http://www.mtdavidson.org/ Tue, 15 May 2012 19:29:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.1 http://www.mtdavidson.org/lib/images/favicon.ico http://www.mtdavidson.org/ http://www.mtdavidson.org/1906_earthquake?rev=1146515856 At 5:12 A.M. on April 18, the Wednesday after Easter Sunday, 1906, an estimated 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes San Francisco for 48 seconds. Tom Cole writes, “The greatest damage occurred in North Beach and the financial district, where swamp... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:37:36 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/a.s._baldwin?rev=1253124595 Archibald Stewart Baldwin (1857-1924) and J. R. Howell were the principals in the real estate firm of Baldwin and Howell, a successor to an earlier firm, McFee and Baldwin. Baldwin was born in Winchester, Virginia and came to California in 1879, and... Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:09:55 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/about_the_author?rev=1158102584 Jacqueline Proctor, grew up in the suburbs of Southern California, and fell in love with San Francisco when visiting as a child. In 1980 she fulfilled a lifelong dream to move here, making a home ever since with her husband and son in Miraloma Park.... Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:09:44 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/adolph_sutro?rev=1233699392 Adolph Sutro was next to the oldest of the 13 children brought to Maryland from Germany by his widowed mother. California’s Gold Rush brought him west and he arrived in San Francisco in 1850 where he became a tobacco merchant. Nine years later... Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:16:32 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/balboa_terrace?rev=1233187933 Balboa Terrace One of the earliest subdivisions on Mount Davidson, Balboa Terrace, was filed by Baldwin & Howell in 1912. However, most of the homes were built by Heuter Homes and designed by Harold G. Stoner in the 1920s, with Lang Realty Co... Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:12:13 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/bibliography?rev=1146383245 Benedict, William F. The Story of Mount Davidson. San Francisco, California: The Municipal Employee, 1928. Binkley, Cameron. A Cult of Beauty: The Public LIfe and Civic Work of Laura Lyon White. California Historical Society, 2005. Carmen, Betty. ... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:47:25 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/birth_of_a_city?rev=1266626615 San Francisco was first developed on what is now its most eastern boundary alongside San Francisco Bay. The first owner of the area now known as West of Twin Peaks was Don Jose de Jesus Noe, the last Mexican Alcalde (mayor) of Yerba Buena. The 4,4... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:43:35 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/book?rev=1243109068 You can order you own personally signed copy of this story of Mount Davidson, its neighborhoods, and the Mount Davidson Cross in San Francisco’s West of Twin Peaks District by contacting the author: jacquie at mtdavidson.org Images of Ameri... Sat, 23 May 2009 13:04:28 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/caaonc?rev=1221077016 San Francisco historian and cofounder of the Friends of Mt Davidson conservancy Jacquie Proctor has studied Mt. Davidson’s earliest recorded history: Jacquie Proctor: " The last mayor, or alcalde, of San Francisco, Don Jose de Jesus Noe, ... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:03:36 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/city_for_all?rev=1285516496 In the early 1960s, the rise in North Beach rents causes hipsters to move across the city to Haight-Ashbury, which became the headquarters of America’s “hippie movement.” The first lawsuit is filed accusing the San Francisco Unif... Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:54:56 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/clandestine_cross_climbers?rev=1194912967 In 1971, police interrupted three teen-agers practicing a climb of Yosemite on the Mount Davidson Cross. Six years later the San Francisco Examiner reported on February 16, 1977 of a Mt. Davidson mystery: “Last night, someone apparently made i... Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:16:07 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/conditions_of_use?rev=1146383258 Copyright Statement The contents of MtDavidson.org (MtD) database (digital content including images, text, audio and video recordings) are made publicly available by the collection holding repositories for use in research, teaching, and private stu... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:47:38 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/contact?rev=1333409198 Jacqueline Proctor See my new book at http://www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner Interview with the Author Restoring the Madie Brown plaque on Mt. Davidson http://sfwaterdistrict7.blogspot.com/2010/06/celebration-on-mt-davidson.html; http://www.yo... Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:26:38 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/council_of_armenian_american_organizations_of_northern_california?rev=1246665119 Council of Armenian Organizations of Northern California The Council of Armenian American Organizations of Northern California (CAAONC) was formed in 1997 to purchase, protect, and preserve the Mount Davidson Cross. The CAAONC consists of thirty-... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:51:59 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/easter_bunny?rev=1224011180 Where the Easter Bunny Lives As legend has it in the Mt. Davidson area, the Easter Bunny lives behind a metal door at the top of the stairs near the cross. Gladys McWood Birdsong writes, “Last Spring before Easter, my granddaughter, Adrienn... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:06:20 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/easter_sunrise_service?rev=1333644343 Civic leaders taking part in the citywide event include Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco District 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd. The program also features an SF Firefighters Honor Guard and musical performances by Sheleen Booker and the YUPP Community Ch... Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:45:43 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/forest_hill?rev=1270241660 Forest Hill was surveyed in 1912 by architect/engineer Mark Daniels. The original subdivision of 654 parcels was developed by the Newell Murdoch firm and featured a decorative entrance with stairs (above left) for easy access to the Muni Metro sta... Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:54:20 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/francois_pioche?rev=1208905854 Francois Pioche Parisian born in 1818, suave and cultured Francois Pioche was Secretary to the French Consul in Santiago, Chile, when he decided to join the Gold Rush to San Francisco in 1848 with Julius Bayerque. Once here, they became importers... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:10:54 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/friends_of_mount_davidson_conservancy?rev=1276642252 The Friends worked with the SFPUC to get the plaque honoring Madie Brown restored in 2010 http://sfwaterdistrict7.blogspot.com/2010/06/celebration-on-mt-davidson.html. See video of event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbk5NQM9q2o ... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:50:52 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/george_davidson?rev=1266626048 Professor Davidson’s frequent connection with important events in the history of the United States is well illustraited by his assignments in 1867. In January he was detailed on duty as engineer of a party sent to the Isthmus of Panama to sear... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:34:08 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/george_kelham?rev=1146516026 Architect George Kelham was educated at Harvard University and L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1898 he entered the employ of Trowbridge and Livingston in New York and was sent by that firm to San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake to over... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:40:26 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/great_depression?rev=1327102374 Next: Chapter 5 World War II and Postwar Growth - Living the American Dream ... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:32:54 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner?rev=1272407192 Find out more about this Limited Edition 160-page survey of the works of Harold G. Stoner featuring nearly 400 rare images at http://www.jacquieproctor.com/haroldstoner/ Harold Gordon Stoner is among only a handful of architects who determined t... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:26:32 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/henry_j._brunnier?rev=1146516072 Henry J.Brunnier came to San Francisco from his native Iowa after the 1906 Earthquake to help rebuild the City’s devasted railway system when he was 26 years old. An outstanding soil and strata engineer, Henry Brunnier’s preliminary work... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:41:12 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/hoegger?rev=1146516094 Native San Franciscans Ken Hoegger and Kathy Conte Hoegger grew up in the Excelsior District and stayed in the City after they were married to raise their family in Westwood Highlands. One of the founders of the Friends of Mount Davidson Conservancy... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:41:34 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/ingleside_terrace?rev=1269189854 Ingleside Terraces, built near the popular Ingleside Inn (below) and on the site of the old Ingleside Horseracing Track, with commanding views of Merced Lakes and the Pacific Ocean, was one of the first subdivisions built on Sutro’s property. ... Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:44:14 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/interview_with_the_author?rev=1152136866 I have loved San Francisco since the first time I saw the gigantic fresh Christmas tree inside the City of Paris Department store on Union Square. Growing up in Southern California, I dared to dream that I might live here some day. In 1980 my husban... Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:01:06 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/intro?rev=1319135428 Mt. Davidson is not only the highest geographic point on the world famous San Francisco skyline (the peak with the cross on top through and to the left of the Bay Bridge above and covered with snow below) and home to the Annual Easter Sunrise Servic... Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:30:28 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/jacqueline_proctor?rev=1301606032 Jacqueline Proctor, grew up in the suburbs of Southern California, and fell in love with San Francisco when visiting as a child. In 1980 she fulfilled a lifelong dream to move here, making a home ever since with her husband and son in Miraloma Park.... Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:13:52 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/link?rev=1149038279 ... Tue, 30 May 2006 18:17:59 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/liveable_neighborhoods?rev=1266626254 The effort to quickly rebuild the city after the 1906 Earthquake put Burnham’s City Beautiful Plan on the back burner. Many residents left the city all together for suburbs being built on the Peninsula, East Bay, and Marin. The Chronicle rep... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:37:34 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/madie_brown?rev=1276642113 SPECIAL EVENT HONORING MADIE BROWN JUNE 5, 2010 “As chairman of arrangements, I have dared to dream that our President would press the button in Washington, D.C., which in turn would light for the first time this giant cross in San Francisc... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:48:33 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/market_street_railway_company?rev=1208905930 “The franchise to build the Market Street Railway was granted in 1857 to Thomas Hayes and his associates...The projector of the Market Street Railway owned what was then known as “Hayes Valley,” bounded by Van Ness Avenue, Market, ... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:12:10 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miller-joost_house?rev=1246662218 Miller-Joost House The “Grand Old Man of Twin Peaks,” Behrend Joost, was united in marriage in 1874 to Miss Anna Miller, a native of Wisconsin and of German descent. Joost developed Sunnyside neighborhood in 1891 with a fortune he made from a con... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:38 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_community_church?rev=1146516151 Miraloma Community Church The Miraloma Community Chruch building proposal brochure stated what many Miraloma families experienced at the time, “In this place we are operating as a Community Church because Miraloma Park is a distinct Communi... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:42:31 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_elementary_school?rev=1297801463 Miraloma Park historian Rosalie Kuwatch writes, “Very early the Miraloma Park Improvement Club was aware of the need for a school. At the March 19, 1936 meeting of the Club it was discussed. A committee was formed and its successful petition r... Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:24:23 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_garden_club?rev=1146516203 Miraloma Park historian Rosalie Kuwatch writes, “Simultaneous with the establishment of the Improvement Club, the Garden Club was started. It was expected that residents would maintain the landscaping of their property with as much as care as ... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:43:23 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_life?rev=1146383302 The Miraloma Park Improvement Club has published and distributed a free monthly newsletter, Miraloma Life, to the 2,200 home neighborhood since the 1950s. Funded by advertisements from local businesses, it has provided notification of monthly club m... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:48:22 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_park?rev=1224008511 Miraloma Park Miraloma Park was planned to become a “City in Itself,” a “suburban home center wherein they could use economics of mass production, thus bringing home ownership within the average means.” The neighborhood wa... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:21:51 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_park_advertisement?rev=1146383305 Meyer Brothers marketed the quiet open space of Miraloma Park, along with furnished units to bring buyers out to see and buy. (Courtesy Miraloma Park Improvement Club.) Gallery Miraloma Park Advertisement 1927. “You will want to s... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:48:25 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/miraloma_park_improvement_club?rev=1232138131 Neighborhood historian Rosalie Kuwatch writes, “Half the homes in Miraloma Park were finished in 1940, when, true to their plan, Meyer Brothers, built the clubhouse they had promised so the residents could form a voluntary association to maint... Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:31 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/monterey_boulevard?rev=1146516298 Monterey Boulevard Sunnyside historian, Thomas Malim, writes that “in 1920, the St. Francis Wood area was being developed, as were Westwood Park and Highlands. The developers and the early residents didin’t like Sunnyside Avenue (sh... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:44:58 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/monterey_heights?rev=1253993429 Monterey Heights This small single-family neighborhood is nestled on the south slope of Mount Davidson. Bordered on the east by Yerba Buena Drive and San Jacinto Way on the west, it is crossed with “the woods” streets: Ravenswood, May... Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:30:29 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/mount_davidson_cross?rev=1263406152 In 1909, encouraged by reformer Jacob Riis, the community began an Easter sunrise service at the mountaintop cross. This was the first event of its kind and the idea quickly spread. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Joseph Leonard, developer of Inglesi... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:09:12 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/mount_davidson_manor?rev=1146516375 Bounded by Ocean Avenue and Monterey Boulevard between Westwood Park and Balboa Terrace, this neighborhood of single family detached tile roofed homes was built by Fernando Nelson, who built over 4000 San Francisco homes, from Victorians to Spanish ... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:46:15 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/mount_davidson_park?rev=1326840738 At 938 feet above sea level, Mount Davidson Park is on the highest of San Francisco’s hills. Located near the geographic center of the city, southwest of the crossroads of Portola Drive, O’Shaughnessy, and Laguna Honda Boulevards, it is ... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:52:18 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/mount_davidson_trail_map?rev=1233188355 Mount Davidson Trail Map ... Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:19:15 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/president_roosevelt?rev=1215815128 Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President of the United States on March 4, 1932, promising Americans a “new deal.” Fifteen major legislative innovations were approved within 100 days of his taking office. Social Security, a guaranteed m... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:25:28 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/sally_grusser?rev=1146516420 Sally was born in San Francisco just a few years before she and her family lived through San Francisco’s famous 1906 Earthquake at their home on 5th Avenue. After growing up in the city and getting a job with the phone company, she moved to he... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:47:00 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/san_francisco_city_college?rev=1146516441 The San Francisco Junior College was started in 1935 with Dr. Archie Cloud, its initiator, as President. The City College site in Balboa Park (below left) was first occupied in 1940 with Timothy Pflueger as the College Architect. The three permanent... