Availability is pretty reliable. Among The Chronicles photo negatives in the archive were treasures from the Golden Gate Bridges opening day ceremonies both opening days. Your weekly guide to Bay Area arts & entertainment. The Barn. For six decades, San Francisco baseball fans have celebrated the start of spring with the Giants home opener. I lost to the coronavirus in Las Vegas. It makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore, he said. While the annual Pride celebrations, war protests, and parades for the Warriors, Giants and 49ers are fresh in our memories, Market Street has been the stage for large public rallies and demonstrations for more than a century. Its hard to believe, but San Joses Shark Tank now known to non-hockey fans as the SAP Center turns 25 this year. Heres where you can find one of the rarest tacos in California, Impossible Foods had record sales in 2022, now it plans to lay off workers. Seals Stadium: When SFs first big-thrills ballpark faced the wrecking ball. Reach Jordan Parker: jordan.parker@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @jparkerwrites. As you can see, finding an angle for a Halloween story can be a little ruff. David Lance Gonies walked into a Berkeley print shop when he was 19 and was still there almost 60 years later, finishing a long career as a graphic artist with posters in major museum collections. The Fortune Teller. SFs May Day: How a once-popular childrens celebration fizzled out. On a recent trip to the archive, I turned up decades-old photos and articles on Robert Niles, the unquestioned king of Golden Gate Bridge stunts. Tundra Comics | Wasilla AK - Facebook Walking through BARTs Transbay Tube: The story of a once-in-a-lifetime stroll. Comics and Cartoons for the San Francisco Bay Area. - SFGATE A look in back at the first Earth Day in the pages of The Chronicle. We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.. Gov. A photo deep dive of Giants 2010 World Series win. A visit to The SFs foolish freeway: The battle to tear down the Embarcadero Freeway. Heres how close we are to bringing the lights back. Pritikin played up the mansions reputation as haunted, making the hotel a popular landmark and drawing the From housing sit-in to Da Mayor: A look back at Willie Brown in The Chronicles photo archives. Baker Beach may be the most scenic beach in San Francisco a postcard-worthy view of both the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge but the beach also has plenty of San Francisco history. Introducing ALICE! For sale to good home: Ultrarare 1970s Muni streetcar. In 1983, after several unsuccessful attempts to cut down cannabis production in Northern California, the state began a campaign to raid marijuana grows an effort that eventually involved the military, but seemed to do little to put a dent in a Total war on polio in the Bay Area: Archive finds on the K.O. Its definitely not the same as the paper version back-in-the day. Seals Stadium was a neighborhood ballpark that brought baseball to San Francisco decades before the Giants. When Grateful Dead, Huey Lewis and more made stand against AIDS in Bay Area. A striking part of USFs campus has its own history and a cache of unpublished photos in The Chronicles archive. The meat substitute company joins Zoom, MasterClassand other Bay Area companies with recent layoffs. Terms apply. It provides comprehensive coverage of local, regional and international news, entertainment and sports, and is one of the only papers in the United States with a regular column devoted to the architecture industry. Their deaths punctuated one of San Franciscos darkest eras, but their memories became a guiding light for a city that was determined to right itself. Read today's comics and catch up on comics from the past on houstonchronicle.com. Heres where California reservoir levels stand after this weeks rains. Cartoonist Scott Adams' recent racist rant drew condemnation and led to his comic being pulled from many newspapers. San Francisco Mayor George Christopher accepted an invitation to Moscow from a Soviet leader with hopes he could use the trip to promote cultural exchange. A dig through The Chronicles archive found photos of the first Cherry Blossom Festival parade more than 50 years ago through the 25th anniversary celebrations. The other complaint is there are no box scores, standings or TV schedules in the Sports section like in the hard copy. Residents inland those in Alameda County, eastern Santa Clara County and other Bay Area counties away from the coast should anticipate temperatures of up to the 90s, Diaz said. When Great American Smokeout started in SF on mission to snuff out cigarettes. Robert Pritikin bought a rundown boardinghouse known as the Chambers Mansion in 1977 and converted it into an eccentric 16-room hotel. When the Concorde supersonic turbojet roared into the Bay Area. While in the The Chronicles archive thumbing through stacks of decades-old Shark Tank at 25: How San Joses favorite venue, now SAP Center, got built. Tom Petty played them all. Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Areas largest water districts. Using Zillow home values data, we are mapping Bay Area median house prices and charting changes in the housing market. This online archive is for access and use only by individuals for personal use. The 1995 Mount Vision fire surged from an improperly extinguished campfire to one be the worst wildfires in Marin County in nearly 50 years. San Francisco citizens once traveled by gondola. When the Bay Area had World Cup fever in 1994. Holy internet, Batman! The Hoover Institution that resides in the tower named for former President Herbert Hoover is a public policy think tank, generally thought of as conservative. Fifty years ago this month, a Japan Air Lines DC-8 belly-flopped into San Francisco Bay 17,000 feet short of the San Francisco International Airport runway. Saturday's semifinals. It ended badly, California snowpack hits highest level this century for March, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). To keep my carbon footprint down, I read books and magazines electronically. Heres who has offered big bucks so far. In December 1941, thousands of men flooded local recruitment offices to join the military, and thousands more San Franciscans rushed to volunteer for the Civil Defense department. Long-lost photos from legendary S.F. 6,092 talking about this. Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide Sex Pistols in San Francisco: The lewd, crude punk pioneers The Sex Pistols have been in town two days, and they havent thrown up on anyone yet. That was the beginning of a Chronicle story in January 1978 on the notorious British punk rock band, and a recent trip to the newspapers New Years in 1950s San Francisco: Photos of a city partying hard. This years Giants Opening Day is postponed, but 60 years ago, fans flocked to see the first pitch of the season at the new Candlestick Park. The news that the annual Alcatraz prison reunions were coming to an end prompted a dive into The Chronicles archive, and it didnt take long to find long-buried How SFs Ferry Building survived and didnt become a 40-story skyscraper. A change to the comics page - PressReader Smack! In "The Exceptions," journalist Kate Zernike dissects the university's admission of gender bias and warns that it can happen anywhere. Davies Symphony Hall made a splashy debut in San Francisco in 1980. Adams furthered his offensive rant by saying that he escaped by living in a neighborhood with a very low Black population. Comic strips and cartoons from Comics Kingdom including Baby Blues, Popeye and Zippy the Pinhead SFGate Dawn of Bay Area protest movement: 1960 photos show SF riot over communist-hunting committee. California announced Thursday that it will follow the lead of the Internal Revenue Service and postpone tax filing deadlines until Oct. 16 for almost all people and businesses in the state. Champs! Port Chicago disaster: Unpublished photos of a World War II tragedy in Bay Area. To drum up interest for a new comic strip, The Chronicle gave away a poor imitation of the caped crusaders signature ride. Most important No ads, Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020. A student-led strike on the campus began Nov. 6, 1968, and lasted 134 days. In San Francisco, Queen Elizabeth II is still remembered fondly for her royal visit through the West Coast early in 1983. In the shadow of one Northern California disaster, we mark the anniversary of another. Best Of Luann's Top 10 High School Hell Moments The GoComics Team. A look back at how the 1940s wartime economy changed advertising in The Chronicle. One of the Ode to Gumps: Memories flow from archive as SFs oldest store says goodbye. San Francisco 1906 earthquake: When The Chronicles front page had 50-year-old news. Before her long career in the U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein was a California criminal justice expert and a San Francisco mayor. Pete Wilson took a helicopter tour over the fields and roads flooded by the Cosumnes River south of Sacramento and declared a state of emergency in 25 Northern California counties. California has expanded Medi-Calto adults 50 and older, regardless of immigration status. The Sioux occupation of Alcatraz you dont know about. We had many more complaints when we stopped other strips.. The Parks Commission unanimously approved the Its Halloween; heres a dog costume contest from 1985. A search through The Chronicles archive turned up lots of color photos of the 49ers Super Bowl XXIX win over the San Diego Chargers in Miami. Choose from two access options: 1. NIE | sfchronicle | Digital Edition Connect - NIEonline California Highway Patrol officers used a bullhorn to order A salute to the king of Golden Gate Bridge stunts. Is California breaking its promise to cut middle-income health care costs? Amid the gunfire of April 6, 1968, Bobby Hutton, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: Old photos offer new glimpses of devastation. Journalists quoted experts who said Great Americas early years: $7 tickets, 27 rides and, now, unearthed photos. Cancel Anytime. But in May 1966, the pop art impresario brought his show to San Francisco, and The Chronicle was there to capture the moment and critique the experience. 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