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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.
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.
The Chinese were a visible current in the tidal wave of humanity
that rushed through San Francisco’s Golden Gate in the
mid-nineteenth century. Known to their countrymen as Gam Saan Haak
(guests of Gold Mountain), Chinese immigrants sought great fortune.
Most found only hostility and hard work, often braving the most
dangerous and loathsome jobs. They endured violence and injustice,
yet clung to this land with tenacity and patience and made it their
own. With nearly 200 historic photographs gathered from notable
collections, this book explores a century of Chinese progress in
California. Retracing the immigrants’ steps—from the gold
fields to the high Sierra railroad camps, to lettuce fields and
olive groves, and to the Monterey coast—we visit Chinese enclaves
throughout the state. We linger in San Francisco’s old Chinatown,
home to cherished children and notorious tong gangs, where new
arrivals first found refuge and familiar goods, and tourists later
found exotic merchandise spilling from aging storefronts. These
historic images recall a time when the Chinese community in
California was still a world apart.
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