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:47:21 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/save_mt._davidson_park?rev=1329599947 The San Francisco Forest Alliance has been formed to save the historic forest and trails on Mt. Davidson, Glen Canyon, and other parks in San Francisco. See what is planned for Mt. Davidson:http://sfforest.net/2012/01/28/watch-this-video-sf-rpds-pla... Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:19:07 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/sherwood_forest?rev=1337121365 Sherwood Forest, located West of Twin Peaks on the southwest slope of Mount Davidson, is themed around the folklore of Robin Hood, containing the streets, Lansdale, Dalewood, and of course, Robinhood, the highest residential street in the city of Sa... Tue, 15 May 2012 15:36:05 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/snow?rev=1270145231 Snow falling in San Francisco is always an historic day and has been recorded to have happened one day in eleven different years between 1856 and 1976. The most snow recorded, 7 inches on Twin Peaks, fell on February 5, 1887. When snow fell on De... Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:07:11 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/st._brendan_s?rev=1146516509 St. Brendan's St. Brendan’s Church was built in 1929 at the top of Laguna Honda Boulevard, nestled at the foot of Mount Davidson. The California Mission style “Gem of Miraloma” designed by Edward Eames for a final cost of constr... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:48:29 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/streets_of_san_francisco?rev=1240353855 Michael Douglas and Karl Malden at the Mount Davidson Cross in 1972. ... Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:44:15 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/sunnyside?rev=1246661172 The “Grand Old Man of Twin Peaks,” Behrend Joost, was united in marriage in 1874 to Miss Anna Miller, a native of Wisconsin and of German descent (the Miller-Joost House remains on Market St.) Joost developed Sunnyside in 1891 with a fortune h... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:46:12 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/sunnyside_conservatory?rev=1237936233 The property on which The Conservatory is located was purchased in 1891 form the Sunnyside Land Company, by a Mr. and Mrs. H. Taylor. The property consisted of seven lots, with a total frontage of 175 feet on Sunnyside Avenue. Sometime between 1891 ... Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:10:33 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/sunnyside_line_10?rev=1146516604 Sunnyside Line 10 Sunnyside historian Thomas Malim wrote, “Joost purchased the defunct San Francisco-San Jose railroad, which after changing part of the system from steam to electricity, went bankrupt. It ran along the San Jose Road which i... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:50:04 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/the_ridge_runners?rev=1146516629 West of Twin Peaks residents, Dave Bisho, Lloyd Bryan, Rick Bryan, and Rich Combs organized “America’s slowest rising pop band” in 1962 when they were 7th graders at St. Brendan's. They modeled themselves after the Kingston Trio we... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:50:29 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/timeline?rev=1276034747 1846 Rancho San Miguel, 4443 acres from Junipero Serra Blvd. to San Jose Avenue, granted to Don Jose de Jesus Noe, Mayor of Yerba Buena, by Mexican Governor Pio Pico. 1848 Gold discovered in California. 1850 California becomes a state. 1852... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:05:47 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/tower_market?rev=1146383358 Tower Market Gourmet Gateway to West of Twin Peaks Thanks to the kindness of John Pommon for sharing these Tower memories with us! Visit John at www.antiquevideo.com Gallery In 1905, fifteen year old Mark Pommon left his native Zak... Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:49:18 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/west_of_twin_peaks?rev=1238970715 Order you own personal copy of this history of Mount Davidson, its neighborhoods, and the Mount Davidson Cross in San Francisco’s West of Twin Peaks District for the $20.00 cover price and receive free postage and handling. Email jacquie @mt... Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:31:55 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/west_of_twin_peaks_central_council?rev=1146516680 The West of Twin Peaks Central Council organized in September of 1936 “to bring about cooperation and united action among all the home, civic, and improvement organization in the district known as ‘West of Twin Peaks.’” The C... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:51:20 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/westwood_highlands?rev=1146516705 Views of Westwood Highlands construction by Baldwin and Howell in the 1920s north of a now completed Westwood Park and an aerial in 1937 after completion of the first phase. All 283 custom-built homes of the original Westwood Highlands tract were bu... Mon, 01 May 2006 13:51:45 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/westwood_park?rev=1295884212 Westwood Park became possible when the west-of-Twin Peaks territory was captured, at least to the trolley trade, with the opening of the Twin Peaks Tunnel on February 3, 1918. Within a week, real estate developers like Baldwin & Howell consulted... Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:50:12 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/womens_suffrage?rev=1319142510 The power of women in deciding where to purchase a home was apparent in this sewing circle around the sundial advertising Ingleside Terraces. “Progressive-era women were often responsible for the type of civic action that brought real change t... Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:28:30 +0100 http://www.mtdavidson.org/ww2_and_baby_boom?rev=1236718503 World War II writes historian Tom Cole, “Threw the city into forty-six months of frenetic wartime activity that altered it in unexpected ways. As America’s major Pacific port, San Francisco was nearly overwhelmed by the needs of the coun... Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:55:03 +0100