# San Francisco

> A chronological documentary of 754 moments spanning 1776–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco · Loreline (loreline.live)

A city built by an emergency in 1849, destroyed by another in 1906, and rebuilt both times inside a decade. Gold, Angel Island, two bridges raised in the Depression, Howl on trial, the Haight, Harvey Milk, the epidemic, and every boom since, including the one currently deciding who can afford to stay.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22._

## Eras

- **Everybody Came at Once**, In 1848 San Francisco was a settlement of a few hundred people. Within two years it held tens of thousands, most of them young men who had crossed an ocean or a continent on a rumour. Ships were abandoned in the bay by crews who walked off to the goldfields and were built into the waterfront where they sat. The city was made by an emergency and has never entirely stopped behaving like one.
- **1906 Earthquake**, At 5.12am on 18 April 1906 the San Andreas fault moved and the city fell over; then it burned for three days, because the water mains had broken with everything else. Around 3,000 people died and more than half the population was left homeless. The photographic record is extraordinary, including a film shot down Market Street days before, which turns out to be the last footage of a city that no longer existed by the end of that week.
- **Angel Island**, Ellis Island processed arrivals in hours. Angel Island detained them for weeks, months, occasionally years, because its purpose was the opposite, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made it a place designed to keep people out. Detainees carved poems into the barrack walls, which is how we know what it was like. Chinatown grew as both a refuge and a confinement, and in 1942 the city watched its Japanese residents removed to camps.
- **Building the Bridge**, Both bridges went up in the Depression, which is the point: the Bay Bridge opened in November 1936 and the Golden Gate in May 1937, built with public money at a moment when there was none. The Golden Gate was the first job site to hang a safety net beneath the work, it saved nineteen men, who called themselves the Halfway to Hell Club, and eleven still died.
- **Rock**, A fort, then a military prison, then the federal penitentiary that held Capone. It closed in 1963 because it cost too much to run on an island. Then in November 1969 a group of Native American activists occupied it for nineteen months, citing an 1868 treaty, and turned the most famous prison in America into the most visible protest of the era. The Presidio, meanwhile, was an army post continuously from 1776 to 1994.
- **Six Poets at the Six Gallery**, On 7 October 1955 Allen Ginsberg read Howl aloud in a converted garage on Fillmore Street. Lawrence Ferlinghetti published it, was arrested for obscenity, and won, a 1957 ruling that a work with redeeming social importance is not obscene, which changed what American publishers could print. City Lights is still open. North Beach was cheap then.
- **Haight**, A neighbourhood of a few thousand people received something like a hundred thousand arrivals in the summer of 1967, most of them broke, and a media apparatus that covered it as a spectacle. The Acid Tests, the Human Be-In, the Dead, Owsley's supply, and the moment it stopped being a scene and became a destination. Shared with our Psychedelics and LSD archives, because it is the same story told from the city's side.
- **Harvey Milk**, Milk was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1977, one of the first openly gay elected officials in America, and was shot dead in City Hall a year later along with Mayor Moscone. When his killer got a manslaughter verdict the city rioted. Four years after that the same neighbourhood was the epicentre of the AIDS epidemic, and buried a generation while the federal government looked away.
- **Tech Boom**, The city has had a boom roughly every fifty years and has never once handled one gracefully: gold, silver, shipping, the 1934 general strike that shut down the waterfront, the dot-com bubble, and the platform era. Each one arrived promising to remake the place and each one mostly remade who could afford to live in it.
- **What It Costs**, A city of extraordinary wealth with people dying on its pavements, an argument about housing that has run for forty years without resolution, and a national commentary that treats it as either a utopia or a ruin depending on the week. Both readings flatten a place that has been simultaneously rich and broken since 1849.

## Timeline

### 1776
- **1776**, Plano del nuevo Presidio de Sn.. 1776 por Dn. José Joaquin Moraga [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d2d4e081-aed7-4c78-b116-f02c56a5ddd8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_San_Francisco_EEUU_planos.pdf
### 1822
- **1822**, Ohlone hunters with bows on the shore of San Francisco Bay. A hand-coloured plate of Northern Valley Yokuts and Ohlone people hunting on the bay, drawn by Louis Choris, the artist attached to the Russian Rurik expedition that called at San Francisco in 1816. Choris published it in his Voyage pittoresque autour du monde in 1822, engraved by Pierre Langlume. It is among the earliest pictorial records of Native life around the bay. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/71127802-effe-48a9-9f1b-b95aeba069aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indiáni.jpg
- **1822**, The presidio and the strait of the Golden Gate. Victor Adam's lithograph after a drawing by Louis Choris shows the Spanish colonial fort with the entrance to the bay beyond. It was published in 1822 in Choris's Voyage pittoresque autour du monde and is held by the New York Public Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/52a3e1f6-9ef7-4ce1-8323-c3b86d3a4770) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Adam_after_Louis_Choris_-_Vue_du_Presidio_san_Francisco,_1822_-_Original.jpg
- **1822**, Restored print of the presidio and the Golden Gate strait. A digitally restored version of the Adam lithograph after Louis Choris, published in the Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. The underlying artwork appears to date from around 1817, when Choris travelled the Pacific as artist to a Russian expedition, and the restoration is a featured picture on Wikipedia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d4411d6c-7c22-44f7-959e-9586bbe08963) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Adam_after_Louis_Choris_-_Vue_du_Presidio_san_Francisco,_1822.jpg
- **1822**, Spanish presidio above the entrance to the bay. A lithograph by Victor Adam after a drawing by Louis Choris, made for the illustrated account of a round-the-world voyage and held by the New York Public Library. It shows the Spanish colonial garrison and the strait later named the Golden Gate, decades before American settlement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/945909ff-c5df-4f25-9dab-b627f3f2286e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Adam_after_Louis_Choris_-_Vue_du_Presidio_san_Francisco,_1822.png
- **1822**, The Spanish presidio looking out to the Golden Gate. A lithograph by Victor Adam after a drawing by Louis Choris, published in the atlas to Choris's Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Choris made the original view during his visit around 1817, when the presidio was still a Spanish colonial garrison guarding the strait. The plate is held by the New York Public Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1c2e7a76-9a99-4613-9877-0c3fed272da7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Adam_after_Louis_Choris_-_Vue_du_Presidio_san_Francisco,_1822_(cropped).jpg
- **1822**, The Spanish presidio drawn by a visiting expedition artist. Louis Choris sketched the presidio during a visit in the autumn of 1816 and published the plate in his Voyage pittoresque autour du monde in Paris in 1822. It is among the earliest surviving images of the Spanish garrison at San Francisco. The New York Public Library holds this impression. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ca258b33-db86-4bef-b837-8954699c78be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue_de_Presidio_Sn._Francisco_(NYPL_Hades-118392-54516).tif
### 1849
- **1849**, Printed handbill advertising passage to the California goldfields. One of the advertising sheets put out during the Gold Rush to sell berths and outfits to men heading west. Notices like this one drove the steamship traffic that turned San Francisco from a small settlement into a port city within a couple of years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/12873b99-9d57-465e-8f9c-711c971b8975) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Gold_Rush_handbill.jpg
- **1849**, Flyer calling men and women west to the goldfields. A recruitment sheet from the summer of 1849 aimed at both men and women willing to make the journey to California. Handbills of this kind fed the migration that passed through San Francisco's harbour on the way to the diggings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9643a45a-ad0a-41ff-b2a7-e408fb5622b2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Rush_flyer.jpg
- **1849**, White buckskin bag said to have carried gold rush gold. A soft white buckskin pouch reputed to have been used in the California gold rush by John T. Williams of Bonne Terre, Missouri. Bags like it held the dust and nuggets that men carried out of the diggings and spent in San Francisco. The object is in the collection of the Missouri History Museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/85a2dbc8-f365-4664-b481-bbb1b773ae57) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Rush_Buckskin_Bag.jpg
- **1849**, Satirical lithograph of an overloaded prospector walking to California. A hand-coloured Currier print showing a comically over-equipped gold hunter on the plains some 350 miles west of St. Louis, captioned "I neither borrow nor lend". The print mocked the gold fever that pulled thousands of men across the continent toward San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4ad7a68f-8f7e-4e82-a704-ea2794570e33) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"The_Independent_Gold_Hunter_on_His_Way_to_California.".jpg
- **1849**, French satirical cartoon mocking the rush for California gold. An illustration published in the Paris journal Le Charivari, held in Harvard's Houghton Library. The paper treated the gold fever reaching Europe as a subject for caricature, evidence of how quickly the California strike became international news. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3125f927-b98b-4c11-a62c-1e17d08cad3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houghton_Typ_815.32.2750_-_Le_Charivari,_11_April_1849.jpg
- **1849**, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff draws himself on the trail to California. A self portrait made by Bruff during his overland expedition to the goldfields. He was a trained draughtsman who kept an unusually full pictorial record of the journey, and lived a further forty years after making it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0e0d7723-4f65-44df-a7d4-b2f5249388f1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._G._Bruff's_self_portrait,_1849.jpg
- **1849**, Bruff's canvas mountain camp in the Sierra Nevada. Joseph Goldsborough Bruff painted his own mountain lodge in the Sierra Nevada, a cluster of joined white canvas tents around a conical centre tent. A man with a gun stands at the right, with a small yellow dog and tools scattered on the ground. Bruff led a company of overland emigrants and kept an unusually detailed visual record of the crossing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/994bcdb6-4f93-48e6-a964-d0d96b4621ef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruff's_Mountain_Camp_in_California,_1849.jpg
- **1849**, Satirical lithograph on the defence of the California bank. A hand-drawn political caricature published as the gold rush began, using the imagined 'California Bank' to mock the international scramble for the new wealth. The cast includes send-ups of James K. Polk, Napoleon the Third and Isabella the Second of Spain. Prints like this carried news of the strike to audiences who would never see the diggings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/90b2ba68-d2ba-4220-b39d-a70f2e124ab3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense_of_the_California_Bank_LCCN2008661517.jpg
- **1849**, Engraving of a miners' encampment in the Sacramento Valley. J. H. Richardson's engraving of tents and prospectors in the gold country appeared in Holden's Dollar Magazine in New York in 1849. Pictures like this were how East Coast readers first saw the rush that turned San Francisco from a village into a port city within a year. The magazine is preserved in the Internet Archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a680892b-338d-4e78-93cd-2dce74e48470) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Gold_Region_in_Upper_California—Encampment_in_the_Sacramento_Valley.jpg
- **1849**, Currier lithograph mocking the rush to California. A comic print published by Nathaniel Currier in the first year of the gold rush, showing the far-fetched means by which hopefuls proposed to reach California, rockets among them. It belongs to the Library of Congress collection of popular graphic arts and is one of the period's best-known satires on gold fever. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d30e0ff2-b166-484b-9413-3cdde535841b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_way_they_go_to_California_-_lith._&_pub._by_N._Currier._LCCN91481165.jpg
- **1849**, Gold Rush satire lithograph titled Things as They Are. A hand-printed lithograph satirising the California gold fever, issued as the rush drew tens of thousands west. The sheet belongs to a wave of political caricature that mocked both the prospectors and President James K. Polk, whose message to Congress had confirmed the gold discoveries. The print is held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6da0b1a4-d2c0-4e7b-a185-d1389aec3019) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Things_as_they_are_LCCN2008661518.jpg
- **1849**, The place we hear about, a gold rush lithograph. A satirical lithograph on wove paper issued in 1849 as news of the California strike reached the eastern states. Prints like this fed and mocked the rush in equal measure; the sheet is held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ec5fbc95-cffc-49c7-a644-dbfc2d0de719) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_place_we_hear_about_LCCN2008661519.jpg
- **1849**, The California Gold Rush cartoon 1849 (The Wild West). Not many Americans lived in California, but that soon changed. By 1849 thousands upon thousands of people arrived in search of gold. Support the cartoons on patreon: Get your copy of Simple History: The Wild West today! [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/34ca8ba0-68c7-493c-8359-6644a7c8f551) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iydRkC0gMZI
- **1849**, The California Gold Rush. What was the California Gold Rush and how did it change the United States during the era of Westward Expansion? In 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, setting off one of the largest migrations in American history. This video introduces key events, people, and impacts of the Gold Rush in a c [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/26ff0959-32b5-4427-b4f8-9930aee9b6c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbYgFt7VsJk
- **1849**, Inside the California Gold Rush of the 1800's. Want to help support Me? Subscribe to my 2nd Channel! ⬇️ Thanks for Watching! Inside the California Gold Rush of the 1800's \| Full Documentary [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/408de0ac-4e26-4dd0-8ce8-3d8924edb306) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niAThj8qaSg
- **1849**, America the Story of Us: Gold Rush \| History. Discover how the Gold Rush led to the creation of California. Own America: The Story of Us on DVD or Blu-ray! #HISTORY Don't miss a video! Subscribe NOW: ABOUT THE HISTORY CHANNEL: The HISTORY® Channel, a divisio [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/572fb03e-1514-415b-a393-0fde0a43176d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkqvqqjMAA
- **1849**, The History of the California Gold Rush and the 49ers \| FOR KIDS!. LESSON PLANS: The California Gold Rush was the capstone of American westward expansion in the nineteenth century and fulfilled its Manifest Destiny. In this History For Humans for kids episode, students learn the amazing st [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/aa9e33ff-69b4-4ad1-a60f-fa8962008288) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr1BaWxA1rk
- **1849**, Buried Secrets of the Gold Rush (Full Episode) \| National Geographic. Winners took all in the race to get rich in the California and Klondike gold rushes; unearthing the ships involved reveals the risks taken to go west. Explore the World with National Geographic subscriptions: ➡ Subscribe: ➡ Get more Nat [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0c59c530-2f7c-4674-b94c-7f0174918f89) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGc3DiiTmH8
### 1850
- **1850**, German engraved view of San Francisco in California. A plate from volume fourteen of Meyer's Universum, a German illustrated encyclopaedia of the world's notable places, showing San Francisco to a European readership. It appeared as the Gold Rush town was becoming an international name, and reached readers who would never see the bay themselves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/09838a1c-9dfa-4b60-af4a-2a0f2ff8562c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meyers_Universum_Band_14_37.jpg
- **1850**, Three men and a woman panning for gold at a creek. A rare Gold Rush image showing a woman working a pan alongside male miners. Women were a small minority in the diggings that supplied San Francisco's boom, and pictures placing them at the water's edge are uncommon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/395e4a68-d057-4308-84df-ed8a4b687396) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1850_Woman_and_Men_in_California_Gold_Rush.jpg
- **1850**, California gold miners with long tom, ca.. 1850-1852; Daguerreotype, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/40cab046-e468-4a69-9f81-7d2b6ae83ad3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_gold_miners_with_long_tom.jpg
- **1850**, California gold miners with long tom, ca.. 1850-1852; Daguerreotype, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a4f3b8b1-0ac2-4222-be4b-e9b4eca8a591) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_gold_miners_with_long_tom_(cropped).jpg
- **1850**, River mining, North Fork of the American River, California. 1850-1855; Daguerreotype, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/97a72463-27f6-4470-a8f0-2d180cb038a7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:River_mining,_North_Fork_of_the_American_River,_California.jpg
- **1850**, River mining, North Fork of the American River, California (cropped). River mining, North Fork of the American River, California, ca.1850-1855; Daguerreotype, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d9e4b39d-b934-4c03-b9cc-51c999ce8572) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:River_mining,_North_Fork_of_the_American_River,_California_(cropped).jpg
- **1850**, L. V. Helms - Drawing of San Francisco, California, August 1851. A painting of San Francisco, California by Danish adventurer, merchant, emissary and author Ludvig Verner Helms. The painting was likely created in August, 1850, although it is labeled as 1851; his book "Pioneering in the Far East" (1882) and other records record the visit occurring in 1850. Helms states the view was [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a2127b96-7cbc-4273-bf5f-d1a2ac7badc0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L._V._Helms_-_Drawing_of_San_Francisco,_California,_August_1851.jpg
- **1850**, Lithograph depicting the seens mining for gold during the Gold Rush. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c030d34a-0e53-4967-835a-d4da7ed88aef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1850_Lithograph_-_Gold_Rush_in_California.jpg
- **1850**, Sailing card advertising the clipper California for San Francisco. A printed sailing card for the clipper ship California, run by the Merchant's Express Line out of Pier 13 on New York's East River under Captain Henry Barber, with gold rush scenes worked into the design. Cards like this were handed to shippers to book cargo for the fast passage around the Horn. It was printed by G.F. Nesbitt and Co. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2abafa9c-209d-4bea-b11c-f7386a47212b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Clipper_500.jpg
- **1850**, Comic print of a gold hunter buried under useless gear. A Kelloggs and Comstock version of the Independent Gold Hunter cartoon, in which the prospector staggers under every appliance imaginable and regrets not sailing around the Horn or crossing at Chagres in Panama. The joke turned on the overland route being the harder way to reach California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/240e3325-7bc2-4f96-bfb9-268bc8ee933b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldminer.jpg
- **1850**, Cartoon of a gold hunter buried under useless equipment. A satirical print from the gold mania of 1848 and 1849, showing a prospector loaded with every conceivable appliance, most of it worthless in California. The figure regrets not having taken his grandmother's advice to sail around the Horn or cross at Panama instead. The Kellogg and Comstock lithograph is held by the California State Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5bad9401-97d1-4cb9-ba41-8f30d2b145cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Independent_Gold_Hunter_on_His_Way_to_California.jpg
- **1850**, A Native woman panning for gold in the diggings. An illustration of a Native American woman working a pan at a California claim during the gold rush. Native labour was widely used and widely coerced in the early diggings, though the artist and exact origin of this image are not recorded. It survives as one of the few period depictions of an Indigenous woman at the workings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/62850509-50e9-4047-92b7-1e5e2d34d60c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Rush_Indian_Woman_Panning.jpg
- **1850**, Californio woman photographed at the height of the gold rush. A black and white portrait of a Californio woman, made in August 1850 and looking directly at the camera. Californios were the Spanish-speaking residents of California from before American annexation, a population rapidly outnumbered by the gold rush influx. The photograph is held by the Oakland Museum of California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/953e812d-ef8c-47b8-b69d-83f2978e15d9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Californio_woman,_Gold_Rush.jpg
- **1850**, Lithograph of miners at work in the California gold fields. A lithograph of daily life at the diggings, printed on blue paper and worked up from a photograph by Fishbourne and Gow of San Francisco. Joseph Britton, later a leading San Francisco lithographer, is credited as the artist. Images of this kind were sold to eastern buyers hungry for scenes of the rush. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ef156083-92ea-4804-884b-9190dccd7938) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_in_the_gold_mines,_California_;_-_Lithographed_from_a_photograph_by_Fishbourne_&_Gow,_San_Francisco._LCCN2011661698.tif
- **1850**, Sailing card advertising the clipper ship California. A printed sailing card issued to advertise berths and cargo space on the clipper California, running from Pier 13 on New York's East River to San Francisco. The card promises a very quick trip and urges merchants to book at once, competing for gold rush traffic. Its border carries scenes of the California diggings; the ship was built by Samuel Hall of East Boston and printed matter came from G.F. Nesbitt and Co. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ce23a771-139d-45fa-b85f-53952dfad991) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Clipper_500_(edited).jpg
- **1850**, Portrait of a California Gold Rush Miner, by George H. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f67e4e7e-2ad0-4550-bf05-d519e7d5c0f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_a_California_Gold_Rush_Miner,_by_George_H._Johnson.jpg
### 1851
- **1851**, View of the conflagration from Telegraph Hill San Francisco. 3d, 1851/Map of the burnt district of San Francisco showing the extent of the fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/91c60fe8-676f-438b-b715-2ef11a5f7d7b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_the_conflagration_from_Telegraph_Hill_San_Francisco.png
- **1851**, Newspaper column reporting gold found at Sutter's Mill. Page two, column four of The Californian, carrying the notice of the discovery on the American River. This short item is among the first printed reports of the find, and word spreading out from it emptied San Francisco of workers before drawing tens of thousands back. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/254ca038-8e01-47e0-ac0a-2de13b7bdf72) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CalifornianNewspaperGoldFoundMarch15-1848.jpg
### 1852
- **1852**, Ships rotting at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove. One plate from William Shew's five-part daguerreotype panorama of the San Francisco waterfront, taken from Rincon Point. The vessels were abandoned where they moored when their crews walked off for the gold fields, and are shown in varying stages of decay. Shew's panorama is one of the earliest photographic records of the harbour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cbcef183-4c3e-4b90-808c-4323491de301) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ships-abandoned-in-Yerba-Buena-Cove-San-Francisco-during-the-California-gold-rush.-1849.jpg
- **1852**, Miners working a claim on the American River. A whole-plate daguerreotype by George H. Johnson showing miners at work on the American River near Sacramento. The river was where James Marshall's 1848 discovery began the rush that turned San Francisco from a village into a port city. Photographs made on the diggings this early are rare, since the daguerreotype process demanded equipment few miners carried. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4788ab35-633f-4324-beaf-785ff0a0ca9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mining_on_the_American_River_near_Sacramento,_circa_1852.jpg
- **1852**, German engraving of gold washing in the California diggings. A steel engraving of miners washing for gold in California, published in the fifteenth volume of Meyer's Universum, a German illustrated survey of the world's sights. It was cut by the engraver Anton Rottmann for the Bibliographisches Institut at Hildburghausen. The plate shows how the rush was pictured for European readers who would never see the goldfields. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4ac97657-ad58-4d26-b4ed-5812cdc1fca1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meyers_Universum_Band_15_22.jpg
### 1853
- **1853**, Portrait of a Cantonese gold miner in California. An 1853 likeness by Isaac Wallis Baker of a Cantonese miner working the California diggings. Thousands of men from Guangdong reached San Francisco in the Gold Rush years, and the city became the entry point and commercial base for Chinese labour across the state. Held by the Oakland Museum of California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d9ed9ecf-b8c2-4545-9bc2-ef3f0182376d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cantonese_Man_from_California.jpg
- **1853**, Lithograph of the gold camp at Springfield, Tuolumne County. A view of Springfield in Tuolumne County, drawn by George Henry Goddard and printed on blue paper by the San Francisco lithographers Britton and Rey. Britton and Rey were the leading printmakers of Gold Rush California, and their views carried images of the mining districts back east. The print is held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a4aef85b-6ad5-4b30-b634-a2f276acadb5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springfield,_Tuolumne_County_-_G._H._Goddard,_del.,_lith._Britton_&_Rey,_San_Francisco._LCCN2011661679.jpg
- **1853**, A mining town street with the Rancherie House hotel. Robert H. Vance made this daguerreotype of a California mining settlement, its false-fronted buildings including a hotel and the Sweata and Francis premises. Vance was the leading daguerreotypist of the gold country; the plate is in the J. Paul Getty Museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a7281c8b-390c-4d8b-aa1b-0fb9dada45d5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vance_Rancheria_Hotel_Getty.jpg
### 1854
- **1854**, Johnson's Daguerreian Rooms, San Francisco, ca.. 1854-1855; Daguerreotype, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f3ca4f0b-bc83-463f-a98c-4f164fa8b1be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnson's_Daguerreian_Rooms,_San_Francisco.jpg
- **1854**, Johnson's Daguerreian Rooms, San Francisco, ca.. 1854-1855; Daguerreotype, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e8809b55-efd3-44ef-a9fe-aa87a9734305) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnson's_Daguerreian_Rooms,_San_Francisco_(cropped).jpg
- **1854**, A Case of Real Distress. A plea for charity in the (London) Jewish Chronicle for a Esther Solomon Levy, a woman with six living children and a seventh on the way, stranded in Gold Rush SF after her husband's death at sea near Panama. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/73d622e1-695c-42c8-b18f-87b41866a43f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Case_of_Real_Distress.jpg
### 1856
- **1856**, San Francisco Vigilante Committee lithograph. Contemporary lithograph depicting James Casey and Charles Cora being taken as prisoners of the San Francisco Vigilante Committee on May 18, 1856. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/db722ab9-50bf-443d-97c9-b0bdde19fec9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Vigilante_Committee_lithograph.jpg
### 1857
- **1857**, McGOWAN, Edward (1807 or 1813-1893).. ). Narrative of Edward McGowan, Including a Full Account of the Author’s Adventures and Perils while Persecuted by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856.... San Francisco: Published by the author, 1857. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6fd3220d-3b3c-4d66-a9c7-cb7298123fd3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Narrative_of_Edward_McGowan.jpg
### 1860
- **1860**, "The Bummer", illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J.. 's Monthly Magazine, December 1860. A "bummer" was a man who had made his fortune mining and was now at leisure. This would be in California at the start of his story, before Browne journeys to other gold and silver mining areas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/35373b6a-c67b-4007-990c-6fd0d4b7144a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peep_at_Washoe_-_The_Bummer.jpg
- **1860**, "Going to Kern River", illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J.. 's Monthly Magazine, December 1860. This would be the Kern River, California gold rush of 1853. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4d478746-42fa-4644-bacb-f70772333a97) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peep_at_Washoe_-_Going_to_Kern_River.jpg
- **1860**, "Returning from Kern River", illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J.. 's Monthly Magazine, December 1860. This would be the Kern River, California gold rush of 1853. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/93fc0805-88af-482a-b96b-d92feac4274c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peep_at_Washoe_-_Returning_from_Kern_River.jpg
- **1860**, "Returning from Kern River", illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J.. 's Monthly Magazine, December 1860. This would be the Kern River, California gold rush of 1853. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f212f365-217a-4e79-8e18-e7651cf55b11) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peep_at_Washoe_-_Returning_from_Kern_River_-_raw.jpg
### 1861
- **1861**, Bandits ambush a traveller in the gold country. George du Maurier drew this scene for the story "Of a Man Who Fell Among Thieves" in the London weekly Once a Week, published 19 October 1861. It depicts an attack by bandits during the California Gold Rush, a staple of the lawlessness British readers associated with the gold fields. The engraving was cut by Joseph Swain's workshop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bca7822e-b325-4bdc-bf4b-eb78a5076ac5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Of_a_Man_Who_Fell_Among_Thieves_-_George_du_Maurier.png
### 1862
- **1862**, Chinese miners washing gold sands with a rocker. An engraving of Chinese miners working a rocker, the hand-operated box used to separate gold from river sand, published in the French travel journal Le Tour du Monde. Chinese labourers arriving through San Francisco made up a large share of the goldfield workforce and were frequently pushed onto claims others had abandoned. Drawn by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/91e3e6f3-c876-423f-ba0e-59270936983c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p016.jpg
- **1862**, Engraved figure of a prospector setting out to look for gold. An illustration of a miner named Aubert departing on a discovery trip, engraved by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques for volume five of the French travel journal Le Tour du monde in 1862. European periodicals carried images like this to readers who followed the California rush from a distance. It belongs to a body of Gold Rush art rather than to photography. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/525133d7-3f5d-4f7b-bcf7-4af573f4a47d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p030.png
- **1862**, Miners digging and washing sand from a riverbed. An engraving of placer work in the California diggings, showing crews lifting sand from the bottom of a river and washing it for gold. It was published in the French travel journal Le Tour du monde from a drawing by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques. The rush that drew these men through San Francisco turned the port into a city within a few years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/54192e2e-0dc2-4791-b4bf-39f5be036c4d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p029.jpg
- **1862**, An arrastra grinding gold ore under a dragged stone. An engraving by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques published in the French travel journal Le Tour du monde, showing the mill Anglo miners nicknamed the Mexican merry-go-round. The device, brought north by Mexican miners, crushed ore by dragging heavy stones in a circle around a central post, and it was widely used in the California diggings before machinery arrived. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5dec5cdd-d1fe-40d4-b6c4-fba23b6d20a2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p036.jpg
- **1862**, Engraving of hydraulic washing at a California gold claim. A wood engraving by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques showing gold being washed out of a hillside by hydraulic method, published in volume five of the French travel journal Le Tour du monde. High-pressure water jets let operators strip whole slopes, and the debris they flushed downstream reached the bay and the rivers feeding it. The plate presented California mining to European readers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9a5eee3b-94c9-45cd-be36-174df2920760) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p037.jpg
- **1862**, Engraved scene of daily life in a California mining camp. Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques drew the working life of the California miner for the French travel journal Le Tour du monde. Illustrated journals like this carried the diggings to European readers who knew the gold country only by report. The plate appeared in volume five of the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e6ff5e0c-6ef1-4b1c-9797-1d8663aa06f3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p041.jpg
- **1862**, Miners raising gold ore up a shaft. An engraving of shaft mining in the California goldfields, published in the French travel journal Le Tour du monde. It illustrates the shift from surface panning to dug and timbered workings that followed the first rush years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a2f72d53-c7c5-44ad-90eb-59efba6cda8d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p043.jpg
- **1862**, Engraving of miners crushing ore by the old Mexican method. An engraving by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques showing gold ore being crushed by the method Mexican miners had long used in the region, published in the French travel journal Le Tour du monde. Mexican techniques and labour shaped the early California diggings before industrial mills arrived. The plate appeared in volume five of the journal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/13ed6b09-95ea-4bd6-8de4-7dfbe4ee6d07) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p044a.jpg
- **1862**, Chilean mills grinding gold ore. An engraving of the heavy stone mills used to crush ore in the California diggings, published in volume five of the French travel journal Le Tour du monde. The image is by Gustave-Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques and depicts the industrial phase of gold extraction that followed the early years of panning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b5c5b14d-e9af-4f2a-aa08-b4a906fa7146) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Tour_du_monde-05-p048.png
- **1862**, Portrait of a Californio miner working the diggings. An image by the illustrator Chassevent of a Mexican or Californio miner during the California Gold Rush. Spanish-speaking Californians and miners arriving from Sonora were among the earliest to work the gold fields, and were then pushed out by foreign miners' taxes and vigilante pressure. Held by the Oakland Museum of California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/97128fa2-28a0-43d0-b78d-02eeefb00126) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mexican-Californio_miner_during_the_California_Gold_Rush.jpg
### 1863
- **1863**, Lazarus2. Joshua A. Norton (1819-1880), self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Also showing Frederick Coombs aka George Washington II. (digging) It is cartoonist Edward Jump's famous pictur [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1954d903-9c84-4bc2-9a92-6cd48c871314) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lazarus2.jpg
### 1864
- **1864**, The California Miner's Almanac - 1864 - Ghirardelli Chocolate. 1864 advertisement for Ghirardelli Chocolate, "only chocolate maker in California" (at the time), and still inb existence today.(Cropped) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/44df1beb-131f-4d7d-b556-dbfdd8d6b095) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_California_Miner's_Almanac_-_1864_-_Ghirardelli_Chocolate.jpg
### 1866
- **1866**, Chinese Mercantile Houses, Dupont Street, San Francisco LCCN2002723035. Title: Chinese Mercantile Houses, Dupont Street, San Francisco Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print: half stereograph, albumen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/70549e5e-9a3b-4b47-a866-8d0a5542adf1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Mercantile_Houses,_Dupont_Street,_San_Francisco_LCCN2002723035.tif
- **1866**, Chinese Market, Sacramento Street, San Francisco LCCN2002724195. Title: Chinese Market, Sacramento Street, San Francisco Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print: half stereograph, albumen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/984a7801-f9d0-46be-a5f6-c0d040a7b342) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Market,_Sacramento_Street,_San_Francisco_LCCN2002724195.tif
- **1866**, Original caption: "The Sacramento and Oakland steamers.. 316 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e9582ffb-c1a5-4caa-a9a6-b1da5f7770df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacramento_and_Oakland_steamers.jpg
### 1870
- **1870**, Studio portrait of the sugar refiner George Gordon. Gordon was a San Francisco businessman and sugar baron who died in 1869. The portrait was made by the photographer Carl Hedler, also working as Charles W. Hedler, and survives in the Stanford University collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a3a48f2a-6293-442d-89dc-0cda0b6ea80e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Gordon.jpg
- **1870**, Studio portrait of George Gordon in full frame. The full portrait of George Gordon, made by San Francisco photographer Carl Hedler and digitally restored by the uploader with tilt correction and contrast adjustment. Gordon built his fortune in sugar refining and died in 1869. The source print is held at Stanford. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bd0ffefd-b8a2-4d8b-9125-256f43e7d897) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Gordon_(Cropped_and_enhanced).jpg
- **1870**, Tight portrait of sugar refiner George Gordon. A cropped close-up from a studio portrait of George Gordon, the San Francisco industrialist who founded the city's first sugar refinery and laid out the Rincon Hill enclave of South Park. It was taken by photographer Carl Hedler before Gordon's death in 1869. The original plate is held at Stanford. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3e6340ea-49a6-444c-9e7c-82daf3ce3d11) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Gordon_(Cropped_and_enhanced)-closeup.jpg
- **1870**, Portrait of the shipping merchant Joseph-Yves Limantour. Limantour, born in Lorient in 1812 and dead in Mexico City in 1885, was a Breton shipping trader who became a figure in San Francisco's early history. The portrait is held by the Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico Condumex. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dd7815a9-9368-46d9-b5e2-9424c8c249e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph-Yves_Limantour.jpg
- **1870**, Phillip Alexander Bell. Phillip A. Bell, 19th century newspaper editor [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/500da0fd-5a7a-4410-9946-8cf7362e417f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillip_Alexander_Bell.jpg
- **1870**, Southern Pacific Bay City ferry circa 1885. The Southern Pacific Company's Bay City ferry plies the waters of San Francisco Bay sometime between 1870 and 1900. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7322b9ff-9ee1-4a71-9292-2ea2f74f6819) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Pacific_Bay_City_ferry_circa_1885.jpg
- **1870**, Marie Suize Pantalon (Gravure cropped). Marie Suize, aka Marie Pantalon, came from France to California during the Gold Rush and ran her own business as a goldminer and winemaker. She was arrested several times for wearing pants. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5a843558-8d98-4405-b18b-acd34c9dfe7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Suize_Pantalon_(Gravure_cropped).jpg
### 1874
- **1874**, Newspaper advertisement for the Spreckels family's Albany Brewery. An engraved advertisement for Spreckels and Company's Albany Brewery, printed in Henry G. Langley's San Francisco business directory. Claus Spreckels built his fortune in the city through brewing before turning to the sugar trade that made his name. The illustration is credited to T. C. Boyd. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/76b59111-1a36-4c78-8c73-decaf69ede65) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spreckels_&_Co,_Albany_Brewery_ad,_1874.jpg
### 1876
- **1876**, Opium Den in San Francisco.. 1876. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/30443498-002c-4c08-9fac-de0aa672adb4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oopiumluola_San_Franciscossa.jpg
### 1878
- **1878**, Color lithograph of the City of San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/55d5727f-f5cb-48c5-8208-a39a90090a9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_City_of_San_Francisco,_panorama_by_Currier_&_Ives,_1878.jpg
- **1878**, Color lithograph of the City of San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/78ca15d9-9c40-483b-86b2-8a2bcedfc0a8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_City_of_San_Francisco,_panorama_by_Currier_&_Ives,_1878_(cropped).jpg
- **1878**, Book illustration from an account of sailing to the gold fields. An engraving from Samuel C. Upham's memoir of his 1849 voyage to California by way of Cape Horn, published in Philadelphia in 1878. The surrounding text recounts prising forty-five dollars in nuggets from a crevice in the rock and keeping quiet about it. The volume was issued for the Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California and digitised from a Library of Congress copy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cf4ce35a-75d2-4a7a-a538-d811b7d1ee6e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notes_of_a_voyage_to_California_via_Cape_Horn,_together_with_scenes_in_El_Dorado,_in_the_years_of_1849-'50._With_an_appendix_containing_reminiscences_together_with_the_articles_of_association_and_roll_(14583075118).jpg
### 1879
- **1879**, Interior of a Chinatown temple to Guan Yu. An engraved plate from The Pacific Tourist, a transcontinental railroad guide edited by Henry T. Williams and published in New York. The illustration takes visitors inside one of Chinatown's Chinese temples, a fixture of the guidebook itinerary for travellers arriving by rail. The San Francisco Public Library digitised the copy this plate comes from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2589c5ea-0667-416f-b3ca-fe856a216a06) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pacific_tourist_(1879)_(14761430395).jpg
### 1880
- **1880**, Chinese Mission House of the M.E.. 916 Washington Street. First established in 1868 at 916 Washington as the "Methodist Mission" or "Oriental Home and School" by Otis T. Gibson. This building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire and rebuilt at 940 Washington. The new building at 940 Washington was later [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b34d3f9d-4581-45ba-8bf6-4b6bfdc39ab1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Mission_House_(Hecht,_1880s).jpg
- **1880**, Peter Donahue, ironworks owner and railroad builder. Donahue, born in 1822, ran foundry and rail interests in San Francisco and Sonoma County and was among the Irish-born industrialists who shaped the city's early manufacturing. He died in 1885; the portrait is held by the Bancroft Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/384f44d1-0609-40d0-9c91-bef8845cf7a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Donahue_1880.jpg
