San Francisco's Glen Park and Diamond Heights

San Francisco's Glen Park and Diamond Heights
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9781439634110
ISBN-13 : 1439634114
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Book Synopsis San Francisco's Glen Park and Diamond Heights by : Emma Bland Smith

Download or read book San Francisco's Glen Park and Diamond Heights written by Emma Bland Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hemmed in by steep hills, Glen Park is defined by its quintessentially San Franciscan topography. Only 120 years ago this area, as well as neighboring Diamond Heights, was part of the Outside Lands, so isolated that only farmers would settle here. Life revolved around Islais Creek, which ran through the canyon and provided water for the dairies. Then, in 1892, a German immigrant named Behrend Joost founded the citys first electric streetcar to shuttle residents to jobs downtown, and a neighborhood was born. As peak-roofed wooden cottages and houses began to fill in the valleys, the urban, homey, and decidedly livable Glen Park that we know today began to emerge.


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