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Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime (Hardcover)
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Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime (Hardcover)
Series: Historic Photos
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Long after the gold rush had faded into history, San Francisco was
still earning its title as the capital of the Wild, Wild West.
Beneath its cosmopolitan, urbane veneer, the city at the dawn of
the twentieth century still seethed with crime. Raucous crowds
still gathered at the Old Barbary Coast dives and dance halls,
hangouts for thieves and prostitutes, and by 1906, San Francisco's
elected officials had embarked on a spree of corruption that would
eventually result in grand jury indictments, a kidnapping,
bombings, and at least one murder. With over 200 high-quality
images, Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime sifts through the
city's misdeeds, murder, and mayhem, from the tongs and hatchet men
of Old Chinatown to civil disobedience and protests at City Hall in
the 1960s. The Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916, the trials of
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for murder of Hollywood starlet Virginia
Rappe, the lynching of the Howard Street Gang, the lethal
Longshoremen's strike and street riots of 1934, and the 1946
"Battle of Alcatraz" are just a few of the stops along the route of
this riveting tour of San Francisco's underworld.
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