| Title | Product | Description | Residency/Knowledge | Authored on |
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| Colombo Market Arch | San Francisco | Colombo Market Arch600 Front St. See on map
Why it’s a landmark: “Colombo Market Arch is significant for its association with the Colombo Market building and the Italian-American community that founded the produce market.” What else to know: The arch originally framed the western entrance to a block-long market with an open-air passage lined by vendor stalls — the centerpiece of a 50-acre produce district. But as the district declined, the city targeted the area for redevelopment. It now holds Embarcadero Center and the Golden Gateway residential blocks; all that remains is the arch, an incongruous relic on the edge of grassy Sydney Walton Square. Year built: Part of a structure built in 1867, rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and demolished in the early 1960s Architect: Clifford Daly |
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| Tomkins Stairs | San Francisco | Bernal |
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| de Anza statue at Lake Merced | San Francisco | Resident/Good Knowledge | ||
| Florence Nightingale Statue | San Francisco | Laguna Honda Hospital |
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| de Anza Statue | San Francisco | The Statue is at Lake Merced |
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| Early History Timeline | San Francisco | Order of eventsArrival of Gaspar Portola 1769 Misssion San Francisco de Asis Oct 1776 Presidio of San Francisco Mar 1776 Mexican Rule 1821 John Montgomery captures Yerba Buena Jul 1846 Arrival of the Brooklyn. Jul 1846? San Francisco name Jan 1947 Gold Found 1848 |
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| Chrysopylae | San Francisco | John Fremont named Chrysopylae - Golden Gate in 1846 |
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| Drake Brass Plate | San Francisco | Resident/Good Knowledge | ||
| Original designer of GG Park | San Francisco | William Hammond Hall |
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| 345 California Center | San Francisco | Resident/Good Knowledge | ||
| 181 Fremont Street | San Francisco | Resident/Good Knowledge | ||
| Mary Ellen Pleasant | San Francisco | Resident/Good Knowledge | ||
| SF Hotels | San Francisco | The Lick House Niantic hotel Russ House Cosmopolitan Hotel Occidental Hotel Grand Hotel Palace Hotel |
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| The Poodle Dog | San Francisco | Early SF restaurant |
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| Golden Gate International Exposition | San Francisco | New Resident/Visitor | ||
| Panama Pacific International Exposition | San Francisco | New Resident/Visitor | ||
| California Midwinter International Exposition | San Francisco | Expert | ||
| Mangrum and Otter | San Francisco | When Mangrum and Otter built itself a new home in 1928, the maker of architectural tiles made its headquarters into a florid opulent showcase of its products. The architect was Bliss and Fairweather.John King False fronts are a core deceit of architecture in older cities where buildings vied for attention, each eager to make a first impression that would last. How else to explain this polychromatic extravaganza erected by a merchant of architectural tiles, an otherwise squat box that faces the street with florid patterns topped by a sprightly cornice. The firm is long gone, replaced now by city offices with a utility substation and cannabis club across the way. Only the artifice remains, thin beauty on a dingy block that deserves what beauty it can get.
Mangrum and Otter Building 1235 Mission St. Architect: Bliss and Fairweather | Style: Moorish make-believe | Size: 4 stories | Date built: 1926 Listen up! There's now a video version of each week's Cityscape, with extra images - in this one, false fronts abound - and narration by jking@sfchronicle.com. It's waiting for you at www.sfgate.com. |
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| David de Alba, Performer at Finocchio's | San Francisco | Expert | ||
| De Young Museum | San Francisco | San Francisco's Lost Landmarks James R Smith From Fine Arts Building, CMIE |
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Ken McLaughlin/The Chronicle 1965