San Francisco's Sunset District - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook San Francisco's Sunset District write by Lorri Ungaretti. This book was released on 2012. San Francisco's Sunset District available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Located in the southwestern part of San Francisco, the Sunset District developed late because of its distance from downtown and because of the sand dunes that covered it for thousands of years. After 1900, as public transportation spread and the automobile became available, housing and streets soon began to cover the Sunset District dunes.
Stories in the Sand
Stories in the Sand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stories in the Sand write by Lorri Ungaretti. This book was released on 2012. Stories in the Sand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories in the Sand tells the little-known, colorful, and often surprising history of the largest, yet least-documented, area of San Francisco. Once considered uninhabitable, the Sunset District was transformed in the twentieth century into a thriving neighborhood.
San Francisco's Richmond District
San Francisco's Richmond District - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook San Francisco's Richmond District write by Lorri Ungaretti. This book was released on 2005. San Francisco's Richmond District available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Trees of San Francisco
The Trees of San Francisco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trees of San Francisco write by Michael Sullivan. This book was released on 2004. The Trees of San Francisco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
San Francisco's Sunset District
San Francisco's Sunset District - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook San Francisco's Sunset District write by Lorri Ungaretti. This book was released on 2003. San Francisco's Sunset District available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of San Francisco's Sunset District from a seemingly uninhabitable, windswept realm of sand dunes and shrub to a comfortable residential and commercial neighborhood is one of the city's most surprising stories. Originally outside of San Francisco's boundaries on federal land, the district was part of a large tundra-like expanse then forbiddingly called the "Outside Lands." As changes overtook the established parts of the city around the turn of the century, the industrialized eastern edge seemed less hospitable to many citizens. These people looked to the Sunset's open spaces and saw there a perfect place for building homes, shops, churches and schools.In this collection of vintage photographs compiled by Sunset historian and tour guide Lorri Ungaretti, readers will see the dramatic changes that transformed this portion of the hostile Outside Lands into the very livable area that San Franciscans know today. From early views of the dunes to the scrappy settlement known as "Carville" (composed of discarded municipal railway cars), the curious Larsen Chicken Ranch which took up the equivalent of several city blocks, to the astonishing house-building frenzy of developer Henry Doelger, the Sunset's amazing history is as varied and surprising as the citizens one meets in the district.
