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Tag Archives: San Francisco
MM 3-50 Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Our Irish cousins visited us in the Spring of 2008 and they asked us if they could experience a bit of our American Culture by attending a major league baseball game. So we rode on BART from Castro Valley to … Continue reading
A Walk in San Francisco’s Presidio
A few days after our return home from Barcelona last Fall I drove across the Bay Bridge to have lunch with my siblings and a cousin and their respective spouses at the Presidio Café in the clubhouse of the Presidio … Continue reading
Posted in California, Family History, Travel
Tagged Cemetery Overlook, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grayson Schmidt, Mountain Lake, photography, Presidio Café, Presidio Golf Course, Presidio of San Francisco, Ramona Schmidt, San Francisco, San Francisco National Cemetery, Sutro Tower, travel, travel photography
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Missions in Monochrome: San Francisco’s Mission Dolores
A Spanish soldier named Jose Joaquin Moraga and a Spanish priest named Francisco Palou founded Mission San Francisco de Asis on June 29, 1776, a week before John Hancock and others signed the Declaration of Independence three thousand miles away. … Continue reading
Posted in California, History, Travel
Tagged Arthur Putnam, California History, California Missions, Francisco Palou, Jose Joaquin Moraga, Junipero Serra, Leanne Cole, Mission Dolores, Mission Dolores Basilica, Mission San Francisco de Asis, Monochrome Madness, Monochrome Madness Challenge, photography, San Francisco, St Kateri Tekakwitha, travel, travel photography
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San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral
The Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption sits atop a hill on the corner of Geary Blvd and Gough St now called Cathedral Hill. It is the city’s third Catholic cathedral. The first, now called Old St Mary’s, was … Continue reading
San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 for San Francisco’s world’s fair, officially called the Panama Pacific International Exposition in honor of the opening of the Panama Canal in August 1914. All of the buildings of the fair … Continue reading
The Palace and the Bridge
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is a replica of the Palais de la Légion d’Honneur in Paris and was completed on Armistice Day, 1924. It stands in the middle of a golf course on San Francisco’s Lands … Continue reading
Visiting High School Classmates in Belgium
It was my first day in my Sophomore year in high school and we were being seated alphabetically (more or less) and I found myself sitting behind a slender blonde kid named George DeCat. I got to see the back … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Travel
Tagged classmates, Dan Flynn, George DeCat, Nivelles, reunion, San Francisco, St Ignatius College Preparatory, travel
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My Brother-in-law’s Italian Heritage
I grew up in San Francisco in the Irish Catholic tradition. Both of my parents and most of my relatives were Irish Catholics. The church where we worshiped and the school we attended was mostly Irish Catholic. As we transitioned … Continue reading
Posted in Family History
Tagged Dennis Lozano, Eagle River, Fisherman's Wharf, Irish Catholic, Italian ancestry, Maniscalco, San Francisco, Sciacca, Sicily
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My German Heritage, Part Four — The Second Elise
My great grandparents William H Theler and Emma Belduke were married in San Francisco in 1875 and by 1880 were living in a boarding house on O’Farrell Street in the Tenderloin. Their first daughter, Grace, was born on April 21, … Continue reading
Posted in Family History
Tagged Dwyer, Elise, German genealogy, grandmother, Juri Street, Mission District, San Francisco, Theler, Westwood Park
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