Explore the history and development of San Francisco, covering key topics such as: - Spanish Occupation - The First Survey ...

San Francisco’s tech boom may be the cause of rising rents in the city, but, apparently, it’s nothing compared to the cost of living in California during the Gold Rush. In 1849, as men flocked to the ...

On a sunny day in San Francisco, along the city’s waterfront, families dived into the wacky world of artificial intelligence inside the Exploratorium museum. Visitors made shadow puppets for AI to ...

Exactly how wild was the Wild West in San Francisco? You may know Finocchio's opened as a speakeasy in 1929 and the Dash one of the first gay bars opened on 547 Pacific Street in 1908. But what was ...

The last Portals described how a small group of German Jews escaped the restrictions and prejudices of their homeland to prosper in Gold Rush-era San Francisco. By 1870, a group of several dozen ...