By David Conyers, Cody Goodfellow, Brian M. Sammons, Elizabeth A. Wolcott, Hilary Ayer
A Nineteen Twenties Sourcebook for town via the Bay
In all of North the USA there's no extra ideal intersection of weather, tradition, and colourful heritage than San Francisco - the fruits of show up future, the Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean, and the treasure condominium of the wealth of the good California Gold Rush. Purged of her wild, anarchic prior through a devastating earthquake and fireplace first and foremost of the 20th century, San Francisco has emerged because the so much cosmopolitan urban at the West Coast.
San Francisco is deceptively historical; its heritage shrouded in a fog of fake domesticity. The Bay zone has recognized many masters, each one leaving a particular mark upon the land. As San Francisco blossoms it draws fugitives and practitioners of unorthodox faiths from the world over. stories of the zone imagine mythic proportions because it turns into the main ethnically assorted, and such a lot lawless, position in America.
SECRETS OF SAN FRANCISCO presents first-class heritage for a decision of Cthulhu crusade set within the Bay quarter of the Twenties. It contains city geography, civic historical past, examine venues, and mythos lore. Many interval pictures are supplied and dozens of old figures are brought, together with a number of who collaborated and corresponded with Lovecraft. listed below are supplied descriptions of the place San Franciscan's are despatched after they holiday the legislations, move insane, or pass-beyond. listed here are the points of interest, sounds, and secrets and techniques of this position that makes it a distinct city.
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The wood-beamed ceiling is of a complicated Indian design that was once held together only with leather thongs (the recent remodeling added steel supports). The church is used for mass only on the holidays, but the marble baptismal font still sees use for additions to the parish. The baptismal records are, remarkably, still intact and extend back to the mission’s founding in 1776. The larger stone church beside the mission was completed the same year. Originally consecrated in honor of the mission’s centennial, the first church annex collapsed in the ‘06 quake.
Now located in Sunnyvale. Golden Gate College 550 Mission Street. Originally founded as a night school by the YMCA in 1881. Now offers high school and college courses. Hastings College of the Law 198 McAllister Street. Established in 1878 as the law department of the University of California. Jesuit College Fulton Street and Parker Avenue. The city’s oldest institution of higher learning has relocated three times since its opening in 1855. A Catholic university, the college offers theological studies and features a breathtaking cathedral.
The driver will simply refuse to start the car until such a lady either gets off or is given a seat by one of the gentlemen present. This prohibition continues until the 1960’s. Municipal Railways Car H: Van Ness and Bay to Potrero and 25th Streets. Car J: From ferries via Market and Church to 30th. Car K. From ferries via Market, Twin Peaks Tunnel, Forest Hill, Parkside, Claremont, St. Francis Wood, Ingleside Terrace, and Westwood Park. Buses Through the 1920’s, San Francisco has only two bus routes, which serve the west side of the city: Line No.