San Francisco's Richmond District by Lorri Ungaretti

San Francisco's Richmond District by Lorri Ungaretti

San Francisco is a patchwork of unique neighborhoods, and one of the most distinctive is the Richmond District. Stretching from the city s dense urban core outward to the rocky, rugged cliffs of Land s End, the Richmond contains schools, shops, churches, hospitals, and citizens from many different backgrounds and countries. San Francisco historian and tour guide Lorri Ungaretti, author of San Francisco s Sunset District, showcases here a stirring collection of vintage Richmond images, detailing this district s journey from windswept sand dunes to the modern and livable place we know today. Among the Richmond s long-gone sights are cemeteries, farms, racetracks, and improvised cottages built in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. The area remained mostly rural through the 1880s, when mining entrepreneur Adolph Sutro (who also developed Sutro Heights and Sutro Baths) put in a commuter rail line to connect San Francisco s central district with his entertainment destinations in the Outside Lands near Ocean Beach. The Richmond District s history includes large cemetery plots that are now covered with homes. In addition, the various roadhouses, racetracks, and amusement parks in the area made it what Ungaretti calls the city s playground. They re gone now, but remain important parts of the Richmond s fascinating history.

Ungaretti, Lorri: - In this collection of vintage photographs compiled by Sunset historian and tour guide Lorri Ungaretti, readers will see the dramatic changes that transformed this portion of the hostile Outside Lands into the very livable area that San Franciscans know today. From early views of the dunes to the scrappy settlement known as Carville (composed of discarded municipal railway cars), the curious Larsen Chicken Ranch which took up the equivalent of several city blocks, to the astonishing house-building frenzy of developer Henry Doelger, the Sunset s amazing history is as varied and surprising as the citizens one meets in the district.

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ISBN 13	9780738530536
ISBN 10	0738530530
Title	San Francisco's Richmond District
Author	Lorri Ungaretti
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Arcadia Publishing
Year published	2005-09-21
Number of pages	128
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