The Cliff House is closing for good. Here's its fiery, doomed history
Here's the fiery, doomed history of San Francisco's Cliff House FacebookTwitterEmail 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 o...
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