Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Francisco is a dazzling hub on the Pacific coast that’s served as a gateway to North America for centuries. But for all the ...

Explore the history and development of San Francisco, covering key topics such as: - Spanish Occupation - The First Survey and a New Survey of the land - The impact of the Gold Rush - Land-making proc ...

The museum chronicles SF's counterculture history.

Perched atop Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower offers some of the most expansive views of San Francisco Bay.

“It seemed pretty much like living in a zoo,” said Woody LaBounty, leaning on a rail of a pier at San Francisco’s Northern waterfront. “Or drinking in a zoo.” The president of San Francisco Heritage ...

Next week marks 113 years since the San Francisco Municipal Railway began operating. December 28th, 1912, Muni ran its very first streetcar. Car number 1 up Gary Street with Mayor Rolfe at the ...

Early on in the history of San Francisco, flowers, flower venders and flower growing became a tradition of the city. Vendors bought blooms from growers from the edge of the Presidio and set up stands ...

Jane Cryan walked into a leasing agency on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco just before closing one evening in 1982. She was looking for an apartment that could accommodate her grand piano. The flat ...