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      San Francisco’s

      Lost Landmarks

       James R. Smith

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       Fresno, California

       Copyright © 2005 by James R. Smith. All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

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      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN 978-1-61035-191-1

       57986

       Craven Street Books project cadre:

      Doris Hall, Dave Marion, Stephen Blake Mettee

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Smith, James R.

      San Francisco’s lost landmarks / by James R. Smith.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 1-884995-44-6

      1. San Francisco (Calif.)—History. 2. San Francisco (Calif.)—History—Pictorial works. 3. Historic sites—California—San Francisco. 4. Historic sites—California—San Francisco—Pictorial works. 5. San Francisco (Calif.)—Social life and customs. I. Title.

      F869.S357.S64 2005

      979.4’61—dc22

      2004023982

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      This book is dedicated to all San Franciscans, an indomitable people determined to seek their own path, and to my mother, Ruth Elaine Johnson Smith, who had the courage to marry one of them.

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      Contents

       CHAPTER 1: THE ORIGINAL LAND AND SHORES: SCULPTING A CITY

       Walk Around the Coastline—Mid-Nineteenth Century

       Islands and Rocks

       The Filling of the Bay and the Abandoned Gold Rush Fleet

       Tearing Down the Hills

       San Francisco’s Sand Dunes and Marshland

       Shelly Cocoas

       CHAPTER 2: AMUSEMENT PARKS

       Woodward’s Gardens

       Remembrance of Woodward’s Gardens

       The Chutes on Haight Street

       The Chutes at Tenth and Fulton

       The Fillmore Street Chutes

       Playland at the Beach

       Herb Caen’s View on Playland

       CHAPTER 3: OCEAN, BAY & WHARF-SIDE ATTRACTIONS

       Meigg’s Wharf and the Cobweb Palace

       Cobweb Palace

       Sutro Heights

       Adolph Sutro’s San Francisco

       The Cliff House

       The Cliff House and the Parallel

       Sutro’s Baths & Museum

       Memories of Sutro Baths

       CHAPTER 4: GAMBLING HOUSES, PARLORS, CLUBS, SALOONS AND DIVES

       The Gold Rush Era

       The Enterprise Years

       Post-Quake San Francisco

       The Depression and War Years

       The Fillmore Jazz Clubs

       The Beat Era—Post WWII

       The Primalon on Fillmore Street

      

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