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Common terms and phrasesAmerican balconies beautiful Berkeley Hills blue Bolinas Ridge broad cable cars California carved charming Chinatown Chinese church cisco clanging Club coal coast Coast Mountains commerce coon songs corner crowd dark decked electric ferry boat Ferry Building forests Franciscans Fremont fruit gold Golden Gate Golden Gate Park gray green harbor heights homes Hotel houses hundred Indians Island joss Kearny Street land lines look Market Street Mexican miles million dollars mission Monterey Montgomery Street Mount Diablo Mount Tamalpais ocean Orient Pacific padres park passing population Portsmouth Square presidio quaint railroad redwood restaurants Sacramento Sacramento River sailed Saint Francis San Fran San Francisco Bay San Mateo County scene scurvey ship shore side singing slopes south of Market Spanish spirit stands steamers stone sweep thousand tion town University valleys Vigilance Committee waterfront wind winter Popular passagesPage 14 - We scrambled up through piles of luggage, and among the crowd collected to witness our arrival, picked out two Mexicans to carry our trunks to a hotel. The barren side of the hill before us was covered with tents and canvas houses, and nearly in front a large two-story building displayed the sign: Page 15 - On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. Great quantities of goods were piled up in the open air, for want of a place to store them. The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses... Page 15 - The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses : Yankees of every possible variety, native Californians in sarapes and sombreros, Chilians, Sonorians, Kanakas from Hawaii, Chinese with long tails, Malays armed with their everlasting creeses, and others in whose embrowned and bearded visages it was impossible to recognize any especial nationality. We came at last into the plaza, now dignified by the name of Portsmouth Square. It lies on... Page 15 - Californians in sarapes and sombreros, Chilians, Sonorians, Kanakas from Hawaii, Chinese with long tails, Malays armed with their everlasting creeses, and others in whose embrowned and bearded visages it was impossible to recognize any especial nationality. We came at last into the plaza, now dignified by the name of Portsmouth Square. It lies on the slant side of the hill, and from a high pole in front of a long one-story adobe building used as the Custom House, the American flag was flying. On... Page 15 - The barren side of the hill before us was covered with tents and canvas houses, and nearly in front a large two-story building displayed the sign 'Fremont Family Hotel.' "As yet we were only in the suburbs of the town. Crossing the shoulder of the hill, the view extended around the curve of the bay, and hundreds of tents and houses appeared, scattered all over the heights, and along the shore for more than a mile. A furious wind was blowing down through a gap in the hills, filling the street with... Page 15 - I was almost afraid to write, with any hope of their obtaining credence. It may be interesting to give here a few instances of the enormous and unnatural value put upon property at the time of my arrival. The Parker House rented for $110,000 yearly, at least $60,000 of which was paid by gamblers, who held nearly all the second story. Adjoining it on the right was a canvas-tent fifteen by twenty-five feet, called " Eldorado," and occupied likewise by gamblers, which brought $40,000. Page 111 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD AUXILIARY LIBRARY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305-6004 (650) 723-9201 salcirc@sulmoil.stanford.edu All books are subject to recall. DATE DUE... Page 104 - The great triangle of the Pacific is destined to have its lines drawn between Hong Kong, Sydney and San Francisco. Of these three ports, Hong Kong will have China behind it, Sydney, Europe, and San Francisco, America; and with America for a backing, San Francisco can challenge the world in the strife for commercial supremacy. Page 9 - ... country. About thirty miles from the mouth of the bay, and on the south-east side, is a high point, upon which the presidio is built. Behind this, is the harbor in which trading vessels anchor, and near it, the mission of San Francisco, and a newly begun settlement, mostly of Yankee Calif ornians, called Yerba Buena, which promises well. Page 15 - Crossing the shoulder of the hill, the view extended around the curve of the bay, and hundreds of tents and houses appeared, scattered all over the heights, and along the shore for more than a mile. A furious wind was blowing down through a gap in the hills, filling the streets with clouds of dust. On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarProject MUSE Journals Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast ...David Nemeth, CiteULike Connotea - 2008 - Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Tourist StudiesDavid Michalski - Tourist Studies References from web pagesSan Francisco History - San Francisco and Thereabout, The Padres ... Golden Gate Guide. Other People's History: Ethnic Slumming in American Cities, 1890 ... The Cultural Politics of Tourism in San Francisco’s Chinatown ... NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH Page 1 ... Bibliographic information
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