San Francisco's colorful history has been explored so extensively that it is surprising to note that its moved buildings remain one of the city's best-kept secrets. Reports are widely scattered in newspapers and architectural references; yet, despite the fact that the city's relocations are second only to Chicago's, there are no books in print concerning this curious history--until now. And it is a long, lively tale indeed. Beginning in 1850 and continuing today, it involves hundreds of moved structures, from houses and apartment buildings to churches and schools. Buildings were relocated for many reasons, from street modifications in the early 1900s to the advent of freeways and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the 1950s and 1960s. Buildings were cut in half and moved in pieces, disassembled and moved brick by brick, or (more commonly) moved intact--some as heavy as 9,000 tons or as long as 110 feet. Buildings moved to San Francisco via ship around Cape Horn, traveled across town using horses and wagons or (later) trucks, and were barged over the Bay.

The Gold Rush is history. People are no longer moving to California to mine for gold. However, nearly one hundred and fifty years later, people are still relocating to Northern California in droves. Each year, more than 50,000 people move to San Francisco, and tens of thousands more relocate to the surrounding areas. Today, relocating to the City by the Bay is an opportunity to find riches in business, trade, and technology. Once you?ve decided to make San Francisco your new home, you?ll need to find out how to make the move as easily as possible. Cristina Guinot has compiled all the information you need to do it smoothly and affordably. Based on personal experience and years of research, "Relocating to San Francisco and the Bay Area is a comprehensive guide to establishing a home and lifestyle in the Bay Area. Guinot details how to plan and execute the big move, how to find a place to live, how to get involved in the city, and how to get settled in your new neighborhood. This book covers everything you need to be familiar with, such as: Maps of neighborhoods, including public transportation Temporary employment agencies and career resources Parks, beaches, and other places to have fun Social and cultural organizations Phone numbers for community resources Each San Francisco neighborhood is detailed in the chapter titled "Where to Find a Place to Live." The description includes a map as well as a list of local businesses, restaurants, post office locations, and community services. The "neighborhood statistics detail average rents, racial distribution, crime rate and parking availability. "Relocating to San Francisco and the Bay Area will help you feel at homefrom your very first day. About the Author Cristina Guinot has relocated to San Francisco twice in the past ten years. She has written on numerous subjects, her articles have appeared in "Glamour, L.A. Parent, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere

Making the Big Move to San Francisco or Silicon Valley Just Got Easier The San Francisco Bay Area and neighboring high-tech Silicon Valley are among the fastest growing areas in the country. But moving there can be an overwhelming and expensive experience. This book gives you all the information you need to make the transition smooth and affordable, including: -How to plan and execute the big move -How to find an affordable place to live--and where to stay in the meantime -Detailed profiles of all the neighborhoods -Employment agencies, career resources, and job lines -Sights, parks, beaches, and other places to have fun -Maps to neighborhoods, public transportation, and surrounding areas -Free stuff: museums, concerts, tours, street fairs, and more -Helpful Web sites and important phone numbers -And much more! Bursting with information on everything from parking, post offices, banks, health clubs, night classes, and movie theaters, "Relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley helps you negotiate the area like a seasoned veteran on your very first day.

California has always been America's promised land—for American Indians as much as anyone. In the 1950s, Native people from all over the United States moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program. Oakland was a major destination of this program, and once there, Indian people arriving from rural and reservation areas had to adjust to urban living. They did it by creating a cooperative, multi-tribal community—not a geographic community, but rather a network of people linked by shared experiences and understandings. The Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland became a sanctuary during times of upheaval in people's lives and the heart of a vibrant American Indian community. As one long-time resident observes, "The Wednesday Night Dinner at the Friendship House was a must if you wanted to know what was happening among Native people." One of the oldest urban Indian organizations in the country, it continues to serve as a gathering place for newcomers as well as for the descendants of families who arrived half a century ago. This album of essays, photographs, stories, and art chronicles some of the people and events that have played—and continue to play—a role in the lives of Native families in the Bay Area Indian community over the past seventy years. Based on years of work by more than ninety individuals who have participated in the Bay Area Indian community and assembled by the Community History Project at the Intertribal Friendship House, it traces the community's changes from before and during the relocation period through the building of community institutions. It then offers insight into American Indian activism of the 1960s and '70s—including the occupation of Alcatraz—and shows how the Indian community continues to be created and re-created for future generations. Together, these perspectives weave a richly textured portrait that offers an extraordinary inside view of American Indian urban life. Through oral histories, written pieces prepared especially for this book, graphic images, and even news clippings, Urban Voices collects a bundle of memories that hold deep and rich meaning for those who are a part of the Bay Area Indian community—accounts that will be familiar to Indian people living in cities throughout the United States. And through this collection, non-Indians can gain a better understanding of Indian people in America today. "If anything this book is expressive of, it is the insistence that Native people will be who they are as Indians living in urban communities, Natives thriving as cultural people strong in Indian ethnicity, and Natives helping each other socially, spiritually, economically, and politically no matter what. I lived in the Bay Area in 1975-79 and 1986-87, and I was always struck by the Native (many people do say 'American Indian' emphatically!) community and its cultural identity that has always insisted on being second to none. Yes, indeed this book is a dynamic, living document and tribute to the Oakland Indian community as well as to the Bay Area Indian community as a whole." —Simon J. Ortiz "When my family arrived in San Francisco in 1957, the people at the original San Francisco Indian Center helped us adjust to urban living. Many years later, I moved to Oakland and the Intertribal Friendship House became my sanctuary during a tumultuous time in my life. The Intertribal Friendship House was more than an organization. It was the heart of a vibrant tribal community. When we returned to our Oklahoma homelands twenty years later, we took incredible memories of the many people in the Bay Area who helped shape our values and beliefs, some of whom are included in this book." —Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation

In 1914, desperate for land after the Gold Rush brought a population explosion to San Francisco, the city exiled its cemeteries, barring burials within city limits and relocating its existing graveyards to the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, spawning America's only necropolis, where the dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1. But there's more to the story of the Bay Area's cemeteries than this expulsion. Silent Cities San Francisco reveals the complex cultural makeup of the Bay Area, where diversity and history collide, pitting the dead against the living in a race for space and memorialization.