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Volunteer Department: 1849-1866. The first great fire in San Francisco originated on Christmas Eve, 1849. By the time it burned itself out; fifty buildings were gone at a loss of $1,500,000. On Christmas night several citizens who had been firemen in the East met and formed fire companies.
ILWU headquarters in San Francisco. The ILWU admitted African Americans in the 1930s, and during World War II its San Francisco section alone had an estimated 800 black members, at a time when most San Francisco unions excluded black workers and resisted implementation of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 (1941) against racial discrimination in the US defense industry. [8]
MBH Architects is an architecture and interior design firm founded in October 1989 by architects John McNulty and Dennis Heath. [1] The firm is headquartered in a LEED Gold certified office in Alameda, California [2] in the San Francisco Bay Area. Examples of its work include the design of several P.F. Chang's China Bistros, work for the Hilton ...
Pacific-Union Club. The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It is a well known club of the West Coast, [citation needed] clubs in the United States. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club ...
The James C. Flood Mansion is a historic mansion at 1000 California Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California, USA. Now home of the Pacific-Union Club, it was built in 1886 as the townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th-century silver baron. It was the first brownstone building west of the Mississippi River, and the only mansion on Nob ...
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Rueff's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. Carlsson, Chris; Elliott, LisaRuth (2011). Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978.
San Francisco, [25] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [16] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
Area codes. 415/6 28. The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States, that serves as its main central business district and had 372,829 jobs according to U.S. census tracts as of 2012-2016. [5] It is home to the city's largest concentration of corporate headquarters, law firms, insurance companies, real ...