- **1880**, San Francisco 1880 - 1950: Life in the Golden City (Colorized & Animated. San Francisco in Color (1880–1950) brings one of America’s most iconic cities back to life through carefully restored, colorized, reconstructed, and animated original photographs of the "Paris of the West." Special attention is given to the city’s evolution before and after the 1906 San Francisco ea [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/51fd5707-2114-45bb-92d5-d9f06faff55d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo3kAuO9xNQ
### 1881
- **1881**, Claus Spreckels's new sugar refinery at Potrero Point. A Britton and Rey lithograph issued as a supplement to the San Francisco News Letter Christmas number of December 1881, showing the refinery shortly after it opened. Potrero Point was becoming the city's heavy-industry waterfront, and the Spreckels works were among its largest plants. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/75051c5e-dc19-49fd-a89b-2bcb293780ab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_California_Sugar_Refinery,_1881._(OAC_scan).jpg
- **1881**, Enhanced detail of the California Sugar Refinery works. A cropped and digitally cleaned version of the Britton and Rey lithograph of Spreckels's refinery, bringing out the buildings and stacks at Potrero Point. The closer framing shows the scale of the plant that anchored sugar refining in San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/68bc1e5b-891d-4ac3-872c-968b20e6fc65) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_California_Sugar_Refinery,_1881._(Cropped_and_enhanced).jpg
### 1882
- **1882**, Chinatwn$disease-ghosts. Image representation of the dominant public opinion that persistent presence of these three diseases Malarium, Small Pox, and Leprosy were all the fault of the Chinese immigrants and their unsanitary living conditions [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8997b2d0-9ddd-44f0-9a16-b4bf9039fe7a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinatwn$disease-ghosts.jpg
- **1882**, The Card Players, Wright visited gold rush California in 1857.. 1882, at the height of anti-Chinese sentiment. 24.25 in high by 29.5 in wide [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1f8d610c-8c89-4147-956a-b59a2f3fc61d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Card_Players,_Rufus_Wright.jpg
- **1882**, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. After a series of events including war, floods, droughts and crop failures drove tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants to San Francisco, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for a ten-year period. The Daily Dose provides microlearning history documentaries like this one [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4e363f27-dcdc-46ec-83d0-5577c97af0c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-4VbPTnOc
- **1882**, VampireLandlord1882. 1882 political cartoon, San Francisco, California, depicting San Francisco landlords as vampire bats squeezing the rent out of tenants, enjoying a fine meal, then being taken by death and thrown into hell. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0dae706c-76c7-41f6-8029-9c1932555537) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VampireLandlord1882.jpg
- **1882**, Sketch of San Francisco in 1849 by Ludvig Verner Helms.. "Pantaloon" on an unsuccessful trade mission. The sketch was drawn from Flagstaff Hill, which no longer exists. Helms was a Danish adventurer, merchant, emissary, and author associated with th [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cd3cff41-8092-42fb-b2e9-f9ae96885c90) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Library_digitised_image_from_page_94_of_"Pioneering_in_the_Far_East,_and_journeys_to_California_in_1849_and_to_the_White_Sea_in_1878_..._With_illustrations,_etc".jpg
### 1883
- **1883**, Book engraving of a Chinese restaurant meal on Commercial Street. An illustration from William Henry Bishop's 1883 travel book Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces, published by Harper and Brothers. The passage beside it describes a meal taken at a restaurant at the head of Commercial Street in San Francisco, served in bowls and eaten with chopsticks. The scan comes from the Brown University Library copy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ecb801ed-a46c-4bce-b383-16c8f08e5b98) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Mexico_and_her_lost_provinces;_a_journey_in_Mexico,_southern_California,_and_Arizona,_by_way_of_Cuba_(1883)_(14594721780).jpg
- **1883**, Miners working a long sluice to separate gold from gravel. Titled 'The Sluice', this Henry Sandham illustration shows crews running water and gravel down a wooden trough so that gold settles behind the riffles. It appeared in The Century illustrated monthly magazine in January 1883, part of a set on gold-rush mining methods. The Library of Congress holds the print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e8d22923-ef9d-42dc-9559-4855f3c42d3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Sandham_-_The_Sluice.jpg
- **1883**, A miner rocking a cradle to wash gold from gravel. Titled 'The Cradle', this Henry Sandham wood engraving shows the rocker box, a hand-worked wooden trough that let a small party wash far more gravel than a pan alone. It ran in The Century illustrated monthly magazine in January 1883 alongside other studies of gold-rush technique. The Library of Congress holds the print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2c782d56-d7bf-4ffb-ad41-7c420b4c79ba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Sandham_-_The_Cradle.jpg
- **1883**, The Monitor: a hydraulic nozzle blasting a California hillside. Henry Sandham's print shows hydraulic mining, in which high-pressure water cannon known as monitors washed whole hillsides apart to reach the gold. The method moved enormous volumes of debris downstream and became one of the most destructive industrial practices in the state. The image was published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in January 1883. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a83dbf41-8ecd-40fd-ae58-7a24bede8e01) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Sandham_-_The_Monitor.jpg
### 1884
- **1884**, Map shading the district burnt in the great fire. A plan shading the blocks destroyed when fire swept the young city over two days in May, drawn for Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of California. Fires repeatedly levelled San Francisco's timber-built centre during its first years, and maps like this were used to record the extent of each loss. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/420d51b2-d825-47a3-8448-9a1d059417c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnt_District_of_May_1851.png
- **1884**, Chinese Musicians by Theodore Wores, 1884. Chinese Musicians \[in San Francisco's China Town\] by Theodore Wores, 1884, oil on canvas, private collection, photographed while on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ff26763c-ebf6-4675-8664-f4e202e21ab0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Musicians_by_Theodore_Wores,_1884.JPG
### 1885
- **1885**, Mining and Scientific Press 1885 nameplate. Nameplate of the Mining and Scientific Press, a former mining and miscellaneous science newspaper published in San Fransisco, California [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0bfb11ed-5b8b-4e55-b4bf-0beb2d7da761) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mining_and_Scientific_Press_1885_nameplate.jpg
### 1886
- **1886**, Cover of John Henry Brown's memoir of the early city. The bound cover of Reminiscences and Incidents of the Early Days of San Francisco, published by the Mission Journal Publishing Company. Brown, who lived from 1810 to 1905, ran a hotel in the settlement before the Gold Rush, and his account is counted among the eighty landmark books of California printing known as the Zamorano 80. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4b334f87-e25c-4cba-a3fd-5236911f3451) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Early_Days_of_San_Francisco.jpg
### 1888
- **1888**, Engraved portrait of the lumberman Samuel Penfield Taylor. Samuel Penfield Taylor came to California in the gold rush and built a paper mill on Lagunitas Creek in Marin County, north of San Francisco. This likeness was engraved for the 1888 county history 'Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World'. The land around his mill is now Samuel P. Taylor State Park. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/928987e0-01f5-4edc-a1f3-683a7a859ed1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_P._Taylor.png
### 1889
- **1889**, Looking across the western districts of the city. An albumen print by Alfred Judson Perkins showing San Francisco's western side before the sand-dune neighbourhoods were built out. It survives in the DeGolyer Library's U.S. West photographic collection at Southern Methodist University. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/29d49d7b-bd2d-4842-a939-46d576aef6a9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_western_part_of_S.F._(5535509368).jpg
### 1890
- **1890**, The front of a store building of Asian architecture.. 1891. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2d9b3e1e-ec34-402e-a14f-eb082145bb2d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:416_MSS_P_24_B4_F1.jpg
- **1890**, The front of a store building of Asian architecture.. 1891. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4f2dbf31-7510-4498-8e09-468a0bea19fc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_in_Chinatown_of_San_Fransisco_in_the_1890s,_from-_416_MSS_P_24_B4_F1_(cropped).jpg
- **1890**, A Chinatown street photographed by Isaiah West Taber. The print carries a handwritten note on its reverse reading simply "China town in San Francisco, 1890". Taber ran one of the city's best-known commercial studios; this copy is in the Rijksmuseum collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4ddd3eed-9768-4ded-accd-eeaca3671c75) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RP-F-2012-96-239_China_Town,_San_Francisco_1890.jpg
- **1890**, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Commissioner's private office. U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Commissioner's private office: From Photographs from the Hart Hyatt North papers: Angel Island [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/45a3f671-d9e3-4045-abc5-09ad6b8a1678) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_San_Francisco_Bay._Commissioner's_private_office.jpg
- **1890**, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Approach from wharf to main building. U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Approach from wharf to main building.: From Photographs from the Hart Hyatt North papers: Angel Island [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bc653b81-a4d2-4288-9829-86e33f14a11d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_San_Francisco_Bay._Approach_from_wharf_to_main_building.jpg
- **1890**, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Bath room and lavatory. U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Bath room and lavatory: From Photographs from the Hart Hyatt North papers: Angel Island [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1a7e6855-aa84-487e-912d-994b99b318a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_San_Francisco_Bay._Bath_room_and_lavatory.jpg
- **1890**, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Dining room. U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Dining room: From Photographs from the Hart Hyatt North papers: Angel Island [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3ab52700-e6a6-4967-95c4-4dd366d2cda1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_San_Francisco_Bay._Dining_room.jpg
- **1890**, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Examination room. U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Examination room -- main building: From Photographs from the Hart Hyatt North papers: Angel Island [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ae362cd7-a50b-482e-8708-1aab8781b93f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_San_Francisco_Bay._Examination_room.jpg
- **1890**, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Interiors of one of the wards. U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay. Interiors of one of the wards in the hospital: From Photographs from the Hart Hyatt North papers: Angel Island [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b376f857-af1f-495b-a160-4194c5cd428f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_San_Francisco_Bay._Interiors_of_one_of_the_wards.jpg
- **1890**, A lateen-rigged fishing felucca of the San Francisco fleet. A drawing of a San Francisco fishing felucca, the lateen-rigged boat brought to the bay by Italian fishermen and used to work the local grounds. It was published by Joseph William Collins in Fishing Vessels and Boats of the Pacific Coast, a United States Fish Commission bulletin. The type gave Fisherman's Wharf its early character. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ac526e32-97c8-4a46-97b1-4f65948a2db8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_37910_San_Francisco_Fishing_Felucca.jpeg
- **1890**, San Francisco fishing felucca under sail. An illustration of a San Francisco fishing felucca, the lateen-sailed boat brought to the bay by Italian fishermen and used to work the local grounds. It was published by Joseph William Collins in his survey of fishing vessels and boats of the Pacific coast for the United States Fish Commission. The report documented the small craft that supplied the city's fish markets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d5206b2f-ae01-4f44-9416-37cddd1958e4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_37918_San_Francisco_Fishing_Felucca.jpeg
- **1890**, Cartoon drawing of gold miners headed by boat for California.. "Ye High Seas Showinge Ye Vesseles Bound for Calyfornya." A caricature of the time from "Punch" by Richard Doyle. From the Center for Sacramento History [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8b05301c-b378-4c85-9207-dbad34071a69) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Gold_Rush_Caricature.jpg
### 1891
- **1891**, Phillip A. Bell [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8e350a38-2f39-4ac0-af9a-3416eb6ccb54) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillip_A._Bell.png
- **1891**, Gold Rush Miners' Ball. "Miner's Ball," 1891 etching by Andre Castaigne that imagines a men only ball during the 1849 California Gold rush [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/20f30b93-d2cc-46fb-a7a6-11b7ee741141) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Rush_Miners'_Ball.gif
### 1892
- **1892**, 362 MSS P 24 B3 F2. A horse and cart in front of Colombo Co., a store in a building of slightly Asian architecture, (Chinatown, San Francisco). Back label- C.R. Savage, Art Bazar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/fc58b903-9be8-4156-9475-153c4c5d4916) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:362_MSS_P_24_B3_F2.jpg
- **1892**, A horse and cart outside a Chinatown cigar dealer. The storefront of Colombo and Co., cigar manufacturers and dealers, occupies a Chinatown building trimmed with paper lanterns and Asian-styled detail. Charles Roscoe Savage made the photograph and issued it through his Art Bazar studio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bf8fe6ce-766e-4580-b39d-3a7b2d504b9a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Colombo_&_Co._Manufacturers_&_Dealers_of_Cigars_Wholesale_&_Retail"_"715"_"717"_sign_on_building_in_Chinatown,_San_Fransisco_in_1892,_from-_362_MSS_P_24_B3_F2_(cropped).jpg
- **1892**, A building of Oriental architecture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9f790ea4-016d-4a26-9c1d-30c6a6328f55) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_building.jpg
- **1892**, Newspaper engraving of the Mary Ellen Pleasant and Bell mansion. An 1892 newspaper illustration of the San Francisco mansion where Mary Ellen Pleasant lived with the family of financier Thomas Bell. Pleasant, an entrepreneur and abolitionist, financed and ran the household and was later dragged through the press over the Bell estate. The image was clipped from a newspaper of 17 October 1892; the artist is unrecorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5515c49a-3103-47e8-863c-9f4ad24e4a9e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home_of_Mary_Ellen_Pleasant_and_Thomas_Bell's_family.png
- **1892**, Newspaper engraving of the staircase where Thomas Bell died. An illustration from an 1892 newspaper report showing the staircase in the San Francisco house of banker Thomas Bell, who died there on 16 October 1892. Press artists routinely drew the scene of a prominent death for readers who would never enter the house. The clipping is preserved as a record of the case. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3942bbc4-fe70-4860-b708-c45f4899b156) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Bell,_staircase,_died_October_16,_1892.png
- **1892**, Newspaper portrait of the capitalist Thomas Bell. An engraved likeness of Thomas Bell, printed in a San Francisco newspaper at the time of his death in October 1892. Bell was a financier whose fortune and household were closely tied to the city's Gilded Age business class. The clipping is one of the few widely circulated images of him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7bfda6e1-cc0a-49cf-8295-f2583ca6ca12) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Bell,_capitalist,_died_1892.png
### 1894
- **1894**, The mock forty-niner camp at the Midwinter Exposition. The California Midwinter International Exposition, staged in Golden Gate Park, included a reconstructed gold rush mining camp as one of its attractions. It presented the 1849 rush as heritage to fairgoers barely forty-five years after the event. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/979e18fd-ac81-4dec-817a-710d2e86c88b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:49ers_Camp,_California_Midwinter_International_Exposition_of_1894.png
### 1895
- **1895**, Chinese American men doing business on a Chinatown street. A street view of Chinatown showing the district's shopfronts and architectural detail, with Chinese American men conducting business in the roadway. Wilhelm Hester, better known for his photographs of sailing ships in Puget Sound, made the exposure around 1895. It records the business district a decade before the earthquake and fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cf3e2652-2dca-4148-9354-ea59b1c10eba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinatown,_San_Francisco,_California,_ca_1895_(HESTER_287).jpeg
### 1896
- **1896**, The southern edge of Chinatown. Arnold Genthe photographed the boundary where Chinatown met the rest of San Francisco, part of the body of work he made in the quarter between 1896 and the 1906 earthquake. The negative is held by the Library of Congress in the Genthe Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0a865d3b-b0d2-4755-9861-24701579c5bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_edge_of_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a09148.jpg
- **1896**, The sign of the pawn shop, Chinatown, San Francisco LOC agc.7a08895. Title: The sign of the pawn shop, Chinatown, San Francisco Abstract/medium: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer. Physical description: 1 negative: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7437776a-3ea8-47e5-8e75-7a6abe777ae0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_sign_of_the_pawn_shop,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a08895.jpg
- **1896**, A goldsmith at work in his Chinatown shop. Arnold Genthe photographed the interior trades of Chinatown as well as its streets, here a goldsmith's premises among the quarter's shops. The negative dates from his long Chinatown project, begun in 1896 and continued for decades. The Library of Congress holds the Genthe Collection from which it comes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a8cfa44d-6e6b-42ec-907f-8e615c28738c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_goldsmith's_shop,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a08989.jpg
- **1896**, A grocery shop in Chinatown photographed by Arnold Genthe. A grocery storefront in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Arnold Genthe's long photographic study of the quarter. Genthe worked the Chinatown streets from 1896 onward, and much of the district he recorded was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. The image is held in the Genthe Collection at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/655f6964-5d68-4f64-aa5c-8b3a778ccff6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_grocery_shop,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a09012.jpg
- **1896**, The Apricot Spring Orchard drugstore in Chinatown. A Chinese pharmacy photographed by Arnold Genthe, who worked the streets of Chinatown from 1896 onward and left the fullest surviving picture of the quarter before the fire. The Library of Congress dates the negative to somewhere in that decade of work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4ddd6d82-81e8-4543-b032-73a45ee29af0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apricot_Spring_Orchard_drugstore,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a09035.jpg
- **1896**, Chinese American men and a child beneath hanging lanterns. Arnold Genthe photographed this group standing in front of a Chinatown building strung with lanterns. Children appear rarely in his Chinatown work, which makes them a recurring point of interest in the series. The gelatin silver print is held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9e18037c-1e5e-4576-a42b-b4c50cc8c60b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_American_men_and_child_in_front_of_building_with_hanging_lanterns,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LCCN2015650744.tif
- **1896**, Chinese American woman and child photographed in Chinatown. Arnold Genthe made this gelatin silver portrait in San Francisco's Chinatown in the years before the 1906 fire destroyed the district. His street work there is the fullest surviving photographic record of the old quarter and its residents. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a6561338-7a7f-410d-8430-71ae94805adc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_American_woman_and_child,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LCCN2015650748.tif
- **1896**, A Chinese girl photographed in the streets of Chinatown. One of Arnold Genthe's Chinatown negatives, made in the decade before the 1906 earthquake destroyed the quarter he was documenting. Genthe worked with a concealed camera on the street, and his surviving plates form the fullest visual record of pre-earthquake Chinatown. The negative is held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/30aacbff-d28c-4566-a0f7-f0e80e1c8f3a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_girl,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a09108.tif
- **1896**, Chinese and American women passing on a Chinatown street. Arnold Genthe photographed the two groups of women in the same frame somewhere in San Francisco's Chinatown between 1896 and 1906. Such street encounters were a recurring subject for him, and the pictures document the quarter as an ordinary part of the city rather than a spectacle. Held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3c3318da-0517-4416-8c56-0c4136af84e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_and_American_women_walking_down_a_street,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a09005.tif
- **1896**, A young Chinese girl photographed in Chinatown. Arnold Genthe made this portrait in San Francisco's Chinatown sometime between 1896 and 1906, during the years he worked the quarter's streets with a concealed camera. His Chinatown pictures are among the fullest surviving views of the neighbourhood as it stood before the earthquake and fire destroyed it. Held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/819984df-58f5-4918-8c3d-89ef158052d9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_girl,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a55076.tif
- **1896**, Men standing and walking along a Chinatown street. An unposed street view from Arnold Genthe's long photographic survey of San Francisco's Chinatown, made at some point between 1896 and 1906. Genthe worked with a concealed camera to catch the neighbourhood's ordinary traffic rather than arranged portraits. Everything he recorded here was destroyed in the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6e10e728-1981-40f6-8860-a39ca9275e79) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Men_standing_or_walking_on_a_street,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a08855.jpg
### 1897
- **1897**, San Francisco Call report on a brawl at Irish Hill. A clipping from page six of the San Francisco Call for 8 November 1897, describing a police roundup after a drunken fight on Irish Hill. The neighbourhood was a working-class enclave wedged among the shipyards and ironworks of the Potrero waterfront. Digitised from the Chronicling America newspaper archive at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2580d821-d948-4b44-ad83-9464ec310b92) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanFranciscoCall-IrishHill-Nov8-1897.png
- **1897**, An arrest in Chinatown watched by a street crowd. An Edison company film showing a Chinese man being arrested and carried off through Chinatown as onlookers gather. The charge is not recorded; the Library of Congress notes it may relate either to the smuggling of immigrants barred by the exclusion quotas, or to the tong warfare that broke out after the killing of Fong Ching, known as Little Pete, in January 1897. The party climbs from the area around 830 Washington Street, an address then used to house new arrivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/afb02d17-a4f4-417f-b87c-13407766c00a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arrest_in_chinatown.ogv
- **1897**, A Chinatown restaurant illustrated for railroad tourists. The plate comes from To California and back, a guidebook published in 1897 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to sell rail travel west. Its Chinatown chapter walks readers through fortune-telling with joss sticks and the quarter's eating houses, treating the neighbourhood as a tourist attraction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dbf8d083-cfb0-4a26-9bec-6f4e035107bf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_California_and_back;_(1897)_(14572250859).jpg
- **1897**, Engraved illustration of a Native archer with a fur quiver. A book illustration of a Native American bowman carrying a fur quiver, printed in the 1897 Cincinnati edition of John Clark Ridpath's Universal History. The surrounding text discusses the Shoshone and neighbouring peoples, and the plate derives from the work of Louis Choris, the artist who drew Ohlone people around San Francisco Bay during the Rurik expedition. The engraving is a nineteenth-century rendering, not a document made from life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e49cabcd-1763-466a-ac32-0b17132f8c2c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ridpath's_Universal_history_-_an_account_of_the_origin,_primitive_condition_and_ethnic_development_of_the_great_races_of_mankind,_and_of_the_principal_events_in_the_evolution_and_progress_of_the_(14770383005).jpg
### 1898
- **1898**, Troops marching out through the Presidio's Lombard Gate. Soldiers leave the Presidio of San Francisco bound for Manila during the mobilisation for the Spanish-American War. The post served as the staging ground for American forces shipping across the Pacific, and the Lombard Gate was the route out to the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bc314748-92af-4e1b-bb54-ad3221b5527a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leaving_Presidio_for_Manila.jpg
### 1899
- **1899**, Book illustration of a Chinatown alley by George Roux. A plate drawn by George Roux for Jules Verne's novel The Will of an Eccentric, whose contest carries its players across the United States. The archive files the image among streets and alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown, a quarter that European illustrators of the period rendered largely from description. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7035b1d2-3208-4874-8001-8ce488b8b219) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'The_Will_of_an_Eccentric'_by_Georges_Roux_67.jpg
### 1900
- **1900**, Scow schooners unloading hay at the Third Street channel wharf. The scow schooner Annie L. lies at the San Francisco hay wharf with a full deckload, other loaded scows crowding around her, and the schooner Paul and Willie berthed inside. Their shallow draft let them load at river landings and sloughs no other craft could reach, carrying hay from around the bay into the city. The Annie L. was built at Hunters Point in 1900 by Emil Munder. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f18d953b-7193-4c4e-b04b-487e44790d9f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_L._(built_1900,_scow_schooner),_with_load_of_hay._At_the_Hay_Wharf,_3rd_and_Channel_Streets,_San_Francisco,_CA.jpg
- **1900**, The first Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown at the switchboard. A studio-quality print recording the first Chinese telephone operator working in San Francisco's Chinatown. The neighbourhood ran its own exchange, where operators were expected to handle calls in several Chinese dialects as well as English. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain news agency collection at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8f6b0d6e-1c22-440d-a110-5cb8f5ec5b76) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Chinese_telephone_operator_in_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LCCN92504608.tif
- **1900**, Market Street looking east past the Flood Building. A colour postcard view down the city's main thoroughfare, with the Flood Building at Powell Street on the near left and the Emporium department store to the right. The building the photographer shot from is gone, cleared to open Hallidie Plaza above the Powell Street station. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/acc53f26-1875-4701-b85a-23bde379d61e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarketStreetSanFran.JPG
- **1900**, Studio portrait of Ralphine North McDonald. A formal portrait of a woman from a California family with mining business interests dating to the gold rush era. Neither the photographer nor the studio is recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/27154444-afc5-45f6-a2d3-aa1d2a0ca89d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._McDonald.jpg
- **1900**, Alvin Aaron Coffey Sr.. (1822–1902) American miner, the only Black member of the California Society of Pioneers [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f2d22682-5b0d-4216-9397-4f7bdf335307) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alvin_Aaron_Coffey_Sr.png
### 1903
- **1903**, Teddy Roosevelt, San Francisco, 1903.ogv. President Roosevelt reviewed the school children of San Francisco from 10:00am to 10:30am on Wednesday, May 13, 1903. An estimated 40,000 school children gathered along both sides of Van Ness Avenue, west of the downtown area, for the parade. The wide north-south boulevard, partially lined with the mansions of the weal [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/19a8284a-172a-48ab-b4b8-cfc9a984710b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teddy_Roosevelt,_San_Francisco,_1903.ogv
- **1903**, Midnight in Chinatown, a Willard Worden print. A gelatin silver print by Willard Worden, made in the Chinatown quarter three years before the 1906 earthquake destroyed it. Worden's San Francisco photographs were later gathered by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b64e8c78-c1cf-46f0-843a-954cb426f4f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willard_Worden,_Midnight_in_Chinatown,_San_Francisco,_1903.jpg
- **1903**, Chinatown street life recorded by Frances Benjamin Johnston. A photographic print of Chinatown made by Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first American women to build a national career as a professional photographer. She worked in San Francisco three years before the earthquake and fire levelled the district. The print is in the Library of Congress collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/beab162f-3211-4a63-900b-8903a941e214) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinatown,_San_Francisco,_Ca.,_1903_LCCN2003654728.jpg
- **1903**, Willard Worden's night view of a Chinatown alley. Willard Worden's gelatin silver print Midnight in Chinatown shows a San Francisco Chinatown street after dark, three years before the quarter burned in the 1906 fire. Worden was among the photographers who built a commercial market for atmospheric Chinatown night scenes. The print is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b9089aed-79b4-4e9e-8ccc-7739330a7a5a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worden--Midnight_in_Chinatown,_1903--SFMOMA.png
### 1906
- **1906**, Mission Dolores, reproduced from an old print. An illustration of Mission Dolores reproduced from an early print, scanned from Frank Aitken and Edward Hilton's account of the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. The plate sits in the book's opening chapter on the old San Francisco that the disaster erased. The volume was published in the city by the E. Hilton Co. in the year of the quake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7153b6ef-31e7-47af-b10b-d2a567e1d885) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_history_of_the_earthquake_and_fire_in_San_Francisco;_an_account_of_the_disaster_of_April_18,_1906_and_its_immediate_results_(1906)_(14579891529).jpg
- **1906**, Rows of refugee tents pitched at the Presidio after the earthquake. The army opened the Presidio's grounds to people burned out of the city, and camps of regulation tents were laid out in ordered streets to house them. Tens of thousands sheltered in such camps across San Francisco through 1906. The photograph is held by the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1ae9cc23-b950-4a39-9ffa-f2035e4219e4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prsf_1906refugeecamp_524412.jpg
- **1906**, Refugee tents at the Presidio after the earthquake. The Army opened the Presidio grounds to civilians burned out of the city in April 1906, laying out ordered rows of tents as emergency shelter. The photograph is held by the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4207aeb2-ca39-4b10-9be1-37af540acf3e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prsf_1906refugeecamp_531073.jpg
- **1906**, Refugee camp at the Presidio after the earthquake. Emergency shelter set up on Presidio ground for San Franciscans burned out by the April earthquake and fire. The military reservation became one of the city's largest relief sites, absorbing thousands who had lost their homes. The photograph is held by the U.S. National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/08114b13-38e1-4db8-a270-371f5b7c4602) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prsf_1906refugeecamp_531069.jpg
- **1906**, Chinatown buildings in ruins after the earthquake. A Chicago Daily News photographer recorded the collapsed and burned-out blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown following the 1906 earthquake and fire. The district was among the hardest hit, and its destruction opened a fight over whether the Chinese community would be allowed to rebuild on the same ground. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1de357de-248a-4953-958e-95804a0b3c3c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Chinatown_1906.jpg
- **1906**, Army blueprint of Fort McDowell on Angel Island. A War Department blueprint of Fort McDowell, the Army post on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. The island served as a military reservation long before and alongside its use as an immigration station, and drawings like this one recorded its layout for the Corps. The sheet comes from the War Department Map Collection at the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5b166b01-8e72-46bf-b0e4-1e6dc9042b7f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_McDowell,_formerly_Angel_Island,_California_-_NARA_-_103396512.jpg
- **1906**, Collapsed Chinatown buildings after the earthquake. Chinatown buildings standing in ruins after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the fires that followed. The photograph was made by an uncredited Chicago Daily News staff photographer and survives in the Library of Congress collection. The quarter was flattened almost completely, and its rebuilding was fought over by city officials who wanted the residents moved elsewhere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6da15b16-0049-4149-9c9c-875eb1303a82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinatown-SF-1906.jpg
- **1906**, San Francisco, April 18, 1906.. 1 slide: lantern; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/09e4fd1a-1753-4a5a-a251-6cefb2b6d334) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_Genthe,_San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906.jpg
- **1906**, Book illustration of the First Baptist Church of Oakland after the quake. An illustration from James Russel Wilson's 1906 volume on the San Francisco earthquake and fire, compiled from eyewitness accounts. The caption identifies the First Baptist Church of Oakland, across the bay, and presents the damaged building as evidence of the shock's reach. The scanned copy comes from the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c28aa012-6802-4391-882f-24ee4700b085) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco's_horror_of_earthquake_and_fire_to_which_is_added_graphic_accounts_of_the_eruptions_of_Vesuvius_and_many_other_volcanoes,_explaining_the_causes_of_volcanic_eruptions_and_earthquakes,_(14783305675).jpg
- **1906**, Rubble along Dupont Street in Chinatown. The main commercial street of Chinatown after the earthquake and fire, its buildings reduced to debris. Dupont Street was later renamed Grant Avenue. The print is attributed to Stoddard and held by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6815cde4-96a3-4a74-aa0a-04d055410235) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dupont_St._Chinatown._(6348584096).jpg
- **1906**, Salvaged goods pulled from the rubble of Chinatown. A gelatin silver print attributed to the photographer Stoddard, showing objects recovered from Chinatown after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Such pieces were sold and traded as "relics" to visitors in the months after the disaster, a small trade that grew up in the ruins. The print is held by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a6c8a466-e234-4d49-8df9-92f0b590e3de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinatown_Relics._(6350744585).jpg
- **1906**, Burnt-out Chinatown with the Fairmont Hotel standing above it. Arnold Genthe photographed Chinatown after the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake, with the shell of the Fairmont Hotel visible on Nob Hill in the distance. Genthe had spent the previous decade photographing the neighbourhood before it burned, which makes his post-fire negatives a direct record of what was lost. Held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/606d90e4-f6bb-41c8-9650-901503a6aa0d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_the_fire,_1906_(the_Fairmount_Hotel_in_the_distance),_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a09001.tif
- **1906**, On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco LOC agc.7a55000. Title: On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco Abstract/medium: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer. Physical description: 1 transparency: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6113ef4b-db7b-4b8f-b6d4-72499386fbef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_ruins_(April_1906),_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a55000.jpg
- **1906**, On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco LOC agc.7a08972. Title: On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco Abstract/medium: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer. Physical description: 1 negative: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/41ed3d78-d166-4795-b8b0-21762bc7cba9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_ruins_(April_1906),_Chinatown,_San_Francisco_LOC_agc.7a08972.jpg
- **1906**, Chinatown photographed by Arnold Genthe on the morning of the earthquake. Arnold Genthe made this negative on 18 April 1906, the day the earthquake struck San Francisco. He had spent the previous decade photographing Chinatown and returned to the same quarter as it burned, producing one of the few first-hand photographic records of the disaster's opening hours. Held by the Library of Congress in the Genthe Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1ff65da5-d20f-4338-84d3-c671539f4891) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a08810.jpg
- **1906**, Genthe negative exposed in Chinatown on the day of the quake. Another of the frames Arnold Genthe exposed on the day of the earthquake, catalogued by the Library of Congress with his other Chinatown pictures from that date. Genthe photographed with a borrowed camera after his own equipment was lost, working through streets that were being consumed by fire. The negative survives in the Genthe Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ffb8e793-c322-4a40-b06a-62944b39bf01) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a09037.jpg
- **1906**, Chinatown on the morning of the earthquake. Arnold Genthe photographed the city on 18 April 1906, the day the earthquake struck and the fires began. Having documented Chinatown for a decade, he recorded the quarter as it was being destroyed. The negative is in the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e4e6efe7-64fe-4559-b80a-d9cc2b36cd15) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a08806.jpg
- **1906**, Genthe's negative exposed on the day the earthquake struck. A negative Genthe made on 18 April 1906, the morning of the earthquake, held with the rest of his collection at the Library of Congress. It is grouped with his Chinatown and earthquake photographs. The catalogue confirms the exact date but records nothing about the subject in the frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7d7530d2-3794-4e7c-b544-7deb1335433d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a08807.jpg
- **1906**, Chinatown streets after the earthquake, photographed by Arnold Genthe. Arnold Genthe photographed the city on the morning of April 18, 1906, working through the district he had spent a decade documenting. This negative belongs to the group covering the earthquake's effect on Chinatown. It is held in the Genthe Collection at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/387e6529-cbbb-487c-8d7e-672ae6982ca8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a08808.jpg
- **1906**, Arnold Genthe's view of Chinatown on the morning of the earthquake. Genthe photographed the city on 18 April 1906, the day the earthquake struck and the fires began. He had spent years documenting Chinatown before the disaster, and the quarter he had recorded was destroyed within days of this negative being exposed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7f0242cb-c7c0-458f-9b74-4e65ee8372f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a08809.jpg
- **1906**, Arnold Genthe's view of the city on earthquake day. Arnold Genthe photographed San Francisco on 18 April 1906, the morning the earthquake struck and the fires began. Genthe was already known for years of street photography in Chinatown, and his earthquake images became among the most reproduced records of the disaster. The transparency is held by the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2a14fd09-4c80-4998-9de3-97908250a45b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55059.jpg
- **1906**, Genthe transparency made in Chinatown as the city burned. One of Arnold Genthe's exposures from 18 April 1906, catalogued by the Library of Congress among his photographs of the earthquake in Chinatown. Genthe's own studio and negative files were destroyed in the fire, so the surviving images are the remnant of a much larger body of work. This example is held as a colour transparency rather than a negative. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4b982e19-0cc4-4d29-8ded-69d4e24416b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55060.jpg
- **1906**, Chinatown after San Francisco Earthquake 1906. There are bed frames and some columns of bricks standing on the left and right of the photograph amidst debris and rubble from crumbled homes. There is a large, destroyed building on the right. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/498db6b4-281c-4f14-8041-b28b1171bec6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinatown_after_San_Francisco_Earthquake_1906.jpg
- **1906**, Our San Francisco (1906 earthquake) 1. A photograph of the destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, for the article "Our San Francisco," by James Hopper in Everybody's Magazine, June 1906 (3 months after the fire). The article was an eyewitness report of the earthquake by the author who was working for the Call and staying in t [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/50c3f5ae-2ae8-4dbb-8c1d-c9bd45df7abd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Our_San_Francisco_(1906_earthquake)_1.jpg
- **1906**, Our San Francisco (1906 earthquake) 2. A photograph of the destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, for the article "Our San Francisco," by James Hopper in Everybody's Magazine, June 1906 (3 months after the fire). The article was an eyewitness report of the earthquake by the author who was working for the Call and staying in t [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/656a8a68-05e4-4389-bd80-ce62582c7438) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Our_San_Francisco_(1906_earthquake)_2.jpg
- **1906**, Our San Francisco (1906 earthquake) 3. A photograph of the destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, for the article "Our San Francisco," by James Hopper in Everybody's Magazine, June 1906 (3 months after the fire). The article was an eyewitness report of the earthquake by the author who was working for the Call and staying in t [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/308d0805-6600-42cc-86fa-8649ed78261d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Our_San_Francisco_(1906_earthquake)_3.jpg
