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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 ...
San Francisco crime family. The San Francisco crime family, also known as the Lanza crime family or the San Francisco Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Francisco, California. The syndicate mainly originated in the Little Italy neighborhood of North Beach and was organized in the early 1930s by Francesco "Frank" Lanza.
Irish coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe. The Buena Vista is a café in San Francisco, California, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States in 1952. [1] The Buena Vista Café originally opened in 1916 when the first floor of a boardinghouse was converted into a saloon. [2] The current owners also operate the Trident in Sausalito. [3]
6. On June 16, 2015, shortly after midnight, five Irish J-1 visa students and one Irish-American died and seven others were injured after a balcony on which they were standing collapsed. [1] The group was celebrating a 21st birthday party in Berkeley, California. The balcony was on the 5th floor of an apartment building at 2020 Kittredge Street ...
This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers, notable writers who have lived in, or written about, the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Gaelic American was an Irish nationalist newspaper published in the United States from 1903 to 1951 that was, along with the Irish Nation, owned by John Devoy. [1][2] It was re-launched as an online news publication in 2021.
San Francisco Bay, August 1972 San Francisco PCC-type streetcar 1167 southbound on Church Street San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution and crime. Outcasts and the socially marginalized were attracted by a greater tolerance and acceptance of diverse cultures in the city. It ...
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, effaced the neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.