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Jun 23, 2017 · SAN FRANCISCO’S current financial and global strength may be measured by its ever-rising skyline. Even throughout the city’s booms and busts, its towers have always been a symbol of power. The first of those, the Chronicle and Call buildings — skyscrapers in their day — withstood the 1906 quake.
Jul 17, 2022 · 1930. San Francisco's classic art deco skyline. For decades beginning in the late 1890s, The Chronicle and Call buildings — just 10 and 15 stories, respectively — were the tallest in San...
Feb 1, 2021 · These vintage images of the 19th century San Francisco skyline vividly portray how the California city by the Bay changed over a few short decades in the 1800s. Take a look below to see how the city grew and grew and grew — especially thanks to the Gold Rush .
Jan 22, 2019 · San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic John King has covered the changing skyline and in 2009 explained in a story, it's the "vision of planners and politicians who in the early years of...
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Dec 21, 2021 · Even in San Francisco, where downtown’s towers are viewed by many residents with suspicion or disdain, the skyline plays an outsize role in defining where we live. It is what we in the region ...
Ross Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown 1898. (Photo by Arnold Genthe). It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
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May 10, 2024 · San Francisco and other US city skylines: Then and now. Posted: May 10, 2024 / 08:36 AM PDT. Updated: May 10, 2024 / 08:44 AM PDT. Today, certain city structures across America have become ...