- **1906**, Illustration from a book on the earthquake and fire. A plate from "The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror" by Charles Eugene Banks and Opie Read, rushed into print in 1906. Books of this kind paired the earthquake with the Vesuvius eruption of the same year and sold to a national audience within months. The Commons file is catalogued with the Chinese temples of Chinatown destroyed in the fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dff647b1-cda3-4ed4-ac1b-932e5ee7cfc3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_history_of_the_San_Francisco_disaster_and_Mount_Vesuvius_horror_(1906)_(14770633224).jpg
- **1906**, Chinese temple pictured in a book on the disaster. A plate from The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks and Opie Read, a popular volume rushed out in the year of the earthquake. The image belongs to the book's treatment of Chinatown, which the fire destroyed almost entirely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7ff4e58b-c211-42f7-ace3-f4c2c9385696) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_history_of_the_San_Francisco_disaster_and_Mount_Vesuvius_horror_(1906)_(14759339946).jpg
- **1906**, Genthe's lantern slide of the city on earthquake morning. A slide from Arnold Genthe's photographs of San Francisco made on 18 April 1906, the day of the earthquake, filed with his Chinatown work at the Library of Congress. Genthe borrowed a camera after his own was lost and spent the day shooting in the streets as the fires spread. The slide itself was produced sometime between 1906 and his death in 1942. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ebc301d9-0153-4ff7-9e43-c6fc69af2c46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_cph.3c36175.jpg
- **1906**, Arnold Genthe's colour view of Chinatown on the day of the quake. Genthe, who had spent a decade photographing San Francisco's Chinatown, made this transparency on 18 April 1906, the morning the earthquake struck. His pictures from that day are among the few colour-process records of the disaster and are held in the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/362a9fd9-a5af-44aa-8423-b853e5866dd9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55061.jpg
- **1906**, Arnold Genthe's colour transparency of Chinatown on the day of the quake. Arnold Genthe photographed San Francisco on 18 April 1906, the morning the earthquake struck, and this transparency comes from that day's work in and around Chinatown. Genthe had spent a decade photographing the quarter before the fire destroyed it, and his earthquake pictures are among the few made by someone who already knew the streets intimately. The plate is held in the Genthe Collection at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8830bc7a-0a6d-4141-aeb6-711bb9f35f5a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55062.jpg
- **1906**, Genthe transparency made on the morning of the quake. One of Genthe's frames made on 18 April 1906, filed with his photographs of Chinatown and the earthquake. Unusually for the set this survives as a transparency rather than a negative. The Library of Congress catalogue records the date and the photographer but does not describe the view itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a71d644b-55e8-48f0-ba25-c4617528ca3f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55063.jpg
- **1906**, Genthe's transparency of Chinatown on the day of the quake. A colour transparency from Arnold Genthe's record of April 18, 1906, filed among his images of the earthquake in Chinatown. Genthe had photographed the quarter since 1896 and lost his own studio in the fire that followed. The Library of Congress holds the plate in its Genthe Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4ed639f3-cbdd-4aa7-93ad-fc9c76558aae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55064.jpg
- **1906**, Second Genthe view of the ruined Chinatown district. A companion transparency from the same Genthe group in the Library of Congress, filed under the earthquake in Chinatown and carrying the same date of 18 April 1906. The catalogue supplies no description of what is pictured beyond the collection it belongs to. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f0e9fe12-a020-40ef-8c95-dac94d2f148c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55065.jpg
- **1906**, A second Genthe transparency made on the day of the earthquake. Another of the frames Arnold Genthe exposed on 18 April 1906, catalogued alongside his Chinatown and earthquake photographs at the Library of Congress. Like its companion it survives as a transparency. The archive record gives the photographer and the date but no description of what is in the frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/18ef7ebb-efe6-4885-9365-d9e73990c6bd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55066.jpg
- **1906**, Genthe colour transparency of Chinatown after the quake. One of Arnold Genthe's images of the Chinatown district following the earthquake, dated by the Library of Congress to 18 April 1906. The catalogue record identifies the medium and the photographer but does not describe the scene or name a street. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d44b095a-d862-4737-a7f5-beda91cec686) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_April_18,_1906_LOC_agc.7a55067.jpg
- **1906**, The Pacific States Trading Company plant still under construction. The new San Francisco plant of the Pacific States Trading Company, photographed before it was finished and published in the Pacific Fisherman annual. The firm worked in fish processing, with codfish among its trade. The picture records the industrial side of the waterfront in the year of the earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ffc165b7-b523-42af-aa36-5533fd623cb7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_44338_View_of_New_Plant,_Taken_before_Completion,_Pacific_States_Trading_Co,_San_Francisco,_Ca.jpeg
- **1906**, Illustrated view along Market Street from an earthquake book. A plate from James Russel Wilson's 1906 volume on the San Francisco earthquake and fire, compiled from accounts by eyewitnesses and padded out with chapters on Vesuvius and other volcanoes. The scanned page is captioned as a view on Market Street, the city's main thoroughfare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/519514a9-8fdb-44a2-a9a2-6e25e78a6f9f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco's_horror_of_earthquake_and_fire_to_which_is_added_graphic_accounts_of_the_eruptions_of_Vesuvius_and_many_other_volcanoes,_explaining_the_causes_of_volcanic_eruptions_and_earthquakes,_(14780964594).jpg
- **1906**, Quong Lee and Sing Kee company buildings in Chinatown. Two merchant houses on a Chinatown block, photographed around the year of the earthquake. Business signage names both firms across the facades. The print is held by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/af21c81d-6823-4d30-a9eb-eab4ad45800a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quong_Lee_Co._and_Sing_Kee_Co._buildings.jpg
- **1906**, Rare footage of San Francisco after 1906 earthquake shown in Fremont. A lost piece of Bay Area history unearthed at a flea market was shown for the first time Saturday night to the public. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c60b9fa1-18bf-4a24-af0c-c87e0f51fc8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiR7LnOkKug
- **1906**, Alley scene in Chinatown, San Francisco.. 1993.033 -- ALB:96 Digital ID: cubcic brk7484 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5bbb03e6-bc90-4bd3-94be-67c984e8d5bc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Chinatown_alley.jpg
- **1906**, How San Francisco Was Devastated By The 1906 Earthquake. On April 18, 1906, San Francisco experienced a magnitude 7.9 earthquake. The quake and the fires it caused destroyed a large portion of the city by the bay. #foxweather #weather Download the FOX Weather app: FOX Weather is a 24/7 ad-supported streaming service opera [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ea73b7d1-6db5-4f12-a70b-657aab050c8d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3qO_qHjeHk
- **1906**, Busy alley scene in Chinatown, San Francisco.. 1993.033 -- ALB:209 Digital ID: cubcic brk7595 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/469b8854-f36c-41b8-82c5-15a07d431646) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Chinatown_alley_02.jpg
- **1906**, San Francisco Earthquake 1906 - Before and After Journey Down Market Str. Please Retweet: Here is a side-by-side comparison of two filmed journeys down Market Street shot in April of 1906 sourced from the Prelinger Archives at The video on the left has enjoyed wide circulation online, but has often been incorrectly da [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/471db0f8-98c8-46f7-b6aa-1d9f90c92acd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TaxcXfSwdE
- **1906**, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Footage of Aftermath. Footage takin in 1906 of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/91a639f3-97ab-4e9f-a889-8b373c327b6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtjUf7DTmqY
- **1906**, San Francisco 1906 (New Version) in Color \[VFX,60fps, Remastered\] w/soun. I colorized, restored and I added a sky visual effect and created a sound design for this video of San Francisco 1906, A Trip Down Market Street, Shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire. From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip dow [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7a04bbe5-7b19-416d-b128-6c532bcb8c5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkc83XA2dY
- **1906**, (1080p, 60fps Colorized) 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High-intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultu [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4fc73a7f-0ffa-48e7-917e-a31783fe5847) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyzCX_f72Y
- **1906**, San Francisco After the 1906 Earthquake. Full video from the Long Now Foundation available at: Archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger shows archival footage of downtown San Francisco after the devastating 1906 earthquake and resulting fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/98626786-ec07-4f55-a2b0-6f1e417deabd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1V_oGZj0Xw
- **1906**, San Francisco Earthquake - Amazing 1906 Film Restored to Life. 120 year old film meticulously colorized at 4K 60fps with added sound. This is a verified historical restoration of the iconic "A Trip Down Market Street," filmed just four days before the disaster, plus rare footage of the immediate aftermath. Using manual frame-by-frame colorization and immersive [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5c782996-92a7-4ed0-9ec5-3d7955d54533) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt-Gy6FD2Y
- **1906**, A Trip Down Market Street, 1906 - With Sound!. UPDATE! NEW HIGH-RES 4K SCAN OF HISTORIC MARKET STREET VIDEO, GO HERE: Historic pre-earthquake San Francisco, 1906, with full sound design. Background: This film was shot on April 14, 1906, just four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire, to which the neg [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5ccb1469-c7b9-42b6-a9c8-39a321e4f099) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q5Nur642BU
- **1906**, San Francisco Market St 1906 Streetcar Video.flv. Very cool video from 1906 streetcar down Market Street...just 4 days before the 1906 earthquake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/133658b6-7e28-4fb2-b4e3-b2b2a7878556) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-4YmzffFI
- **1906**, San Francisco 1905: Scenes from a streetcar on Market Street. San Francisco 1905: Scenes from a streetcar traveling down Market Street The 1906 earthquake destroyed this entire area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2f86d5df-273c-451e-926c-f2c29aa84b4e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwq_6iNPNA8
- **1906**, San Francisco Dashcam A Trip Down Market Street 1906 (Sound Track - Moon. San Francisco's main thoroughfare, Market Street, is a hive of activity in this 1906 "dashcam" style movie. The trip was filmed from the front of a cable car, and shows horse drawn and motorized traffic weaving between the cable cars & horse drawn trams, often narrowly missing pedestrians by just in [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1de248dc-681a-4d17-94f6-acb7c79e2e58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9XXbKuYfA
- **1906**, A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco, April 14, 1906 \[4K Scan\]. "A Trip Down Market Street" - Miles Brothers (Prelinger Archives). Based on a 4K scan which was delivered in 24p. The source was restored to the original 16p framerate followed by stabilization, then several adjustments and cleanups were processed and then rendered as 60p using an AAA,BBBB,CCCC,DDD [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/53a5b690-588e-4b4d-9d40-2a1a7eab834d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHYaYOMc4eo
- **1906**, San Francisco Street Car circa 1906-part1.avi. This 1906 video was taken from a camera mounted on a street car on Market Street in San Francisco, circa 1906 before the earthquake and great fire. This 13 plus minute video has been split into two parts to meet YouTube 10 minute limit. Enjoy part 1. The film rolls up and down some but settled do [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b54d06c7-0142-481c-ba20-d955951663d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GvDsQrrn2Q
### 1907
- **1907**, Alley beside the Blanchard Building in Chinatown. A narrow Chinatown alley photographed the year after the earthquake, when the quarter was being rebuilt on its original ground. The Library of Congress catalogue records the building name only tentatively. Filed among its Chinatown street and alley views. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1d6fcd45-6779-4c34-9ee0-c5fa5b3376c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blanchard(?)_Bldg._alley_in_Chinatown,_S.F._LCCN90708237.jpg
- **1907**, The William Crocker mansion on Nob Hill before it burned. The house stood at 1170 California Street, part of the row of railroad and banking fortunes that built palaces on Nob Hill in the decades after the Gold Rush. It was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and the fire that followed, along with almost every other mansion on the hill. The photographer is unknown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/589a4143-045b-45b0-a73c-e99ccc30ba0d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Crocker_Mansion_San_Francisco.jpg
- **1907**, Gold Rush engraving from a world history volume. A plate from John Clark Ridpath's multi-volume history of the world, published in Cincinnati by Jones Brothers and digitised from a University of California copy. The archive files it with California in the 1850s and Gold Rush art; the accompanying text on the page concerns the United States and the Mexican War rather than the illustration itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/05e76b8e-2c19-4eea-9204-941296e22c99) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ridpath's_history_of_the_world_-_being_an_account_of_the_principal_events_in_the_career_of_the_human_race_from_the_beginnings_of_civilization_to_the_present_time,_comprising_the_development_of_social_(14769923304).jpg
### 1908
- **1908**, Panoramic view of troop movements at Camp Atascadero. A panoramic photograph of soldiers, officers and horses on the move at Camp Atascadero in California. The image was filed with the Presidio of San Francisco records held by the National Park Service, which supplied troops for such field encampments. The photographer is not recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ba9b405b-9188-4424-a53a-0849fa80d5da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_Atascadero,_California_in_1908_(ede90800-0667-4d42-82c6-2aa4a91cb7a1).tif
- **1908**, The Great White Fleet steaming in through the Golden Gate. A panoramic photograph by H. J. Knapp of the U.S. Navy's battleship fleet passing the strait on its round-the-world cruise. The painted-white squadron's arrival was a public spectacle, watched from the shoreline and the Presidio's headlands above the entrance to the bay. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/937551e3-7323-4159-b1e5-d2c518d287f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H.J._Knapp_Panoramic_Great_White_Fleet_(55f0be58-db2a-439d-aa21-add656b24ee4).tif
- **1908**, Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet steaming out to sea. The battleships of the Great White Fleet, sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt, are seen under way with their funnels smoking. The fleet's Pacific passage drew enormous crowds to the San Francisco headlands in 1908. The panoramic negative is part of the Presidio collection held in NPGallery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4e20c0a5-dd7a-41c2-a354-fe7bdf86136b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roosevelt_White_Fleet_(5a85d533-b729-4299-a092-956165c985a2).tif
- **1908**, Alaska Codfish Company, San Francisco, Cal.. 's Patent System Subject: Cod fisheries, Fishery processing industries--California, Alaska Codfish Company (San Francisco, California) Geog [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f402111f-4553-471d-aaee-b15d553850a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_44447_Alaska_Codfish_Company,_San_Francisco,_Cal_Exclusive_successful_curers_of_hard_dried,_boneless_and_whole_codfish_for_export.jpeg
### 1910
- **1910**, Group of men, several in turbans, outside a San Francisco building. A group portrait made on a San Francisco street, including South Asian men wearing turbans among the assembled figures. Neither the photographer nor the building is recorded. The print comes from a California digital collection and is dated to around 1910. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c2a65943-c668-4204-a48b-5b7cacc699b7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Group_of_men_outside_a_building_in_San_Francisco_(c._1910).jpg
### 1911
- **1911**, Includes details of Reservation, U. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0e80823c-0c18-4321-9db7-c42a8095b7d0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reservation-_The_Presidio_of_San_Francisco_-_DPLA_-_d30027082084c7ec474ab416618f91da.jpg
- **1911**, Delegates to the mining engineers' convention pose in three rows. A newspaper group portrait of members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, printed in The San Francisco Call, which names every man from Charles Janin and Mark Kerr to Charles G. Yale and Charles W. Goodale. The accompanying report covered the institute's discussion of California's wealth in gold and land. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7c024cd2-4158-4b32-8b36-2869fe3b5a23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_G._Yale,_mining_man.jpg
### 1912
- **1912**, Looking across the Presidio military reservation. A wide view over the United States military reservation at the Presidio, photographed by R. J. Waters and Co. and published as a plate in John P. Young's two-volume history of San Francisco. The post occupied roughly 1,500 acres at the mouth of the Golden Gate and remained in Army hands until 1994. The book presented it as one of the city's defining institutions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/76c1d85a-f332-4bad-9e37-134c0da9393c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanfranciscohist01youn_0053_View_of_the_United_States_military_reservation,_the_Presidio.jpg
- **1912**, The clipper Glory of the Seas painted off Fort Mason. William Alexander Coulter painted the clipper ship Glory of the Seas under sail off Fort Mason in San Francisco Bay. Coulter was the city's foremost marine painter and worked from the waterfront for decades, recording vessels that called at the port. The ship itself dated from 1869 and was still working the Pacific coast when this was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dfda1f80-97f5-4973-9068-d870ad929317) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glory_of_the_Seas_Off_Fort_Mason,_1912_(San_Francisco_Bay),_by_William_A._Coulter.jpg
- **1912**, Plate from a children's book of historic tales. An illustration from part four of "The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls: Historic Tales and Golden Deeds," issued in New York by the University Society in 1912. The volume retold American history for young readers, and the surrounding pages run through events of the 1890s. Digitised from a copy at the David O. McKay Library, Brigham Young University-Idaho. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6a75482f-1ed3-4440-ae3b-cbf8e28ba8f8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bookshelf_for_boys_and_girls_Historic_Tales_and_Golden_Deeds_part_4_(1912)_(14597436019).jpg
- **1912**, Ships abandoned in the harbour during the gold craze. Two engraved views of the waterfront crowded with vessels left at anchor after their crews walked off for the diggings. The plates come from John P. Young's history of San Francisco as the metropolis of the Pacific Coast; some of the hulls were eventually run ashore and built over as the city expanded onto its own harbour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f01a885d-ed38-477d-81d9-abd868ee4a3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanfranciscohist01youn_0220_San_Francisco_Harbor_during_the_gold_craze.jpg
### 1913
- **1913**, Panorama of the coastal batteries at Fort Barry. A panoramic photograph of Fort Barry, the Army post on the Marin headlands across the Golden Gate from the Presidio. Fort Barry was part of the ring of coast artillery works guarding the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The land is now within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/02b66622-cf99-43de-87ec-f7bd935cb0a4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Barry_(52b120f1-08e0-48ee-9e00-e81c73904867).tif
- **1913**, A San Francisco plate from a book on American cities. The image comes from Edward Hungerford's The personality of American cities, published in New York in 1913. The surrounding chapter dwells on the city's preference for gold coin over paper money and on how life had changed since the fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6adb9e2f-1fe4-462f-b84c-08239b9655e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_personality_of_American_cities_(1913)_(14777757702).jpg
- **1913**, "Birthday party" c1913 Dec.. 4. 1 photographic print. Notes: Photo copyrighted by Mr. Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens, San Francisco, Calif. Title from item. Photograph shows Chinese children posed with a birthday cake, probably in San Francisco, California. Subjects: B [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/411b4180-39c2-4669-8f93-140baa626488) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Birthday_party"_LOC_8385171286.jpg
- **1913**, Photograph of San Francisco' s Chinatown published in Old Chinatown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/189ce6e7-0f19-436a-a5a9-46b4ee7c6a29) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_lily_vendor.jpg
- **1913**, A Chinatown street scene issued as a Phostint postcard. A view of Chinatown published by the Detroit Publishing Company under its Phostint colour process and sold as a postcard, with the copyright and trademark notices printed on the image and its reverse. Figures with parasols appear in the street. The card is part of the New York Public Library's Pacific Pursuits postcard collection and shows the quarter as it was rebuilt after 1906. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ee461fcd-14c9-4d6e-b3da-9fdc8b6b0584) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_study_in_Chinatown,_San_Francisco,_California_(NYPL_Hades-2359307-4043663).jpg
- **1913**, Gold rush scene engraved for a popular world history. The illustration appeared in Ellis and Horne's multi-volume The story of the greatest nations, published in New York in 1913, and derives from work by the artist William de la Montagne Cary. It shows the California gold rush as it was pictured for readers two generations after the event. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/00246103-0867-4bc8-9806-9f45eae6ed2a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_story_of_the_greatest_nations;_a_comprehensive_history,_extending_from_the_earliest_times_to_the_present,_founded_on_the_most_modern_authorities,_and_including_chronological_summaries_and_(14579720438).jpg
### 1914
- **1914**, Contour map of the army post on Angel Island. A survey of the island installation later known as Fort McDowell, marking barracks and other post buildings, the cemetery, the reservoir and the surrounding ground. It was drawn by J. M. Hilton and is held in the War Department map collection at the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/54dd8230-9706-4e19-a584-e90fed43ed47) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Island,_California_-_NARA_-_103396510.jpg
- **1914**, Henry Shinn and Kang-aie Park (KADA-Sunoo020). Henry Shinn and Kang-aie Park Subject (personal name): Shinn, Henry Han (1885- ); Park, Kang-aie (1895- ) Filename: KADA-Sunoo020 Coverage date: 1914 Part of collection: Korean American Digital Archive Type: images [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0e428003-a224-4c43-b6fa-4dc5f81280f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Shinn_and_Kang-aie_Park_(KADA-Sunoo020).jpg
- **1914**, Kang-aie Shinn and Mrs.. (personal name): Park, Kang-aie (1895- ) Filename: KADA-Sunoo017 Coverage date: 1914 Part of collection: Korean American Digital Archive Type: images Part of subco [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e3930202-ab3b-408a-b726-a2798e25ed2e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kang-aie_Shinn_and_Mrs._Aie-sung_Yim_(KADA-Sunoo017).jpg
- **1914**, Chinatown bazaar scene from the Chamber of Commerce visitors' handbook. An illustration from the Chamber of Commerce handbook for San Francisco, a guide for visitors written by Frank Morton Todd and published by the city's Publicity Committee. The accompanying text steers tourists through Chinatown's bazaars and their goods in silver, lacquer, ivory and embroidered silk. The book was issued as the city prepared for the 1915 exposition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/912c8b71-bea1-4861-be17-6135ef3892c5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Chamber_of_commerce_handbook_for_San_Francisco,_historical_and_descriptive;_a_guide_for_visitors_(1914)_(14589349060).jpg
### 1915
- **1915**, Beta Theta Pi members posed at the Palace of Fine Arts. A panoramic group photograph of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity taken at the Palace of Fine Arts during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The fair filled the city's northern shoreline for most of the year and drew fraternal orders, trade bodies and reunion groups who came to be photographed against its buildings. The Palace of Fine Arts is the only major structure from the exposition still standing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0d7391ef-cf5d-4235-9128-066d51eef684) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beta_Theta_Pi_Fraternity_(106e68fe-db03-4d16-83f3-6d9e2317ece1).tif
- **1915**, Fishermen's Wharf, San Francisco.. 's Wharf (San Francisco, California), Wharves--California, Crab fisheries Geographic Subject: United States--California--San Francisco Tag: Vessels [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/69a535bd-cd29-48b3-bb26-e965d193705a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_44758_Fishermen's_Wharf,_San_Francisco_The_greater_part_of_the_boats_shown_are_engaged_in_the_crab_fisheries.jpeg
- **1915**, Charlie Chaplin and the Film Crew from Niles Essanay Studio. 'In The Park' filmed in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1915 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/730848a0-e844-472d-9977-a0b33684d1d2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlie_Chaplin_and_the_Film_Crew_from_Niles_Essanay_Studio.jpg
- **1915**, Passing Through the Golden Gate, by William A. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/356216b8-0d2b-4738-aaa2-b6f5ec681e16) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Passing_Through_the_Golden_Gate,_by_William_A._Coulter.jpg
- **1915**, Kisen Co. on Grant Ave., Chinatown, San Francisco. Kisen Co. on 157, 159 Grant Ave., Chinatown, San Francisco, California; image of Japanese store for the 1915 PPIE [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a5047bea-4fbe-418e-9557-b471089184aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kisen_Co._on_Grant_Ave.,_Chinatown,_San_Francisco.png
### 1917
- **1917**, Fourth Company assembled outside the Presidio brick barracks. A panoramic photograph of the 4th Company drawn up in ranks in front of the brick barracks at the Presidio of San Francisco in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War. The Presidio served as a mobilisation and training post for troops moving through the Pacific coast. The photographer is unidentified; the print is held in NPGallery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c60a1f34-ed6a-4c70-9734-bb83e2d32695) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4th_Company_(d59b4cc0-ea03-4585-84ee-a53c0c05829d).tif
- **1917**, Second California Field Artillery in camp at Camp Tanforan. A panoramic view of the 2nd California Field Artillery encamped at Camp Tanforan, south of San Francisco, in the year the United States entered the First World War. Tanforan's racetrack grounds were repeatedly turned over to military use over the following decades. The negative is part of the Presidio collection in NPGallery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/533a2058-550b-4c4d-a392-28830f53fb3f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2nd_California_Field_Artillery_(f0f678ff-0307-494e-99bf-f4a7cb2d142f).tif
- **1917**, Company K of the 2nd California Infantry at Fort Mason. A panoramic photograph of the company drawn up at Fort Mason in 1917, with motor vehicles and the surrounding landscape visible in the frame. Fort Mason served as the army's embarkation point on San Francisco Bay, moving troops and supplies out to the Pacific. The photographer is unidentified; the print is held in NPGallery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/893a6d99-dfd1-41a9-87be-0f7219d30a55) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2nd_California_Infantry_Company_"K"_(306e7ca9-154a-4fc8-a2a0-08511a72f5e0).tif
- **1917**, The bakers and cooks school regiment drawn up at the Presidio. A panoramic portrait of the bakers and cooks school regiment at the Presidio of San Francisco. Feeding a wartime army required its own trained trade, and the post ran schools to turn out bakers and cooks alongside its combat training. The photograph is held by NPGallery; the photographer is unrecorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cd0f3703-2d6d-4666-833a-c8dce3d16b58) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bakers_and_Cooks_at_the_Presidio_(56f19434-4596-41ff-84c1-93a8372b18db).tif
- **1917**, Battery A of the 2nd California Field Artillery at Camp Tanforan. The battery assembled at Camp Tanforan on the San Francisco peninsula during the first year of American participation in the war. The photographer is unrecorded; the print comes from the National Park Service collection covering the Presidio of San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/55a7c064-3cc0-4f75-8dda-86f4adf50a03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_Tanforan_(90cdfb57-f790-43e2-8baf-9342045a373c).tif
- **1917**, Mounted Signal Corps troopers of Company B on parade indoors. A panoramic photograph of Company B, Signal Corps, arrayed on horseback inside a large unidentified building, with officers to the front. It comes from the Presidio of San Francisco collection held in NPGallery, made the year the United States entered the First World War. The Presidio was then the army's main mobilisation post on the Pacific coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6eb3318c-a97d-45ee-a757-70c98a76f022) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Company_B_Signal_Corp_1917_(960c3580-e2e0-4ba8-8500-489d167d88aa).tif
- **1917**, Illustration from a book on the Golden Gate Park aviary. A plate from Edith Kinney Stellmann's "Katie of Birdland: An Idyl of the Aviary in Golden Gate Park," published in San Francisco by H.S. Crocker Co. The book treats the park's aviary and its talking birds as a subject worth writing about, and its illustrations record how the young park was presented to city readers. Digitized by the Internet Archive from a copy held by a private contributing library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0a28c278-f9ca-45d2-9e3b-d1bcd9e5c489) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katie_of_birdland_-_an_idyl_of_the_aviary_in_Golden_Gate_Park_(1917)_(14751330535).jpg
- **1917**, Corpsmen demonstrate the French lift at the Angel Island station. First-aid instruction at the Naval Training Station on Angel Island, with hospital corpsmen showing the French lift for raising a casualty. Mrs. C. R. Miller made the photograph, one of a wartime series now in the National Archives. The station trained sailors in San Francisco Bay during the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6ece0a0f-1a4e-4095-877d-f9aa173bc550) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navy_-_Medicine_&_Surgery_-_First_Aid_-_Naval_Training_Station,_Angel_Island,_California._French_lift_-_NARA_-_45511037.jpg
- **1917**, Sailors demonstrate the French lift at the Angel Island naval station. A first-aid class at the Naval Training Station on Angel Island practises the French lift, a two-man carry for moving an injured man off the ground. The photograph was made on 1 September 1917 by Mrs. C.R. Miller and entered the Navy's unofficial collection of First World War photographs. The bay island served as a training and quarantine post through the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/50369d58-2c56-48f8-bee6-864642eb7aea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navy_-_Medicine_&_Surgery_-_First_Aid_-_Naval_Training_Station,_Angel_Island,_California._French_lift_-_NARA_-_45511043.jpg
- **1917**, Panoramic view of the Western Pipe and Steel shipyard. A wide view across the yard of the Western Pipe and Steel Company at South San Francisco, photographed by the firm itself in January 1918. The yard was part of the wartime shipbuilding effort on the bay, and the image was gathered into the government's collection of First World War photographs. Held by the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cf48be0e-6608-4682-ba5c-330d88429fe5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Industies_of_War_-_Metals_-_Steel_-_Miscellaneous_-_PANORAMIC_VIEW_OF_YARD._WESTERN_PIPE_AND_STEEL_CO.,_SOUTH_SAN_FRANCISCO,_CAL._-_NARA_-_55249706.jpg
- **1917**, Navy hospital corpsmen drill with closed litters on Angel Island. A Hospital Corps company at the Naval Training Station on Angel Island practises stretcher work, the litters closed and draped as prescribed. The photograph was taken by Mrs. C. R. Miller and held in the National Archives series of unofficial World War One photographs. Angel Island served as a military station in San Francisco Bay through the war years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/23e767aa-ef1f-46c7-b024-50388ea14263) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navy_-_Medicine_&_Surgery_-_First_Aid_-_Naval_Training_Station,_Angel_Island,_California._Hospital_Corps_Company_at_drill._"Litters_Closed_and_draped."_-_NARA_-_45511041.jpg
- **1917**, Navy hospital corpsmen drilling with stretchers on Angel Island. A Hospital Corps company at the Naval Training Station on Angel Island practises unloading litters, two bearers to a stretcher. The station trained medical personnel for the fleet during the First World War, and the drill rehearsed moving wounded men off ships and ambulances. The photograph was made by Mrs C. R. Miller and is held by the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6b27c596-143f-4fdd-afe1-30a205a0ee77) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navy_-_Medicine_&_Surgery_-_First_Aid_-_Naval_Training_Station,_Angel_Island,_California._Hospital_Corps_Company_at_drill_unloading_litters_with_two_bearers_-_NARA_-_45511039.jpg
- **1917**, Immigration Bureau letter on interned German alien Ernst Hamann. A letter from the Commissioner General of Immigration to the Angel Island station concerning Ernst Hamann, a German national who reached the United States days after President Wilson's enemy alien proclamation of 6 April 1917. Hamann was interned on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. The document survives in a National Archives case file from the San Francisco immigration district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/218040af-daf9-45e5-9a6c-4596f5f6bad5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_from_Commissioner_General_of_Immigration_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Angel_Island_Station,_regarding_enemy..._-_NARA_-_296432.jpg
- **1917**, Hospital letter about an interned German at Angel Island. Correspondence from a German hospital to the Commissioner of Immigration at the Angel Island station concerning Ernst Hamann. Hamann reached the United States days after President Wilson's enemy alien proclamation of 6 April 1917 and was interned in San Francisco Bay. The file sits in the National Archives series of San Francisco district investigations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/31927869-5991-458b-a3dc-aa93b6b442bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_from_German_Hospital_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Angel_Island_Station,_regarding_enemy_alien_Ernst_Hamann._-_NARA_-_296434.jpg
- **1917**, Army memorandum on a German internee held at Angel Island. A memorandum from Lieutenant H. Horn to the commanding officer of the Angel Island Station, drawn from the case file of Ernst Hamann, a German national who reached the United States days after President Wilson's enemy-alien proclamation of 6 April 1917. Hamann was interned on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. The paperwork comes from the federal investigation files for the San Francisco district, now at the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/223c17a2-0542-489d-ad3a-0d703962e894) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memorandum_from_Lieutenant_H._Horn_to_Commanding_Officer,_Angel_Island_Station_-_NARA_-_296436.jpg
- **1917**, Angel Island station reports back on enemy alien Ernst Hamann. The Commissioner of Immigration at the Angel Island station writes to the Commissioner General of Immigration about Ernst Hamann, the German national interned on the island after arriving just after Wilson's April 1917 enemy alien proclamation. The exchange shows how the wartime alien machinery ran through the bay's immigration post. The letter is part of a National Archives San Francisco district case file. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8fdf1b35-2d14-43b9-b4fe-2b38eae47fac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_from_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Angel_Island_Station,_to_Commissioner_General_of_Immigration_regarding_enemy..._-_NARA_-_296437.jpg
- **1917**, Immigration Service letter on the Angel Island detainee. A letter from the Commissioner General of Immigration to the commissioner at the Angel Island station about the case of Ernst Hamann. His file sits in the National Archives series of San Francisco district investigations that never resulted in warrant proceedings, one of many wartime inquiries into German nationals that closed without charge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/30f587b9-69ef-4ce9-9977-708212b94ac9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_from_Commissioner_General_of_Immigration_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Angel_Island_Station,_regarding_enemy..._-_NARA_-_296439.jpg
- **1917**, Letter to the Seattle immigration office about Ernst Hamann. A second document from the enemy alien case of Ernst Hamann, this one addressed to the Commissioner of Immigration in Seattle. Hamann arrived in the United States days after Wilson's proclamation of 6 April 1917 and was held on Angel Island. The papers are preserved by the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/63af36a7-212a-479e-be14-6aca790d53a3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Seattle,_Washington,_regarding_Ernst_Hamann_-_NARA_-_296440.jpg
- **1917**, Letter from the German Hospital about interned enemy alien Ernst Hamann. A detail from a 1917 letter sent by San Francisco's German Hospital to the Commissioner of Immigration at the Angel Island station, concerning Ernst Hamann. Hamann was a German national who reached the United States days after President Wilson's enemy alien proclamation of April 1917 and was interned on Angel Island. The document is held by the National Archives among case files from the San Francisco district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3564e507-2185-4ca9-83d5-5a18d78998e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_Hospital_art_detail_in_1917_document,_Letter_from_German_Hospital_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Angel_Island_Station,_regarding_enemy_alien_Ernst_Hamann._-_NARA_-_296434_(cropped).jpg
- **1917**, German Hospital letter about an interned enemy alien. Correspondence from the German General Benevolent Society's hospital to the Commissioner of Immigration at the Angel Island station, concerning Ernst Hamann. Hamann was a German national who reached the United States days after President Wilson's proclamation on enemy aliens in April 1917 and was interned on the island in San Francisco Bay. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cf699b98-7b08-46f1-b7e7-29441bc3d856) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"German_General_Benevolent_Society's_German_Hospital"_"Fourteenth_and_Noe_Sts."_"San_Francisco,_Cal."_1917,_Letter_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_Angel_Island_Station,_regarding_enemy_alien_Ernst_Hamann._-_NARA_-_296434_(cropped).jpg
- **1917**, Immigration Service date stamp on an enemy alien file. A detail of a letter to the Commissioner of Immigration at Angel Island, stamped as received by the San Francisco office of the U.S. Immigration Service. The file concerned Ernst Hamann, a German who reached the United States days after President Wilson's April 1917 enemy alien proclamation and was interned on Angel Island. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/82d7aab3-c1e2-4b6f-8ce6-2d8236ae373c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"U.S._IMMIGRATION_SERVICE_S.F._CAL."_"REC'D_EXEC_DIV'N"_"13_OCT_1917"_AT_0743_AM_stamp_detail,_Letter_to_Commissioner_of_Immigration,_regarding_enemy_alien_Ernst_Hamann._-_NARA_-_296434_(cropped).jpg
### 1918
- **1918**, Beta Theta Pi military reunion outside the Palace of Fine Arts. Members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity gather in a wartime reunion in front of the Palace of Fine Arts, photographed in panoramic format. The Palace had been built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and was still standing as a landmark backdrop for large group portraits. From the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6cac739e-a904-4e73-b745-13fde6b986f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beta_Theta_Pi_(56179b46-842e-4cd1-a1a0-0a91b52e264b).tif
- **1918**, Battery D of the 347th Field Artillery lined up with its dogs. A panoramic company portrait of Battery D, 347th Field Artillery, photographed at Camp Lewis in Washington State rather than in San Francisco, with officers and mascot dogs in the ranks. The regiment was one of the artillery units raised on the West Coast for the First World War. The plate reached the National Park Service through the Presidio's panoramic photograph collection, which is how it sits among the San Francisco material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6c263246-7a0d-4114-a3a2-7c5dd192e541) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:347th_Field_Artillery_(acd0864a-fe48-4866-855e-8f058bf734d0).tif
- **1918**, Student Army Training Corps company posed at the Presidio. A panoramic photograph of Company I of the Student Army Training Corps, a wartime programme that put college students through military instruction on Army posts. The Presidio of San Francisco hosted the unit in 1918, in the last months of the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b2d4637d-8cda-495a-b542-fe739dbf9c93) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Company_"I"_SATC_at_the_Presidio_(9b69bb99-5d80-4132-a17a-5d4da8871b80).tif
- **1918**, Company D of the 25th Battalion assembled at the Presidio. A wide panoramic regimental portrait of Company D, 25th Battalion, lined up at the Presidio of San Francisco in the final year of the First World War. Panoramic cameras were standard for these unit photographs, which were sold back to the soldiers themselves. The negative is part of the National Park Service's Presidio records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b0264af8-d003-47a0-8f07-4fab69bc03b9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Company_"D"_at_the_Presidio_(e0087bcd-aa61-47f6-9c28-e3cb9cca208a).tif
- **1918**, Review of the 67th Artillery at Fort Winfield Scott. The 67th Artillery stands for review at Fort Winfield Scott, the coast artillery post occupying the western edge of the Presidio above the Golden Gate. Its batteries were built to cover the entrance to the bay. The panoramic negative is held by the National Park Service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2bce1ae9-ecbc-4c1b-9738-7ad92fa2f38e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Scott_(41e63e76-a24c-4252-9cfd-ee5397e92053).tif
- **1918**, The 40th Artillery drawn up at the Palace of Fine Arts. Men of the 40th Artillery formed up for a panoramic portrait in front of the Palace of Fine Arts. The colonnade and rotunda, left over from the 1915 exposition, gave the army a ready-made ceremonial setting a short distance from the Presidio. From the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e8ba8291-9bbd-43e0-a73e-5711d77865d2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_of_Fine_Arts-_40th_(c1db77cd-500f-4724-a230-cda479c8387e).tif
- **1918**, Provisional ROTC regiment assembled at the Palace of Fine Arts. A panoramic photograph of a provisional Reserve Officers' Training Corps regiment drawn up before the Palace of Fine Arts in 1918. Wartime officer training filled San Francisco's exposition grounds and the neighbouring Presidio. The plate is part of the NPGallery collection covering the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b16f07ae-ef18-40b2-b9c2-1c110fb92064) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_Of_Fine_Arts-ROTC_(427d94e5-da58-46a3-ba1a-a96e74092e90).tif
