Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Openers
2. Turning Shorelines, Wetlands, Creeks, Sand, and Hills into a
City
3. Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
4. Trails, Sails, Rails, and Wheels
5. Dissenters and Demonstrations, Radicals and Repression
Appendix Shaping San Francisco Tour Itineraries
Bibliography
Index
Chris Carlsson is a writer, San Francisco historian, tour guide, photographer, and occasional college professor. He conducts award-winning bicycle and walking tours of San Francisco history every year, and he is co-founder and co-director of Shaping San Francisco.
'San Francisco is long overdue for a history like this! Smart and
accessible, this is a book that everyone who has left a piece of
their heart in the city needs to read. Its vibrant stories of the
past are invaluable tools for charting a sustainable, inclusive
future'
*Barbara Berglund Sokolov, historian at Presidio Trust*
'The history of San Francisco I've been waiting for. It not only
reorients our conceptions of the past, it gives us walking tour
itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants
in the region's remaking.'
*Sean Burns, author of 'Archie Green: The Making of a Working Class
Hero' (University of Illinois Press, 2011)*
'Brings erudition, curiosity and passionate progressivism to a
remarkably wide range of subjects - from the city's profaned
natural glories, to little-known episodes in its labor history, to
a Homeric list of people, organizations and movements that have
tried to throw a spoke in the grinding cogs of various incarnations
of The Establishment.'
*Gary Kamiya, author of the bestselling 'Cool Gray City of Love: 49
Views of San Francisco' (Bloomsbury, 2013); writer for 'Portals of
the Past' history column in the San Francisco Chronicle*
'Every city needs and deserves a Chris Carlsson. San Francisco is
fortunate to have him and 'Shaping San Francisco,' not just because
history from below is worth remembering, but more importantly
because it is full of possibilities we should never forget for the
present and future of The City'
*Jon Christensen, adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of
the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and
the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California,
Los Angeles.*
'Few people know the streets of San Francisco as well as Chris
Carlsson. Sadly, gentrification is fast ripping the heart out of a
city that generations of artists, immigrants, and working-class
radicals have made into a unique and wondrous place. This book,
thus, can be read as an obituary for his beloved home or, perhaps,
a call to arms to renew the city again'
*Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University;
author of 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the
San Francisco Bay Area' (University of Illinois Press, 2018)*
'Unlike your conventional guide books telling you where to shop,
eat, and be entertained, this is a dissenter's guidebook that
invites you into a holistic view of the City - bringing to life the
stories of everyone from the hot politicians and their corporate
paymasters to the streetcar conductors, secretaries, and
construction workers who built the city and keep it running'
*Peter Booth Wiley, publisher and author who has written on the
history of San Francisco for half a century*
'Scores of sparkling vignettes - from Mission Rock to the Haight,
Balmy Alley to Telegraph Hill - illuminate the city with the torch
of social criticism and the sharp lens of a local sage. This is
history from below at its best and a guidebook through the byways
of collective memory'
*Richard Walker, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, author of
'Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in
the San Francisco Bay Area' (PM Press, 2018).*
'An original, vivid people's history of the nation's 'Left Coast
City'. Photos, maps, and self-guided tours of over one hundred of
the most important and iconic historic places and spaces bring to
life the authors' beautifully crafted and well-informed San
Francisco stories'
*Bill Issel, Professor Emeritus of History, San Francisco State
University; co-author of 'San Francisco 1865-1932: Politics, Power,
and Urban Development' (University of California Press, 1986)*
'With the city awash these days with more and more newcomers,
'Shaping San Francisco' is more vital than ever for keeping us all
connected to the wild, weird, and radical histories that make this
place so special. Dig into it, it's full of gold'
*Susan Stryker, director of 'Screaming Queens: The Riot at
Compton's Cafeteria'*
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