Essays About San francisco
Golden streets of San Francisco In 1899, when Frank Norris published his epic novel McTeague, San Francisco was still reeling from the excesses of the 1849 Gold Rush. Fortune-hunters had swelled the city’s ranks, and while most remained poor, the tantalizing aroma of instant wealth hung in the air. In McTeague, Norris captured this San Francisco…
For Perloff and ACT, it was out of the ethnic frying pan and into the theological fire You couldn’t imagine a pair of less conspicuous protesters. Stationed at the narrow entryway of the Marine’s Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, the two middle-aged men in suits and ties politely, almost shyly, handed out pamphlets to patrons…
Inside a sturdy brick structure that once housed a paper factory in San Francisco’s Mission District, nine women are limbering up in a tiny studio theatre, heads lolling on shoulders, unshod feet pattering the bare wood floor. The students are here, in director Amy Mueller’s “Page to Stage” class offered by Brava! For Women in…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the first museum on the west coast dedicated to 20th century art. It first opened in 1935 but underwent a major renovation and opened a new museum facility designed by renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta in January of 1995. Botta used a lot of historical influences, but…
The fine arts museums of San Francisco, or the “De Young” takes its name after one of the first San Franciscan journalists M. H. De young and together with the Legion of Honor comprises the Pine Arts Museums within Golden Gate Park’s 1 ,017 acres was inaugurated in 1895, reconstructed and open in 2005 the…
On the morning 12 past 5:00 San Francisco suffered a major earthquake that killed 3000 people, the earthquake lasted for about 40 seconds and was recorded at 8. 3 on the Richter Scale. People ran from there houses and some stayed inside the buildings and were crushed. The people who ran in the streets were…
The Loma Prieta EarthquakeOn Tuesday October 17, 1989 at 5:04 PM the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco, Monterey Bay, and Silicon Valley areas. Those were no the only areas affected. Many areas up to 70 and 100 miles away could feel the tremble of the quake. The epicenter of the quake was in…
I know that there are a lot of people in San Francisco that, you know, swing from the other side of the plate and that is what makes it a hard place to travel to. But you can survive the crazy place. Many tourists do survive the city every year but then again there are…