- **1918**, Student Army Training Corps regiment massed at the Palace of Fine Arts. A provisional regiment of the Student Army Training Corps stands in formation in front of the Palace of Fine Arts, the surviving hall of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. The corps trained college-age men for service in the closing year of the First World War. The print comes from the National Park Service's Presidio of San Francisco holdings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/267605ae-2953-4fa6-b68f-040f708e1861) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_of_Fine_Arts-_SATC_(533f2596-9c4d-4634-8e6a-5a30e34b9317).tif
- **1918**, Student Army Training Corps regiment massed before the Palace of Fine Arts. A provisional regiment of the Students' Army Training Corps drawn up in front of the Palace of Fine Arts for a panoramic group photograph. The corps put college students into uniform on their own campuses during the last year of the First World War. The negative is held in the National Park Service's Presidio holdings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/79990296-9fa6-42dc-b89b-748ec2fcec36) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Provisional_Regiment_SATC_(1477e3d8-b240-428d-a73e-4a9fbff6f077).tif
- **1918**, ROTC officers stand bareheaded for a panoramic portrait. A wide-format group photograph of Reserve Officers' Training Corps members at the Presidio of San Francisco in 1918, posed with their hats removed. The Presidio was used to train and process officers during the First World War. The image is held in NPGallery and the photographer is not recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/12fbb138-fab9-47c3-8ce2-8bd6c1d4673f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROTC_on_the_Presidio_of_San_Francisco_NH_(5b790825-8a51-48fd-b781-90e8bce1ce1c).tif
- **1918**, Panoramic portrait of ROTC officers at the Presidio. A wide-format group photograph of Reserve Officers' Training Corps men drawn up in ranks on the Presidio, all wearing their hats. Panoramic cameras were standard for military unit portraits of this size. From the National Park Service holdings for the post. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c20ce062-3116-4845-a628-837b0101db86) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROTC_on_the_Presidio_of_San_Francisco_(f770617c-8c04-4eee-8d2a-5f14f1f08199).tif
- **1918**, Provisional officer training corps assembled at the Presidio. A panoramic group portrait of the provisional reserve officer training corps at the Presidio of San Francisco, made during the American mobilization for the First World War. The Presidio was the Army's main West Coast post, and camps like this one turned civilians into commissioned officers in a matter of weeks. The plate is held by NPGallery, the National Park Service image archive; the photographer is unrecorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/006cd5f6-91a9-4b02-b6bc-811d58b44345) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROTC_at_the_Presidio_(7c9586b7-1e36-43f0-a931-d4b6c602cbad).tif
### 1919
- **1919**, Field artillery battery drawn up at the Palace of Fine Arts. A panoramic photograph of Battery A, 144th Field Artillery, assembled in front of the Palace of Fine Arts in 1919. The Palace, built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, was kept on after the fair and used for gatherings like this one. The image comes from the Presidio collection in NPGallery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4a679e41-61d3-4a76-8ab3-ce4af2077762) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:144th_Field_Artillery_Battery_"A"_(ca396f7a-c6ab-4fe4-a67c-12d929a46521).tif
- **1919**, The 144th Field Artillery drawn up at the Palace of Fine Arts. The unit is drawn up in panoramic format before the Palace of Fine Arts, the surviving structure of the 1915 exposition on the city's waterfront. The photographer is unrecorded. The print comes from the National Park Service collection covering the Presidio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e9f7fedf-aed1-48fa-aef1-894815cd8461) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:144th_Field_Artillery_Battery_"B"_(c60e367b-1b14-4762-a0f6-a500a2b2eeeb).tif
- **1919**, 44th Infantry supply company massed at the Palace of Fine Arts. A wide panoramic portrait of the unit drawn up in front of the colonnade and rotunda built for the 1915 exposition. The Palace survived the fair as a landmark on the edge of the Presidio, and the army used its grounds as a backdrop for company photographs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f0bf3880-5e4d-4147-9620-d75d58824f69) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44th_Infantry_Supply_Company_(32ae42fc-f0aa-49bc-8895-e44da1844058).tif
- **1919**, Officers of the Presidio pose for a New Year's Day staff photograph. The full officer staff of the Presidio of San Francisco assembled for a panoramic group portrait on New Year's Day, 1919, weeks after the armistice. The post commanded a ring of coastal fortifications including Fort Mason, Fort Barry, Fort Miley and Alcatraz. The photograph is held in NPGallery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ef934740-93de-40a4-901a-7df6b434142f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Officers_at_the_Presidio_(28a05e84-5cf7-48b7-bbc9-df5ccdc02477).tif
### 1920
- **1920**, An infantry rifle company outside the Presidio brick barracks. Company "I" of the 44th Infantry poses in front of the brick barracks at the Presidio of San Francisco. The panoramic format let a whole company be recorded in one exposure, and such portraits were a fixture of garrison life at the post. The negative is held in the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7a70dd08-f236-422b-8a46-345bdee2ea4e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44th_Infantry_"I"_Company_(1a00b046-f897-477f-81b2-6ad7c89b17ff).tif
- **1920**, The 44th Infantry drawn up before the Palace of Fine Arts. A panoramic regimental photograph of the 44th Infantry with its officers and horses, formed up in front of the Palace of Fine Arts. The Palace, built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, stood beside the Presidio and was regularly used as a backdrop for unit portraits. The print comes from the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a64e9543-86ee-42d1-b49d-b9face6eea06) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44th_Infantry_(283c85e3-0543-4d11-8e2b-7f12d10575c8).tif
- **1920**, Supply company of the 44th Infantry before the Presidio brick barracks. The supply company of the 44th Infantry stands for a panoramic portrait in front of the brick barracks at the Presidio of San Francisco. Company photographs of this kind were made regularly so that every soldier in a unit appeared in a single long frame. The negative is held in the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/87d462e1-aded-40d0-ba98-939f034d0521) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44th_Infantry_"S"_Company_(a5e73496-46e6-4965-a0a5-46b04e3e359c).tif
- **1920**, HC Hanson Music House. Advertising Announcement of "Exclusive representation" for sale of Stieff pianos in the San Francisco Bay area and California territories. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5fa8b523-9082-4f72-adb5-8274f8c6db70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HC_Hanson_Music_House.jpg
- **1920**, Frances E. Lee [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/66b27e47-dfc9-4a0c-99ac-d7e0b743eb4f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_E._Lee.jpg
- **1920**, Hughes in SF 2. Fmr. Governor Charles Evans Hughes of New York at a reception for him in San Francisco, California. Former Gov. of New York and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Later Sec. of State and Chief Justice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1e875950-eb86-420b-b4e5-23b3fa559ffc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hughes_in_SF_2.jpg
### 1921
- **1921**, Sf Crissy Legend 1921. Aerial view of Crissy Airfield located on Presidio Army Base, with building legends assigned by Michael Mortimer - San Francisco history buff - 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/29e8ca40-139e-4e40-b9b3-7845d8653c39) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sf_Crissy_Legend_1921.jpg
- **1921**, Company of the 19th Infantry lined up at the Presidio. A panoramic group portrait of the regiment assembled in ranks, with the Presidio's brick barracks running behind them. The post was the U.S. Army's main Pacific Coast garrison, and wide-format company photographs like this were a standard record of a unit's stay there. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/134996ca-e959-46c4-a6af-7a316056495f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19th_Infantry_(68cb0374-e0fa-41c9-a816-75cb6e15a25a).tif
- **1921**, Panoramic photo of 91st Observation squad taken at Crissy field in 1921. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a554bb76-21c5-4fea-a4af-a992d32835d0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:91st_Observation_Squad_(84a88aa7-bb63-4d71-9f84-f547d3c29ad5).tif
- **1921**, 32nd Machine Gun Company assembled at the Palace of Fine Arts. A wide panoramic exposure of the company's officers, men and horses drawn up in formation in front of the Palace of Fine Arts. The image belongs to the Presidio of San Francisco's collection of military panoramas, made when the post was still an active Army garrison. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/27545017-bb78-4b35-bd18-821c5f486848) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:32nd_Machine_Gun_Company_(f83c507c-c445-49f9-a338-d9452a344e92).tif
- **1921**, The 91st Observation Squadron drawn up on Crissy Field. A panoramic view of the squadron on the Presidio's airfield beside the Golden Gate. Crissy Field was then an active Army air station, and the flat ground along the shoreline is now parkland within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/eb60501c-808a-4d6a-8a3c-c5d6c2df0dba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crissy_Field_(4f7ba405-d6b5-4ac4-a088-b88141e82fca).tif
- **1921**, Coast Artillery Corps on review at Fort Winfield Scott. Troops of the Coast Artillery Corps stand in formation for a review at Fort Winfield Scott, the artillery post occupying the western edge of the Presidio of San Francisco. Fort Winfield Scott controlled the batteries guarding the entrance to the Golden Gate. The panoramic negative is held in the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0ab30871-f271-4c98-bbef-d9ba96e6d7ed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ft_Winfield_Scott_(378246bb-2868-41e3-b883-d31ac4694ca2).tif
- **1921**, Headquarters company of the 32nd Infantry outside its brick barracks. A panoramic group portrait of the 32nd Infantry headquarters company, lined up in front of one of the Presidio's brick barracks blocks. The wide-format camera used here was standard for army unit photographs, which were sold to the soldiers themselves. The negative comes from the National Park Service's Presidio holdings; the photographer is unrecorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0d898643-58c1-442e-a41d-eaec3cce6b84) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Headquarters_32nd_Infantry_(fc93767b-eab4-4783-810c-924cc79bd76a).tif
- **1921**, Panoramic portrait of an Army motor repair corps at the Presidio. A wide panoramic camera captures the Inspection Motor Repair Corps assembled with its vehicles at the Presidio of San Francisco. The post kept its own motor pool and repair units as the Army shifted from horses to trucks and cars after the First World War. The negative comes from the National Park Service's NPGallery collection of Presidio panoramas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0014b0a9-3558-4e24-9c74-9045ee504d9f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inspection_Motor_Repair_Corp_(9f88f8af-9dbe-48a6-883e-fff8bca6932d).tif
- **1921**, Prsf crissy arial 1921. Aerial View on Crissy Field, US Army Air Field, part of Presidio of San Francisco 1921–1923, row of white houses in the foreground are pilot quarters, then hangars and airfield with barracks, building at the bay is the coast guard station of 1890. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3141dc59-849e-401f-9b05-c1937f667686) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prsf_crissy_arial_1921.jpg
- **1921**, Prsf crissy 1921 24. Crissy Field, US Army Air Field, part of Presidio of San Francisco 1921-1924, De Havillands of the 15th Photo Section (left) and 91st Observation Squadron (middle) ready on the flight line by the hangars at the west end of Crissy Field [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/548b59f6-c7d8-44cb-9993-006e31ed0978) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prsf_crissy_1921_24.jpg
- **1921**, Holmes wooden stave cylinders driven at Pier 34. A working photograph made for the San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Committee, which surveyed how the bay's waters attacked timber piling under the city's piers. The cylinders shown being driven at Pier 34 were one of the protective methods the committee assessed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d91b68e2-5206-4b50-b5f5-e3668f653452) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_49816_Holmes_wooden_stave_cylinders_being_driven_at_Pier_34,_San_Francisco.jpeg
- **1921**, Holmes cylinders at the outer end of Pier 34 under construction. The seaward end of Pier 34 during building work, showing the Holmes cylinders used to carry the structure into the bay. The photograph was made for the San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Committee, which surveyed how marine borers and salt water were destroying the port's timber piling. Its findings pushed the waterfront toward concrete construction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1fb42a74-5be6-42d1-8215-3a6082fa0ef5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_49817_Outer_end_of_Pier_34,_San_Francisco,_during_construction,_showing_Holmes_cylinders.jpeg
- **1921**, Inside a Chinese lodging house in San Francisco. A Library of Congress print showing the interior of a Chinatown lodging house, catalogued with the questioning note that it may be an opium den. That uncertainty in the archive record reflects how outsiders photographed and labelled the district's interiors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8655a287-c589-4300-8d13-e6d3cdc45d80) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Chinese_lodging_house_(opium_den?),_San_Francisco,_California_LCCN90715661.jpg
- **1921**, Inside a Chinese lodging house in Chinatown. The Library of Congress catalogues this interior as a lodging house, with a questioning note that it may be an opium den. The caption reflects how outsiders labelled Chinatown's crowded rooming houses as much as it describes what is in the frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8fa55227-644f-4d6f-bb19-021b599faae9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Chinese_lodging_house_(opium_den?),_San_Francisco,_California_LCCN90715661.tif
### 1922
- **1922**, Scene from "East is West" a 1922 film.. 1923 and is in the public domain [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a1752aa5-a6e3-4ea6-8a41-a0a74f451420) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Sanfransico_from_the_movie_east_is_west_-_1922.jpg
- **1922**, Scene from "East is West" a 1922 film.. 1923 and is in the public domain [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/21d5502a-272f-4f56-bc07-93a4683b816d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Sanfransico-chinatown_from_the_movie_east_is_west_-_1922.jpg
- **1922**, Portrait of Donaldina Cameron as a young woman. A bust-length studio portrait of Donaldina Cameron, the Presbyterian mission worker known for her work among women and girls in San Francisco's Chinatown. The photographer is not recorded. She is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/80145f86-f8d0-47ed-8456-c85598359807) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DonaldinaCameron.jpg
### 1923
- **1923**, Supply company of the 30th Infantry with officers and horses. The supply company of the 30th Infantry lines up before a brick barracks at the Presidio of San Francisco, officers and horses included in the frame. The 30th was one of the regular Army regiments stationed at the post between the wars. The panoramic negative is held in the National Park Service's Presidio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/003d5f0d-1e49-4a57-9666-badda99e40ae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:30th_Infantry_"S"_Company_(5a14a0a3-b414-41e5-978c-1370aa064f59).tif
- **1923**, The 30th Infantry lined up before a brick building at the Presidio. A panoramic photograph of the 30th Infantry Regiment drawn up in front of a brick building on the Presidio grounds, with officers to the front and dogs among the ranks. The setting is associated with Letterman, the army hospital that stood on the post. The print is held by the National Park Service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d6b1b11e-d521-4b8e-944b-0cb0d0aed443) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:30th_Infantry_Regimental_Troop_(d0eed997-23e6-4992-aacf-0da15512a4b9).tif
- **1923**, The Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship S.S. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/08d6ea82-0b6a-484c-aaea-b6f9cbbbb981) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamship_S._S._Golden_Gate.JPG
### 1924
- **1924**, Quarter masters' corps at Fort McDowell, Cal.. 16/24. Celebrating 149 Anniversary of the Quartermaster Depot” taken by J.D. Givens. Keywords: Presidio; Golden Gate; Panoramic; Troop Photo; Regiments [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f1906d73-d407-4d61-8ac5-2de204c6b480) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_McDowell,_California_(35329537-7689-4826-9ab9-e3ae026d357f).tif
- **1924**, Katharine Maurer, the deaconess of Angel Island. Maurer served as a Methodist deaconess at the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco Bay, where arrivals from Asia were held for inspection. The portrait ran in the Woman's Home Missionary Society journal Woman's Home Missions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/761e53da-64d3-4642-9b5b-269b977bbe61) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katharine_Maurer_(Woman's_Home_Missions,_1924).png
- **1924**, Cartoon showing how they went to California in forty-nine. A Nathaniel Currier cartoon on the improbable contraptions imagined for getting gold seekers to California, including craft in the air as well as at sea. This copy is a glass negative from the Harris and Ewing collection at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f1efbdd4-fb83-4eb5-bbd2-75ac8ee803dd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"How_they_went_to_California_in_'49"_LCCN2016887346.jpg
### 1928
- **1928**, Supply company of the 30th Infantry assembled at the Presidio. The 30th Infantry's supply company poses in panoramic format alongside a brick barracks building at the Presidio of San Francisco. The regiment was among the long-term garrison units stationed at the post between the wars. The photograph survives in the National Park Service collection without an attributed photographer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2bab67ab-a727-4336-930f-efd1b0b0d8ed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:30th_Infantry_"S"_Company_(9e77e881-6842-48e0-b43f-992abbeffc5e).tif
### 1930
- **1930**, Postcard advertising Chinatown nightclub performer Mae Tai Sing. A colour linen-texture postcard published by the Tichnor Brothers, billing Mae Tai Sing as an elected queen appearing in person at a California statehood centennial celebration. It belongs to a run of Tichnor cards promoting musicians and performers working in San Francisco's Chinatown. The card survives in the Boston Public Library's Tichnor Brothers collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0591a8fd-165f-4f94-ac2c-07f7f561dd15) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:See_Elected_Queen_Mae_Tai_Sing_in_Person,_Statehood_Centennial_Celebration_1950_(82390).jpg
### 1931
- **1931**, Health officers examining passengers aboard the liner Shimyo Maru. Public Health Service officers inspect passengers on the deck of the Shinyo Maru off Angel Island, where arrivals to San Francisco Bay were screened before landing. Shipboard medical examination was the first stage of the immigration process, ahead of detention at the island station. The photograph belongs to the Public Health Service historical file at the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f4b1379a-c3c4-4e31-9ecf-4057e7264982) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Examining_Passengers_Aboard_Ships,_Vessel_is_the_Shimyo_Maru,_Angel_Island,_California,_1931_(11206525434).jpg
### 1933
- **1933**, View of early Golden Gate Bridge construction around Fort Point, 1933. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8635078f-be63-481f-ae3d-bea7246ebffc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_early_Golden_Gate_Bridge_construction_around_Fort_Point,_1933.jpg
- **1933**, Presidio, San Francisco.. 1933 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4a6ed34c-10a7-4125-89ef-9a028ef6668c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_A._Seacord,_Vice_President_Veterans_of_America_in_1933_Presidio.jpg
### 1934
- **1934**, Harvey Milk as a boy, standing beside his brother Robert. A family snapshot of the two Milk brothers, Robert on the left and Harvey on the right, taken decades before Harvey Milk moved to California. The image is filed under New York State, where the family lived. It was contributed to the public record by his nephew Stuart Milk; the photographer was an unnamed family member. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/226ce110-8a17-41ff-b9fd-dc6a0482a812) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_and_Harvey_Milk_1934.JPG
- **1934**, Lessons from the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. In 1934, the working classes across the West Coast were engaged in a fierce battle against the capitalists and the labor aristocracy. They were slandered, beaten, and raided, but they did not back down. Today, faced with the failures of capitalism, we must learn from the past. Further Reading: The [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/70abb366-aa6d-4a83-b6c1-d2f40fbab6a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOWuh7ZE1I
- **1934**, The San Francisco General Strike of 1934. General strikes have long been a dream of America’s radical labor leaders. 90 years ago, dock workers made that dream a reality in San Francisco, sending ripples across the country for generations. What happened to bring this dream to life? For more information visit: laborontheline.org #ILWU #l [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4691826a-7d2a-4752-8381-3bf71220e5b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY2TWu8P_08
- **1934**, Longshoremen shut the Port of San Francisco. Silent period film of the coastwide longshore walkout that closed the Port of San Francisco in spring 1934. Every West Coast port stopped, with the union-controlled hiring hall as the central demand. The print circulates through the Internet Archive from a public-domain source. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/51dbc281-1ed4-473c-bad9-f23cdc48efe1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBLjnj9dNUA
- **1934**, San Francisco General Strike, 1934 - Part 1 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d533f673-cb0d-4756-942a-a55feb3fddc4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtiHww0gUng
- **1934**, What can the 1934 San Francisco General Strike teach us today?. In 1934, workers across San Francisco rose up in one of the greatest general strikes in U.S. history. As the billionaire war on the working class continues, we must learn from our history to fight back. For more information visit laborontheline.org [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/92326436-eb20-4968-a23d-470ac7bc3c08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhmmu4HvclQ
- **1934**, Unedited newsreel rushes of the waterfront rioting. Raw, unedited newsreel material from the 1934 waterfront strike held by a commercial historical film library. Because it is uncut rushes rather than a released newsreel, it shows the street action without the narration a studio would later lay over it. Footage Farm posts such reels as unedited historical documents for research. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c05260b8-cd59-493e-b7c6-6c310b7bfdca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIKcmMDRQKE
- **1934**, San Francisco General Strike (silent, 1934). This footage captures San Francisco in the throes of the 1934 general strike, ignited by escalating violence in the longshore strike. The city appears eerily deserted, with empty streets and closed stores, while abandoned vehicles sit where they ran out of fuel. Mayor Angelo Rossi addresses the tens [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c9bc6e54-80c6-4dc9-86e7-1dd088a182c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_Mw-v9EpQ
- **1934**, The city stops during the general strike. Period film of the San Francisco general strike, voted by the Labor Council's strike committee after the silent funeral march for Sperry and Bordoise up Market Street on 9 July. Roughly 130,000 workers across the city stopped work from 16 to 19 July in support of the longshoremen. Only a handful of designated services were allowed to keep running. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/889c3ff1-3c7d-4937-b75c-a8ae5b924f95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvo1ViCmmLU
- **1934**, Dockworkers hold out for eighty-eight days. Archival strike film assembled around the West Coast walkout led by Harry Bridges as chair of the strike committee. Police and National Guard troops beat and shot workers, with deaths in California, Oregon and Washington. The dispute went to arbitration, and the October 1934 award granted the coastwide contract and the hiring hall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/28710eb0-66bb-477d-9423-71d9ae792ff3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdM9GioUKw4
- **1934**, Longshore pickets march through San Francisco. Silent 16mm footage of San Francisco longshore workers on the picket line during the 1934 waterfront strike, marching with hand-lettered demands. The coastwide walkout began on 9 May 1934 over the union-controlled hiring hall that would replace the shape-up. Held and digitised by the A/V Geeks 16mm film archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/302aede3-f3b9-4767-91a8-62a1d12e6771) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigKMjS7tPU
- **1934**, Unedited newsreel rushes from the longshoremen's strike. Raw, unedited newsreel material of the 1934 longshoremen's strike, held by the commercial stock library Footage Farm and posted as a research document. Unlike cut newsreels, this preserves the camera takes as shot on the waterfront. The San Francisco Film and Photo League's own strike footage was destroyed in the vigilante raids of 17 July 1934, which makes surviving rushes unusually valuable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/04617b43-5e48-4341-92ec-ed492dbb9602) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYItsRZC9k0
- **1934**, British Pathe rushes of American strikes and marches. Unissued British Pathe material from 1934 showing demonstration marches in an American city, with a Maritime Federation of the Pacific banner among the ranks. Pathe's own paperwork for the reel is missing, so the cameraman and precise location are not recorded. It survives as an unedited fragment of how the waterfront dispute looked to a newsreel camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a66aeea2-b731-4fa6-a435-bd810f549a95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-JqrZUWM5k
- **1934**, Stock footage of the city stopped by the general strike. Unedited archival film of San Francisco during the general strike of July 1934, presented by CriticalPast in the form it survives. The general strike ran from 16 to 19 July, called by the Labor Council after the funeral march for the two men killed on the waterfront. Shuttered shops and emptied streets are the documentary record of a city where only designated services kept running. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1ddfdbc4-e41c-4ece-8c6d-ed11d47da8b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxHbJU6KPW0
- **1934**, Police clubs against union pickets on the waterfront. Archival footage of San Francisco police fighting union pickets as employers tried to move cargo off the docks. The confrontations ran through early July 1934 and culminated on the fifth, when police and vigilantes fired on strikers and killed longshoreman Howard Sperry and cook Nick Bordoise. CriticalPast presents the reel unedited and without a broadcast narration track. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b042eeba-fa74-4351-aa10-0c306bf33198) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUs60bDqpg
- **1934**, Longshoremen packed into a hall to vote the strike. Archival film of San Francisco dock workers assembled in a union meeting during the 1934 waterfront dispute. The mass meeting was the strike's real machinery: Harry Bridges chaired the strike committee, and the coastwide walkout that began on 9 May ran 82 days on decisions taken in rooms like this one. The footage survives without sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/58f62f47-f8ec-4bb5-9cbe-3186c5121dea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_SgT8FnoI
- **1934**, Immigration Service telegram sent during the waterfront strike. A wire from Commissioner MacCormack to the district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at Angel Island, dated 22 May 1934, during the San Francisco maritime and general strike. It belongs to the INS file on labour leader Harry Bridges, an Australian immigrant whom the service twice tried and failed to deport over alleged Communist Party ties. Held by the National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f84959f6-02f3-4a0b-859b-641f15c881aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telegram_from_MacCormack_to_District_Director,_INS,_Angel_Island,_California._-_NARA_-_296492.jpg
- **1934-07-05**, Newsreel cameras on the Embarcadero during the waterfront strike. A 1934 theatrical newsreel on the West Coast longshore strike, which ran 82 days from 9 May to 30 July and turned on the union's demand for a hiring hall to replace the shape-up. The footage covers the Embarcadero fighting of Bloody Thursday, 5 July, when police moved to open the docks and Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise were shot dead. Sixty-four others were injured that day. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9f6832e2-a4e9-4dd8-9814-d6301ce875fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCYMRpEoSo
- **1934-07-05**, Police fire tear gas at strikers on the waterfront. Stock-footage transfer of 1934 film shot at the Port of San Francisco during the West Coast waterfront strike. Police in gas masks use tear gas and drawn guns against longshoremen on the Embarcadero. This is the repression that preceded Governor Frank Merriam ordering the National Guard onto the waterfront on the evening of 5 July. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a26bfe4d-8bf8-4505-95bc-ba9eff6e6c1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLt6E6Z3vA
- **1934-07-16**, Movietone cameras on the Embarcadero as the general strike opens. British Movietone newsreel filmed on 16 July 1934, the first day of the San Francisco general strike, when roughly 130,000 workers stopped work across the city. The camera holds on massed strikers, mounted police and tear-gas canisters bursting in the street. The West Coast waterfront strike had by then run since 9 May over the longshoremen's demand for a union-controlled hiring hall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/26c11932-958b-4399-ba79-f21942ee89f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvyd7N0vh8s
- **1934-07-23**, British Movietone films the militia in the streets. British Movietone material dated 23 July 1934, filmed in the week after the San Francisco general strike ended on 19 July. The shots show crowds and militia in the streets, tear gas bursting, and stretchers carried from buildings. It is a foreign newsreel service recording an American city under armed guard, now held through the AP Archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5d71505c-5691-4bfd-a54a-78e1d6c3d478) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055zkBqyh-w
### 1935
- **1935**, Dodges Presidio 1935 - O.Drab MashUp - mmu get. 1934 Dodge 1½-ton, 4x4 Cargo Trucks from the 38th Infantry Service Company, 3rd Infantry Division (Marine), Camp Green, North Carolina, loaded with soldiers, gathered on parade ground, Presidio of San Francisco (CA), 1935. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/eee2aad2-e0fd-4fc6-97b8-3e3e5ebe0c93) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dodges_Presidio_1935—O.Drab_MashUp–mmu_get.jpg
- **1935**, The immigration station buildings on Angel Island. A black and white view of the U.S. Immigration Station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. The station processed arrivals from across the Pacific and became best known for the long detentions imposed on Chinese immigrants under the exclusion laws. The image is filed under the station's Commons category but carries no further detail about the specific buildings shown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2a3b3c68-680c-4897-a6c3-99ac9ca69ed7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_island_lg.jpg
### 1936
- **1936**, \[San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction\] ca. 1933 - 1936. San Francisco Bay Bridge during construction at various times showing progress of bridge. Oakland and San Francisco, California Great historical footage of the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 1930s. Workers standing on steel beams, steel beams craned into place. We digitiz [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f806feeb-0fd5-4c12-98f8-280e93324d48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEbc363-3g
- **1936**, Building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1937) Restored to 4K \| Hi. Step back in time to witness the monumental construction of one of America's greatest engineering feats, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, captured in this rare 1937 film and now beautifully restored to 4K resolution with enhanced clarity and reduced noise. Originally produced by the Handy (Jam) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/41640408-0270-466b-9cf6-0846443591f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdWaCbnmEE
- **1936**, Golden Gate Bridge Being Constructed (1936). Full title reads: "San Francisco". California, United States of America (USA). Various shots of Golden Gate Bridge (aka San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge) under construction. There is a massive wire mesh net strung underneath the bridge - it is a safety precaution to save lives of construction [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0519e6e3-999e-43ea-bcc1-e7d5d91f75c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnysytJJt2U
- **1936**, Golden Gate Bridge 1936. This is a 16mm home movie shot by my grandparents in November of 1936. My grandfather was invited by the Governor to attend the opening ceremonies of the Oakland Bay Bridge on Nov. 12th, 1936. While they were there, they did a lot of sight-seeing. In this shot, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b8570fd0-8dc9-4a6b-8cda-e43c73bf523c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmjDWohHCiE
- **1936**, Pattullo Bridge under construction in 1936/1937 and then crossing the op. The bridge was built from August 27, 1936 to November 15, 1937 The bridge was named for BC Liberal premier of the day Duff Pattullo. The bridge was the first purpose built bridge for cars over the lower Fraser River. Before it opened car traffic was carried on the double deck New Westminster b [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b9981b9c-733b-409c-ad5c-39a785729357) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNax7dRT_XE
### 1937
- **1937**, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IS BUILT 1933-1937. For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / info@historicfilms.com) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2bf1362a-5aaf-41d0-8d59-f653d07d5270) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6w7TnyKsBw
- **1937**, How They Built the Golden Gate Bridge Without Power Tools In 1937. This fascinating documentary reveals how the Golden Gate Bridge was built in 1937 without modern power tools, defying engineering limits of its time. Through rare photographs, historic accounts, and expert insight, we explore how workers used hand-driven rivets, simple hoists, cable spinning, and ra [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9175f8f5-9e2b-4197-9674-a166fe523e96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J29jmuuWFc0
- **1937**, This Is How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built, 1937 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3cebd790-7d1d-4a2b-9b4a-ddc7605f54c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-F6g7Ghz-M
- **1937**, Golden Gate Bridge Construction - In Color (1933–1937). Step back into one of the most iconic construction projects in history, the making of the Golden Gate Bridge, now brought to life in rare color footage and detailed storytelling. This video takes you beyond the finished masterpiece and into the raw, dangerous, and fascinating reality of how the b [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b52bcf20-6463-4f3b-96e4-3797e42b7b9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wmwo-Bi_oo
- **1937**, The Machines That Built the Golden Gate Bridge (1933-1937). In 1933, construction crews attempted something never done before: building a bridge foundation in the open Pacific Ocean. The Golden Gate strait funneled more than two million cubic feet of water per second through a channel only a mile wide. Tidal currents hit seven and a half knots. Divers had tw [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0c089881-adc8-40f5-af21-e06776c5ed33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tlY17wWQ0
- **1937**, Thomas Brothers street map of the Presidio army base. A commercial wall map by Geo. Thomas laying out the roads of the Presidio while it was still a working U.S. Army post. It records the base's internal street plan three decades before the site passed into civilian hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f960f52c-d747-4ed0-b159-53b8b18ba4a4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_1937.jpg
### 1938
- **1938**, Wall map detail of the Presidio and northern waterfront. A section cut from a large Thomas Bros wall map of San Francisco, showing streets, transit lines and landmarks across the Presidio, Fort Mason, the Palace of Fine Arts and Fisherman's Wharf. Thomas Bros maps were the standard commercial street guides for California cities. The detail records the northern shoreline as it stood in the late 1930s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/16d53008-47eb-4cdd-b280-41ddd402590c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio,_San_Francisco,_1938.jpg
### 1940
- **1940**, Manhandling Willys MB or MA jeep by Golden Gate bridge.. 35256.0312. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b7d35b1b-a287-46e0-bfad-6aefb918ffad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manhandling_Willys_MB_or_Ford_GPW_jeep_by_Golden_Gate_bridge.jpg
- **1940**, Soldiers working on a jeep below the Golden Gate Bridge. Army personnel repair a Willys jeep at the Presidio with the bridge standing behind them. The scene records the routine mechanical work of a garrison post during the war years. Credited to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area park archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f2b7c677-fac1-4530-801f-b3d072e4f65c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soldiers_Repairing_Jeep_Near_Golden_Gate_Bridge_at_the_Presidio_San_Francisco.jpg
- **1940**, A wartime film follows a Richmond hull from keel to launch. A 1940s American educational documentary on the Richmond shipyards, following a ship from the laying of the keel through to launch. Yard No. 2's prefabrication plant and 27 shipways were the signature Richmond sight, and prefabrication is what allowed the SS Robert E. Peary to go from keel to launch in four days in November 1942 against a realistic yard average of about 42 days. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/906c6569-8800-4a58-b172-1a49cde0ff13) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eMwC6PQMG0
- **1940**, Rudolph Schaeffer School, St.. 1940. Rudolph Schaeffer papers, 1880s-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/aa537c45-c203-4c67-a0ba-5330470fb20e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolph_Schaeffer_School.jpg
### 1941
- **1941**, A wartime travelogue tours the working waterfront. A black-and-white Columbia Pictures theatrical short released in 1941, surveying San Francisco from Fisherman's Wharf outward. It films the port and the city in the last months before the shipyards took over the Bay, when the Navy was acquiring the Hunters Point drydocks from Bethlehem Steel and construction was beginning on Richmond Yard No. 1. Preserved and posted by an orphan-film archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1c6adc52-e768-4bdf-aef9-de0acb9b7ac0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I36npOsN0MI
### 1942
- **1942**, Chinatown storefronts on the eve of Japanese American removal. Dorothea Lange photographed this pair of shops on Grant Avenue for the War Relocation Authority, contrasting the store at right, run by a proprietor of Japanese ancestry, with its neighbour. Lange's caption notes the shop was doing heavy trade as removal approached, after earlier losing custom to a boycott of Japanese goods; its owner faced confinement in a relocation centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/63448c4f-8add-4882-9368-bbd422466fbf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco,_California._A_study_in_contrast_in_Chinatown,_The_store_on_the_right_is_operated_by_._._._-_NARA_-_536471.jpg
- **1942**, Japanese-American Internment During WWII \| History. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Government issued executive order 9066, which empowered the military to round up anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in internment camps. #HISTORY #HistoryChannel Newsletter: Website - [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/45edb1da-0ae3-40c2-867f-35624255e42f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTioTkHcB0
- **1942**, Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho. Dig into the historic injustice of Japanese American incarceration camps, also known as internment camps, during World War II. -- On December 7, 1941, 16 year-old Aki Kurose shared in the horror of millions of Americans when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. Unbeknownst to her, this shared e [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/93432646-7765-44a0-b491-1f273a5cf08f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M
- **1942**, Redwood cross-section with its growth rings dated by plaque. A cut section of virgin coast redwood, labelled as 864 years old, with small markers pinned to individual growth rings to align them against historical events. The annotations reach from the Battle of Hastings and Kublai Khan through the Declaration of Independence and the California Gold Rush. The photograph comes from the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information file at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b4d7261e-8b22-4461-a0f7-b85105a55f5d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virgin_redwood,_864_years_old_1a35447v.jpg
- **1942**, This Man Filmed Life Inside an Internment Camp. Dave Tatsuno was one of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans rounded up in the U.S. in 1942 and placed in an internment camp. The home movie footage he captures of life within those fences is both moving and troubling. From the Series: America in Color: The 1940s [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c8a05a14-4fe0-40cb-a198-0f91707a2e2d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYxEv95uuBk
- **1942**, 1942 Internment of Japanese-Americans. TC IN: 014520 TC OUT: 014628 Military police patrolling and checking vehicles; Japanese-Americans being searched while they collect their belongings; men are frisked and trucks are loaded; a vast concentration camp for the interned people. Keyw [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1d42d6a2-8397-4b53-9d93-6136c2b35b2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRqJeboI-_Q
- **1942**, The History of Japanese Internment at Angel Island During World War II. Best known as being a U.S. immigration station from 1910-1940, Angel Island also housed a Temporary Detention Center in the first part of World War II, briefly housing about 700 Japanese "enemy aliens" from Hawai\`i and the West Coast before they went to Department of Justice and U.S. Army camps thro [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4d8551f3-ed86-4d43-ab44-6d3d520b095d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_vTP3VgGk
- **1942**, How WW2 Made Life A Living Hell For Japanese-Americans (PART 1) \| Silent. This is the riveting, emotional story of Japanese Americans who were forced into encampments in the U.S. during World War II. Utilizing in-depth interviews with former internees, a rich collection of rare photos and film clips, and beautifully crafted recreations, Silent Sacrifice reveals the pain, [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b830cc7f-a466-463c-a3a0-d0d920995b7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE1AgMXH-gg
- **1942**, Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps. Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, two months after Japan’s [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d8d20231-6bf8-4e50-b267-bd732d43582d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOUNwZA4aQ
### 1943
- **1943-05-07**, The Carver goes down the ways at Richmond Yard One. Archival newsreel of the launch of the Liberty ship George Washington Carver, sponsored by Lena Horne before a crowd of about 1,500 at Kaiser's Richmond Yard No. 1 on 7 May 1943. The Office of War Information sent photographer E.F. Joseph to document the largely African American workforce that built her. Footage Farm holds the reel as an unedited historical document. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/25670a98-5835-4aeb-931a-87ea7f52b789) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7eyvqRqQDU
