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San Francisco being a popular tourist destination, we ve always had our share of charming and luxurious hotels. But recent years have been a boon to the city s boutique hotel scene, with several slick newcomers rolling out the red carpet lately. From the legendary pool parties of the now-almost-retr ....
Built circa 1900, the four-story home is grand to say the least, but not just because of its sweeping 7,000 square feet with six bedrooms and five-and-a-half baths. The interior architecture is actually dazzling, with marble floors, intricate crown moulding, five fireplaces, and French doors through ....
Please Donate Turning Golden Gate Heights stairways into works of art. Streetwise - Stairways to the Stars by Frank Dunnigan Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. - Many of us grew up believing that the rectangular blocks of the Sunset District had always been there, or at least that they were laid out somewhere around the dawn of time. However, it wasn’t until the 1920s that the city began to undertake several massive public works projects to complete the geometric street grid across the entire western half of San Francisco. With streetcar service through the Twin Peaks Tunnel commencing operation in February of 1918 and the Duboce (Sunset) Tunnel set to open in October of 1928, it was important to ensure that builders would have easy access to the lots and homes that they were trying to sell. In particular, the Golden Gate Heights area bounded roughly by Kirkham Street on the north, Rivera Street on the south, 8th Avenue on the east, and 17th Ave ....
In 1985, I moved from Minneapolis to attend the University of San Francisco with a double major in humanities and communications. I was eventually admitted to USF s Honors College where I learned to fall in love with learning. Planting new roots in San Francisco enabled me to flourish as an independent person in a place very different from where I had come. It opened a universe of possibilities combined with the pride I found in discovering there was a city that embraced me as a queer person. On weekends, friends from the university joined me and we escaped our dorms, left the work on campus, and explored the richness of the city s nightlife. Hitting the bars in the Castro, dipping into the seediness of the Polk, going to the Alta Plaza Bar gay men s club in Pacific Heights, and eventually finding the hidden parties South of Market delivered new texture to the very act of living. ....
San Francisco s bizarre history of (literally) moving houses FacebookTwitterEmail A Victorian home being moved on Steiner Street via horse power, 1908, San Francisco.Archival / Unknown Mark Twain didn t actually complain about the weather in San Francisco (the person who coined, The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco has never claimed the quote), but he did have another gripe with the city. An old house got loose from her moorings last night and drifted down Sutter Street towards Montgomery, the famed humorist wrote in the Daily Morning Call in 1886. For several days the vagrant two-story frame house has been wondering listlessly about Commercial Street, above this office, and she has finally stopped in the middle of the thoroughfare, and is staring dejectedly toward Montgomery street, as if she would like to go down there, but really do not feel equal to the exertion. ....