Blogs Tagged: history

Find Historical Photos at the Public Library

Posted On: Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 11:19am | Posted By: sdezerega
Topics: Community Information

I was looking for some old photographs of the listing I have on 503 Capitol and I discovered a great resource: the San Francisco Public Library has an online database of historical photos that are easy to access and provide downloadable jpegs. Just visit http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/.

How American Homes Became Sweet -- "At Home" by Bill Bryson

Posted On: Friday, October 8, 2010 - 10:35am | Posted By: kevinfeather
Topics: Laws and Regulations

A new book about how America's humble dwellings were transformed through the centuries into our present day homes is both fascinating and also funny.  Author Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life" takes each room of his own home and weaves a tale of how nutrition influened the kitchen and the Victorian sense of "punishment" promoted the act of bathing.  I don't think you'll view your home in

Barbary Coast

Posted On: Monday, February 22, 2010 - 12:07pm | Posted By: admin

"But we do know, or every San Franciscan ought to know, that that ooze [underneath the downtown streets] is the winding sheet of many a gallant craft that once proudly plowed the bounding billows of the open sea…”— The Armada of Golden Dreams, Walter J. Thompson