- **1943-05-07**, Lena Horne launches the SS George Washington Carver. Silent newsreel of Lena Horne sponsoring the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver at Richmond Yard No. 1, launched before a crowd of about 1,500. The ship was named for the Black scientist and was built by a workforce that included roughly a thousand Black women across the four Richmond yards. The launch drew the OWI photographer E. F. Joseph, whose series on the Carver's builders is now at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/de162b92-54eb-41b5-af05-509fd337808c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwsHJSCYHg8
### 1944
- **1944**, Neal Cassady in a Denver police mugshot. Cassady was photographed by Denver police in 1944, years before he became the restless driver at the centre of Beat writing and a fixture of the San Francisco scene. The booking image is one of the earliest surviving photographs of him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7952095b-e9af-4424-ba71-ae46e69d17a7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neal.png
### 1945
- **1945**, Main Streets of America.. 1945. From the National Archives 111-SC box 692 329507. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5f8f193f-b3b0-4023-a92c-8b27cfb500a4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Borden's_ICE_CREAM"_sign,_San_Francisco,_CA_Chinatown_in_1945_(2729050830)_(cropped).jpg
### 1946
- **1946**, Birth of Victory at the Richmond shipyards. A 1946 industrial film on the Richmond shipyards and their part in wartime production, following the prefabrication plant and the shipways that made Yard No. 2 the highest-volume yard on the coast. The Richmond yards closed in 1945 to 1946 having delivered 747 ships, among them 519 Liberty ships, about a fifth of the American total. Preserved by the Charlie Dean Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/313550d1-3603-4742-8492-f09fecdc7c95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEoNWHo_zQU
### 1950
- **1950**, Journey into the past, San Francisco, 1950!. I always loved traveling to the past, old postcards, photographs, films and of course books. Everything is interesting, how people dressed, what were cars, shop windows and bars, advertising on city streets, etc. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a42d36c0-7fd8-4a68-b01e-61af5716c79b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UcJA49BS_s
- **1950**, Three-cent stamp marking a century of California statehood. Issued on 9 September 1950 for the hundredth anniversary of California's admission to the Union. The central vignette shows a miner panning for gold and a pioneer couple beside an ox-drawn wagon; the side panel carries a citrus tree and the ship that brought word of statehood. Engraved by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6fb6aae4-0590-4c0d-94bd-5a4ebc60ccc6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_statehood_1950_U.S._stamp.tiff
### 1952
- **1952**, Corporal Joan Mansfield at the Sixth Army photography laboratory. A Signal Corps picture of Mansfield working as a photography technician at the Sixth Army Central Photography Laboratory at the Presidio of San Francisco. She trained at the Army Photographic Laboratories at the Pentagon, and the caption presented her post as evidence of career openings for women in the service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9e587ac4-d938-4243-835b-80c00c849c02) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SC_411548_-_Cpl._Joan_Mansfield_is_assigned_as_a_photography_technician_at_the_Sixth_Army_Central_Photography_Laboratory,_Presidio_of_San_Francisco,_Calif._(50188354483).jpg
### 1954
- **1954**, Harvey Milk in Navy dress uniform at his brother's wedding. A family snapshot of Milk during his service in the United States Navy, taken at his brother's wedding. It comes from the family's own holdings, supplied by his nephew Stuart Milk, and shows him two decades before he entered San Francisco politics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/674dc6e4-78be-44fa-9f81-4d090f15be55) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_Dress_Navy_1954.jpg
- **1954**, Straightened portrait of Milk in his Navy dress blues. A corrected version of the family photograph taken at his brother's wedding, with the tilt of the original scan removed. Milk's Navy years are documented almost entirely through images kept by his relatives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/73feafba-7bbe-4e86-aeaa-5bb058df321a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_Dress_Navy_1954_tilt_removed.jpg
### 1955
- **1955**, Ginsberg's HOWL conjured by Alex Caldiero. Howl by Allen Ginsberg was first unleashed at the 6 Poets 6 Gallery reading on Oct. 7, 1955 in San Francisco. We honor this event by presenting a pre-howl digital mix of poets and musicians, then Alex Caldiero conjures Ginsberg's Howl. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8879671c-653e-44dc-b002-c196209839c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdqUPnULPs4
- **1955**, JACK KEROUAC's account of The Six Gallery Poetry reading '55. Geoffrey Pond performs a monologue written by Jack Kerouac. Jack's account The Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco Oct 7, 1955. The night HOWL was first read by Allen Ginsberg. Kenneth Rexroth presented five young poets Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, and Phili [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/469eb4f2-f7d3-4ccb-ba77-ba63dece9d68) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5eLNRRKlyQ
- **1955**, San Francisco 1955 (HD 60FPS) (Remastered, Colourized & Upscaled). AI Video Upscaling Program Used: (Affiliate). San Francisco 1955 (HD 60FPS) (Remastered, Colourized & Upscaled) Cinemascope homage to the city of San Francisco made by amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini. Remastered, Colourized & Upsc [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9a820e5f-b46a-4c6f-bad8-f0c5a872f02f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpSkwnXVN4
- **1955-07-13**, Rexroth closes with The Mirror in the Woods. The final part of Kenneth Rexroth's July 1955 Poetry Center recording, closing with his poem The Mirror in the Woods. No recording of the 6 Gallery reading exists, which makes contemporaneous tape of its master of ceremonies the closest surviving sound of that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/102b4643-569c-4e54-8f8a-c975f3cf8945) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZuWEMYnV8
- **1955-07-13**, Rexroth reads The Lights in the Sky Are Stars. Part four of the Poetry Center's July 1955 session with Kenneth Rexroth, reading from his sequence The Lights in the Sky Are Stars. Recorded at the Little Theater at San Francisco State College, in the months before Rexroth convened the 6 Gallery reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4534b706-d6d5-47fd-b140-be3d09008013) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpcvi-Swxy8
- **1955-07-13**, Rexroth reads at the San Francisco Poetry Center. Recorded by the Poetry Center at the Little Theater, San Francisco State College, on 13 July 1955, less than three months before Rexroth would MC the 6 Gallery reading. He reads from One Hundred Poems from the Chinese and In Defense of the Earth and talks about translation. This is contemporaneous audio of the man at the centre of the San Francisco Renaissance in the exact year of the reading nobody recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/655576f0-dab5-45b4-bfaa-250d18d36782) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzez_pS3lso
- **1955-07-13**, Rexroth reads his Chinese translations at the Little Theater. The second part of Kenneth Rexroth's July 1955 Poetry Center recording, in which he reads from One Hundred Poems from the Chinese. Rexroth was the elder of the San Francisco Renaissance and the master of ceremonies at the 6 Gallery reading that October. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6f97c8fd-813d-43a5-acdd-43064f6d5b25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Qrq4LHR9Y
- **1955-07-13**, Rexroth records at San Francisco State on translation. Kenneth Rexroth reads from One Hundred Poems from the Chinese and In Defense of the Earth and talks about translating poetry, recorded by the Poetry Center at the Little Theater, San Francisco State College. This opening part takes up William Carlos Williams and Lawrence Hart. Rexroth would introduce the six poets at the 6 Gallery three months later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d5e46688-18df-4174-868f-957057d1b04c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQzDyDNKLyE
### 1959
- **1959**, Contestants for Miss Beatnik pose beside a piece of beatnik art. Five contestants for the title of Miss Beatnik of 1959 stand before a sample of beatnik artwork ahead of the judging, sponsored by the Venice Arts Committee in Venice, California. The Los Angeles Times caption names them as Michi Monteef, Sammy McCord, Patti McCrory, Shaunna Lea and, at the rear, Jan Vandaveer. The image documents how quickly the Beat scene was turned into a publicity contest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0f00447c-33d5-488e-af9d-e34db00c491b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MissBeatnik.jpg
- **1959**, F8U-1 VF-124 Golden GateNAN5 60. Two U.S. Navy Vought F8U-1 Crusader s of fighter squadron VF-124 Gunfighters over the Golden Gate Bridge, California (USA), ca. 1959. VF-124 was a fleet replacement squadron which trained pilots. It was established on 11 April 1958 and disestablished on 30 September 1994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/281efcc8-3025-4f8b-a160-8aef91295ea1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F8U-1_VF-124_Golden_GateNAN5_60.jpg
### 1961
- **1961**, Post engineer's plan of the Presidio army base. A drawing produced by the Post Engineer at the Presidio of San Francisco in October 1961, laying out the roads and buildings of the army post. The sheet was copied for the Historic American Buildings Survey in documentation of Letterman General Hospital and the nurses' quarters at Girard Road and Lincoln Boulevard. The Presidio remained an active military installation until the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/365c8b0a-8a55-48b4-a65a-e8cd138c08ba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PHOTOCOPY_OF_ORIGINAL_DRAWING_(from_Directorate_of_Facilities_Engineering,_HQ_Presidio_of_San_Francisco,_California_94129)_PLAN_-_PRESIDIO_OF_SAN_FRANCISCO,_CALIFORNIA,_POST_HABS_CAL,38-SANFRA,169-34.tif
### 1962
- **1962**, Bell Rocket Belt in flight. A demonstration of the Bell Rocket Belt on October 26, 1962, at Presidio Army Base in San Francisco, California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b6272415-5e1b-4a99-9705-982a5afddaf1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Rocket_Belt_in_flight.jpg
### 1963
- **1963**, San Francisco from the Presidio of San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e0d22207-7a86-4991-8919-f40bcad05aea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_from_Presidio_(1966).jpg
### 1964
- **1964**, Magic Trip - Ken Kesey's Merry Band of Pranksters (trailer). ), The restored footage of the Merry Pranksters' 1964 cross-country bus trip. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/57c6efbe-36d4-40f7-9885-20f6facca177) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8qlsx8tdA
- **1964**, Feature documentary on Kesey's cross-country bus trip. The full film Magic Trip, released in 2011, assembled from the footage Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters shot on their 1964 drive from the West Coast to the East Coast under the influence of LSD. Kesey was by then known as the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This copy is an unofficial upload rather than a distributor's. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/946b781f-bca6-44bb-b4ce-5f23d1bcc7b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ufifUgIINU
### 1965
- **1965**, Ken Kesey (1965) (1 of 4). The novelist (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) whose Merry Pranksters and Acid Tests turned LSD into a public happening. The subject dates from 1965; this photograph was taken in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/38c99aec-d975-4113-b6cb-ddc51f9a7b99) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guru_Room_Kingman.jpg
- **1965**, Ken Kesey (1965) (2 of 4). Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (1965). The subject dates from 1965; this photograph was taken in 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d94c5663-00cd-4f04-ab86-74be45893d90) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%26W_of_Ken_Kesey_Square_in_Eugene,_Oregon.jpg
- **1965**, Ken Kesey (1965) (3 of 4). Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (1965). The subject dates from 1965; this photograph was taken in 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/749bc044-1e9d-4a55-bb00-d430220d3ae7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buchla_Ken_Kesey.jpg
- **1965**, Nightlife on the neon streets in 35mm. Thirty-five millimetre film of San Francisco nightlife and street scenes from the Kinolibrary archive collections. The strip of clubs and bars is the tourist-facing city that grew up around North Beach after the beatnik became a spectacle and bus tours began running through Grant Avenue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/21cbaed4-c2f5-4015-ab95-2363f457e2b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GZ2_jO0WXA
- **1965**, Ken Kesey (1965) (4 of 4). Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (1965). The subject dates from 1965; this photograph was taken in 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/72fc9bba-0fd9-4e8f-9999-b1a454d04eed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Kesey_Square_at_Willamette_%26_Broadway.jpg
- **1965**, Lawrence Lipton and DUHAB. Author Lawrence Lipton, chronicler of the beatnik scene, demonstrates his "robot," DUHAB (detector of undesirable habitues). Lipton says robot ferrets out the undesirables-including censors, book-burners [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4f2dffa6-4c64-4f47-b345-bf9a918c3873) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Lipton_and_DUHAB.jpg
### 1966
- **1966**, McClure reads his beast language to the lions. Michael McClure reads aloud to lions, performing the invented animal language of his Ghost Tantras. McClure read second at the 6 Gallery in October 1955, including For the Death of 100 Whales. The film is dated 1966 by its title. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/21222f3a-3cd2-459e-a325-9a184de16ad0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwy1DWIrkI
- **1966**, A collector walks through Wes Wilson's non-concert poster work. Music-memorabilia collector Pete Howard, of PosterCentral, narrates a five-minute survey of psychedelic posters Wes Wilson designed in 1966 that were not made to advertise concerts. Wilson's lettering, developed for Fillmore and Avalon dance bills, became the visual signature of the San Francisco scene. The video is a collector's commentary rather than archival footage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5b6c7246-1afa-4a60-a022-c88f17377aa6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpR07pHO0nI
- **1966**, McClure on peyote and his poetic process. An excerpt from Richard O. Moore's USA Poetry television series, filmed in 1966 with Michael McClure discussing how he writes and his experiments with peyote. Moore's series is genuine period broadcast documentary of the Bay Area poets, made a decade after the 6 Gallery reading and released here by his publisher. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2ae17dc3-47fa-47be-862d-f6a46fe265f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHwKmQmfZ7Y
- **1966**, LSD Love Pageant Rally, Haight-Ashbury - Oct 1966 TV News (archival). LSD Love Pageant Rally, Haight-Ashbury, Oct 1966 TV News (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/eb14f239-6dd7-47c6-ab47-a977905c82a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy2poQ8P1ok
- **1966**, The Grateful Dead at an Acid Test - San Francisco 1966 (archival). The Grateful Dead at an Acid Test, San Francisco 1966 (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/72cfbbdd-7955-4e84-82ab-bd5bcd2d7719) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0mH_dg6Kd8
- **1966**, How Owsley 'Bear' Stanley's LSD Shaped the Grateful Dead's Sound. 's purest LSD, and engineered the Grateful Dead's sound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cbb246c6-008d-4623-9eba-eab1a46f29c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExTxLu7bOI
- **1966**, Neal Cassady Explains the Acid Test - 1966 (archival). Neal Cassady Explains the Acid Test, 1966 (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d65547c4-50c7-4c12-aa51-202818ab81c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfg2Ph9BPzc
- **1966**, Grateful Dead play a full set at the Avalon Ballroom. An audio recording of the Grateful Dead's 19 May 1966 performance at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, running fifteen tracks across nearly an hour. The Avalon was one of the two rooms, with the Fillmore, that anchored the city's dance-concert scene in the mid sixties. The tape is posted by the Grateful Dead Archives channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/276117d7-2d25-4418-85ca-253ce6f9742c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuduX0UH3XY
- **1966**, Acid Test - Pigpen, Ken Babbs & Neal Cassady 1966 (archival). Acid Test, Pigpen, Ken Babbs & Neal Cassady 1966 (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7cda5331-749a-4627-aa70-e0dc209c2448) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6IG4d5xcI
- **1966**, Grateful Dead stretch out on Viola Lee Blues in San Francisco. A near ten-minute live recording of the Grateful Dead performing Viola Lee Blues in San Francisco, with Bill Kreutzmann on drums and Bob Weir on guitar. The track was issued by Grateful Dead Productions on a collection of live rarities. It captures the extended jamming that defined the band's early hometown ballroom shows. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/10f55f86-e033-414c-b750-36ef52b41d9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO7f7HeD_Dc
- **1966**, Grateful Dead play a Dylan song live in San Francisco. A previously unissued live recording of It's All Over Now Baby Blue, taped in the city and later released on the band's Complete Live Rarities Collection. It catches the group in their earliest years, when they were still shaping a set out of folk and blues material borrowed from other writers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/090b459d-36ec-43cd-a4a0-3ad89a8299c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA43XI0sFqI
- **1966**, Acid Test Graduation - San Francisco 1966 (archival). Acid Test Graduation, San Francisco 1966, The last of Kesey's Acid Tests, October 1966, days before California's LSD ban took effect. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2fab5a63-d787-4345-9054-3a14d48cb399) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tXjFizIKU
- **1966**, The Grateful Dead play Cream Puff War at the Fillmore. A recording of the Grateful Dead performing "Cream Puff War" at the Fillmore Auditorium on 3 July 1966, released on the band's official channel. Written by Jerry Garcia, the song was one of the group's earliest originals and was played live only about a dozen times across 1966 and 1967. The Fillmore was the room where the band's San Francisco reputation was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cf090a0e-b929-439d-a5b6-12cd85d05ebd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptkYVI-p3I
- **1966**, A Mime Troupe benefit poster for the Fillmore Auditorium. PosterCentral examines an original window card for a San Francisco Mime Troupe dance-concert held at the Fillmore Auditorium on 14 January 1966, with Bill Graham promoting and the Grateful Dead on the bill. Collectors know it as the third of the Mime Troupe appeal benefits, though the card itself never says so. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/134e2164-8233-409f-b4c7-fefc3d768318) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdD_N5-T9Dg
- **1966**, Filmed record of the Acid Test Graduation ceremony. Twelve minutes of footage shot at Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' Acid Test Graduation, the event staged to mark the end of their public LSD parties. The film is posted to YouTube by an independent uploader rather than a broadcast archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/43c583af-5e3a-4ab7-98f3-174bc61a16fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrZHPhKY_hw
- **1966**, The Diggers hand out free food in Golden Gate Park. Documentary footage of the San Francisco Diggers, the anarchist street collective that cooked and distributed free meals in the park for anyone who turned up. Their free food, free stores and free housing were a practical rebuke to the commercial scene forming around Haight-Ashbury. The clip is excerpted from a documentary about the Summer of Love. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/406b1ffb-285a-458f-b8b8-4cab1ab00f68) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCV3rrjUnps
- **1966**, The LSD Labs That Changed Music - Owsley Stanley & the Grateful Dead [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1cf0c76c-af7a-410f-9174-65e714d5e938) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5d8e1yUU1k
- **1966**, Ken Kesey: 'The Acid Test' - 1966 (archival). Ken Kesey: 'The Acid Test', 1966 (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/677192a1-5ae0-415a-a4c7-29f214ac16ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-T-qt4bGZU
- **1966**, Ken Kesey - Acid Test Graduation Interview 1966 (archival). Ken Kesey, Acid Test Graduation Interview 1966 (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/79e1c08a-897c-4708-8079-3cb6fa81692f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94S5QSxVg2k
- **1966**, Acid Test Graduation - Film & Photos 1966 (archival). Acid Test Graduation, Film & Photos 1966 (1966). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/463c79d6-527f-4526-b55e-0b62a37e2a26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO8i5eXg5lA
- **1966**, Ken Kesey at the Acid Test Graduation - 1966 (archival). Ken Kesey at the Acid Test Graduation, 1966, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3c559a9e-ac6f-4f6c-a412-d58bb4ed5112) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKmtTNpmqtI
- **1966**, Acid Test, Los Angeles. The Watts Acid Test era, when Kesey's Pranksters took the format south. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f8daf883-1a3d-40eb-b3c9-f66b85112792) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxvtY3aPhPc
- **1966**, Garcia on the Acid Tests. Jerry Garcia describing what the Acid Tests actually were: not concerts, but rooms where the band was one element among many and nobody was in charge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9312bcdb-8a6f-4e1b-b963-dec508f4d3dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC0oEjfhH8
- **1966**, Nob Hill seen east across the Presidio officers' houses. A colour view looking east from the Presidio toward the towers of Nob Hill, with army officers' housing in the foreground. The Presidio was founded by the Spanish army, passed to Mexico, and was taken over by the United States in 1847; it remained the country's longest continuously serving military post until it closed in 1994. The photograph was taken by Roger Wollstadt in May 1966. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/562ce39d-76dd-4606-a7e9-03c56d1db69a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_from_Presidio_1966.jpg
- **1966**, Shopfronts along Grant Avenue in Chinatown. Roger Wollstadt's photograph of the main street of San Francisco's Chinatown, taking in the block around the Canton Bazaar in the six hundreds of Grant Avenue. Grant was the quarter's commercial spine and the stretch most visitors to the neighbourhood walked. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bed73946-52c7-4521-a1db-ab02c8038f91) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_-_Chinatown_1965.jpg
### 1967
- **1967**, Human Be-In 1967. CHECK OUT THE "HIGH DEFINITION' VERSION OF THIS VIDEO: The Human Be-In gathering at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park took place January 14, 1967. Allen Ginsberg & Timothy Leary showed up along with thousands of sympathizers. I was a student at UC, Berkeley at the tim [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/19ed26dc-07e2-49ca-920c-0976f8fcb463) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2MhO0bg1E
- **1967**, The Grateful Dead play a street show in Haight-Ashbury. The band performs Dancing in the Street outdoors in Haight-Ashbury, filmed for a CBS evening news segment on the neighbourhood. Partway through, the reporter's voice turns to the dangers said to await young people drawn into the scene, which is the frame the network put around the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/47c25433-5829-49d3-b2ee-d5d854bea7d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97JXkUK6NsM
- **1967**, Hippies Gather on Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 1967 (archival). Hippies Gather on Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a05ee1ff-d306-4526-b9e2-0954efa62428) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPucWCvsdg
- **1967**, The Grateful Dead play Viola Lee Blues at Monterey Pop. Nearly nine minutes of the Grateful Dead performing Viola Lee Blues at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. The festival drew the San Francisco bands out of their home ballrooms and put them in front of a national audience. This copy was posted by a private uploader rather than a broadcaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/68a4c6be-ec56-46f2-b8e8-0eaee684a951) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHpBgcmHBA
- **1967**, Human Be-In - Golden Gate Park, January 14 1967 (archival). Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, January 14 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8418b145-ea04-4ab5-a65b-79ceef70ab3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLCFBhC5bmc
- **1967**, The Haight-Ashbury - 1967 TV News Reports (archival). The Haight-Ashbury, 1967 TV News Reports (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0cc89f24-bdc1-4c7d-b8b4-f1d91e215fbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mXdYkkpqY
- **1967**, Haight-Ashbury 1967 (1967). The San Francisco district that became the capital of the hippie movement (1967). The subject dates from 1967; this photograph was taken in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c02a40ef-9ed3-44b1-a8ed-cd12e962e237) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haight-Ashbury_(45611872144).jpg
- **1967**, Newsreel reporter among the hippies of the flower-power summer. A British Pathé item on the 1967 hippie scene, with a presenter walking viewers through the music, the dress and the street life of the moment. In a piece of newsreel self-parody, one of Pathé's own cameramen is dressed up as a hippie on camera. The tone is that of a light magazine segment rather than reportage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bd8adf6b-d83c-45f1-952b-665321c7cf95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yd3yT517bI
- **1967**, Summer of Love (1967) (1 of 4). The summer of 1967, when a hundred thousand young people converged on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c9bb925c-e433-4f2d-895c-67566d845ea1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KFRC_Fantasy_Fair_Dryden_Balin_Kantner.png
- **1967**, ITN reporter walks Haight-Ashbury before the Summer of Love. John Edwards filed this report from the district for ITN in April 1967, as the neighbourhood was becoming the centre of the emerging hippie movement. It was recorded just ahead of the summer in which around a hundred thousand people converged on Haight-Ashbury from across the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6ef727b4-c5a0-48e4-b5d6-21a7e494aa58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn1Wo6WSNk4
- **1967**, Summer of Love (1967) (2 of 4). The summer of 1967, when a hundred thousand young people converged on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3bfb8f70-2cd9-414b-b1b8-5b389fad5647) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_of_hippie.jpg
- **1967**, Home Movies of 1967 Hippies in San Francisco (archival). Home Movies of 1967 Hippies in San Francisco (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4709fc60-c160-432a-9376-d6f629df746d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ9VYCM_MXo
- **1967**, Hippies parade through the streets of Haight-Ashbury. Forty-four seconds of unedited film of a hippie parade in the Haight-Ashbury district, held by the historical footage library Footage Farm. The reel is an untouched historical document rather than a finished newsreel, distributed for research use. Haight-Ashbury was the centre of the 1967 counterculture influx. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a012413c-80d9-400e-9882-e3b28f0325d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUm0HPrl8w
- **1967**, The Human Be-In fills Golden Gate Park. A short HistoryPod film on the gathering staged in Golden Gate Park on 14 January 1967, billed by its counterculture organisers as a "Gathering of the Tribes". It was conceived to draw the emerging hippie movement and political activists into a single audience, and it set the stage for the Haight-Ashbury summer that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/684154f6-a96e-4680-b0af-b0269e644144) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7RlBizspc
- **1967**, Newsreel footage of a hippie be-in crowd. Thirty-three seconds of 1967 newsreel and stock footage of a hippie be-in gathering, filmed in Seattle. Be-ins spread across the West Coast that year after the model set in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The clip is distributed by the stock library PublicDomainFootage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/062d648c-1d73-4633-84ce-41eb90a05db1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gs4kkSriU4
- **1967**, Summer of Love 1967 - KTVU Fox 2 (archival). Summer of Love 1967, KTVU Fox 2 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/73dc0d9a-950a-445c-bab3-4b7f77f5d705) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3gqH8b8N8
- **1967**, The Human Be-In (1967). The "Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden Gate Park, January 1967, the counterculture's coming-out. The subject dates from 1967; this photograph was taken in 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e51653fe-3d96-4fd2-bc50-c3bc766f015a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_chinstrap_penguin_(Pygoscelis_antarcticus)_on_Deception_Island_in_Antarctica.jpg
- **1967**, The Human Be-In (1967). The "Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden Gate Park, January 1967, the counterculture's coming-out (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f32b2634-8776-41ef-b271-acd6bad35f79) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iraqi_stamp_Human_rights_1964_-_1967_-_flood_overwritten_10f.png
- **1967**, Remembering San Francisco's Summer of Love. 1967, when a hundred thousand young people converged on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/acaa1593-6407-4acf-bee0-8716b4c866d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1el1gLkHWo
- **1967**, PBS trailer for a documentary on the Summer of Love. A thirty-second promotion for the American Experience film about the thousands of young people who travelled to the Haight-Ashbury district in 1967. The trailer's own framing is that many arrived to find the scene they had come for was already dissolving. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9b974736-3997-495a-a5e7-39c32343a6df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AksN0PHJsbM
- **1967**, Young arrivals crowd into Haight-Ashbury for the hippie summer. The opening chapter of the PBS American Experience documentary Summer of Love, following the thousands of young people who travelled to San Francisco from across the country in 1967. The programme's argument is that many arrived to find the scene they had come for was already breaking up. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/056b1e81-0421-4108-a65c-8af56e831914) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ZExRNT0GU
- **1967**, Human Be-In - Polo Field, Golden Gate Park, Jan 14 1967 (archival). Human Be-In, Polo Field, Golden Gate Park, Jan 14 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e48108e5-b6b3-40e5-8957-4c8e482768bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJHJL9vAUQc
- **1967**, Summer of Love (1967) (3 of 4). The summer of 1967, when a hundred thousand young people converged on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury (1967). The subject dates from 1967; this photograph was taken in 2003. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5fd636a4-9932-44a4-a3bb-51ef890030b2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Junction_of_Haight_and_Ashbury.jpg
- **1967**, Haight-Ashbury 1967 (1967). The San Francisco district that became the capital of the hippie movement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9d188fb9-14d8-485a-9ed6-14f661c1f8af) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippies_on_Haight-Ashbury_-_The_Greenville_News_(1967).jpg
- **1967**, CBC documentary on the city that summer. The Way it Was, a feature-length documentary made by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It records San Francisco during the months when the counterculture drew national attention, filmed by an outside broadcaster covering the scene as it peaked. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a181fe0f-4040-457a-ab86-1827f4cc752b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrTVJ9s99U
- **1967**, The Complete Summer of Love Story - Both Sides (documentary). The Complete Summer of Love Story, Both Sides (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9c25c5b2-ebcf-441b-aaee-d66a8e7b0367) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2NJzfPAx7s
- **1967**, The Grateful Dead play Viola Lee Blues at the Human Be-In. Footage of the Grateful Dead performing Viola Lee Blues on the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park at the Human Be-In. The gathering drew a large crowd to the park and is generally treated as the event that announced the Haight-Ashbury scene to the wider country, months before the summer that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ee917e09-b9ba-47ce-99ec-03a45acab69c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lvH6gZH3j8
- **1967**, San Francisco During the Summer of Love - 1967 (archival). San Francisco During the Summer of Love, 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3414aeee-c585-48e1-8cda-c3d9c5a6f4ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aViutfe9_GQ
- **1967**, Human Be-In 1967 - Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (archival). Human Be-In 1967, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, The "Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden Gate Park, January 1967, where Leary first said "turn on, tune in, drop out". [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8312cbdb-54c5-494d-945c-d5b4e98de4d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evjEZZbryw0
- **1967**, Human Be-In - Full Program, Golden Gate Park, Jan 14 1967 (archival). Human Be-In, Full Program, Golden Gate Park, Jan 14 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/02bb2afc-e853-46a8-b7c6-825644f42037) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGyFgyB5Q8
- **1967**, Summer of Love: The Psychedelic Revolution of 1967 (documentary). Summer of Love: The Psychedelic Revolution of 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b50be68f-1491-4ba7-a6eb-de5c1da62483) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIylFhZFZOA
- **1967**, 1967 Human Be-In - Rare San Francisco Film (archival). 1967 Human Be-In, Rare San Francisco Film (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dfcc6d62-a5d9-476a-9ca8-150e31aa6589) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nFh8m5AowM
- **1967**, Looking Back at the Summer of Love - KPIX/CBS Bay Area (archival). Looking Back at the Summer of Love, KPIX/CBS Bay Area (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/124d1032-9c0f-4385-99ca-78828503b711) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8y0-QZnww0
- **1967**, Summer of Love (1967) (4 of 4). The summer of 1967, when a hundred thousand young people converged on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1abb2b72-fe4d-4064-a452-1e1c82e8a1f6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1967_(transparent_red,_Mojo).png
- **1967**, News report on hippie life and drug dealing in Haight-Ashbury. A short newsreel item filed in November 1967 on the Haight-Ashbury scene, focusing on undercover dealers working the neighbourhood's drug market. It comes from the AP Archive, the newsfilm library of the Associated Press. The footage runs under a minute and dates from the months just after the Summer of Love. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1daedfce-6eb6-4afa-900e-eae2a1cc5c26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZzrR7Pk28Q
- **1967**, The Human Be-In - Short Film 1967 (archival). The Human Be-In, Short Film 1967 (1967). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/892437b3-6538-4dd9-aad9-a8f7fed46d19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMMylhrkfc
- **1967**, Rick Griffin and the poster era. The Fillmore and Avalon posters, lettering deliberately pushed to the edge of legibility, on the reasonable assumption the reader had taken something. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f714bed7-f510-478b-a454-68bab3dce7d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8eLwg3A6Y
- **1967**, Haight-Ashbury reports back. News from the Haight in 1967, by which point California had already banned LSD and the neighbourhood had become the story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/96da3a61-5a1e-4ab1-9e1b-0636651938ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPNwGi5420
- **1967**, HISTORY OF HAIGHT ASHBURY-SUMMER OF LOVE-1967. ’t as peaceful as some perceived. My being one of them. A friend and I had stolen my parent’s check book and was [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b751e4f8-04bf-4b75-865c-6ce64d8a2205) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNF4Pnewklk
- **1967**, 1967 - The Summer of Love \| Free Documentary History. 1967 - The Summer of Love \| History Documentary Watch '1968 - Year of War, Turmoil & Beyond' here: In 1967 an expressive, colourful musical force painted a backdrop of social change, fashion, love, turmoil and war. The world remembers the Summer of Love in 1967 as one [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/132a5bf1-6c03-4947-8f18-6b2826ca76d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoa-XrHcb8M
- **1967**, Haight Ashbury 1967 Summer of Love Hippies San Francisco KRON 2003. 1960s Haight Ashbury San Francisco 1967 Summer of Love Documentary My Library: Pt 1 Pt 2 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b86c2687-b724-435d-adca-38122d5bc12f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBfNSCRTKiw
### 1968
- **1968**, Presidio 27 Sit-Down 14Oct1968 - Image 3. The Presidio 27 "mutiny" when 27 soldiers sat down to protest the murder of one of their own, mistreatment and the Vietnam War. Private Walter Pawlowski is reading their demands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d2a9ba24-cf3e-45bf-bff4-5d4f70a836c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_27_Sit-Down_14Oct1968_-_Image_3.jpg
- **1968**, Presidio 27 Sit-Down 14Oct1968 - Image 2. The Presidio 27 "mutiny" when 27 soldiers sat down to protest the murder of one of their own, mistreatment and the Vietnam War. Private Walter Pawlowski is reading their demands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/878861e8-d0c1-4e98-a70e-2b96a1e26dce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_27_Sit-Down_14Oct1968_-_Image_2.jpg
- **1968**, Presidio 27 Sit-Down 14Oct1968 - Image 1. The Presidio 27 "mutiny" when 27 soldiers sat down to protest the murder of one of their own, mistreatment and the Vietnam War. Private Walter Pawlowski is reading their demands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/32cf585f-6b27-4fe0-9d7d-4a98ca082a63) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_27_Sit-Down_14Oct1968_-_Image_1.jpg
- **1968**, Presidio 27 Button. Button created by the supporters of the Presidio 27 soldiers who sat-down to protest their conditions and the Vietnam War [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a414c0c3-547a-48ca-a9a6-1a8ceed93c4a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_27_Button.jpg
- **1968**, Nine minutes of Haight-Ashbury hippie street life on film. Archive footage from the Kinolibrary collection covering the Haight-Ashbury counterculture at street level in the late 1960s. The reel runs about nine minutes and shows the neighbourhood as an everyday community rather than a news event. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/56ebca07-2eba-47f7-b68f-ce02d2e0c962) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9a8qqUpI8A
- **1968**, The Grateful Dead perform from a flatbed truck on Haight Street. Sixteen-millimetre footage of the band playing on the back of a flatbed truck parked on Haight Street, with sound recorded on the day by Steve Brown. The same reel includes a Peace and Freedom gathering in Golden Gate Park and street scenes from downtown San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ed8e82ef-0216-4c14-b9ec-353e0948f3d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TnyOKI5BSM
- **1968**, Moby Grape onstage under the Joshua Light Show. Silent 16mm footage of the San Francisco band Moby Grape playing the Fillmore East in 1968, shot from the stage by lighting designer Joshua White. White's projections are visible behind the group, and Bill Graham's hall was the East Coast counterpart to his San Francisco Fillmore. Preserved by the Historic Films Stock Footage Archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7475b28e-d401-4efc-a154-80c1ca600b25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5-nTiaSiCI
- **1968**, Liquid light projections behind a rock stage. Footage of Joshua's Lights performing a liquid light show at the Fillmore East in 1968, held by the Historic Films Stock Footage Archive. Projected oil, dye and colour washes of this kind were a fixture of Bill Graham's Fillmore rooms on both coasts, turning the concert hall itself into part of the performance. The clip runs about seven minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/75814d28-09dd-4fed-85b9-09f0d0bd5ac4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBf7CPangGA
### 1969
- **1969**, Free the Presidio 27 - April 5 1969 New York City Peach March. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e4365529-6c7a-4f80-9df2-88707a1929b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Free_the_Presidio_27_-_April_5_1969.png
- **1969**, 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz. After the prison closed in March 1963 the federal government declared the island surplus federal property, leading the IOAT to demand that it be returned to Native Americans under the terms of the treaty. A number of previous attempts had been made, although the 19 month long Alcatraz Occupation was [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/28d7fd28-3cf6-4026-802b-915ba84c45f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mej6i_NhJ00
- **1969**, Native American Occupation of Alcatraz Captured in Rare Footage \| KQED A. #AlcatrazOccupation #AmericanIndianMovement Alcatraz is far more than a 22-acre island in San Francisco Bay, far more than the location of a former federal prison, and far more than a cursory tourist destination. Fifty years ago, it became a site of Native American activism that forever changed gove [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d0169621-d4e1-480b-9008-da9698de3b43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9sBk8Stms4
- **1969**, The 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Was a Catalyst for Indigenous Activism \|. American Indian tribes have long used activism in their struggle for justice and the preservation of their lands and culture. Lesson plan for educators: Teachers, create your free Retro [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1a46a402-df97-41c7-af6f-9598495ad526) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUfVyGj_STw
- **1969**, The Native American Resistance on Alcatraz. More than 50 years ago, a group of indigenous Americans took control of Alcatraz, an island that belongs to the Ohlone people. That event, known as the Occupation of Alcatraz, was an inflection point for tribes in California and nationwide. In this clip, we explore that history from someone who was [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ba610674-da62-4b2b-a048-dd51a09b94ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmod-emy9o
- **1969**, The Grateful Dead (1969) (1 of 4). the Grateful Dead (1969). The subject dates from 1969; this photograph was taken in 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1dac72a1-db05-40fc-aba3-9d256070949c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmy_Page%27s_%22Number_One%22_ca.1959-1960_Gibson_Les_Paul_Standard_-_Play_It_Loud._MET_(2019-05-13_18.43.02_by_Eden,_Janine_and_Jim).jpg
- **1969**, The Takeover Of Alcatraz 1969 \|\| Indians of All Tribes Documentary. In November of 1969, a group of Native American activists embarked on a bold and historic endeavor that would captivate the nation's attention: the takeover of Alcatraz Island. Led by a group named Indians of All Tribes and it's leaders: Richard Oakes, LaNada War Jack, than LaNada Means, John Trudel [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b25464d5-0d0d-4aad-969f-154b87111ad4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-khR5spxQ
- **1969**, The Occupation of Alcatraz Island. This video from the Center's KCRA news film collection shows footage of the occupation of Alcatraz Island by Native Americans, including interviews with Native people and government officials. The occupation occurred from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, with 90 to 400 people staying on Alc [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6140d177-d663-4bc2-9392-42850921990c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48O2bZdI-Y
- **1969**, The Grateful Dead (1969) (2 of 4). the Grateful Dead (1969). The subject dates from 1969; this photograph was taken in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d76b2688-9283-4bca-96d6-f2e3ac714bb4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Euston_Station_-_War_Memorial.jpg
- **1969**, Joshua Light Show Staff in the Fillmore East Studio - 1969 (archival). Joshua Light Show Staff in the Fillmore East Studio, 1969 (1969). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6b749667-60c9-460c-920b-f42eac446241) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TecFb_otZbc
