Secrets of San Francisco: A 1920s Sourcebook for the City by the Bay

In all of North Am-er-ica there is no more perfect in-ter-section of climate, cul-ture, and colorful history than San Fran--cisco - the culmination of Manifest Destiny, the Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean, and the treasure house of the wealth of the great California Gold Rush. Purged of her wild, anarchic past by a devastating earthquake and fire at the beginning of the twentieth century, San Francisco has emerged as the most cosmopolitan city on the West Coast. San Francisco is deceptivel...