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623 [1] Union Square is a 2.6-acre (1.1-hectare) public plaza bordered by Geary, Powell, Post, and Stockton Streets in downtown San Francisco, California. "Union Square" also refers to the central shopping, hotel, and theater district that surrounds the plaza for several blocks. The area got its name because it was once used for Thomas Starr ...
With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, [25] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) [26] at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the ...
1906 San Francisco earthquake. / 37.75; -122.55. At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ).
The Black Firefighters Associations (BFA) is affiliated with the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters (IABPFF). The SFBFA [1] was formed as a result of issues concerning Black Americans and other minority members of the Fire Department. After the riots of 1968, an effort to coordinate the response of the fire services ...
Volunteer Department: 1849-1866. The first great fire in San Francisco originated on Christmas Eve, 1849. By the time it burned itself out; fifty buildings were gone at a loss of $1,500,000. On Christmas night several citizens who had been firemen in the East met and formed fire companies.
The Redstone Building, also known as the Redstone Labor Temple (and formerly called "The San Francisco Labor Temple"), was constructed and operated by the San Francisco Labor Council Hall Associates. Initial planning started in 1910, with most construction work done during 1914. Its primary tenant was the San Francisco Labor Council, including ...
Pacific-Union Club. The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It is a well known club of the West Coast, [citation needed] clubs in the United States. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club ...
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.