- **1969**, The Grateful Dead (1969) (3 of 4). The house band of the Acid Tests, whose live improvisation became the sound of the psychedelic scene. The subject dates from 1969; this photograph was taken in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5c7b9c28-3eac-450e-b579-974773a552dd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheCapitolTheatrePortChesterNY2.jpg
- **1969**, Joshua's Lights run a liquid light show behind a band. Stock footage of the projection troupe at work at the Fillmore East, held by the Historic Films archive. Liquid light shows pumped coloured oils and dyes between glass plates in front of a lamp, an effect pioneered around the San Francisco ballrooms and carried east with the Fillmore name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1b147f3d-007c-4308-88d3-3e5ccf19ac4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLx1U40BEI
- **1969**, The Grateful Dead (1969) (4 of 4). the Grateful Dead (1969). The subject dates from 1969; this photograph was taken in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3d3bd929-8c2a-415e-9e71-5aab6fe0f040) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheCapitolTheatrePortChesterNY1.jpg
- **1969**, Aoxomoxoa. Griffin's Grateful Dead artwork, and a title that reads the same in both directions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/19159577-5a8e-4a66-8470-1cdbeb1fdaeb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJ96k8FFVY
### 1970
- **1970**, Don Amador with Harvey Milk. Gay rights organiser Don Amador is pictured alongside Harvey Milk, the Castro camera-shop owner who would become the first openly gay man elected to office in California. The snapshot comes from Amador's own collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/210e771a-a5bf-4f13-9d8c-fe4d48c985e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don_Amador_and_Harvey_Milk.jpg
- **1970**, Don Amador, Tony Karnes and Harvey Milk together. Don Amador stands with his husband Tony Karnes, at left, and Harvey Milk. The photograph comes from Amador and Karnes's personal archive of San Francisco gay political life in the 1970s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/58c5c9bd-7339-454a-a190-1a0bdb39f724) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don_Amador,_his_husband_Tony_Karnes_and_Harvey_Milk.jpg
- **1970**, Harvey Milk with activist Don Amador. The two men are pictured together during the 1970s, the decade in which Milk moved to San Francisco, opened a camera shop on Castro Street and began running for public office. Amador, a disability and gay rights organiser, took the photograph himself. It survives as one of the informal records of the network around Milk before his election. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/68009ab2-74c1-4bf4-b00d-42b50705ea1a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don_Amador_and_Harvey_Milk_(cropped).jpg
### 1973
- **1973**, Harvey Milk and Audrey Milk outside Castro Camera. Harvey Milk stands with his sister-in-law Audrey in front of Castro Camera, the shop on Castro Street that doubled as the base for his political organising. The snapshot was taken by a family member and supplied to the archive by Stuart Milk. It dates from the year Milk opened the store and first ran for office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9df0446c-b444-4fdf-bf87-8d9592f515a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg
### 1974
- **1974**, San Francisco 1974 Archival Footage. Archival footage shot by a filmaker of San Francisco city 1974 Archival Footage You can Use and Download all the Footage seen in this video for your projects here: Or Here: For [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/fe1935fa-5c61-4728-949b-623ce58e1723) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJxmzJ3TaI
- **1974**, ASIANVOTERS. 2/C/12NOV99/NANCY WONG MAYOR WILLIE BROWN COURTS CHINESE AMERICAN VOTERS BY ATTENDING A GALA BENEFIT DINNER FOR CHINESE NEWCOMERS AT 838 GRANT AVENUE, AT THE EMPRESS OF CHINA RESTAURANT IN SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN. HERE HE POSES WITH SOME OF THE PAST EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES OF THE BENEFIT DINNER. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0b0f4369-8f84-483c-8ae2-5a478d35558a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASIANVOTERS.jpg
### 1975
- **1975**, Newspaper advertisement for Harvey Milk's run for supervisor. A campaign advertisement placed by the Committee to Elect Harvey Milk, printed in the San Francisco Chronicle on 29 October 1975. This was Milk's second unsuccessful run for the Board of Supervisors; he would not win a seat until 1977. Buying newspaper space was one of the few ways an outsider candidate could reach voters citywide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/579fcb3b-f0a6-46d5-ac0b-78bb17db1889) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_for_Supervisor_1975_ad.jpg
### 1976
- **1976**, Harvey Milk campaigning alongside longshoremen. Milk, at the far right of the group, canvasses with dock workers during his 1976 run for the California State Assembly. The alliance with the longshoremen's union was central to his political method, which built support for gay candidates through organised labour rather than around it. Photographed by Daniel Nicoletta. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a2f2e88f-305e-482c-b3e8-217976687433) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_Campaigning_With_Longshormen_in_1976.jpg
- **1976**, San Francisco 1976 archive footage. Archival footage shot by a Spanish filmmaker while visiting California in 1976. It contains stock footage of San Francisco and a few shots of Sausalito: the cable car (workers turning the wagons, passengers waiting to jump on, panoramas from the wagon while going up and down the hills), traffic in [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/097866ae-09e6-42ef-881f-09f98152e953) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVv77hTr8w
### 1977
- **1977**, Blue campaign sign reading Harvey Milk Supervisor Five. Designed by Jim Rivaldo for Milk's run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, with white lettering on a plain blue ground. The campaign was fought in the newly created district five, and it was the one that finally put him in office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c3fa6f26-1b5d-4577-a3c7-2874b1ea2277) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Harvey_Milk_Supervisor_5"_campaign_sign.png
- **1977**, Examiner front page on Harvey Milk's election to the board. The San Francisco Examiner marks Milk's victory in the Board of Supervisors race under the headline calling him an unofficial supervisor finally given real power. Text by W. E. Barnes with photographs by Judith Calson, running on page A-1. Milk is pictured with his dog. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/70caf2a3-0ba4-4b94-be13-4f758f662eda) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_'unofficial_supervisor'_gets_a_shot_at_real_power_in_The_San_Francisco_Examiner.jpg
- **1977**, Harvey Milk addresses a crowd through a megaphone. Milk speaks at a San Francisco protest on 7 June 1977, called after voters in Dade County, Florida repealed that county's gay rights ordinance. The Dade County campaign galvanised gay organising across the country, and San Francisco's response helped build the base that elected Milk to the Board of Supervisors later that year. Photographed by Jerry Pritikin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/27812e59-62ab-4bfc-ad53-b2ec5b8f62f8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_at_protest_after_repeal_of_Dade_County_gay_rights_law.webp
- **1977**, Harvey Milk celebrates winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors. Robert McLeod's photograph, run on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner the morning after the vote. Milk, at right, had lost several earlier campaigns before taking the District 5 seat, becoming one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b1b787c0-d67c-415c-9ed7-3f5a91cc4d17) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_celebrates_1977_election_victory.jpg
- **1977**, Harvey Milk in front of his camera shop, November 1977. Harvey Milk photographed in front of his camera shop in November 1977, the month he won election as city supervisor. The shop on Castro Street doubled as the organising base for his campaigns and for the neighbourhood's growing political machine. The picture was distributed by the Associated Press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7e4dbace-2ee1-42e4-9c3f-fd3e6f10135c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_front_of_camera_shop_November_1977.jpg
- **1977**, Harvey Milk outside his Castro Street camera shop. Harvey Milk stands in front of the camera shop he ran on Castro Street, photographed in November 1977 as he prepared to take his seat on the Board of Supervisors. The shop doubled as the organising centre for his campaigns and for the neighbourhood's politics. The picture was distributed by the Associated Press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/feee18fb-b353-485b-8281-455d8cf46824) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_front_of_camera_shop_November_1977_(cropped).jpg
- **1977**, The Examiner front page the morning after Harvey Milk's election. The front page of the San Francisco Examiner for 9 November 1977, the day after the city's district elections sent Harvey Milk to the Board of Supervisors. Milk became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. The page was published without a copyright notice and is in the public domain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7cab6cdc-7c5c-469f-acf6-9a69fc150c51) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Examiner_November_9,_1977_front_page.jpg
- **1977**, C-12A Huron US Army at the Presidio 1977. A U.S. Army Beechcraft C-12A Huron (s/n 74-22267) from the 6th U.S. Army sits in front of Hanger 5 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California (USA), in 1977. The 6th Army headquarters were at the Presidio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f24d02e7-48c2-4e26-a36e-cf494a7eb570) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C-12A_Huron_US_Army_at_the_Presidio_1977.JPEG
### 1978
- **1978**, Examiner front page the morning after the City Hall killings. The upper portion of the Examiner's cover for November 28, 1978, the morning after Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were shot at City Hall. Former supervisor Dan White was charged with the killings. The clipping survives as a record of how the city's own press carried the news. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/eaf2c96e-073e-4126-ac78-09ecc2e5bd2e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cover_of_San_Francisco_Examiner_November_28_1978.jpg
- **1978**, Cover of San Francisco Chronicle November 28 1978. Upper part of the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle on November 28, 1978 - the morning after the double assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ef0d66b0-a524-47b1-b5c7-4726dde50ce9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cover_of_San_Francisco_Chronicle_November_28_1978.jpg
- **1978**, Harvey Milk seated at Mayor Moscone's desk. Photographed by Daniel Nicoletta in 1978, the year Milk served as a city supervisor. Both men were killed at City Hall that November, which has made this image one of the most widely reproduced portraits of Milk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/804c80fd-2766-441e-a238-50a472714076) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milk_at_Moscone_desk_cropped.jpg
- **1978**, Harvey Milk sitting at the mayor's desk in City Hall. Supervisor Harvey Milk occupies Mayor George Moscone's desk while standing in for him for a day. Milk had taken office earlier that year as one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States, and both men were shot dead in City Hall in November 1978. The photograph is by Daniel Nicoletta, who documented Milk closely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4606f108-c422-49ba-ba69-aa3403dcfe38) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_1978_at_Mayor_Moscone's_Desk.jpg
- **1978**, Harvey Milk sits at the mayor's desk standing in for Moscone. Harvey Milk takes George Moscone's chair during a mayor-for-a-day turn at City Hall, months into his term as city supervisor. Photographer Daniel Nicoletta was a friend and former employee at Milk's Castro Street camera shop and documented much of his political life. Both men would be shot dead in that building later the same year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4086287f-1726-42c3-8063-a83be50d405c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_at_Moscone_desk_cropped_300.jpg
- **1978**, Harvey Milk seated at the mayor's desk for a day. Milk stands in for Mayor George Moscone in a ceremonial turn at City Hall, months before both men were shot dead in that building. The photograph is by Daniel Nicoletta, who documented Milk closely through his years in the Castro and in office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/34fdf632-661d-4713-aad8-d1e73af40894) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_1978_at_Mayor_Moscone's_Desk_crop.jpg
- **1978**, Close portrait of Harvey Milk in his year as supervisor. A tight crop taken from Daniel Nicoletta's photograph of Milk at Mayor Moscone's desk, isolating the supervisor's face. Nicoletta's images remain the standard portraits of Milk in the single year he held elected office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8410abdc-59b8-454a-b8cd-583bfea1053b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_in_1978_at_Mayor_Moscone's_Desk,_narrow_crop.jpg
- **1978**, Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone shake hands over the gay rights bill. Supervisor Harvey Milk grips Mayor George Moscone's hand moments after Moscone signed San Francisco's gay rights ordinance. The photograph was made for the San Francisco Examiner by Bob McLeod. Both men would be shot dead in City Hall later that same year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/08d3a461-428f-4c26-b2d8-43a961ebb56d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_shakes_hands_with_George_Moscone_April_1978.webp
### 1979
- **1979**, 1979 White Night Riots San Francisco, Gay Rights, Harvey Milk. From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit Clip ref XR17 1979 White Night Riots San Francisco, Gay Rights, Harvey Milk [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e76705cb-cb94-410c-b3a3-5e475b7a53e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grDRmKbClaw
- **1979**, White Night Riots - This Forgotten Day in S.F.. May 21, 1979: On this day, at 5:28pm in the Hall of Justice, the trial of Dan White came to a shocking end as the jury's verdict was read. Tweet host Michael Callahan, @MCallahanTV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/37925220-2dac-46bc-af54-37b47984df65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EE7_uPX2cA
- **1979**, Dan White News Footage Of Arrest, Trial & The White Night Riots. Dan White was a San Francisco supervisor who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on November 27, 1978, at City Hall. In a controversial verdict that led to the coining of the legal slang "Twinkie defense," White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/082cc50d-ed85-406c-88d3-f1f36cb58b4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnXV2Vw_1IE
- **1979**, Minisode 44: The White Night Riots. This minisode is a continuation of last week’s episode, the assassination of Harvey Milk. STEPHANIE talks about the White Night Riots in the aftermath of the Dan White ruling. ALSO MENTIONED: Blue wall of silence, the gay agenda, Cleve Jones, Herstory on the Rocks podcast, cringe emoji, Dead Kenne [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f8d7d4a1-96e2-4ef6-8363-39ddfce149b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcTmet3IF5o
### 1982
- **1982**, From The Archive: Early days of AIDS crisis in San Francisco in 1982. On this World AIDS Day, we take a look back at the growing AIDS crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area with this story from December 10, 1982. Story: #aids #hiv #worldaidsday [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/aac0e719-e85e-4163-a771-aad7c559b705) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2FcxGdYLA
### 1984
- **1984**, The Times Of Harvey Milk 1984. Join us on Facebook: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f0beb0b1-80db-4a93-909a-2d04350d54b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE1wyxR7s8Y
- **1984**, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK Trailer (1984) - The Criterion Collection. Out on Blu-ray and DVD on March 22th, 2011! Learn more: The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it's a work of advocacy itse [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/98c05fa7-15ba-4279-8b93-8d0f2db086e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jet-Ubwk5l8
### 1985
- **1985**, 1985 "AIDS: An Incredible Epidemic" by San Francisco General Hospital. Doctors from Ward 5B and Ward 5A at San Francisco General Hospital were at the front line of the AIDS crisis. In 1985 they produced a VHS video to share information about symptoms of AIDS and what health care workers would experience as they worked with patients. The San Francisco History Center at [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9a96a195-fea7-42df-bba9-03564ce12d1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjDIoLlOWQo
### 1987
- **1987**, KRON-TV looks back on the fifties city. Episode seven of KRON-TV's Decades series, made in 1987 and presented by Evan White, which uses original news footage alongside interviews to reconstruct San Francisco in the 1950s. It covers the suburbs, television, changing fashion and the pressures on city life in the decade that produced both the North Beach scene and its dispersal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3ab283f2-3b80-4b97-b8bf-9897248551e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAom4WSgsq0
### 1988
- **1988**, Strikestory: the ILWU's own account of 1934. The union-produced documentary Strikestory, made in 1988, built from first-person accounts by men who worked the San Francisco waterfront and from archival footage of the eighty-two-day strike. It is the ILWU telling the story of the dispute that won the hiring hall. Preserved here from a VHS transfer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/244d503a-db19-4acc-9983-c697947f75d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNgXKxDMNjo
- **1988**, British ravers dancing through the night in the late eighties. An extended reel of archive footage from the late-1980s UK rave scene, the period known as the second summer of love. Running over half an hour, it is raw source material rather than an edited programme. Held by the Kinolibrary archive film collection as clip reference DT3. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/061253e9-9918-4032-9bfb-e459086add58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbDf33trnmI
- **1988**, The Second Summer of Love. Twenty years after the first: acid house, warehouse parties, and a British moral panic that produced its own legislation. The chemistry had changed but the shape of the reaction had not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bc6c863f-5b3f-47c7-85be-1de88cffbc6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUqa9Bu6D5I
### 1989
- **1989**, Crowd dancing at the Energy rave at Effingham. A short Kinolibrary archive clip panning across dancers at an outdoor acid house event held at Effingham in 1989. British ravers borrowed the phrase Summer of Love from San Francisco two decades earlier to describe that season. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f5c10330-c2e7-44fc-97d9-67447b1d6c56) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpK5V8RGWdc
- **1989**, Dancers at a daytime acid house rave. Archive film of a daylight rave from 1989, the second summer of love, when acid house moved British youth culture out of clubs and into fields and warehouses. The footage is held by the Kinolibrary archive film collection and is catalogued as reference DT2. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/52a39851-e6ce-4b7d-a7d5-75916e763fb3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPavDI0jOc
### 1992
- **1992**, The rave/ecstasy era (1992) (1 of 4). The late-1980s Second Summer of Love, when MDMA and acid house filled warehouses across Britain (1992). The subject dates from 1992; this photograph was taken in 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bfb48dbc-2679-4e7b-8090-b5c770165ff5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calle_Rave,_C%C3%B3rdoba.jpg
- **1992**, The rave/ecstasy era (1992) (2 of 4). The late-1980s Second Summer of Love, when MDMA and acid house filled warehouses across Britain (1992). The subject dates from 1992; this photograph was taken in 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8946a4e8-8a49-40fa-8c37-871b8dd85733) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heuchera_Rave_On_1zz.jpg
- **1992**, The rave/ecstasy era (1992) (3 of 4). The late-1980s Second Summer of Love, when MDMA and acid house filled warehouses across Britain (1992). The subject dates from 1992; this photograph was taken in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0bca258d-341b-4c60-b3b8-749b4e6ca8f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Summer_Rave_2015_Marusha_Denis_Apel_P1.jpg
- **1992**, The rave/ecstasy era (1992) (4 of 4). The late-1980s Second Summer of Love, when MDMA and acid house filled warehouses across Britain. The subject dates from 1992; this photograph was taken in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7fe1e3c0-9ce6-45da-b0cc-0d2feff4d96f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Summer_Rave_2015_Marusha_Denis_Apel_P2.jpg
### 1995
- **1995**, Allen Ginsberg recites his poem Howl in 1995 (truncated). Poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem “Howl” at a poetry reading at Six Gallery in San Francisco. The poem was an immediate success that rocked the Beat literary world and set the tone for confessional poetry of the 1960s and later. Ginsberg was born in 1926 to a high school English teacher father and [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3d1d0cbe-0428-4aa2-9fa8-2ecd97c5aeb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCGsFRHhh_U
- **1995**, Alexander Shulgin, 1995: His Lab Near San Francisco [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/df5d2b55-3413-4c14-bc5a-5dbfdcd38975) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gQCMiha9KU
### 1999
- **1999**, The Dot Com Bubble Explained in One Minute. A one-minute video which explains what the dot com bubble was all about. By knowing what generated the dot com bubble and how things unfolded, you'll understand a thing or two about how markets function and ultimately about what makes human beings tick. Please like, comment and subscribe if you've [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/108dba6a-ec23-4e5d-be7c-21ef4506804b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ksVshqVuiM
- **1999**, Dot Com Bubble Wall Street Documentary. The documentary about the end of the dot com bubble on Wall Street 2000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/60ef49b6-b35e-4e77-bf1c-069162a0c701) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iE-4JsUms
- **1999**, On this day \| 15th April 2000 \| Wall Street stockmarket crash. On the 15th of April 2000, Wall Street experienced a points drop never before seen on the US markets. At the time, the American markets' worst single day ever, left traders and investors shell shocked. See more at tennews.com.au [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/97cbf475-c674-420d-92f2-8b2a518a0c6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_4UQcThlU
- **1999**, Dot-com Boom Stories from Silicon Valley. Company founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders tell the story of what happened in Silicon Valley during the Dot-com boom. In order of appearance: Ravi Rishy-Maharaj (founder, Kinaare Networks and Gigsky), Meg Whitman (former CEO, eBay), Curt Carlson (CEO, SRI International), Joe Parisi (founder, Therm [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/11434d06-a3b6-4839-8284-ffea831e35e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vGcSE1xDWw
- **1999**, The Source traces the Beats to their deaths. Chuck Workman's feature documentary follows the Beats from Ginsberg and Kerouac's 1944 meeting at Columbia through to the deaths of Ginsberg and Burroughs in 1997, with actors performing the writing. It is a full-length documentary about the movement, clearly labelled as such, and reaches San Francisco as one stop on a longer arc. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/643b1ca5-9fc4-4d94-8720-17191009e290) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_XN9LXpu0
- **1999**, Are We in an Internet Bubble Like 1999?. Feb.14 -- Goldman Sachs Managing Director Heath Terry discusses internet sector valuations, Amazon’s growth, artificial intelligence and whether Netflix is an M&A target. He speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology” from Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d3ebd434-3538-45ae-b4b0-d85689358847) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO2hlNm8vzg
- **1999**, Is tech in a bubble Unease, but no panic, over good times. Some well-known venture capitalists have been warning that the good times for tech start-ups can't last. USA Today interviews workers at tech companies in downtown San Francisco about whether tech is in a bubble, and what may be different from 1999. Laura Mandaro [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/16817a24-9741-4cab-a29d-d85d4360a522) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq87rFWi5po
### 2005
- **2005**, Ferlinghetti reads at a La Jolla bookshop. Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads and speaks at D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla. Filmed in 2005, when the City Lights founder was in his mid-eighties and still touring bookshops to read. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/95744d19-2155-4db5-89b8-d6a1ea936484) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XaIj7eR7kU
### 2006
- **2006**, Madams of the Barbary Coast Documentary Trailer. Madams of the Barbary Coast is an award winning historical documentary, recently broadcast for Women's History Month, about some of the more colorful and provocative Madams, courtesans, and other women pioneers who settled the wild frontier town of early San Francisco. Told through a series of poi [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4f0e9d86-b136-4139-80e4-bb70d6bce99f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDdx1XPJQWE
- **2006-08-21**, Kevin Epps films Hunters Point from inside Hunters Point. The trailer for Kevin Epps's documentary on the Bayview-Hunters Point neighbourhood, made by a filmmaker who grew up there. The shipyard that drew Black workers to the district during the war closed in 1974, and the film records what the withdrawal of that work left behind. Released in the mid-2000s and posted here in 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8866d9cf-a3ab-4fb5-a6b7-328fa912967a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EAvqpM2cXU
### 2007
- **2007**, The San Francisco District Under Threat From an AIDS Epidemic. New Wave AIDS (Oct 1995) Welcome to Castro, San Francisco, USA, centre of the gay universe. It offers sexual liberation to all gay men and women. It also provides the ideal conditions for a fatal virus which turned into an epidemic in 1981. Subscribe to Journeyman here: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4ef3a26e-a301-48e8-8ee1-46aaa31be7a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGdRe6m8PE
- **2007-09-17**, Ferlinghetti reads Poetry as Insurgent Art at Moe's. Ferlinghetti reads from Poetry as Insurgent Art at Moe's Books in Berkeley on 17 September 2007. The book is his late manifesto, and the reading shows the publisher of the Pocket Poets series still arguing for poetry as a public and political act. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/92812469-02d4-4c03-b078-5349ccbb8fc0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rJ3y1rGLbY
### 2008
- **2008-05-08**, City Lights turns fifty on Columbus Avenue. The bookstore's fiftieth-anniversary party on the corner of Columbus and Broadway, with Ferlinghetti talking about the early years and reading a poem to the crowd. The shop opened in 1953 with five hundred dollars each from Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/14b21b9d-306f-4ea3-a40c-9797819e41d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evU1WcxX0Mw
- **2008**, Harvey Milk is Assassinated \| Josh Brolin & Sean Penn in Milk (2008) \| N. Relive the horrifying moment, based on a true story, when Dan White (Josh Brolin) brutally assassinates Harvey Milk (Sean Penn). Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role. Sean Penn stars in 2025's One Battle After Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Milk (2009) SYNOPSIS: n [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2daa4480-93e3-4b44-b7e9-ee8bc37ac649) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY1iMn6rdeg
- **2008**, The Castro in San Francisco - History & Culture. Learn More About Gay Lifestyle and Everything About Castro St. @ www.castropedia.com The castro once know as "little scandanavia" and Eureka Valley has transformed into one of the most thriving and vibrant gay communities in the United States. Find out the history and the current culture of the [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7c31a779-cc3d-476a-8866-4110df395bd5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5D3iowD1KQ
- **2008**, Sin, Fire & Gold: The Days of San Francisco's Barbary Coast \| KQED. Watch excerpts from KQED's documentary on San Francisco's Barbary Coast Trail - a walking tour of San Francisco from the Gold Rush through the 1906 earthquake and fire. Hosted by historian Daniel Bacon and Greg Sherwood. KQED serves the people of Northern California with a community-supported alter [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/75046f9b-1d9d-4bad-8420-ba0053ca3f50) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHSKCiPeAAI
- **2008-10-22**, McClure at Berkeley's Holloway poetry series. A full-length reading and conversation with Michael McClure for the Holloway Series at UC Berkeley. His work runs from Ghost Tantras, which he famously read to the lions at the San Francisco Zoo, to the play The Beard and his records with Ray Manzarek, and here he accounts for it himself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/65f08684-c0d9-4584-9b4a-06d63efdc50b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJCPviDtfmA
### 2009
- **2009**, Jazz Heritage Center Presents - Harlem of the West. WW II ended, The Fillmore became The Place. "The Set" where you could get anything legal, illegal, local or foreign, wet and wild, dry and dicey. The soldiers were back and times were good, everyone wanted to have a good time while settling down in the port city of San Francisco. Placed against the [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/577945df-cc19-4264-bfe4-c56baf048aa8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCLmJ20A1j8
- **2009**, An ILWU member recounts the Big Strike. A recorded account from an International Longshore and Warehouse Union member on the 1934 San Francisco general strike and West Coast maritime strike. The strike produced the coastwide contract and the jointly run hiring hall with a union-selected dispatcher, which was the point of the walkout. The ILWU itself was formed in 1937, splitting from the ILA under Harry Bridges. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5d2a1983-21e1-40f0-8ff1-c4fd67a4b7b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBDd-qaV7M
- **2009**, US Immigration History Preserved on Angel Island. The Angel Island Immigration Station, once known as the "Ellis Island of the West," is reopening after a multimillion-dollar restoration of the historical landmark. (Jan. 27) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6abc538b-0c3d-4bb8-b0d7-cf4340594b07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW6f96SgknY
- **2009-11-25**, Black clubs on Pacific Avenue and the sound of the Coast. A tribute to the Black musicians and dancers of the Barbary Coast's Pacific Avenue clubs, among them Purcell's So Different Club at 520 Pacific, which was Black-owned and housed a band reportedly the first to use the word jazz in its name. The quarter's dance halls were crippled by the Police Commission's September 1913 resolution and taxi dancing was finally prohibited in 1921. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a1c5b84e-7189-48ae-b166-7e853ac186bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Npk9gF5gZ8
### 2010
- **2010**, Howl - out in the UK 25/2/10. Starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. The story of Ginsberg's masterful poem and the subsequent obscenity trial that ensued, HOWL weaves together 3 strands of the story: imagined interviews with Ginsberg recounting his inspiration for the poem, the resulting court case and the poem itself, animat [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3ce26ef5-6310-4f13-830e-013d139f3eec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwsIRvsVFAU
- **2010-06-28**, Trailer for the Kenneth Rexroth documentary. Hen House Studios' portrait of Kenneth Rexroth, the poet, critic and translator generally credited with instigating the San Francisco Renaissance. It was Rexroth who introduced the readers at the 6 Gallery on 7 October 1955, in what an eyewitness recalled as a bow tie and a shabby old coat rather than the dapper suit of legend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c5ca0d6e-ab2a-4bb7-b463-58761f8588b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vfTDa4y91g
- **2010-08-11**, KQED on the bay as the greatest shipbuilding centre in the world. An episode segment from KQED's Saving the Bay on the wartime transformation of San Francisco Bay into the largest shipbuilding operation anywhere. Henry Kaiser's Richmond yards produced 747 ships in four years, and by mid-1944 women made up more than a quarter of Richmond's production workers. Broadcast and posted in 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e15ce05a-81b8-457a-a110-ea103bcecbf6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCiGY75wVw
- **2010-12-14**, Giannini enters the California Hall of Fame. The California Museum's induction film for Amadeo Peter Giannini, presented at the ceremony of 14 December 2010 with an introduction by John Doerr. Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in a converted North Beach saloon on 17 October 1904 to serve immigrant depositors other banks turned away, and the bank was renamed Bank of America in 1930. He died on 3 June 1949 leaving an estate of $489,278. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7cf4b926-6b6b-47b2-9219-6b8ac3310665) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrheV0hOW84
### 2011
- **2011-09-15**, McClure reads for University of California television. University of California Television films Michael McClure reading a selection of his poetry and discussing his work. McClure was the youngest of the poets Rexroth introduced at the 6 Gallery in 1955 and one of the few who left a first-hand account of the evening, including Rexroth's shabby coat and bow tie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bf25f958-45e4-4976-a7b2-ebcc089b7aef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQYNNCuqPxk
- **2011-10-15**, Ferlinghetti reads inside City Lights during Litquake. Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads a poem at City Lights as part of Litquake, filmed in the Columbus Avenue shop he opened in 1953. The store's upstairs Poetry Room remained a working reading space more than half a century after it published Howl and Other Poems. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a5d3fe8c-5e27-49ef-9f35-51f51dfd8c1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZX1udTrwQ
### 2012
- **2012**, Documentary on the Diggers and their free city. A feature-length film, originally released in French as Les Diggers de San Francisco, by Celine Deransart, Alice Gaillard and Jean-Pierre Ziren. It traces the anarchist street collective that ran free food, free stores and free performances in Haight-Ashbury during the late nineteen sixties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e947e86f-46ee-4af4-812c-bd645b810e27) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv8Kn3KXBMQ
- **2012-07-30**, Ferlinghetti on his painting and the City Lights years. David Perry interviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti about a museum exhibition of his visual art and about his history in San Francisco. Ferlinghetti bought out his partner Peter D. Martin's half of City Lights in 1955 for a thousand dollars and built the publishing arm around the Pocket Poets Series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4de07247-79d6-4b83-b6e0-353139871bda) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-qAL6eJVQ
- **2012-10-02**, Ferlinghetti reads Joyce inside City Lights. Filmed in the shop he co-founded in 1953, Ferlinghetti reads from Joyce for City Lights' own Banned Book Project. The framing is deliberate: the store's publisher was himself prosecuted in 1957 for issuing Howl and Other Poems, and Judge Clayton Horn's October verdict found the book carried redeeming social importance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e2732b8f-ae44-4ef6-995b-67eb794c45c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljO1DwqTgxI
### 2013
- **2013-01-14**, Trailer for Christopher Felver's Ferlinghetti documentary. Christopher Felver filmed Ferlinghetti over the course of a decade for this feature portrait. The trailer sets out the case the film makes, that the bookseller was less a Beat poet than the catalyst who published and defended the others. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/45491391-8ae0-4299-91a8-56ae89130ff8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxpMVSMJqOc
- **2013-01-16**, A writer of the fifties recalls the Beats and the bomb. The writer Robert Briggs describes witnessing an atomic bomb test while serving in the US Army and the Beat Generation he belonged to in the 1950s, in a film directed by Chel White. First-hand testimony from within the scene rather than commentary about it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6c389a0b-7060-4f24-b754-a0fe075eedf5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z2lt0K5hfc
- **2013-05-17**, Ferlinghetti on his Italian heritage and the bookshop. The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco films Lawrence Ferlinghetti speaking about rediscovering his Italian ancestry, in his role as cultural ambassador. The conversation touches on the founding of City Lights in North Beach, the Italian quarter where the Beat scene took hold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2f8b6bbc-69d0-4c97-8519-521b2c2a840d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq3_apDfk8M
- **2013**, Panorama notorious 'Barbary Coast'. A film by the Edison Company showing the devastation of the April 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. This film is part of the Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films held by the the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, which is part of Southern Methodist University's Hamon Arts Lib [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/28d090cc-c56a-4987-8c76-e1d8fca4b85f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOzU3DvDEj4
- **2013**, Alcatraz - A Brief History. A brief history on Alcatraz, Is it possible for someone to swim from the rock to the shore of San Francisco? Denys Smith-Hart in a self funded expedition intends to swim from Alcatraz across the bay to San Francisco in aid of Donna's Dream House Charity in Blackpool. UK. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7889fd24-96d5-43ed-8cf5-b8b64d8558bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqThttBpU0
- **2013**, Angel Island Immigration Station Tour - AIISF. Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Presents a tour of the historical venue that processed tens of thousands of immigrants traveling across the Pacific from 1910-1940. For more information please visit www.aiisf.org Executive Producer Eddie Wong Directed and Edited by Jeffrey Gee Chin Joh [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/032b33d5-0701-4f10-b1ff-7fa0d1c19935) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtQYhNuIXxQ
- **2013-12-09**, San Francisco is not for sale. Protesters blocking a Google shuttle chant that San Francisco is not for sale, in English and Spanish. The action of 9 December 2013 in the Mission was the first major tech-bus blockade and the origin image of the whole tech-backlash genre. Filmed by the Demotix news agency. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0fdd2ff7-1aa5-4ad7-8657-2416ebb8d746) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdFRsFLKn9E
- **2013-12-09**, A staged confrontation at a blocked shuttle on Valencia Street. San Francisco Bay Guardian footage from 9 December 2013, the day activists first blocked and boarded a Google commuter bus in the Mission. A man who berated the protesters as a Google employee was reported within about a day to be a union organiser, and the reveal became a media-ethics story in its own right. Filming this exchange is why it travelled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/33798365-f48e-4ed1-8fea-8767dcb67f11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yc6z2oSPdQ
- **2013-12-10**, Protesters pulled off a Google bus in the Mission. News footage of San Francisco protesters being removed from a tech commuter shuttle, filmed the day after the first major blockade at 24th and Valencia on 9 December 2013. Heart of the City activists had stopped and boarded a Google double-decker there, and copycat actions followed across the Bay Area. The protests ran until the permanent Commuter Shuttle Program took effect in February 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dd4ce325-d64e-46e1-8739-8fc2b2c94d03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB7_UxccIeo
- **2013-12-20**, Protesters block a shuttle at 24th and Valencia. Reporting for the San Francisco Bay Guardian from the morning of 20 December 2013, when between 70 and 100 protesters gathered at 24th and Valencia to blockade a private tech shuttle over evictions. The corner had become the recognised stage for these actions after the first blockade there on 9 December. Contemporaneous street coverage rather than later retrospective. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0056cfbc-e3c4-445f-a688-d0102f77fdfe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHbMbkqwDk
- **2013-12-20**, Eviction Free San Francisco holds an Apple bus in the Mission. An estimated 100 to 150 people organised by Eviction Free San Francisco and Our Mission No Eviction gathered at 24th and Mission on 20 December 2013, then marched to 24th and Valencia to hold up an Apple employee shuttle. Filmed from within the crowd on the day. The action lasted about thirty minutes and used loudspeakers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8201dfc9-f06e-429d-a4b8-c2c399147c04) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqufHNFP4w
- **2013-12-20**, An Apple shuttle is blockaded in the Mission. Footage of the 20 December 2013 blockade of an Apple commuter shuttle in San Francisco, organised around evictions and rising housing costs attributed in part to bussing tech workers to Silicon Valley. It followed the first major blockade on 9 December at 24th and Valencia, when activists stopped and boarded a Google double-decker. The protest era ran from December 2013 until the permanent Commuter Shuttle Program took effect on 1 February 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f7ff5f34-b6d6-40d4-aab9-2c42a202709a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGkrx5RgMbI
- **2013-12-21**, A TechCrunch reporter on who pays for the boom. Labor Video Project interviews the TechCrunch reporter Greg Ferenstein on the widening divide in San Francisco between tech workers and everyone else, recorded in the weeks after the first shuttle blockades. It puts the industry's own press on camera at the moment the backlash began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/897e8074-ebc1-4618-beaa-d8915a32ae01) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFUJ4bm-Eg
### 2014
- **2014-01-02**, A resident films an anti-displacement protest from his balcony. Raw amateur footage shot from an apartment balcony as demonstrators gather outside a newly built Mission District complex in early January 2014. The shuttle blockades that began weeks earlier had opened a broader fight over who the new housing was for. The filmer's own commentary makes clear he disagrees with the protesters, which is part of what the record shows. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a45278cb-6bf7-4458-b00e-36669462fe72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-9wdKNLMcI
- **2014-01-14**, Inside City Lights as a working bookstore. The Exploratorium's series goes inside City Lights to look at how the shop actually operates, six decades after Ferlinghetti and Martin opened it as an all-paperback store at 261 Columbus Avenue. It treats the place as a functioning literary institution rather than a Beat relic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/84c99efd-a401-4401-bd11-4b5e90075947) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-uwPwzdPY4
- **2014-02-02**, News asks what the boom is doing to the city. A February 2014 news segment on the tech boom's effect on San Francisco, framed around the argument that it was changing the character of the city. It aired between the December 2013 shuttle blockades and the April 2014 Gmuni action, when costumed protesters at 24th and Valencia staged a satirical public-access programme for the buses. Contemporaneous broadcast reporting rather than retrospective. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/58a2b6b1-54bc-443f-82bc-fbee3537e30d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEM9SdbT6U
- **2014-02-19**, Local news asks whether Google is moving into the city. A KRON 4 tech segment from February 2014 on Google's expanding footprint in San Francisco itself, broadcast at the height of the shuttle protests. The city had already granted the Central Market payroll tax exclusion in 2011, the break that kept Twitter in Mid-Market, and by 2014 it was saving participating companies around $34 million a year. Contemporaneous local broadcast news. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/98a7cb4f-e9c9-4c2c-88ff-e35f3f3bfd7a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1FT4UL8rs
