The Saga of San Francisco's Wild Western Addition and Me
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615863795 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 338 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author has been intensively involved in the social fabric, politics, commerce, cultural institutions, and neighborhood organizations in San Francisco. Education at the University of Kansas includes a B.A in Zoology, three years of medical school, and a M.A. Although he started writing forty years ago, he spend these years mostly practicing real estate, observing, reading, traveling, and volunteering to amass the great amount of information offered in this book. My accumulated stories needed now to be told in writing, with a certain urgency! . This book was precipitated by the murder of Oscar Grant III in the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit Station on January 1, 2009. About the Author The author was born in Kansas City, Kansas on January 1, 1943. His paternal grandmother had been a tenant in a building that I owned with partners in the Western Addition. He presently owns his own real estate fi
The San Francisco Redevelopment and Housing Agencies are revealed in vivid detail. Recommended by the preeminent Californian Historian Kevin Starr, this book explores in depth the most interesting and controversial area of San Francisco--the Western Addition. Many of these were members of a great variety of religious backgrounds such as Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, etc. Although now much reduced into a smaller district from the original nineteenth-century boundaries which previously included the districts of the Marina, Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights, Cow Hollow, Anza Vista, Hayes Valley, Lower Pacific Heights, Alamo Square, and the North Panhandle; the district continues in the twentieth-first century to be a fascinating element of changing urban development, as also examined on other cities in the U.S.; such as Kansas City, Oakland, etc. This "melting pot" is analyzed in great detail. As a personal autobiography, the book adds extensive information from public memberships, social intercourse, neighborhood meetings, real estate business transactions, commission-appointed memberships, and political involvements. Also the importance of the political reforms by the LGBT community is explored. This western development of the city was a vortex of immigrants from the Eastern U.S., Western Europe, Asia, Africa, etc. The utopia of San Francisco has rapidly changed with the biotech and high-te
A Colorful Look At A Neglected District In San Francisco The author captured the late history of the Western Addition district in an enjoyable look at the past 50 years. Speergives a close view of the political changes that shaped this history with wit and humor. His insight on the types of housing andreal estate data is remarkable.. "Some interesting history" according to katyop. Robert obviously has a great love for San Francisco, and describes his own, eclectic experiences very well. His description of the houses he knows and loves is very interesting.
The author was born in Kansas City, Kansas on January 1, 1943. He presently owns his own real estate firm in San Francisco, His corporation was established in 1976 and has had as many as five associates. The author has been intensively involved in the social fabric, politics, commerce, cultural institutions, and neighborhood organizations in San Francisco. Although he started writing forty years ago, he spend these years mostly practicing real estate, observing, reading, traveling