Lost San Francisco

by Evanovsky, Dennis; Kos, Eric J.

• ISBN13: 9781862059344
• ISBN10: 1862059349
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-23
• Publisher: Pavilion

Summary

The first in a new series that looks at how a city used to run--at the old transport systems, the former city halls, the stores, the theaters, and cinemas, the gas stations and car showrooms, the restaurants, and the people on the sidewalk Aspects of lost San Francisco that are examined here include the Victorian Alcatraz, Cliff House Hotel before it burned down, the early Embarcadero, the devastation of the 1906 earthquake, horse-drawn streetcars, the grandeur of the Sutro Baths both outside and in, the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition buildings, the changes made to combat a possible Japanese invasion during World War II, and some of the key hippie stores on Haight-Ashbury before the area became more upscale.

Author Biography

Dennis Evanosky is the city editor at the Alameda Sun, a weekly newspaper across the bay from San Francisco. Eric J. Kos formed Stellar Media Group in 2001 to publish his own weekly newspaper. They are the coauthors of East Bay Then and Now, Los Angeles Then and Now, and San Francisco Then and Now.