Lost San Francisco

Dennis Evanosky

• Publisher: Pavilion
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781909815247
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Lost San Francisco takes readers on a journey back to the buildings, parks, stadia, ferries - even cemetaries and prisoners - that time and progress have swept aside. It revisits the building where fortunes were made, where momentous events unfolded and where San Franciscans went to enjoy themselves, like Seals Stadium or Playland at the Beach. The single biggest moment of loss occurred on April 18, 1906, when the great earthquake that rocked so many foundations was followed by a calamitous fire. It ripped through Chinatown and Nob Hill, treating immigrant business and plutocrat mansion alike. it spawned a wave of new building, turned some cable card to electric streetcars and moved Chinatown towards Porthmouth Square. Elsewhere, Fillmore lost its illuminated arches to wartime expediency, the Palace of Fine Arts succumbed to fifty years of water damage and two Cliff houses, the Fillmore Chutes and buildings and Angel Island went up in flames. The Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge made the ferries redundant, while the automobile also accounted for the Southern Pacific station. Organized chronologically from the date of loss, Lost San Francisco is a rich archive of vanished institutions and communities, full or remarkable buildings and the remarkable stories of the men an women who contributed to the city's rich and colourful past. Eric J. Kos and Dennis Evanosky are publishers of the Alameda Sun, a weekly newspaper across the Bay from San Francisco. Eric wrote for and designed various publications before forming the Sun's parent company, Stellar Media Group, Inc. in 2001. Dennis and Eric are co-authors of San Francisco Then and Now, East Bay Then and Now, San Francisco in Photographs and Los Angeles from the Air Then and Now. They have written and published three other books about the history of Oakland and Alameda.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Mission Dolores Secularized 1834
• The Presidio Decommissioned by Mexico 1834
• Yerba Buena Cove filled in by 1860
• Telegraph Hill Semaphore Removed 1862
• Point San Jose and Black Point Commandeered 1863
• Fort Point Stood Down 1865
• Woodward’s Gardens Closed Due to “Odors and Horrible Noises” 1891
• Clay Street Line Closed 1891
• Old Ferry Building Demolished 1892
• Midwinter Fair Closed July 5, 1894
• Custom House Demolished 1905
• The Slot Abandoned 1906
• Earthquake of 1906
• Original Chinatown Victim of 1906 Earthquake
• Selby Shot Tower Victim of 1906 Earthquake
• Mercantile Library Building Victim of 1906 Earthquake
• The Old Palace Hotel Victim of 1906 Earthquake
• Nob Hill Victim of the 1906 Earthquake
• Old Civic Center Destroyed 1906
• Grace Church Victim of the 1906 Earthquake
• Temple Emanu-El and the Sherith Israel Synagogue Victims of the 1906 Earthquake
• The Lick House Victim of the 1906 Earthquake
• Newspaper Row Partially Destroyed 1906
• Cliff House Burned 1907
• South Park Neighborhood Redeveloped 1907
• San Francisco Wharves Replaced by Seawall 1912
• Barbary Coast Outlawed 1914
• 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition Dismantled 1915
• Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society Building Razed 1919
• Rincon Hill Hospitals CRUMBLED 1906; Razed 1923
• The Parrott Building Razed 1926
• Alaska Packers’ Star Fleet Replaced 1930
• Rincon Hill Graded Away 1936
• Lurline Baths Closed 1936
• 1939 World’s Fair on Treasure Island Ended 1940
• San Francisco Cemeteries Moved to Colma 1940s
• Mission Bay Filled in During the 1940s
• Hyde Street Pier Service Ended 1941
• Ferry Services Discontinued 1941
• Sunset Limited Forty-Niner Train Replaced 1941
• Fillmore Arches Scrapped 1943
• The China Clipper Ceased Service 1945
• Angel Island Decommissioned 1946
• Forts Funston and Cronkhite Decommissioned 1946; 1974
• The Fillmore Neighborhood Razed 1948
• Shoot-the-Chutes Demolished 1950
• Seals Stadium Demolished 1959
• Montgomery Block Demolished 1959
• Beatniks Moved on 1960s
• Portsmouth Square Converted to a “Rooftop” GARDEN 1962
• Fox Theatre Demolished 1963
• Alcatraz Prison Closed 1963
• Palace of Fine Arts Rebuilt 1964
• Crocker Building Demolished 1966
• The Sutro Baths Burned 1966
• Hippies of Haight-Ashbury End of an Era 1967
• Letterman Hospital Partially Demolished 1970s
• Fleishhacker Pool & Bathhouse Closed 1971
• Playland at the Beach Closed 1972
• Crissy Field Decommissioned 1974
• Southern Pacific Station Demolished 1975
• City of Paris Demolished 1981
• U.S. Mint Closed 1988
• The “Old” Kezar Stadium Demolished 1989
• Hunters Point Closed 1991