- Cable Cars@
Travel by the Cable Cars, or the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI), the world's last manually operated cable car system. Sites feature history, route maps, photographs, interactive demos, mailing list, and preservation and operation of historic street cars in San Francisco.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Mass_Transit/San_Francisco_Municipal_Railway__MUNI_
- 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire@
Learn about the 1906 Sanfrancisco earthquake and fire, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. Sites include earthquake details, death toll, photographs, eyewitness accounts, virtual tour, commemoration, and reenactment of the historic seismic catastrophe and resulting fires which changed the entire economic and cultural face of San Francisco.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Historic_Earthquakes/San_Francisco__California___April_18__1906
- Heart of the City
Includes city history, lore, architectural highlights, guides to local joints, and more. By Hank Donat, AKA Mister SF.
www.mistersf.com
- Shaping San Francisco
Interactive multimedia excavation of the lost history of the city.
www.shapingsf.org
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
Images and history.
www.sanfranciscomemories.com/ppie/panamapacific.html
- San Francisco Public Library: Historical Photograph Collection
View over 30,000 digitized images of San Francisco, sorted by subject.
sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfphoto.htm
- WHAT IM SEEING dot com
San Francisco photo blog focusing on history, current events, and day-to-day life thru the lens of their cameras.
whatimseeing.com
- San Francisco General Strike of 1934@
Find sites for San Francisco General Strike of 1934 which triggered a unified strike of sailors along all the West Coast ports of the United States. Sites background information, magazine articles, virtual tour, and bibliography for the strike also known as West Coast Longshire Strike which lasted eighty three days.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/San_Francisco_General_Strike_of_1934
- Sutro Baths@
Learn about Sutro Baths, the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment built by Adolph Sutro, on the west of San Francisco in 1896. Sites include historical background, magazine article, and photographs of the bath whose remains are still the landmarks of San Francisco's history.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Sutro_Baths
- Amusing America
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Telling the story of participatory commercial amusements in American cities -- San Francisco in particular -- and how they changed the way Americans lived.
sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/onlineexhibits/amusing
- San Francisco Seals@
Find sites for San Francisco Seals, a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957. Sites include history, photos, and sites for the stadium named after the pioneering baseball team as well as its legacy for the history of San Francisco.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Former_Teams/San_Francisco_Seals
- San Francisco Cemeteries
Before you buy that house in North Beach, Pacific Heights, the Sunset, or the Richmond District, check to see where they used to bury the dead.
www.sanfranciscocemeteries.com
- Fillmore Museum
A look at historical events that happened of Fillmore Street.
amacord.com/fillmore/museum
- San Francisco Memories
A collection of historic facts and images.
www.sanfranciscomemories.com
- San Francisco County Historical Landmarks
Photos of historical plaque markers.
www.sonic.net/~laird/landmarks/counties/San_Francisco.html
- San Francisco History [zpub.com]
Links include a timeline with photos.
www.zpub.com/sf/history
- Hunter's Point History
Includes images and viewbook.
www.zpub.com/sf/thepoint/point-h.html
- Digger Archives, The (1966-1968)
Preserves and presents the history of the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture of the Sixties.
www.diggers.org
- Martyrdom of Mayor George Moscone
Story of the mayor who fell victim to the gun of Dan White.
www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/moscone
- Filling the Marina
An interview with Robert MacKimmie of the California Historical Society.
www.exploratorium.edu/marina
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