- **2014**, 'You Can't Go Home Again' Documenting the SF Housing Crisis. 'You Can't Go Home Again' is an 11 minute mini-documentary humanizes the complicated often heated topic of the SF housing crisis. It features the stories of a mission startup, an activist, an artist being forced to leave, and another long time resident of San Francisco. TechCrunch and Stateless Medi [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f94486d6-f34a-4415-910a-1735b67f551c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynQf03pCRF4
- **2014**, A Quick Look at San Francisco's Historic Murals \| KQED Arts. Commissioned as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal that specifically created paying work for artists, San Francisco's al fresco murals provide a vivid glimpse of workers' lives in factories and fields, while also capturing the chaotic edginess of street life in the tumultuous times of the Great [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b3d7d903-fc22-45dc-b134-87facb2d37ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XBR5pZFR-k
- **2014**, Bear. Owsley Stanley, the Dead's soundman, who made the LSD that supplied the entire San Francisco scene and built the sound system it was heard on. His product was famously and unusually pure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ce6038e6-d091-4af8-9862-73aabe864d24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRXSVuPRhU
### 2015
- **2015-02-23**, McClure reads Raven's Feather. A short piece to camera in which McClure reads Raven's Feather. The ecological strand in his work goes back to the 6 Gallery bill itself, where he read For the Death of 100 Whales. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/023b4e94-04ad-4f94-83bd-9a929be16ef0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRmwblr48A
- **2015-02-23**, McClure reads Acid Mementos to camera. Michael McClure, who read second at the 6 Gallery in 1955 with Point Lobos: Animism and For the Death of 100 Whales, reads his Acid Mementos poems. He was the youngest of the six and outlived nearly all of them, still performing this work on camera six decades on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8b932548-155b-41b4-a16e-b4d7bab1793b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJWRsN7R5o
- **2015-02-23**, McClure reads a poem for Diane di Prima. McClure reads a poem beginning with a line by Diane di Prima, one of the San Francisco poets who came up in the wake of the 6 Gallery reading. The recording is one of a short series filmed with him in the Bay Area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/912ad22e-31a1-4d8b-a0a5-4327ee2e3d24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbNi4t3PJU
- **2015-05-24**, Snyder reads The North Coast at the public library. Gary Snyder reads his poem The North Coast at the San Francisco Public Library, presenting illustrated poems with the artist Tom Killion. Snyder closed the 6 Gallery reading in October 1955 with A Berry Feast and left for Japan the following year on a Zen studies scholarship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6312a11e-13a2-457e-b709-5df1b57feeaa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2wijdxBoLw
- **2015-06-10**, Transamerica's own portrait of its founder. A short corporate film from Transamerica on the life and philanthropy of Amadeo Pietro Giannini, who founded the company and played a large part in San Francisco's recovery after the 1906 earthquake. It is the institution telling its founder's story in its own words, which is itself the useful thing: the familiar account of gold hauled out under crates of oranges and lending from a plank desk on the Washington Street wharf is corporate retelling, and researchers put the sum nearer $80,000 than the $2 million usually quoted. The bank's vault also survived, which complicates the rescue premise. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c4bba230-729a-4e36-b604-7675f445ba66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0u41E4rOYw
- **2015**, Tech Companies In The Tenderloin District \| CNBC. Tech companies in California are moving from the suburbs to the city, and they're settling in San Francisco's historic Tenderloin district. » Subscribe to CNBC: About CNBC: From 'Wall Street' to 'Main Street' to award winning original documentaries and Reality TV series [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/81d408df-cd88-49d9-8754-13e34c8a6a6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLyejg25Bl8
- **2015**, Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti laments changing San Francisco. Ninety-six-year-old Lawrence Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco in the 1950s, where he opened the City Lights bookshop and publishing house. But today San Francisco is better known as a central hub of the tech boom than of countercultural creativity. Jeffrey Brown offers a look at how the poet se [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c8bd5bed-138f-450d-bc13-6beaaa4021af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbL2-yMhqic
- **2015-07-16**, Smithsonian on the Bank of Italy and its depositors. A Smithsonian Channel segment on Giannini, the son of Italian immigrants who built a San Francisco neighbourhood bank into one of the largest commercial banks in the world. He died in 1949 leaving an estate of under half a million dollars. Broadcast as part of a series and posted in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/019dc1eb-70cb-4c09-97cb-ffe03c296127) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB1XE-biLMI
- **2015-09-17**, Gary Snyder reads at White Lotus Farms. A full evening with Gary Snyder recorded at White Lotus Farms on 17 September 2015. Snyder left for Japan in 1956 on a First Zen Institute scholarship after the State Department initially refused him a passport, and the Zen and wilderness commitments audible here were already present when he closed the 6 Gallery reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f80c31fc-7244-44e1-9717-25d47d4d2a7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGHMLUWAVYM
### 2016
- **2016**, The Harlem of the West: Jazz and supper clubs on Fillmore. Fred Jordan, San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, talks about how he loved to go to jazz and supper clubs in The Fillmore District of San Francisco in the 1970s. At the time there were 29 clubs over the space of only a few blocks, and all the great musicians of the time recorded there [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/11969eec-5de7-4444-91cf-6aecf3657860) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2LbqAscGs
- **2016**, Streets by VICE: San Francisco (Market St.). As part of our VICE Guide to San Francisco, Streets By VICE: Market Street is a new documentary on one of San Francisco's most iconic streets. Hosted by Karley Sciortino, the episode traces the street's history from its time as the entry point for new immigrants to San Francisco to its rich history [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/29422669-90e1-4a0e-a200-451d61032840) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZzJbEklD5I
- **2016**, Watching The Castro transform in the 1970s. James "Robbie" Robinson talks about moving into The Castro in 1970, going into business with a friend at a barbershop there. The neighborhood was not yet the mecca of LGBT culture that it is today, and he describes the process of gay businesses slowly starting to establish themselves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a2864c6e-a9f7-4fb6-9f7c-678bb3e8ab33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7q0--LS1Q
- **2016**, Andrew Sullivan remembers the AIDS epidemic in the 80s. CNN's Anderso Cooper speaks with writer and journalist Andrew Sullivan who was on the front lines of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/eb1f2b7c-0877-45f7-ac3e-c629737bb7b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acvnFCSqaw
- **2016**, The Alcatraz Escape (2016). In 1962, bank robbers Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin launched a patchwork raft into the waters surrounding Alcatraz Prison. The men disappeared, leaving behind a cold case that has mystified law enforcement for over half a century. Now, three Dutch scientists have used 3D modelling techno [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/42fcdfdb-7a3d-4d46-b898-7cfe4488cf35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1LXqDyfPvQ
- **2016**, Exhibit exploring Chinese Exclusion Act opens in San Francisco. California’s governor recently signed a bill that ensures students in the state will be taught about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 as well as the contributions made by Chinese Americans in establishing the Transcontinental Railroad. In San Francisco this week, a new exhibit opens that seeks to s [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/deea12fb-e7bd-4c5a-b9f6-7a97e063dc06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wlvMcv17o
- **2016**, The blotter museum the DEA has not raided. Mark McCloud's San Francisco collection of thousands of sheets of blotter art, legally fraught, since much of it is or was active. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/74e32251-b5d6-4c20-b1e5-ca829bfefdb8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1mr1k7eztg
- **2016-09-15**, Betty Reid Soskin on being Black in the wartime shipyards. Betty Reid Soskin, who worked in a segregated Boilermakers union hall during the war and later became a ranger at the Rosie the Riveter home front park she helped create, speaks about what the shipyards were actually like for Black workers. In 1943 the Boilermakers forced Black Marinship workers into a segregated auxiliary, and over 200 who refused to pay its dues were fired. Recorded in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bf1de9db-ef25-45b6-8be4-292b708de036) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiKo1PIRME4
- **2016-11-13**, Ron Magden's film on the West Coast longshore strike. A documentary by labour historian Ron Magden on the 1934 Pacific Coast longshore strike, made for the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. It sets out what the strikers were after: control of the hiring process, a coastwide contract and union recognition in every port. Archival stills and film are cut with historical narration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0d5ff00c-a9a8-481d-87ca-a54776156520) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noYPCBcFbgA
### 2017
- **2017-05-04**, The banker of North Beach and the fire that made his name. A short history programme on Amadeo Peter Giannini, who founded the Bank of Italy in a converted North Beach saloon in October 1904 to lend to immigrants other banks turned away. His conduct after the 1906 earthquake is the origin of the Bank of America legend, though the vivid details of the wagon and the plank desk are corporate retelling rather than documented record. Published in 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5987795e-c6e7-47f8-9e4c-7bdb4ca04ef3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbZlRuo9MI
- **2017**, Ferlinghetti and Hirschman on the North Beach scene. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and poet Jack Hirschman speak at Berkeley for the California Countercultures series about the Beat Generation in North Beach. Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights and published Howl; Hirschman organised the San Francisco International Poetry Festival. Two participants describing the neighbourhood scene from inside it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/98662f80-9dab-42f3-8d3b-e2af003ff31c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_5vbUsGaCA
- **2017**, A Library of Congress specialist on the real women workers. Sheridan Harvey, women's studies specialist at the Library of Congress, traces how the Rosie the Riveter image was built and what the women behind it actually did. The corrective matters in the Bay Area, where the shipyard workforce included over 6,000 Black workers across the four Richmond yards and around 1,000 Black women, photographed for the Office of War Information by E. F. Joseph, the first known Black professional photographer in the region. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5f25fb81-2da9-46c7-9d34-9b18c9734a58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5L5BUiQp4
- **2017**, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple. This video is used to enhance ideas in HSP 3M1. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f7543271-582e-43fa-8dd1-65809cca2d62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=traRRAQQfbg
- **2017**, What It Costs To Live In San Francisco \| Making It. Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Francisco is increasingly out of reach for people who would be card-carrying members of the American middle class elsewhere. VICE Money spent a day with a state university professor to see how her fa [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1c14855c-9477-4ce3-98c5-4e7ec9a8d724) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_UrvqNxx4
- **2017**, Bay Area Homeless - Concern or Crisis Part 1. Part 1 of our special on homelessness in the Bay Area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6ed41bcb-ce30-4383-b67d-ec7d1ae52448) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCaOeyjHgaE
- **2017**, America: Promised Land: Rebuilding San Francisco’s Chinatown \| History. After the 1906 earthquake destroyed the city, plans to rebuild didn’t include a place for Chinese immigrants. Faced with the prospect of resettling to Oakland, Look Tin Eli employed white architects to create an even grander Chinatown. #HISTORY #AmericaPromisedLand Find out more about the special [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/dd019d60-e561-4978-8986-b27bb25e867b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNG0rMHQ474
- **2017-06-30**, Di Prima and Ferlinghetti look back on the Beat city. The Washington Post films Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Herbert Gold recalling San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s, when the city was the setting of the Beat literary movement, and reflecting on how it has changed since. Three writers who were present, speaking about the neighbourhood the scene made and then lost. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/86526442-39c4-4516-ae82-dc126026560d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEGUqg97Fc
### 2018
- **2018-02-20**, Snyder on the West Coast scene of the fifties. Gary Snyder, who closed the 6 Gallery bill with A Berry Feast, recalls the West Coast Beat scene of the 1950s for the New Mexico History Museum. He opens with the question the reading came out of: since none of them could get published, why not give a poetry reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e862a56b-2bdc-4621-89d6-7ad0b28d22b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA3XjuJV7jM
- **2018-03-25**, Robert Hass opens a Beat portrait exhibition. Robert Hass reads at the San Francisco Public Library on 25 March 2018, opening Christopher Felver's exhibition of forty years of photographic portraits of American poets. The show is itself an argument about the visual record of the scene, assembled long after the founding moment that no camera attended. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bff704ae-2ef2-451e-a9a1-b397be8e3f79) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixk7hT5Ksig
- **2018-04-11**, Radiation cleanup fraud at the Hunters Point shipyard. KPIX Bay Area news report on the cleanup of radiological contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which an environmental group called the biggest case of eco-fraud in United States history. The yard peaked at 17,000 to 18,500 wartime jobs and by 1945 covered 979 acres with six drydocks. From July 1946 it served as the decontamination site for ships irradiated at Bikini, and hosted the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory until 1969. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d2271955-d762-47a4-9233-f8d0572597e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqCAJDOVLG8
- **2018-06-03**, Ferlinghetti interview tapes on City Lights and the trial. Paul Iorio's mini-documentary presents audio from an interview he recorded with Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 2000, cut with material on City Lights, Ginsberg and the Howl obscenity case. Ferlinghetti was charged with publishing the book while his manager Shigeyoshi Murao was charged with selling it. Judge Clayton Horn acquitted them in October 1957. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2cecdaa7-e65e-436c-94e5-8009c2fda36b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9AyDoah2g
- **2018**, Harvey Milk Biography - First LGBT Politician (Documentary). Harvey served less than a year in public office before his brutal assassination but his life profoundly changed a city state nation and a global community. His courage passion and sense of justice rocked a country and stirred the very core of a put down and pushed out community bringing forward new [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/807778b3-da4e-4d53-9e86-f642add4ce7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muc9e4Qh4TU
- **2018**, ILWU Local 10 marks Bloody Thursday on the Embarcadero. The 2018 Bloody Thursday memorial, at which ILWU Local 10 honours Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise, the longshoreman and the cook shot dead by police on 5 July 1934. Every West Coast port has stopped work on that date since. The ceremony is the strike's living annual observance rather than footage of the event itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cba4698d-21f1-4d36-ac3f-a890d2428d20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsVf7yKQooc
- **2018**, Jonestown Part 1: Who was the Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones?. Captivated by the charismatic style of Pentecostal and Methodist preachers, Jones became a preacher himself and founded his ministry, the Peoples Temple. WATCH THE FULL SPECIAL: TRUTH AND LIES: JONESTOWN, PARADISE LOST [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7dfbbcc3-9263-424e-864f-f516d96860d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0B1sMfxWYw
- **2018**, Jonestown Part 2: How Jim Jones rose to power within his Peoples Temple. Jones promoted social justice, racial and class equality and desegregation. But some of his former followers said he paid lip service to those ideas to lure people in. WATCH THE FULL SPECIAL: TRUTH AND LIES: JONESTOWN, PARADISE LOST [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/49770314-aa66-4307-834c-af665b40567c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtH6VIfnAQ
- **2018**, The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Fran. Bob Tillman has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Subscribe to our pod [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1e7127cc-bf90-4485-8df4-ff33ccc126e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
- **2018**, Joshua Norton, the Only United States Emperor. Try Wix now: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ I wonder who would win if Joshua Norton and John McAfee got in a fight. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Check out my other channel, Sam O'Nella Vlog! Follow me on [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0d4ccf50-2c20-4456-8d87-bfb06f31a9d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QgJKKHJU3Y
- **2018**, EMPEROR NORTON: San Francisco celebrates the 200th birthday of Emperor. San Francisco celebrates the 200th birthday of Emperor Norton [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cb858edb-91bd-4255-b525-f31d4cbd81fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgoKEmcjl0
- **2018**, What was the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act? \| The Chinese Exclusio. Chinese Exclusion Act was unlike any law enacted since the founding of the republic. Singling out as never before a specific race and nationality for exclusion, it made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America, and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become citizens of the United [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0bdbee92-879e-43d9-be7d-a59ddf82bc1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbBatK7JWYc
- **2018**, San Francisco’s Chinatown and the Chinese Railroad Workers. What was San Francisco's Chinatown like in the 19th century, and what meaning did it hold for Chinese railroad workers? In this video, Dr. Gordon H. Chang, Professor of History at Stanford University, explores this question and provides expert insight into the history of San Francisco's Chinatown an [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5679cda4-22d9-4ace-a5a0-e009b52f515b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjiPpDm3EE
- **2018**, Video essay on the Grateful Dead's approach to live performance. An analytical piece from the music channel Polyphonic, published in 2018, arguing that the Grateful Dead reshaped how live music was played, amplified and circulated. The band formed in the Bay Area and grew out of the same San Francisco scene that produced the Fillmore ballrooms. Roughly eight and a half minutes long. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ebb960b5-f7ad-4c8a-9f74-9d95396d2c74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Sb4heCWM
### 2019
- **2019-03-19**, Ferlinghetti poems gathered for his hundredth birthday. Optic Nerve assembled a cluster of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems from its archives to mark the poet's hundredth birthday. Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights on Columbus Avenue in 1953 and published Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems as Pocket Poets No. 4. He was still publishing and painting in his tenth decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/605b8e55-3e31-46b4-b6dc-650485fa733f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11MUjuK43M
- **2019-03-26**, Ferlinghetti at one hundred on Democracy Now. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who co-founded City Lights with Peter D. Martin on Columbus Avenue in 1953 and published Ginsberg's Howl in the Pocket Poets series, marks his hundredth birthday in this hour-long broadcast. He speaks as poet, publisher and defendant, the man who was charged with publishing the book that the state tried to seize. It is a first-person account from the last surviving principal of the case. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/23f80aaa-9061-4f20-b541-d107b9acb7f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDCT5xqOnI
- **2019**, Howl by Allen Ginsberg - Lisa Mansell (Banned Books Week). English and Creative Writing Senior Lecturer, Lisa Mansell explores the controversial themes in 'Beat' poem 'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg, that resulted in an obscenity trial on its publication. Want to find out more about English and Creative Writing? - Book an open day at [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0d72a141-bf3b-4130-9f84-fafa6f9c1b64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGX0OxEUK4
- **2019**, Saving Our Giants History - The Legacy Project. Over a hundred years of Giants baseball previously sat on shelves around the Bay Area. Captured inside, the faces of former Owners, Managers and Hall of Famers anchored to the fragility of a single film reel or video tape with no determination to be seen again. That is, until now. The San Francisco [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c9fc2fb9-5d5b-4e50-9458-b931aa65cbc4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhxYoaj7vl8
- **2019**, HISTORY OF \| History of Alcatraz. Take a look at the intense history of how Alcatraz Island came to be, and the most famous criminals who called it home. Subscribe for more from HISTORY: For more exclusive HISTORY content: Website: Facebook: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c52e6952-c2e2-41fa-9e6a-140927b94852) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqaEAVRv7W4
### 2020
- **2020-03-25**, Keck Museum curator on John Mackay in Virginia City. The University of Nevada, Reno's Keck Museum curator Garrett Barmore visits Virginia City with a descendant of John Mackay to discuss the miner who arrived on the Comstock in 1859 at four dollars a day and left it one of the richest men in America. Mackay's partnership with James Fair, James Flood and William O'Brien became the Bonanza firm whose silver founded the Nevada Bank of San Francisco. A university museum production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cb00f549-8983-4dfe-b1d2-8d00215f794f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLa-pFwQ890
- **2020-04-01**, Dr Ahimsa Sumchai on illness at the Hunters Point shipyard. An interview with Dr Ahimsa Sumchai of the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program on the pattern of disease among shipyard workers and neighbouring residents. Hunters Point peaked at some 17,000 to 18,500 wartime jobs and then became the decontamination site for ships irradiated at Bikini, with a Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory operating there until 1969. Produced by Labor Video Project. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4b54300c-fa12-478e-a06f-be01e221b6ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_reLNgO5KEs
- **2020-05-01**, NBC News Learn on the migration that gold set off. A short educational segment from NBC News Learn on the 1848 discovery of gold in California and the mass movement west that followed. San Francisco went from a settlement of a few hundred to a city of tens of thousands within two years, and the merchants who supplied the miners took most of the money. Produced and published in 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c4c78210-a500-467d-a798-4e6ad193b385) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Pv1LYapBA
- **2020**, Ginsberg's HOWL - SunLit Festival Reading Presented by FOJKH 4\_16\_2019. Irwin Allen Ginsberg was a legendary writer, philosopher, Beat Generation Poet and friend of Jack Kerouac, our organization (Friends of the Jack Kerouac House Inc) honored the life of Ginsburg, June 3rd 1926-April 5th 1997, with a performance of "Howl" as part of last year's SunLit Festival hosted b [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d9da7eaf-16f1-4b0d-8f3d-aa19c4cc3e86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOyCHkUt0U
- **2020**, Performance of Ginsberg's HOWL 4.16.19 FOJKH (Extended Edition). Performance of Ginsberg's HOWL on 4.16.19 at the SunLit Festival Co-hosted by Friends of the Jack Kerouac House, Inc and Keep St Pete Lit at the Old Key West Bar and Grill in St. Pete, FL Read by Becca McCoy, Bob Devin Jones, Pete Meinke and JoEllen Schilke Irwin Allen Ginsberg was a legendary wr [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/77d17c7e-eeec-4f40-b6ff-78d0fbda0342) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvkPUIZGiuU
- **2020**, Harlem of the West - The Fillmore Jazz Era. Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about the new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. Through dozens of archival photographs and oral accounts from the neighborhood residents and musicians who experienced it at its [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0da2dfb6-1c8c-4298-819a-270db3d00075) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIdScOqs20A
- **2020-08-21**, SF City Guides on making waves at the waterfront. A short talk from San Francisco City Guides' Moments in History series on the working waterfront, the volunteer-docent programme run through the San Francisco Public Library. It covers the port that the Gold Rush built and the labour that ran it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6359f4e3-30d6-4971-9ae9-c9088510df20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbkyjELWmU
- **2020-10-08**, 65th Anniversary of The Six Gallery Poetry reading & HOWL. Actor/musician Geoffrey Pond presents a tribute to the memorable with two monologues, the first featuring his youthful dinner at Carolyn Cassady's (Neal Cassady's widow and great writer), second a history come to life performance from Jack Kerouac's account from The Dharma Bums of the The Six Galler [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7b92dc2b-4156-454c-bfe3-6eb5a5b2b384) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNFcr-m03FU
- **2020-10-10**, The Look of Beat. Dear Friends of KSRB, This last Wednesday marked the 65th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." He first read it at The Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7th, 1955, electrifying his fellow poets and attendees, including, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, David Meltzer, Michael McClure and Philli [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ef2b021f-67ae-45fa-a6c8-e75159a55a79) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9mN7H44F4Q
- **2020-10-27**, How Indiana made Kenneth Rexroth. A history podcast on Rexroth's Midwestern upbringing, the part of his life usually skipped in favour of San Francisco. His mother died in 1916 and his father in 1918; what he brought west was already formed before he laid the groundwork for the Renaissance that produced the 6 Gallery reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/58f3646b-3e4a-45c0-b83b-bfa18466c864) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07M-AIsRPi4
- **2020-12-21**, A public television portrait of the vanished city. A public television documentary surveying San Francisco as it was, including the North Beach of the Beat years, uploaded by a viewer after it went out of distribution. The programme records bars, cafes and streets that the scene used and that later rent rises dispersed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b021ed16-8c4a-4606-8cb0-f9204eb17f11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA0ODRGWQI4
### 2021
- **2021-02-02**, Five women who built ships at the Kaiser yards. Trailer for a documentary following five women who travelled to Richmond, California during the Second World War to build ships at the Kaiser yards, then the largest shipbuilding operation in the world. Women rose from 13.7 percent of Richmond production workers in early 1943 to over 27 percent by mid-1944, and the real job there was overwhelmingly welding rather than riveting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a1090aab-b895-419a-b55c-e26e44719df3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9ei5Q5Oso
- **2021-02-23**, Bay Area television reports Ferlinghetti's death at 101. KPIX reports the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore, at the age of 101. He had opened the shop at 261 Columbus Avenue in 1953 with Peter D. Martin, each putting in five hundred dollars. The last of the figures who published and defended Howl in court. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/765dcecf-577c-4330-ac0a-09f383bbd55a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4R1DUYuqo8
- **2021-02-23**, Flowers outside City Lights after Ferlinghetti's death. Ferlinghetti died on 22 February 2021. The Chronicle filmed San Franciscans leaving flowers at the shop the following day, one mourner speaking about what the bookstore meant to the city's countercultural life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e48335fe-f9b2-41bc-b772-2004a4e07065) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh21rlp1AkQ
- **2021-04-08**, James Delgado on the Gold Rush ships buried under downtown. The maritime archaeologist James Delgado, author of Gold Rush Port, describes the excavation of the storeships and abandoned vessels buried beneath the downtown San Francisco street grid. The great fire of May 1851 sealed the layer that makes them readable today; the Niantic came up at Clay and Sansome in May 1978 and its stern is now at the San Francisco Maritime Museum. A Society for American Archaeology lecture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3eb6c3ac-175e-449f-9c36-19f949df0c9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCW9FZDAvQ
- **2021-04-28**, The Chronicle's memorial evening for Ferlinghetti. Two months after Ferlinghetti's death in February 2021, the San Francisco Chronicle staged an evening of poetry, song and readings in his memory, with Tongo Eisen-Martin and Jack Hirschman among the participants. It records how the city's living poets accounted for the man who published Howl and kept the shop open for sixty-eight years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/84f823bd-430e-44bb-b4e3-cc00383e6f89) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr2qAckLt-8
- **2021-05-02**, Trailer for the ruth weiss documentary. ruth weiss escaped Nazi Europe as a ten-year-old refugee and became a jazz-backed poet in North Beach, one of the few women given standing in a scene remembered almost entirely through its men. The trailer for this Emmy-winning documentary sets out a life that spanned ninety-two years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/90ffac6c-876c-4b22-b8ec-b9c309484e3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj8017lpKE
- **2021-05-17**, City Lights marks McClure's last book of poems. The first day of City Lights' memorial tribute to Michael McClure, who died in 2020, built around Mule Kick Blues, his final collection. Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles and Garrett Caples read from the work of the last surviving reader from the 6 Gallery bill. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/990c6fd5-3259-4f06-bfd7-2b865caa095b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8IIuPtcUg
- **2021**, San Francisco's Hidden History: The Trail Most Tourists Miss. Today, I spend six hours exploring San Francisco's Barbary Coast Trail. It is an urban hike that takes you from Downtown SF and walks you through some of the most historical sites in the city. The walk is steeped in the city's fascinating history starting in the Gold Rush Era to 1906; when it went [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5e9a3cfe-8148-4ef4-b4cd-15f0ef75582c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LML5V1lsU
- **2021**, The Fight to Save the Cable Cars \| HISTORY. The Cable Cars of San Francisco are unique, there are no others like it in operation anywhere in the world today! But preserving them has been quite an uphill battle. Here now is their story from inception and construction in 1873, to the present day (2021). To get exclusive content and videos fea [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/76d5166c-e472-4773-91a3-b26876f2e761) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqFBDasPGFI
- **2021-11-10**, Lincoln Cushing on the home front that remade Bay Area labor. Historian Lincoln Cushing presents for the Rosie the Riveter Trust on the wartime home front seen through the Kaiser shipyards at Richmond. The period reshaped labor organising, race and gender relations, and health care, with the Permanente Health Plan opening to the general public on 21 July 1945. The Richmond yards delivered 747 ships before closing in 1945 and 1946. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/fae4de3a-4b94-48c0-8bc7-cd919ad09a5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtitQhM-V0U
### 2022
- **2022-03-23**, How a Kaiser in-house poster became a labour icon. Historian Lincoln Cushing traces the Westinghouse-era poster now universally known as Rosie the Riveter from obscure workplace notice to political shorthand. The Rosie the Riveter Trust recorded the talk in 2022. Cushing's point cuts against the image: the real Richmond job was overwhelmingly welding, and welders were over forty per cent female by 1944. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b67ca8c9-e039-457c-aed8-67e9c0bc1338) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVKMxKRi0RM
- **2022**, San Francisco Cable Car. \*This video received 2nd Place, Documentary for SCAN NATOA Awards 2023 and also was nominated in the California Emmy Awards 2023\* Cable cars were invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie here in San Francisco in 1873. By 1947, the lower operational costs of buses prompted Mayor Roger Lapham to declare, "t [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/25ae2373-522a-4eb6-8911-bf9c4857ad7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COh8q3BB14M
- **2022**, Emperor Norton: America's Most Unconventional Leader. Invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Masterworks: Purchase shares in great masterpieces from artists like Pablo Picasso, Banksy, Andy Warhol, and more. How Masterworks works: -Create your account with crypto wallet or traditional bank [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b13c69f0-db2c-4528-b380-77f503dd0c3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXgaEXGoVs
- **2022-07-22**, A maritime museum traces the long career of Harry Bridges. An hour-long museum programme from Foss Waterway Seaport on the Australian-born longshoreman who chaired the 1934 strike committee and led the ILWU from its 1937 founding until 1977. Employers and federal prosecutors spent three decades trying to deport him. The talk was recorded and published in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8ffdc48b-fa86-43a8-92b9-dd0ff81f5c47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ERbYZKKWk
### 2023
- **2023-03-06**, San Francisco before the strike of 1934. The opening chapter of the Strikestory documentary, on the conditions that produced the walkout: the shape-up on the Embarcadero, the company union, and the Depression-era waterfront. It sets up the eighty-two-day coastwide strike and the four days in July when roughly 130,000 San Francisco workers stopped work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d7a92510-1c59-474b-b0e5-086c647453ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmAEuQy67s
- **2023-03-23**, Sid LeProtti and the music of the vice quarter. Jazz researcher Dave Radlauer on pianist Sid LeProtti and the Barbary Coast music scene, built on the district's own venues and recorded recollections. The quarter's clubs included Purcell's So Different Club at 520 Pacific, Black-owned and home to the So Different Jazz Band, and the Thalia at 732 Pacific with its double-tiered slummers' balconies. LeProtti remembered the literal last night in March 1921, when a corporal walked in and stopped the music at one o'clock. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a9c6515b-8535-4533-9720-61ac67214d95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKoUq9buvQE
- **2023**, Absolute Mad Lads - Emperor Norton. Go to my sponsor to get a 14 day free trial and see if your personal information has been leaked online ===== LINKS ===== PayPal Donations: Patreon: Subscribestar: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2a6460da-be9d-425b-a207-743085f5ee1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65Cv9COt34
- **2023**, How They Work: SF's Cable Cars and PCC Cars. Experience the thrill of San Francisco's famous cable cars as we take you behind the scenes to uncover the secrets of these incredible historic marvels. How do they manage to tackle some of the steepest hills in any city without an engine? We'll show you! We also explore the PCC Streetcars, the mo [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b1786b43-630f-483e-a89f-98cbbb41ce84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lc-7enEIRQ
- **2023**, How they work - what's happening out of sight on the San Francisco Cable. Here's a more in-depth look at the workings of San Francisco's unique cable cars. What goes on below the slot - how does the cable stay in tension and how does the grip work? I've already looked at the history and taken a ride in this film This is a closer look at the [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ffd07c9b-1b48-45f6-b9cd-21c9ac323f33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazLKSLszuY
- **2023**, The Last Surviving Cousins Of The San Francisco Cable Car. Cable tramways - or in North America, cable cars - were once common in cities across the United States. But famously, San Francisco is the only American city that still operates them today. Less famously, the United Kingdom used to have cable tramways too. And one of them still survives! But why did [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/17e5c33d-8d68-483c-954b-d2584321cba6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkaZ94cKxVc
- **2023**, Garcia on Wolfe. Jerry Garcia on The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's 1968 account of Kesey's bus, the book that fixed the era's image for everyone who wasn't there. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/26f499f6-b97f-4933-9717-eb221f09cf0d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8QJIY54Tmo
### 2024
- **2024-01-12**, Supreme Court agrees to hear the anti camping case. In January 2024 the Supreme Court agreed to review the Ninth Circuit rulings that barred West Coast cities from clearing encampments when shelter beds were unavailable. The case, Grants Pass v Johnson, was decided on 28 June 2024 in favour of the cities, and San Francisco began aggressive sweeps the following month. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2bf30312-cc6f-4e59-946d-69e000ee66b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhF5dPocYNo
- **2024-02-10**, Waymo robotaxi burned by crowd in Chinatown. On the evening of 10 February 2024, during Lunar New Year weekend, a crowd surrounded a driverless Waymo Jaguar on Jackson Street in Chinatown, smashed its windows and threw a firework inside, and the unoccupied car burned out. It was reported at the time as the most destructive attack on a driverless vehicle in the United States, and became the defining image of San Francisco's backlash against autonomous vehicles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/23c310b6-4bc3-48c6-a3ec-e51f4ff0ed55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8EBa5MYfmU
- **2024-02-10**, Crowd smashes and burns a driverless taxi in Chinatown. On the evening of 10 February 2024, during Lunar New Year weekend, a crowd surrounded a driverless Waymo Jaguar I-Pace on Jackson Street in Chinatown, broke its windows, sprayed it with graffiti and threw a firework inside. The car burned out completely; it was carrying no passengers and nobody was hurt. The burning white robotaxi under Chinatown lanterns became the most widely circulated image of the city's backlash against autonomous vehicles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/75393693-7af3-4af0-9e45-96fbcf72ccf3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8fbX4TpeWI
- **2024-02-10**, Crowd burns a driverless Waymo in Chinatown. On the Saturday of Lunar New Year weekend, a crowd surrounded an unoccupied Waymo Jaguar I-Pace on Jackson Street in Chinatown, smashed its windows, sprayed it with graffiti and threw a firework inside. The car burned out completely and no one was hurt. It was described at the time as the most destructive attack on a driverless vehicle in the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/88849249-6434-4396-9d00-4f5f8c77e237) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTZRb-SWhY
- **2024-02-10**, Waymo robotaxi burns on a Chinatown street. On the Saturday night of Lunar New Year weekend a crowd surrounded a driverless Waymo Jaguar I-Pace on Jackson Street in Chinatown, smashed its windows and threw a firework inside, and the car burned out completely. No one was aboard and no injuries were reported. It was described at the time as the most destructive attack on a driverless vehicle in the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a6bf83d7-b5cf-4f73-855a-85555474a7a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2ExdTwSdE
- **2024-02-10**, Waymo robotaxi burned in Chinatown on Lunar New Year. On the evening of 10 February 2024, during Lunar New Year weekend, a crowd surrounded an unoccupied Waymo Jaguar I-Pace on Jackson Street, smashed its windows, sprayed it with graffiti and threw a firework inside; the car burned out completely. No one was injured, and it was reported as the most destructive attack on a driverless vehicle in the United States to that point. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bce93725-9b02-4752-b799-d27a16773279) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAJwfFwfbw
- **2024-02-12**, Investigators work to identify who torched the robotaxi. Two days after the Chinatown burning, a reporter package covered the effort to identify the people who destroyed the vehicle. The attack came as Waymo was expanding driverless service across San Francisco, and it became the defining image of local resistance to autonomous vehicles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cbc7299d-7b39-4b7b-b797-59cb1bc9c38b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r7pf0VtXkg
- **2024-02-19**, Chinatown press conference demands robotaxi shutdown. Nine days after a driverless Waymo was burned on Jackson Street, labor and community groups held a press conference in San Francisco's Chinatown calling for driverless vehicles to be pulled from the streets. The footage records the organised political response to the February 2024 attack rather than the attack itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f25b35a7-261e-40c5-af18-8ddd3c066713) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoVRIdA6tx0
- **2024-04-17**, Police name teenage suspect in Waymo arson. San Francisco police announced on 17 April 2024 that they had identified a 14-year-old as a suspect in the burning of a driverless Waymo Jaguar on Jackson Street in Chinatown that February. The fire, set during Lunar New Year weekend after a crowd surrounded and smashed the unoccupied car, was reported as the most destructive attack on an autonomous vehicle in the country to that point. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/23376279-91ac-4f9c-964c-ad18a453ccc0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzNOyQgGJ9g
- **2024-06-14**, Walking the emptied mall under its old name. A walkthrough of the mall months after the receiver renamed it Emporium Centre San Francisco, reaching back past the mall era to the nineteenth-century department store that occupied the Market Street site. Westfield and Brookfield had stopped paying the mortgage in 2023 and ceded the property to lenders; Bloomingdale's was still trading as the last anchor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4d86a744-4ff9-4cd9-94cb-8de3b9952e2b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3yUIdixRQg
- **2024-07-06**, Skaters move a block to bomb the hill. After the 2023 Dolores Hill Bomb ended in mass arrests, police tried to shut the event down with barricades, and skaters relocated one block away to bomb a parallel slope. The turnout was far smaller than the previous year, and the fire department reported at least two injuries, both to skaters without helmets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b30d3cab-6e2d-4a90-9561-f2caaeea34d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fokaT6uXClE
