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Description: Souvenir photo of Cliff House in San Francisco, California.
The history of this fabled site spans 150 years, beginning in
History of the various buildings known as the Cliff House, in photographs.
San Francisco is a patchwork of unique neighborhoods, and one of the most distinctive is the Richmond District. Stretching from the city's dense urban core outward to the rocky, rugged cliffs of Land's End, the Richmond contains schools, shops, churches, hospitals, and citizens from many different backgrounds and countries. San Francisco historian and tour guide Lorri Ungaretti, author of San Francisco's Sunset District, showcases here a stirring collection of vintage Richmond images, detailing this district's journey from windswept sand dunes to the modern and livable place we know today. Among the Richmond's long-gone sights are cemeteries, farms, racetracks, and improvised cottages built in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. The area remained mostly rural through the 1880s, when mining entrepreneur Adolph Sutro (who also developed Sutro Heights and Sutro Baths) put in a commuter rail line to connect San Francisco's central district with his entertainment destinations in the "Outside Lands" near Ocean Beach. The Richmond District's history includes large cemetery plots that are now covered with homes. In addition, the various roadhouses, racetracks, and amusement parks in the area made it what Ungaretti calls "the city's playground." They're gone now, but remain important parts of the Richmond's fascinating history.
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, and the Tower of London may be among the best known of souvenir buildings, but these are only the beginning of an entire world of miniature monuments and souvenir buildings for the authors, whose personal collectin numbers over 2,400 objects. For this book, they have selected nearly 1,000 buildings, which have been specially photographed in settings that are witty, amusing, and none-too-serious. 100 photos, 60 in color.
San Francisco's best photos inspire us in this dazzling collection, perfect to display in home or office, to give as a gift, or keep as a treasured souvenir. Teaming with fresh perspectives of local culture, people, foods, natural beauty, art, and architecture, readers will return time and again to lift spirits and to be awed. Every dazzling photograph captures an essential aspect of San Francisco in a manner that is guaranteed to yield new insight. An unparalleled collection of images of our great city, a sampling of topics includes San Francisco Bay, sea lions, Dungenous Crabs, the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, Painted Ladies, pier seals, historic ships, fishing boats, and the list goes on and on.