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A compilation edit featuring KRON-TV's Decades series made in 1999 by Executive Producer Jim Swanson which uses original news footage and contemporary interviews to reflect on Bay Area history from 1848 to 2000. Uses material from all the other Decades series, which examine the history of each San Francisco decade in more detail and can be ...
1 day ago · On Sept. 22, 1975, a 45-year-old mom named Sara Jane Moore drove to downtown San Francisco, positioned herself in a crowd outside the St. Francis Hotel and attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford with a .38 pistol. (She missed only because the gun had an inaccurate sight.)
Apr 17, 1994 · Experience San Francisco's rich history throughout the Twentieth Century in KRON-TV's Emmy award winning Bay Area History series. Day of the Gun, Part I. Part I of a documentary special from 2002 narrated by Belva Davis about the life and death of George Lester Jackson,... Aired: 2002. Day of the Gun, Part II.
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Formed in 1964 as the Californiana Collection, the current San Francisco History Center holds a comprehensive, non-circulating research collection covering all aspects of San Francisco history (and, to a lesser extent, California and Western history) from the time of the area's earliest habitation to the present day. The material sheds light on man...
The San Francisco History Center contains a wealth of primary and secondary source materials in print, manuscript, audio-visual, and digital formats. These include books, periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera; newspapers and news clippings; maps; photographs and slides; microfilm and fiche, videos, DVDs, and recordings; posters and broadsides; archives ...
Books, audio-visual materials, some archival collections, and most periodical titles are represented in the SFPL online catalog. Other materials are not fully represented in the catalog, so patrons are encouraged to ask a librarian if they have questions about holdings. Library users are also directed to department card indexes, folder lists and de...
It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
Jim Brook took the lead in organizing a companion anthology of contrarian and critical San Francisco histories published by City Lights Books in early 1998, Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Culture, Politics.(5) It coincided with the release of our first edition CD-ROM,(6) which with the inclusion of many excerpts from the Reclaiming collection was a solid and critical contribution to local ...
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Sep 30, 2023 · Relive this remarkable journey with Into the Fire. 4. American Experience – The Great San Francisco Earthquake. 5. History of San Francisco: 1900 to 1909. 6. SF Heritage 50th Anniversary Documentary (FULL) San Francisco is known as the City of Skyscrapers and Treasures.