- **2024-07-06**, Skaters move the hill bomb one block from the barricades. After the 2023 event ended in mass arrests, police barricaded Dolores Street to stop the annual hill bomb. Skaters relocated to a parallel slope on Church Street and bombed it instead; officers were present but did not intervene, and the gathering was far smaller than the previous year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d0f7ef79-3cae-4c1b-8b8b-64e44d384fe6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z0EbQ-V0YA
- **2024-08-10**, SoMa residents kept awake by honking driverless cars. Residents of South of Market reported that Waymo vehicles converging on a parking lot were honking at each other through the night. The complaint marked a quieter register of the city's autonomous-vehicle conflict, in which the machines became a neighbourhood nuisance rather than a target. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8dd6df36-0338-4ad5-9b1c-16c1cd073720) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwVnVr9y2Y
- **2024-08-13**, Robotaxis honk at each other overnight in South of Market. Residents near a Waymo parking lot reported being woken around four in the morning by driverless cars honking at one another as they manoeuvred in the depot. The complaint marked a quieter register of the same argument as the Chinatown fire: what it means for a residential block to host autonomous vehicle infrastructure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/93f56423-5920-47fe-86a7-c9e514d9608a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvs0K1LG1ac
- **2024-10-02**, The Harry Bridges School of Labor teaches the general strike. A 2024 session of the Harry Bridges School of Labor on the 1934 San Francisco general strike, covering the conditions that produced it, the strike itself and its aftermath, and screening part of an older ILWU documentary. Bridges led ILA Local 38-79 in 1934 and went on to serve as ILWU president until 1977. The union still stops work in every West Coast port each 5 July. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/293dc013-ad3d-4e76-9938-8072cfbcee6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRnasrg2-70
- **2024-11-06**, Elections department counts ballots as mayoral race hangs. The day after the 2024 election, San Francisco's Department of Elections was still processing close to 160,000 ballots, leaving the mayoral result unresolved under ranked-choice tabulation. Daniel Lurie ultimately led through all fourteen rounds of counting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2c8b2017-2785-47cd-8d07-261860dfbf5a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Ly6l1enWg
- **2024-11-07**, London Breed concedes the mayoralty to Daniel Lurie. Two days after the election, incumbent mayor London Breed conceded to Daniel Lurie, who had won the final round of ranked-choice counting by more than 34,000 votes. Breed had led the city since 2018; her defeat by a first-time candidate marked the pivot point of San Francisco's post-pandemic politics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/50d1366e-855b-43f2-994e-33fbc148ee91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNnMzpl7skA
- **2024-11-07**, London Breed concedes the mayoral race at City Hall. Mayor London Breed addressed reporters at City Hall on 7 November 2024 after conceding to Daniel Lurie, ending her tenure as mayor. Lurie led every round of the ranked-choice count and took the final round by more than 34,000 votes, unseating an incumbent with a candidate who had never held office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/916563dc-005a-4a95-a2cc-cf1883aa9770) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VENWHLEpF0I
- **2024-11-07**, Breed concedes the mayor's race to Lurie. KRON4's report on London Breed's concession, posted to social media on the afternoon of 7 November 2024, in which she thanked the city that raised her. Breed had served since 2018 and was the first incumbent San Francisco mayor unseated in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c13dbf75-1691-4f0f-87b1-f23be8932275) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3QRlIdDbY
- **2024-11-07**, London Breed concedes the mayoral race. Election coverage of Mayor London Breed conceding to Daniel Lurie, two days after voting closed and while ranked-choice rounds were still being tabulated. Breed lost the final round of ranked-choice tabulation by more than 34,000 votes to a candidate who had never held elected office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f2892db5-f333-4ff4-9e63-e491b899867c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEi0-jJcI1Y
- **2024-11-08**, Mayor-elect outlines his plans in first address. Daniel Lurie's first public remarks after London Breed's concession, reported by KPIX. He ran on public safety, drug enforcement and downtown recovery, and would be sworn in two months later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9eb3b51c-de5c-43b6-981b-ba95ff9696f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ynaYsCPb-c
- **2024-11-08**, Lurie speaks after Breed concedes the mayoralty. Associated Press footage from 8 November 2024 of Daniel Lurie at a news conference the day after Mayor London Breed conceded. Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir and Tipping Point founder who had never held elected office, led through all fourteen rounds of ranked-choice tabulation and won the final round by more than 34,000 votes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/aced4b79-e536-416c-878c-c35f0dfc30df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfmn9OmzryI
- **2024-11-08**, Lurie speaks after Breed concedes the mayoral race. Wire footage of Daniel Lurie addressing supporters at a news conference the day after Mayor London Breed conceded. Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir and founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point, had never held elected office and led through all fourteen rounds of ranked-choice tabulation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d690ab91-c3ed-4012-a778-fa42a0ea584d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZdw5GHPkKA
- **2024-11-15**, Homelessness advocates weigh the incoming administration. Following the 2024 election, homelessness service providers and advocates set out what they expected of the incoming Lurie administration. The question followed a year in which the Supreme Court's Grants Pass ruling and a state executive order had cleared the way for aggressive encampment sweeps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1361068f-8148-4cc0-b044-ff72a0db9646) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4QMnraMI8
- **2024-11-18**, Lurie sits for his first local interview as mayor-elect. Daniel Lurie gave his first Bay Area television interview after winning the mayoral race, weeks before taking office. The Tipping Point founder and Levi Strauss heir had never held elected office and had led through all fourteen rounds of ranked-choice tabulation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ab52770c-3689-4ee1-a415-9468d7150274) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A2b4uEJ19E
- **2024-11-25**, Mayor-elect Lurie interviewed on his plans for downtown. Three weeks after his election, Daniel Lurie sat for a televised interview on returning workers to downtown offices, public safety, and broadening the city's economy beyond technology. Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir and founder of the anti-poverty group Tipping Point, had never held elected office before defeating incumbent London Breed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6d7ee5d2-0fa7-4dcc-bdaa-63a54b081e36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvl6AMoZCoI
### 2025
- **2025-01-04**, Mayor-elect joins neighborhood cleanups before taking office. On the weekend of 4 January 2025, three days before his swearing-in, Daniel Lurie hosted volunteer street cleanups at Ocean Beach, Ingleside and Bayview. The events set the presentational tone of an administration that would make visible street conditions its central measure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/b99dc705-88f0-432a-ac70-b9705601f158) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvnL4gSaZ4
- **2025-01-07**, Interfaith ceremony on the eve of inauguration. A KPIX report on the interfaith unity ceremony Daniel Lurie held on 7 January 2025, the day before he was sworn in. The gathering opened the transition from London Breed's administration to the city's forty-sixth mayor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/571a4351-c846-4ef6-9753-7209ea2db223) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNGRUGoIYwo
- **2025-01-07**, City prepares for the swearing-in of its new mayor. A report filed on the eve of Daniel Lurie's inauguration, covering the preparations at City Hall and the incoming administration's stated plans for law enforcement. Lurie was sworn in the following day. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/ac6ebf4e-9ff7-47bd-9584-723ccccf51d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiAUL9zQ0mo
- **2025-01-08**, Lurie delivers his inaugural address. The new mayor's speech to the crowd immediately after being sworn in. He took office facing a fentanyl crisis he had promised to attack in his first six months, and would shortly be granted emergency contracting powers by the Board of Supervisors to do it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1c50ccab-78a4-4c82-9f21-7a657c855053) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvQCXJiIgLM
- **2025-01-08**, Oath of office administered to the forty-sixth mayor. The oath itself, administered after remarks by Lurie's wife Becca Prowda, completing the transfer of the mayoralty from London Breed. Breed had conceded on 7 November 2024 after losing a ranked-choice contest she led as the incumbent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/267e80d8-ad0f-4939-84d9-0af236e89281) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1dUHLtkb4E
- **2025-01-08**, Inside City Hall on inauguration day. An unedited walk through San Francisco City Hall on the day Daniel Lurie was sworn in as the city's forty-sixth mayor. The footage records the building, the crowd and the ceremony staging rather than the speeches, following the day as it ran. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3327f1a1-d296-4b2d-825d-da7759b3dbdd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gPY5vvDdqQ
- **2025-01-08**, Full ceremony as Lurie is sworn in as mayor. ABC7's unedited recording of the 8 January 2025 inauguration of Daniel Lurie as San Francisco's forty-sixth mayor. He took office having never held elected office, after unseating an incumbent mayor two months earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4484c1d4-b3a7-4fcf-8a95-03a4ecbc0f8a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5kDdDF9NW4
- **2025-01-08**, Steve Kerr speaks at the mayoral inauguration. Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr delivered remarks at the ceremony installing Daniel Lurie as the forty-sixth mayor of San Francisco. The appearance placed the city's basketball franchise, resident at Chase Center since 2019, inside the civic ritual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/50b044b2-5d92-4d3f-a5df-5219d0a505a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcMQiZapqVw
- **2025-01-08**, Lurie sworn in and lays out his agenda. A local television report on the inauguration of Daniel Lurie and the priorities set out in his first address as mayor. He entered office having campaigned on the fentanyl crisis, street conditions and downtown recovery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6e8fb3de-e8a9-4e36-ac20-8e6b786872c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY9nb3b9OGE
- **2025-01-08**, Agency footage of the mayoral oath at City Hall. News agency material from 8 January 2025 showing Daniel Lurie signing the oath of office indoors with his family and then taking the oath at the outdoor ceremony on the City Hall steps. The wide shots record the civic setting of the transfer of power from London Breed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6f39f543-8d60-46e0-b88d-3d784973cf8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXiWpCIi8X8
- **2025-01-08**, Full inauguration ceremony for Mayor Daniel Lurie. Unedited coverage of the 8 January 2025 ceremony at City Hall at which Daniel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco's forty-sixth mayor. Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir and founder of the anti-poverty organisation Tipping Point, took office having never previously held elected office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6f88364c-5b37-4afe-ba20-c2f6a47ef05b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2xOKJzpgWA
- **2025-01-08**, Inaugural address sets the new administration's agenda. A broadcast package on the agenda Daniel Lurie laid out in his inaugural address: a fentanyl emergency response, expanded shelter and treatment capacity, and a push to refill downtown. He could not lawfully declare a state of emergency on taking office, since city code reserves that power for sudden and unforeseen events, and the Board of Supervisors later voted him the equivalent powers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/72ee670e-c5a2-4a6c-81bc-0c334877b70d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKV844IVb2o
- **2025-01-08**, Chinatown marks the new mayor's inauguration. Street footage of Chinatown observances tied to the swearing-in of Mayor Daniel Lurie. The neighborhood's organized turnout for a new administration is a recurring feature of San Francisco civic transitions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7b085b37-4869-416f-ab3a-4ea8d9dc4d66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hWdf_v1M4
- **2025-01-08**, Lurie sets out his agenda after taking office. The new mayor's inaugural address on Civic Center Plaza, in which Lurie promised to restore trust in city government. Within his first months the Board of Supervisors granted him emergency powers over the fentanyl crisis, waiving competitive bidding on some contracts and allowing private donations toward shelter beds and public-safety hiring. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7c681171-8b82-4f75-b6c2-227b57faef55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8rGDfR5qdE
- **2025-01-08**, Full inauguration ceremony for the forty-sixth mayor. Daniel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco's 46th mayor on 8 January 2025, having won the November 2024 election through all fourteen rounds of ranked-choice tabulation. The ceremony is recorded here in full, from the procession to the inaugural address setting out his agenda on fentanyl, shelter and downtown recovery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a472b0e5-e85e-478d-8ba5-0b1049564cd7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my9bGHROztA
- **2025-01-08**, Lurie sworn in, names fentanyl the first priority. Daniel Lurie took the oath of office as San Francisco's forty-sixth mayor and said the fentanyl crisis would be his administration's first priority. He could not legally declare a state of emergency on day one, and the Board of Supervisors later voted him extraordinary powers to act on it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a92e8c0d-7d54-4212-bdf9-e55765b1162a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYiir46CLnY
- **2025-01-08**, Crowd at the mayoral inauguration on Civic Center Plaza. Attendee footage from the swearing-in of Daniel Lurie on 8 January 2025, held outdoors on Civic Center Plaza before a crowd reported at around three thousand. The open-air ceremony was staged as a public event rather than a City Hall formality. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bc5c579a-0afb-40f2-bf58-9a9138753096) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAI7vVbpNg
- **2025-01-08**, Daniel Lurie sworn in at Civic Center Plaza. The full inauguration ceremony for San Francisco's 46th mayor, held outdoors at Civic Center Plaza. Lurie was the first person since 1911 to win the office without having previously served in city government, taking over after defeating the incumbent in November. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d6614780-fb9f-409c-9c7f-3e0bfb7ef707) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5oV3jqRm40
- **2025-01-18**, Activists march through the city before the inauguration. Two days before Donald Trump's second inauguration, demonstrators marched through San Francisco streets against the incoming administration's immigration and reproductive-rights positions. The march came months before the June 2025 downtown protest against ICE arrests that ended in more than 150 arrests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/de625561-813c-4fc2-80cb-efd3450de6ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpjFHNjPfqA
- **2025-01-21**, Bloomingdale's to close its Union Square flagship. Broadcast report on Bloomingdale's announcing it would close its San Francisco flagship. With Nordstrom gone since August 2023, the departure emptied the second of the San Francisco Centre's two anchors and left the mall without a department store. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/37d9a6e1-495f-40d5-af7b-9c62830111ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLVKzbc_aU4
- **2025-01-21**, Bloomingdale's to close its Market Street flagship. Bloomingdale's announced in January 2025 that it would close its store at the San Francisco Centre in the spring, in favour of suburban locations. With Nordstrom gone since August 2023, the departure left the mall without either of its anchor tenants. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6bb9d663-d078-4ace-bf84-4d82209426f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqyHCk9tII
- **2025-02-15**, Chinatown Lunar New Year parade for the Year of the Snake. The full length of San Francisco's Lunar New Year parade for the Year of the Snake, filmed from the route. The parade has run since the Gold Rush era and remains the largest event of its kind outside Asia, staged through the same Chinatown streets where a driverless taxi had been burned during the previous year's holiday weekend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d0fe9a20-2241-483a-95fb-fed5f6b10c35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFNnJq005U
- **2025-02-15**, Culinary showcase during NBA All-Star Weekend. A food event staged alongside NBA All-Star Weekend, the first held at Chase Center since the arena opened in 2019. The All-Star Game itself was played on February 16, 2025, and the surrounding programme spread across San Francisco and Oakland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/de7768de-1164-4f7b-826d-4d7007a46956) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9Hp40Vy9E
- **2025-02-16**, Curry takes All-Star honours in the Chase Center game. The 74th NBA All-Star Game was played at Chase Center on February 16, 2025, the first held in the arena since it opened in 2019, before an announced crowd of 17,539. Stephen Curry was named most valuable player. The weekend was one of the largest events the city hosted between the pandemic and Super Bowl LX. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/51d1d94b-ca44-4f9c-be4c-50c68f2477cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJB0hNYE0WY
- **2025-02-16**, Inside Chase Center for the All-Star Game. The 74th NBA All-Star Game was played at Chase Center on 16 February 2025, the first All-Star Game held at the arena since it opened in 2019, before an attendance of 17,539. Stephen Curry was named most valuable player and the weekend's earlier events ran across the city and Oakland Arena. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8ccb9b75-fe7c-407d-b98a-5170781d2f48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2JaQ7BXY80
- **2025-03-29**, How Did The Six Gallery Reading Get Its Name? - Im a 50s Baby. How Did The Six Gallery Reading Get Its Name? Step back in time to a moment in American literature that still sparks creativity and inspiration. In this engaging video, we’ll take you to the Six Gallery in San Francisco, where a gathering of poets and writers came together on October seventh, ninete [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/0656213d-2b42-43e2-8cd4-35d3841f52dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5qhNQQdKM
- **2025-04-03**, Bloomingdale's clears its shelves as the mall empties. Shoppers filled Bloomingdale's for a seventy-percent-off clearance while the surrounding San Francisco Centre stood largely vacant. The store's announced departure early in 2025 removed the building's second anchor, Nordstrom having closed in August 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/baa59d30-754e-4397-90df-4e68ca546628) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcVygK4C0UQ
- **2025-04-07**, Zara to open a new flagship on Union Square. A year after closing its Union Square store, the Spanish retailer announced a new San Francisco flagship, later confirmed as more than forty thousand square feet in a historic four storey corner building at 400 Post Street. The announcement was made alongside the mayor and treated as evidence that national brands were returning to the district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/739ec391-13fe-41c4-b810-19dc50d79e28) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZ9UqQFaHE
- **2025-04-16**, Groundbreaking for affordable housing on South Van Ness. The Mission Economic Development Agency and the Chinatown Community Development Center broke ground on Casa Adelante at 1515 South Van Ness, a project bringing 168 affordable homes to the Mission District. The ceremony marks construction starting on subsidised housing during the city's long argument over what housing costs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7948dc1f-7f63-4285-a7ac-0dc69162b34b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG3aUtdUYIg
- **2025-05-30**, Mayor unveils a budget against an eight hundred million deficit. Lurie presented his first budget proposal, built to close a shortfall approaching $800 million. The gap defined the fiscal frame of his first year in office and preceded the department job cuts proposed the following spring. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a5e06129-fe99-4de3-b786-2a3c7387d07b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8HQVFxFxd4
- **2025-06-08**, Driverless cars burned during immigration enforcement protests. On 8 June 2025 protests against federal immigration enforcement and the National Guard deployment to Los Angeles spread through downtown San Francisco, and driverless vehicles were vandalised and set alight. Waymo went on to curtail service across parts of the city, publishing a map of the affected zones on 13 June. A later downtown protest that month ended with more than 150 arrests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5ff44b87-d81a-44ed-af8f-6a209709cab9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW6epadAUfc
- **2025-06-09**, Mission District rally against immigration raids. Protesters gathered in the Mission District as immigration enforcement raids swept California and the National Guard was deployed to Los Angeles. Demonstrations continued across San Francisco through June 2025; a downtown protest later that month ended with more than 150 arrests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/74975271-81d5-4f28-ab2a-bac117808141) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ievrT8Q4E
- **2025-06-09**, Union leaders denounce immigration raids at downtown rally. Union members rallied in downtown San Francisco on June 9, 2025 against federal immigration enforcement, with labor leaders speaking to a chanting crowd. The rally came during the wave of Bay Area protests over ICE arrests and the National Guard deployment to Los Angeles; a downtown demonstration later that month ended with more than 150 arrests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/c38af481-95bf-4682-aaaa-b84414c68d35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luH66l20Eno
- **2025-06-10**, Police confront anti-ICE protesters near Twenty-Fourth Street. Splinter groups broke from a larger San Francisco demonstration against federal immigration enforcement, and a McDonald's beside the 24th Street BART station was graffitied before police moved in. The June 2025 protests followed ICE arrests and the National Guard deployment to Los Angeles; a downtown march that month ended with more than 150 arrests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1646ea1a-0155-4a7f-909e-b1b5c8dd445d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VhnH1l6QFk
- **2025**, Nine lions dance at the Chinatown night market. A lion dance with nine lions, a green dragon and martial arts weapon demonstrations at the Chinatown Night Market. The night markets were introduced to draw evening foot traffic back to the neighbourhood's commercial blocks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6ce19768-77e9-460e-b641-7a1bd7f64b7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtoWyjztlDA
- **2025-06-29**, Pride parade and festival fill Market Street. Walking footage of the San Francisco Pride parade and Civic Center festival, filmed the day of the event. Pride remains the city's largest annual public gathering and one of the few that reliably fills Market Street end to end. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/87519d02-0c2c-4da9-a59c-06bf74783dc1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVSWwjGDCZ4
- **2025-08-19**, A filmed portrait of the City Lights publisher. A biographical profile of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born 1919 and dead in February 2021, tracing the Paris bookshop world he came of age in and the San Francisco store it inspired. It covers his role as the publisher who took on Howl and the ACLU-backed defence he arranged before the book was ever printed in England. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f2536d3b-c9d3-4d32-9330-b6eb29f9bc2d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbwgTnXRG5w
- **2025-08-27**, SoMa encampments clear out before the sweep arrives. The city posted notice that it would sweep encampments in South of Market, and most tents had gone before crews appeared. Residents interviewed said clearing sidewalks moved people rather than housing them, the standing objection to a sweep policy the city retained after settling the Coalition on Homelessness lawsuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cb3f1107-0590-4a2c-a0b8-4a526a99f1e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihIJDAVEus4
- **2025-09-20**, Lowriders roll through the Mission District. The King of the Street lowrider parade ran through the Mission District on 20 September 2025. Lowriding is a Chicano tradition rooted in the Mission and long the target of cruising bans, and the parade is one of the neighbourhood's largest annual street gatherings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1f98cae9-05e4-4ae6-91df-b048cfc12bca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKKQOa0bSsM
- **2025-10-06**, Uniqlo announces a return to downtown. Uniqlo, which shut its three-floor flagship at 111 Powell Street in 2021 during the downtown retail exodus, announced it would reopen at 801 Market Street in the former Old Navy flagship. The announcement was read locally as the clearest reversal of the departures that had emptied Union Square. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/124426f4-8099-4c9f-bcbf-27bfca8dab72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xrVsYKLUc
- **2025-10-23**, Mission housing nonprofit marks fifty-two years. The Mission Economic Development Agency gathered partners, staff and community members at the War Memorial Green Room for its fifty-second anniversary, under the theme La Union Hace la Fuerza. Mayor Daniel Lurie addressed the event, one of the Mission's principal affordable-housing and community-development organisations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3e6291c0-a5b2-4358-ba11-ca2a78224e4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHWQoHftPE
- **2025-10-31**, Halloween block party fills a Noe Valley street. Avila Street's annual Halloween block party, filmed the length of the evening as neighbours and visitors gather among decorated houses. The neighbourhood parties have absorbed much of the costumed Halloween crowd since the city ended the official Castro street celebration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/fb6ee399-0f0a-48ab-8a1d-58d4b0aa4768) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxwjG0hZ0EU
- **2025-11-01**, Castro Night Market on Halloween night. Walking footage of the final Castro Night Market of 2025, held on Halloween, with costumed crowds, music and food vendors filling the street. The market is a city-permitted successor to the neighbourhood's Halloween street gatherings, which were shut down in the 2000s after repeated violence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4be70e3a-511d-4495-b7bc-ef92c740365d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo73KvtPrKc
- **2025-11-12**, Waymo opens freeway rides between San Francisco and San Jose. Waymo began public freeway robotaxi service on 12 November 2025, merging its Bay Area territory into a single zone of more than 260 square miles running down the Peninsula. Riders in the early-access group could hail a car in San Francisco and be driven roughly forty-five miles to curbside at San Jose Mineta airport, turning a city-centre novelty into regional infrastructure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/06940173-7044-4c45-861e-59ee34d32bbb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkOK4mb4z_k
- **2025-11-12**, Waymo opens freeway rides to the public. Waymo began carrying public passengers on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, opening the service to early-access riders first. In the Bay Area the change merged the service area into a single zone of more than 260 square miles running on US-101 and I-280, reaching down the Peninsula. It marked the point at which the robotaxi stopped being confined to the city core. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/20fcc707-ea22-4373-aa94-333d7917d45c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdmUIg6_70c
- **2025-11-12**, Waymo opens paid robotaxi rides on freeways. Waymo began carrying public riders on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix on 12 November 2025, and merged its Bay Area territory into a single zone of more than 260 square miles reaching down the Peninsula. The change moved the robotaxi from a downtown novelty to regional infrastructure, with rides possible from near City Hall to San Jose. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/84a1bbd1-a35a-4ed0-9dfd-232938b11d19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfz1CKUcpg
- **2025-11-13**, Atmospheric river brings wind and rain to the city. Broadcast coverage of an atmospheric river striking San Francisco and the wider Bay Area with heavy rain and destructive gusts. Thousands lost power, flights were delayed or cancelled, and an 80 mph gust was recorded in the Marin Headlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cfc6260b-8c2a-4c32-afce-97e6ad545505) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHPmAj4O8Rs
- **2025-12-15**, Union Square merchants describe a retail rebound. By late 2025 Union Square was signing tenants again after the flagship exodus of the pandemic years, with Pop Mart, Nintendo and John Varvatos among the arrivals. Uniqlo had announced in October that it would return downtown at 801 Market Street, the former Old Navy flagship, four years after closing its Powell Street store. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/636bdcf5-6171-4457-9eda-d870bca22fc1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTp94ug-c8
### 2026
- **2026-01-03**, Mayor signs a reparations fund for Black residents. Lurie signed a measure establishing a reparations fund for San Francisco's Black residents, drawing both support and criticism because the fund carries no taxpayer money for direct payments. The signing came as the city faced a budget shortfall of nearly eight hundred million dollars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/9446a5ef-d51d-45c8-aa20-829dace04456) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yoOzRPLoc
- **2026-01-08**, Residents take stock of the mayor's first year. A local news package marking one year of the Lurie administration, gathering residents' assessments of the public-safety priority the mayor set on taking office. Contemporaneous reporting recorded 588 overdose deaths in 2025 against 635 the year before, roughly 500 treatment beds delivered against a promised 1,500, and a street tent count down to 162 structures by December. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/f433aac6-ec98-48d8-9216-841999d42720) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueO0tatJva4
- **2026-01-09**, Mayor describes the talks that halted the federal immigration surge. Lurie discusses the conversations with President Trump that preceded the calling off of a threatened surge of federal immigration agents into San Francisco. The plan, announced by the Department of Homeland Security, was scrapped in October 2025 after Trump cited conversations with the mayor and with tech executives who live in the area. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/12052899-5d36-4d65-8fec-ffe2bc5969ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8OwLMxprQY
- **2026-01-09**, Gig drivers protest as robotaxis stall in a blackout. Gig workers gathered in San Francisco on 9 January 2026 after driverless vehicles stalled on city streets during a power outage. The protest followed two years of friction over autonomous vehicles, from the Chinatown burning in February 2024 to Waymo's opening of freeway service across a single 260 square mile Bay Area zone in November 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/96ec277d-4299-404a-9777-46e9eab0977a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWFXdl4EuCQ
- **2026-01-11**, Crab sold off the boats at Fisherman's Wharf. After weeks of delay to the Dungeness season, crabbers began selling their catch directly to buyers at Fisherman's Wharf at about eleven dollars a pound. It was the fourth year of off-the-boat sales, a working remnant of the waterfront economy inside a tourist district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/3ca4becb-9fd5-409a-9554-529cb6bea867) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFIJiBxeEvE
- **2026-01-15**, Lurie delivers his first State of the City address. Daniel Lurie gave his first State of the City address, recorded in full by the city's government channel. He pointed to declining crime, an expanded police hiring pipeline, added treatment capacity under a recovery-first approach to fentanyl, and a family zoning plan alongside permitting reform, arguing the city was on the rise. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/343451eb-44e0-411a-84ea-2f827593e065) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoD21z_inM
- **2026-01-20**, Downtown mall announces its final week of trading. A broadcast report from the week the San Francisco Centre confirmed it would shut for good. The Market Street mall opened in 1988 and was expanded in 2006; it lost its Nordstrom anchor in 2023, was handed to lenders after its owners stopped paying the mortgage, was renamed the Emporium Centre in 2024, and lost Bloomingdale's in 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4264fe86-af69-4354-a330-56fc7098b9c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJDJcqb0Q_c
- **2026-01-24**, Mayor backs state legislation targeting sideshows. Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his endorsement of state legislation intended to curb sideshows in San Francisco. The brief broadcast item records one of the administration's street-enforcement positions during its second year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/4fe88d54-f647-4019-9b84-b271e3e4f60e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-hF4_-xYRo
- **2026-01-24**, Last week of the San Francisco Centre mall. ABC7 reports on the imminent permanent closure of the San Francisco Centre, which opened on Market Street in 1988 and shut for good on 24 January 2026. Nordstrom left in 2023 and Bloomingdale's announced its exit in January 2025, emptying both anchors before the building's owners handed it to lenders. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/8e665c07-d2ec-46f9-8912-7601da207511) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nELtS835Uo
- **2026-01-24**, A last walkthrough of San Francisco Centre. A full walk through San Francisco Centre in its final days, recording the spiral escalators under the glass dome, the vacated storefronts and the concourse connection to the Powell Street station. The mall closed permanently on 2026-01-24 after thirty-seven years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bc026986-6db7-43df-8017-fe66d4ca9cd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybPQUu7hQw
- **2026-01-24**, Last days of the San Francisco Centre mall. The San Francisco Centre, opened in 1988 on Market Street and expanded in 2006, closed permanently on 24 January 2026, two days ahead of its announced date. Its owners had stopped paying the mortgage in 2023 and ceded the building to lenders; Nordstrom left in 2023 and Bloomingdale's in 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/bc2ee68a-3ee6-4725-afd5-78ab5bba803b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZ_OsLP950
- **2026-01-24**, Final walkthrough of every floor before the mall closes. A floor-by-floor record of the San Francisco Centre in its last days of trading, shot before the building closed permanently on 24 January 2026, two days ahead of its announced date. The spiral escalators rising under the glass dome were among the most recognisable interiors in the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/cf05d4c8-941d-4245-ab1a-3a9a4544fb88) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSaFFbwBcc
- **2026-01-25**, A farewell party for the shuttered downtown mall. San Franciscans gathered for an impromptu goodbye at San Francisco Centre the weekend after it closed for good. The Market Street mall opened in 1988, was expanded in 2006, and shut permanently on 2026-01-24, two days ahead of its announced date. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/58b70c68-1d94-4676-860a-4cefc041d1ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwSzD7y5x_M
- **2026-02-03**, Security briefing before Super Bowl week. Federal, state and local agencies briefed reporters in San Francisco on preparations for Super Bowl LX, played on 8 February 2026 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara with the fan facing week staged in the city. The mayor ran a street cleanup and safety operation through the Emergency Operations Center, and the city opened shelter beds for unhoused people displaced during the week. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/1ee299c7-6aca-40fc-b6aa-1a261dc1485c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MWUtibChs
- **2026-02-03**, Agencies outline Super Bowl security and confirm no ICE role. NFL, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and local police chiefs set out security plans for Super Bowl LX, covering road closures, flight restrictions and bag policies, and stated that no immigration enforcement agents were assigned. The game was played at Levi's Stadium on February 8 with the fan-facing week staged in San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/6e08029a-0275-4160-baa8-5dc0c1d6c3be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GqLywaO_vs
- **2026-03-02**, Drivers and Teamsters rally against robotaxis at City Hall. Professional drivers and Teamsters members rallied outside City Hall before a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on autonomous vehicles, arguing that robotaxis and workplace automation threaten their livelihoods and public safety. The rally followed Waymo's expansion onto Bay Area freeways in November 2025, which turned the service from a city-centre novelty into regional infrastructure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/978d2fb3-0440-4bda-b9ce-94a3ff56c41a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oel8-3-YqYo
- **2026-03-02**, Drivers and unions rally against robotaxis at City Hall. Teamsters Joint Council 7 and SEIU 1021 members rallied on the City Hall steps to demand that Waymo vehicles be removed from San Francisco streets over safety concerns, timed to a city hearing. By late 2025 Waymo had extended its Bay Area service onto freeways and across a single 260-square-mile zone. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/eaf4815b-a753-4224-9497-5c3943bd2b47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd1JphH3BkE
- **2026-03-03**, Mayor calls for hundreds of job cuts across city departments. Facing a budget deficit, Mayor Daniel Lurie proposed eliminating hundreds of positions across municipal departments. The shortfall had run near $800 million during his first year, and the cuts set the terms of the city's second post-pandemic budget argument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/163fc235-ebe7-4127-9bc7-5b1b9e15b23f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VewwSRSJmmU
- **2026-03-03**, City departments ordered to cut five hundred jobs. The mayor directed departments to eliminate at least five hundred positions to cut one hundred million dollars in personnel spending. San Francisco entered 2026 facing a shortfall of nearly eight hundred million dollars, the fiscal backdrop to a year in which office leasing recovered faster than street level activity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d88bf96d-3a0b-49b0-9b41-04bdd6330dfa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiuYojXitEg
- **2026-03-07**, Crowds fill the Chinese New Year parade route. Tens of thousands turned out for San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade, the largest Lunar New Year celebration outside Asia, with Olympic gold medallist and city native Eileen Gu serving as grand marshal and a drone show accompanying the procession. The parade runs through the same Chinatown streets where a driverless taxi was burned during the 2024 holiday weekend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/7e837aa9-7c0c-441c-91a8-531aae87303f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Mvk3uS-0w
- **2026-03-25**, Rideshare drivers rally outside the Waymo depot. Uber and Lyft drivers organised by SEIU California massed outside Waymo's San Francisco depot to demand passage of SB 1246, a bill regulating autonomous taxis, arguing enforcement standards differ between human and driverless fleets. The rally followed Waymo's expansion onto Bay Area freeways the previous November. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/85fa9d77-71a6-4fb8-8725-2dbc5db11858) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXJEDSMHQwg
- **2026-05-27**, Howl Audio Commentary. Howl is a 2010 American film which explores both the 1955 Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th-century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem "Howl". The film is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and stars James Franco as Ginsberg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/a8ffca6d-5c7a-46f7-a3f4-238d18c0f957) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZZHuWhpkU
- **2026**, Dragon dance and firecrackers through Chinatown. The Lunar New Year parade ran through Chinatown with lion and dragon dances, floats and firecrackers. The parade is the city's largest annual Chinese community event and fills the same streets where a driverless taxi was burned during the 2024 holiday weekend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/e25d341b-ab23-4548-9dd0-1e04a8eeb18c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImprrdCNYnw
- **2026**, Mayor Lurie delivers his first State of the City address. In his first State of the City address Daniel Lurie pointed to declining crime, an expanded police hiring pipeline, added treatment capacity and a recovery-first approach to fentanyl, alongside a Family Zoning plan, permitting reform and childcare subsidies. The speech closed his first year in office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/95ebf63b-ed23-4f60-a106-6d3ad731a457) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoNST6Xnd2Y
- **2026**, Walking the Chinatown street fair on parade day. A continuous walk up Grant Avenue from California Street to Broadway during the Chinatown Community Street Fair, held on the day of the Lunar New Year parade. The fair fills the neighborhood's main commercial spine with drumming, vendors and crowds, and remains among the largest Lunar New Year celebrations outside Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d0785b4a-4977-408c-b269-33ef7c72e358) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztGvfsvIP0
- **2026-06-28**, Pride parade fills Market Street. Bystander footage of the San Francisco Pride parade along Market Street. The march remains among the largest annual gatherings staged in the downtown core. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/301f9655-78ec-4d12-98a7-2088641025d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8IeSyb58M
- **2026-06-28**, Highlights from the Pride parade on Market Street. Broadcast highlights of the 2026 San Francisco Pride parade down Market Street. The parade remains the city's largest annual public gathering and its most durable civic ritual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/5538227c-a907-4c73-b5c4-a18be360f9f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGGM1DBd1Q
- **2026-06-28**, Pride parade fills Market Street again. The 2026 Pride parade drew visitors from outside the region along its Market Street route. The march remains the city's largest annual public gathering and one of the few that reliably fills the downtown corridor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/d56e73aa-73ec-43cc-9bd3-7dca300a96af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-axwXkzJ8M
- **2026-07-04**, Police in riot gear clear Mission District fireworks. Block after block of the Mission District hosted impromptu illegal fireworks displays on the Fourth of July. San Francisco police in riot gear closed streets after 10pm and dispersed hundreds of people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/2a41f444-1fc5-490e-bf83-46ecbaf4dfdc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sRUS7n9mzk
- **2026-07-29**, Mayor pushes charter reform onto the ballot. A report on three ballot measures promoted by Mayor Daniel Lurie to amend the city charter. The push came in a year when San Francisco voters were also being asked to decide new transit taxes against a projected Muni funding shortfall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/san-francisco/scene/33265856-57c0-464e-a450-ddd0959f2ba6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymyDnPGN28

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