San Francisco's International Hotel

San Francisco's International Hotel
Title San Francisco's International Hotel PDF eBook
Author Estella Habal
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 227
Release 2007-06-28
Genre FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN 1592134475

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San Francisco's International Hotel is part history and part memoir. It presents the struggle to save the International Hotel in the San Francisco neighborhood known as Manilatown, which culminated in 1977 with the eviction of elderly tenant activists. In telling this compelling story, Estella Habal features her own memories of the antieviction movement, focusing on the roles of Filipino Americans and their participation in both the anti-eviction protests and the nascent Asian American movement. Book jacket.

San Francisco's International Hotel

San Francisco's International Hotel
Title San Francisco's International Hotel PDF eBook
Author Estella Habal
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 257
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN 1592134467

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"Part history and part memoir San Francisco's International Hotel is a compelling story of community resistance. Estella Habal features her own memories of the anti-Eviction Movement, focusing on the roles of Filipino Americans and their participation in both the anti-eviction protests and the nascent Asian American movement. She rounds out the narrative with a variety of sources, including interviews with other participants the notes of insiders, and official reports."--BOOK JACKET.

Living Downtown

Living Downtown
Title Living Downtown PDF eBook
Author Paul E. Groth
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 428
Release 1994-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780520068766

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From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

San Francisco's Lost Landmarks

San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
Title San Francisco's Lost Landmarks PDF eBook
Author James R. Smith
Publisher Quill Driver Books
Pages 252
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 9781884995446

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With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than one hundred and fifty years. It not only tells of the lost landmarks, but also dishes up the flavour of what it was like to experience these past treasures.

The Trees of San Francisco

The Trees of San Francisco
Title The Trees of San Francisco PDF eBook
Author Michael Sullivan
Publisher Pomegranate
Pages 172
Release 2004
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780764927584

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Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.

Ten Years That Shook the City

Ten Years That Shook the City
Title Ten Years That Shook the City PDF eBook
Author Chris Carlsson
Publisher City Lights Books
Pages 346
Release 2011-06
Genre History
ISBN 1931404127

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The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.

The San Francisco Cliff House

The San Francisco Cliff House
Title The San Francisco Cliff House PDF eBook
Author Mary Germain Hountalas
Publisher Random House Digital, Inc.
Pages 226
Release 2009
Genre Architecture
ISBN 158008995X

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The history of this fabled site spans 150 years, beginning in