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100 1 $aSinclair, Mick.
245 10 $aSan Francisco :$ba cultural and literary history /$cMick Sinclair.
260 $aNew York :$bInterlink Books,$c2004.
300 $axi, 254 p. :$bill., maps ;$c21 cm.
440 0 $aCities of the imagination
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and indexes.
505 0 $aForeword by / Sedge Thomson -- Preface -- Intorduction: Navagating San Francisco -- Historical geography -- The modern city -- Up and down in San Francisco -- Maritime navigation -- pt. 1. The instant city -- A great and magnificent port -- Gold: half the size of a pea -- The world rushes in -- Winners, losers-and Emperor Norton -- pt. 2. Shaping San Francisco -- Rubbish and bones -- The O'Farrell plan -- Elegant and handsomely-furnished homes -- The nobs of Nob Hill -- Pacific Heights -- Taming the hills: Andrew Hallidie's cable cars -- Away from the hills -- San Francisco in ruins -- April 18, 1906 -- All tomorrow's Parties -- Citadels of Commerce -- Willis Polk: Architect, Visionary, Drunkard -- Manhattanization and urban renewal -- Yerba Buena Gardens -- pt. 3. Crime and culture, Punishment and pleasure -- Fires, ducks, hounds, and hangings -- A low set of politicians -- pandemonium let loose -- Tom Maguire: Napoleon of the stage -- The mesmerizing Adah Menken -- Spider-dancing Lola Montez -- Lotta Crabtree's beautiful ankle -- Isadora Duncan: The California faun -- The Barbary Coast -- Pretty waiter girls -- A voyage to Shanghai -- Three hundred pounds of passion: 50c -- The breasts of Carol Doda -- A golden era: literary life in the west -- A literary fog -- Bohemia in Russian Hill -- A story of San Francisco: Dashiell Hammett -- Atherton, Sterling, and Demerest -- Shootings, stabbings, and feuds: newspapers and their owners -- William Randolph Hearst's Examiner -- Herb Caen: nostalgia ain't what it used to be -- pt. 4. Landmarks, ruins and memories -- Alcatraz Island, 1775, 1934, 1969 -- The Sutro Baths, 1896 -- The Ferry Building, 1898 -- City Hall, 1899, 1915, 1999 -- The St. Francis Hotel, 1904/The Palace Hotel, 1875 -- The Palace of Fine Arts, 1915 -- Coit Tower, 1933 -- Golden Gate Bridge, 1937 -- Treasure Island, 1939 -- The Transamerica Pyramid, 1972/The Montgomery Block, 1853.
505 0 $apt. 5. United Nations -- A Mission -- The Mission District -- Chinatown -- A New Chinatown -- Paper Sons, Paper Daughters -- Celebrated Chinatown -- Japantown -- "A Jap's a Jap" -- unhappy returns -- The western addition and the Fillmore district -- Leidesdorff and "Mammy" Pleasant -- The Rise of the Fillmore -- Black Panthers and St. John Coltrane -- The Richmond -- North Beach -- pt. 6. Turning America on its head -- A howl in North Beach, 1955 -- Six poets at the Six Gallery -- Naked before the world -- Beat goes beatnik -- Across the Bay: Berkeley and the 1960s -- A machine so odious: The free speech movement -- Power to the People Park -- A private revolution: Haight-Ashbury, 1964-7 -- Altered states -- Can you pass the acid test? -- Electric music for the mind and body -- Summer in the city -- It's free because it's yours -- The San Francisco Sound -- The death of hippie -- The Castro: the rise of gay San Francisco -- Harvey Milk and the Castro Clone; A fury unleashed -- Aids: A new battle -- Queer capital of the world -- A cybernetic ecology: SoMa, 1985-2001 -- South of the slot -- Multimedia gulch -- Silicon suburbia -- The rise and fall of the cyberhood -- Archive of the future -- Further reading -- Index.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCity and town life in literature.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco.
650 0 $aLiterary landmarks$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xHistory.
655 7 $aBiography.$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSinclair, Mick.$tSan Francisco.$dNew York : Interlink Books, 2004$w(OCoLC)607821043
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSinclair, Mick.$tSan Francisco.$dNew York : Interlink Books, 2004$w(OCoLC)608615693
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