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In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video looks at the long debate over whether there was a fresh water lake in the Mission, confused with the tidal lagoon called Laguna Dolores. It is the 15th and final of just over a dozen short videos of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the...
Topics: Laguna Dolores, fresh water lake, Mission Dolores, Mission district, creeks, aquifers, tidal inlet,...
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Jul 6, 2020
07/20
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Chris Carlsson
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In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video is the first of a "baker's dozen" of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and another 44 "stops" in an appendix of five walking tours) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite both for buying the book (get it at...
Topics: Mission, Indigenous, Ohlone, slavery, Indian slavery, Franciscans, Serra, Mission Dolores, Chula...
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Jan 24, 2019
01/19
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Shaping San Francisco
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Before San Francisco: Spanish and Mexican Peninsula From the original encounters between local indigenous peoples and the first Spanish arrivals, to the spread of the disruptive Mission cattle-based economy, Mexican independence, and eventual abolition of Indian slavery, the peninsula that became San Francisco had a fascinating and overlooked pre-urban history. Author Adriana Camarena covers the period when Mexico was fragmenting and local Californios existed in a pastoral but brutal local...
Topics: Ohlone, indigenous, Californios, ranchos, Spanish empire, Mexico, Mexican Independence,...
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Beer Nation visits Mission Dolores before and after its opening, showing what it takes to turn beer bar dreams into reality. This BeerCam segment is brought to you by the Good Beer Seal (www.GoodBeerSeal.com). Support those who support us!
Topics: food&leisure, ben wiley, crimson, mission dolores, seth wright, mike winn, bar great harry,...
The voice of the North Mission Association, the paper covered neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 as North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: voting, media, tenants, art, music, film, jobs, politics, health, homeless, culture, rent,...
Source: folio
Noe Valley neighborhood newspaper
Topics: Hospice Opens, Crash at Removed Stop Sign, Noe Valley Music Festival Trouble, Letters 22¢, Meat...
Source: folio
The voice of the North Mission Association, the paper covered neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 as North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: elections, crime, housing, Hotel Dolores, Carole Bourgeois, mental health, South of Market, Jim...
Source: folio
Christopher Richard, aquatic biologist at the Oakland Museum of California, has deciphered the earliest accounts of the water features of the San Francisco peninsula... working with maps, original Spanish diary entries, and a clear understanding of Mission settlement patterns, Richard builds his argument that the century-old myth of a freshwater lake in the Mission is unsustainable.
Topics: water, lakes, ecology, Mission period, Spanish colonization, San Francisco, Mission Dolores,...
Noe Valley neighborhood newspaper
Topics: Oil Leak, Supervisor Achtenberg, Halloween on 24th St., Letters 29¢, Jaywalking, Short Takes,...
Source: folio
The voice of the North Mission Association, the paper covered neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 as North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: fast food, ballot, voting, politics, Legislative Freeze Movement, Gene Shattuck, Save Our...
Source: folio
Before San Francisco: Spanish and Mexican Peninsula From the original encounters between local indigenous peoples and the first Spanish arrivals, to the spread of the disruptive Mission cattle-based economy, Mexican independence, and eventual abolition of Indian slavery, the peninsula that became San Francisco had a fascinating and overlooked pre-urban history. Author Adriana Camarena discusses the fragility of Mexico after its independence from Spain, the multiple efforts to secede, and the...
Topics: Mission Dolores, Mission economy, Mexico, Mexican independence, Spanish empire, secession,...
The voice of the North Mission Association, the paper covered neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 as North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: La Mision, poverty, Brian Doohan, North Mission Association, Mission Cultural Center, Luke Hones,...
Source: folio
Noe Valley neighborhood newspaper
Topics: Of Barbers and Bears, Mike Skoufos, Stephanie Smith, Bevan Dufty, Laura McHale Holland, Starlight...
Source: folio
Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable since 1980.
Topics: Plant Man, Gary Stenger, Judy West, Victor Miller, gentrification, Galería de la Raza, mural,...
Source: folio
Papers covering Mission District neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 were North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: Stett Holbrook, Victor Miller, S. Jorge Zepeda, mural, Women's Building, Chateau Agape, Mark...
Source: folio
Papers covering Mission District neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 were North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: Dolores Park, Eugene Kettner, Chateau Agape, Leroy Looper, Kathy Looper, Rafer Guzman, Frank...
Source: folio
Papers covering Mission District neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 were North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: Alazan Graphics, Mission Cultural Center, Gilberto Osorio, Seth Corzon-Gray, crime, Wiese Alley,...
Source: folio
Noe Valley neighborhood newspaper
Topics: Pamela Gerard, 24th Street Project, Friends of Noe Valley, Noe Valley Merchants and Professionals...
Source: folio
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Nov 26, 2021
11/21
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Elisabeth L. Egenhoff
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FABRICAS. A Collection of Pictures and Statements on the Mineral Materials Used in Building in California Prior to 1850.
Topics: California, Mission, Missions, Spanish, Mexican, Monterey, Carmel, Carmel Mission, Santa Barbara,...
