Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
Newcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite different. They reminisce about seafood dinners at A. Sabella's on Fisherman's Wharf, the enormous Christmas tree in Union Square's City of Paris department store and taking a handful of dimes to Playland-at-the-Beach for arcade games and cotton candy. In his second volume of these unforgettable stories, local author and historian Frank Dunnigan vividly recalls the many details that made life special in the City by the Bay for generations.
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
Newcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite different. They reminisce about seafood dinners at A. Sabella's on Fisherman's Wharf, the enormous Christmas tree in Union Square's City of Paris department store and taking a handful of dimes to Playland-at-the-Beach for arcade games and cotton candy. In his second volume of these unforgettable stories, local author and historian Frank Dunnigan vividly recalls the many details that made life special in the City by the Bay for generations.
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park

Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park

by Mr. Frank Dunnigan
Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park

Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park

by Mr. Frank Dunnigan

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Overview

Newcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite different. They reminisce about seafood dinners at A. Sabella's on Fisherman's Wharf, the enormous Christmas tree in Union Square's City of Paris department store and taking a handful of dimes to Playland-at-the-Beach for arcade games and cotton candy. In his second volume of these unforgettable stories, local author and historian Frank Dunnigan vividly recalls the many details that made life special in the City by the Bay for generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467135702
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 10/17/2016
Series: American Chronicles
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Baby boomer Frank Dunnigan has family roots in San Francisco that can be traced all the way back to 1860. A graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep and the University of San Francisco, he spent more than twenty-five years as a bank auditor and a corporate trainer, and is now a recent retiree after a career with the federal government. He has authored two other books on San Francisco history for The History Press, and writes a monthly column, STREETWISE, for the Western Neighborhoods Project.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 11

1 Welcome to San Francisco 13

2 Changing Times 17

3 A Place Called Home 23

4 FDR and the Knotty Pine Room 31

5 Along the Taraval Trail 36

6 School Days 47

7 The Grand Era of Philanthropy 59

8 Fun and Games 68

9 On the Road Again 78

10 Dinner on the fable 85

11 Rites of Passage 92

12 Workin' Nine to Five 98

13 Home Sweet Home 103

14 Down on the Corner 110

15 Deck the Halls 116

16 Savoring the Past 122

17 The City as Backdrop 127

18 A Nice Place to Visit 132

19 A Timeline of Change 146

20 What Ever Happened to…? 166

Selected Bibliography 183

About the Author 187

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