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Ross Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown 1898. (Photo by Arnold Genthe). It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
1977 (age 46–47) Alma mater. Boston University ( BA) Occupation. Journalist. Known for. First woman editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle. Audrey Cooper (born 1977) is an American journalist. Hearst Corporation named her as Editor in Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle on January 13, 2015, making her the first woman to hold this ...
Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco) / 37.779081; -122.414708. The Orpheum Theatre, originally the Pantages Theatre, is located at 1192 Market Street at Hyde, Grove and 8th Streets in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, California. The theatre first opened in 1926 as one of the many designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca for theater-circuit ...
Tom Stienstra (born 1954) [1] is an American author, outdoorsman and Outdoors Writer Emeritus for the San Francisco Chronicle. [2] [3] He produces a radio feature for KCBS in San Francisco, and hosted and co-produced a television special for PBS on the Tuolumne River. He has written several guide books for California, the Pacific Northwest and ...
San Francisco. Nationality. American. Occupation. newspaper columnist. Arthur Watterson Hoppe (April 23, 1925 – February 1, 2000) was a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years. He was known for satirical and allegorical columns that skewered the self-important. Many columns featured whimsical characters such ...
Starting on November 1, 1994, some 2,600 reporters, editors, drivers, press operators and paper handlers of the San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner walked off the job. The strike turned violent. Bricks were thrown through paper carriers' windshields as they drove from the newspaper distribution center, and one non-union ...
Stanton Delaplane. Stanton Hill ("Stan") Delaplane (12 October 1907 – 18 April 1988) was an American travel writer, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States. Called "last of the old irreplaceables" by fellow- columnist Herb Caen, he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for 53 years, winning a Pulitzer Prize for reporting ...
Died. June 19, 2020 (aged 101) San Francisco, California, U.S. Alma mater. Columbia University ( BA, MA) Occupation. Journalist. David Perlman (December 30, 1918 – June 19, 2020) [1] was an American science journalist based in San Francisco, California, who was the science editor for the San Francisco Chronicle. [2]