gold! Gold on the American River! on the streets of San Francisco and became the first Gold Rush millionaire paid $1,500 for lumber salvaged from a shipwreck off the coast at Ocean Beach. It s said that he used the wood to build the first Cliff House on the cliffs at Point Lobos. Other sources say the first Cliff House was constructed a few years later by a man named Captain Junius G. Foster.
Bay Area diners are still eating outside restaurants, whether businesses want it or not
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The patio at Waterbar in San Francisco in August, when outdoor dining was still allowed.Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle
The Danville restaurant owner who has been offering outdoor dining despite Contra Costa County’s ban said he has been visited by both the police department and the county health department since news came out about his protest. But he’s planning to ignore the warnings and to keep serving guests.
The business, Crumbs Breakfast, Lunch and Bar, is one of 12 in the downtown Danville area defying the county’s health order to stop outdoor dining as of Monday. Their actions come as the coronavirus pandemic surges across California and the nation, killing thousands a day and threatening to overwhelm hospitals.
Here s how California and S.F. will benefit from 2020 s IPO riches
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Traders on the New York Stock Exchange watch DoorDash’s worth climb to $72 billion on its first day of trading as a public company Wednesday.Courtney Crow / New York Stock ExchangeShow MoreShow Less
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Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, is shown on an electronic screen, center, at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in New York. The San Francisco-based online vacation rental company holds its IPO Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Mark Lennihan/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2018, file photo, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco. Airbnb hopes to raise as much as $2.6 billion in its initial public stock offering this month, betting investors will see its home-sharing model as the future of travel. In a government filing Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, the San Francisco-based company said it expects to offer 51.9
SF Restaurant Workers to Rally at City Hall In Protest of Stay-At-Home Order
In an about-face from April and May, when San Franciscans seemed largely in agreement that lockdown orders were necessary if economically painful there s been significant backlash in the last week to the latest order, specifically over shutting down outdoor dining.
While no studies have emerged pointing to the particular risks of dining outdoors, the argument seems to be that leaving open restaurant parklets and bars serving food with drinks outside is creating too many unnecessary opportunities for mixing and mingling which may be the primary driver of the COVID surge now happening across the region and the state. When asked whether there was specific data supporting the shutdown of outdoor dining last week, Dr. Grant Colfax would only say, We know the more we move around, the more we engage. the more likely it is that we will see the spread of this virus.