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The first Carnaval in San Francisco happened in 1978, with less than 100 people dancing in a parade that went around Precita Park. Alejandro Murguía (born 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, editor and filmmaker who was named San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2012. He is known for his writings about the Mission District where he has ...
The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority Irish population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877. The ethnic violence which swept Chinatown resulted in four deaths and the destruction of more than $100,000 worth of property ...
555 Mission Street. / 37.7885; -122.3986. 555 Mission Street is a 33-story, 147 m (482 ft) [A] office tower in the South of Market area of San Francisco, California. [1] Construction of the tower began in 2006 and the tower was finished on September 18, 2008. [4] [5] It was the tallest office building constructed in San Francisco in the 2000s ...
EQ Office. References. [2] [3] [4] The Providian Financial Building (also known as the Pacific Gateway Building) is a high-rise office building located at 201 Mission Street in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California. The building stands at a height of 417 feet (127 m) and has 30 stories. Its construction was completed in 1981.
Irish Hill (San Francisco) Coordinates: 37°45′31.15″N 122°23′10.91″W. Fierce Fight on Irish Hill San Francisco Call, November 8, 1897. Irish Hill was a small working-class neighborhood in San Francisco, near the intersection of 22nd Street and Illinois Avenue. Expansion of the local iron and steel works, including leveling of the hill ...
333 Bush Street. / 37.7906; -122.4030. 333 Bush Street is a 43- floor, 151 m (495 ft) mixed-use skyscraper located on Bush Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The building was completed in 1986 and was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and contains commercial offices as well as seven stories of individually owned ...
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul ( SVP or SVdP or SSVP) is an international voluntary organization in the Catholic Church, founded in 1833 for the sanctification of its members by personal service of the poor. Started by Frédéric Ozanam and Emmanuel Bailly and named after Vincent de Paul, the organization is part of the global Vincentian ...
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