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Author : Daniel Bacon
Release : 2021-02-25
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Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail by : Daniel Bacon
Download or read book Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail written by Daniel Bacon. This book was released on 2021-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the Barbary Coast Trail, San Francisco's official historical walk.
Author : Rand Richards
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 036/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historic Walks in San Francisco by : Rand Richards
Download or read book Historic Walks in San Francisco written by Rand Richards. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Brimming with insight and the odd fact, laced with humor and drama, this unique guidebook sheds new light on the history of one of America's renowned cities. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Release : 2022-08-17
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 730/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Barbary Coast by : Herbert Asbury
Download or read book The Barbary Coast written by Herbert Asbury. This book was released on 2022-08-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.
Author : Ivy Anderson
Release : 2016-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 766/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Alice by : Ivy Anderson
Download or read book Alice written by Ivy Anderson. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s world. In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering “the life.” While prostitute narratives had been published before, never had they been as frank in their discussion of the underworld, including topics such as abortion, police corruption, and the unwritten laws of the brothel. Throughout the series, Alice strongly criticized the society that failed her and so many other women, but, just as acutely, she longed to be welcomed back from the margins. The response to Alice's story was unprecedented: four thousand letters poured into the Bulletin, many of which were written by other prostitutes ready to share their own stories; and it inspired what may have been the first sex worker rights protest in modern history. An introduction contextualizes “A Voice from the Underworld” amid Progressive Era sensationalistic journalism and shifting ideas of gender roles, and reveals themes in Alice's story that extend to issues facing sex workers today. Winner of the California Historical Society Book Award “Essential reading for anyone interested in the rich history of sexual commerce in the United States.”—Gretchen Soderlund, author of Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917 “Not only for Bay Area history buffs, Alice will enlighten all readers to early shifts in gender roles and societal correlations today.”—Cassie Duggan, Literary Hub
Author : Kristine Poggioli
Release : 2016
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 796/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive by : Kristine Poggioli
Download or read book Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive written by Kristine Poggioli. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco's famous citywide scenic driving route has been reinvented for a new generation as a green, healthy walking adventure. This turn-by-turn guide takes visitors and natives alike on 17 different up-close walking tours, passing by and through the city's major sights, fascinating neighborhoods, and breathtaking vistas.
