#San Francisco history

[violetandolive]

[deadpresidents]

The casket of President Warren G. Harding being loaded into a car outside the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on August 3, 1923. The awning over the entry of the hotel had been draped in black mourning crepe in the hours following the President's death.

[morbidloren]

Live at San Francisco's lovely Columbarium

On October 27 at 6 p.m., I’ll be joining Beth Winegarner, author of San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries, at the lovely, historic San Francisco Columbarium, to talk about why we love cemeteries. I haven’t met Beth in person yet, but we are kindred spirits. Our conversation will touch on cemeteries we’ve visited, places we’d still like to go, and why both of us ended up in a city that tore out its…

[ezrajstanley]

Little Shamrock history

[filipeanut]

In the US this October, Filipinos celebrate Filipino-American History Month. I always think about my dad around this time, Albert Balbutin Sr, who rode a steamship from the Philippines to San Francisco Bay in April of 1929. I was told it took about a month, and it was only until a few years later that the Golden Gate Bridge was finally built. As you can imagine he was quite old by the time I was born, but I remember stories of him climbing coconut trees back in Camiguin where he grew up. Life was simpler for him back then, as he would later work various jobs in America from farms, steam ships, and factories.

[historysisco]

On This Day in History June 29, 1776: Mission San Francisco de Asís, aka Mission Dolores, was founded at San Francisco Bay by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga (the first commandant of the Presidio) and Francisco Palóu (Franciscan missionary.) The mission is considered the oldest surviving building in San Francisco. It was named for the Franciscan order that was founded by St. Francis of Assisi.

According to the Mission Dolores website:

"Mission Dolores is the oldest intact building in the City of San Francisco and the only intact Mission Chapel in the chain of 21 established under the direction of Father Serra. The Mission has been a steadfast witness to the span of San Francisco's history including the California Gold Rush and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The Mission Cemetery is the only cemetery that remains within the City limits. The Cemetery is the final resting place for numerous Ohlone, Miwok, and other First Californians as well as notable California pioneers."

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[michellelebelle]

On This Day In History

the 13th of August 1988, an obituary that in any other context may not have been worthy of much note was published.  After all, what could be so important about a newspaper having no deaths to report?

Well, as it turns out, a lot.  You see, the Bay Area Reporter was no normal newspaper, rather a publication that was (and still is) based out of San Francisco for members of the LGBTQ+ community.  And this particular article came out over two decades after the beginning of the AIDs epidemic.  Thus, this particular article, written by Timothy Rodrigues, was the first in a really long time to not announce the death of yet another victim of the disease, symbolizing hope for a community that had been living in perpetual fear and mourning.

Link to the Article Here

[thesingletraveller]

Cable Car Museum

The Solo Scale: The museum is a quick stop where you can spend around an hour exploring. If you’re interested in the mechanics of the cable cars, or just want to do something a little off the beaten path (that’s also free!), this is a great stop! Did you know that in San Francisco, when they mention the cable cars, it’s genuinely how those cars are able to maneuver around the city — and that…

[candywormz]

Take me back (Castro Street Fair, San Francisco)

Photographs by Crawford Wayne Barton, courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society

[1900scartoons]

There Seems To Have Been Another Earthquake 

March 21, 1907

Bribe Givers, Bosses, the Mayor, Supervisor, and plenty of exploding Indictments fly through the sky.

The caption reads: “A section of atmosphere above San Francisco this morning”

A grand Jury had indicted 65 different people in a San Francisco bribery scandal.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/6287/rec/84

[13thgenfilm]

“Located in the heart of one of the country's most high-profile LGBTQ neighborhoods, the Castro Theatre, which has been owned by the same family since 1922, has long been a bastion of queer cinema and community events.

But the recent takeover of the theater's lease by Another Planet Entertainment — which operates and programs a handful of mostly music-oriented venues and festivals around the San Francisco Bay Area — has led to a struggle for the theater's future.”

[deadpresidents]

A rate card from 1922 and advertisements from the mid-1920s for the Palace Hotel in San Francisco where President Warren G. Harding died exactly 100 years ago, on August 2, 1923.

[justdavina]

Darling transgender girl!

[yesterdaysprint]

San Francisco Call, California, November 13, 1910

[365daysoflesbians]

Butch/Femme couple at one of Mona Sargent's nightclubs, circa 1950s.

Mona Sargent owned and operated several lesbian bars in San Francisco throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including Mona's 440 and Mona's Candle Light. She is a central figure in Wide Open Town, Nan Alamilla Boyd's groundbreaking history of queer San Francisco to 1965.

[humanoidhistory]

The Devil's Slide bunker near San Francisco.

(SF Gate)