The answers for
Slivers of San
Francisco History
Prepared by
The Museum of the City of
San Francisco
sfmuseum.org
&
bethship.org
1. Yerba Buena.
2. Good Herb.
3. News of California's admission to the Union
4. Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford
and Paul P. Huntington.
5. Loma Alta, Goat Hill, Signal Hill.
6. Bernard Maybeck.
7. Thomas Watson
8. San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra
Costa, Alameda, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Napa.
9. James Flood Home, now the Pacific Union Club,
NW corner California and Mason Streets. Only
residence on the hill to survive the fire of 1906.
10. The Phoenix. A mythical Bird.
11. The Eureka
12. "The Dutch Mill" in 1902.
13. Eleanor Rossi Crabtree, daughter of Mayor
Rossi.
14. John W. Geary.
15. Filbert Street, between Hyde and Leavenworth.
16. Sea otters.
17. Mills Field.
18. Two, 1851 and 1856.
19. Farallones.
20. Assisi, Haifa, Seoul, Osaka, Taipei, Shanghai,
Sydney, Manila.
21. DuPont Street.
22. James Rolph Jr. Civic Center.
23. James Rolph Jr. and Washington Bartlett.
24. San Andreas and the Hayward Faults.
25. 11 men.
26. 28,000
27. 3 miles by 1/2 mile.
28. 1903.
29. The Conservatory.
30. Three.
31. Gold and Black.
32. Dahlia.
33. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and "San
Francisco."
34. The illumination of Market Street from the Ferry
Building to Civic Center.
35. 1863.
36. Mission Dolores.
37. War Memorial Opera House.
38. Mount Davidson, 938 feet.
39. 2 1/4 miles.
40. James Rolph Jr. for 19 years.
41. Two, at Mission Dolores and the Presidio.
42. Bank of Italy.
43. Three, Midwinter 1894, P.P.I.E. 1915, G.G.I.E.
1939-40.
44. Volunteer fire fighters.
45. In mythology, Jason and the Argonauts were
searching for the Golden Fleece.
46. Lombard Street, eight turns in one block.
47. University of San Francisco.
48. Brooks Hall, Civic Center.
49. Stockton Street tunnel.
50. 24 vertical fluting.
51. The "Coral Sea".
52. Edward Robeson Taylor.
53. 3,800 tons.
54. Dollar Steamship Lines.
55. Point Lobos, once called Punta de Los Lobos
Marinos ( Point of the Sea Wolves) because of its
proximity to the sea lions on Seal Rocks.
56. Leaders of the Anti-Vigilante forces.
57. 125 feet.
58.1934.
59. Ten and twenty dollars.
60. Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park.
61. Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
62. Rutherford B. Hayes, 1880.
63. The "Arizonan" in 1914.
64. To a long-vanished graveyard for Russian
sailors.
65. Sam Brannan
66. The California Star
67. Thomas O. Larkin, U.S. Consul at Monterey.
68. $28.
69. Kearny street.
70. Lola Montez.
71. Sacramento Street near Front, Vigilante
headquarters 1856.
72. By a monument in Portsmouth Square.
73. Yehodi Menuhin
74. On the site of the present Civic Center.
75. 460 sq. miles.
76. Saturday, April 21, 1906
77. 27.
78. Golden Gate Park, in 1894.
79. $1.
80. The actress Lotta Crabtree.
81. Van Ness Avenue.
82. Col. Richard B. Mason, Military governor of
California, 1847-1849.
83. Yulupa.
84. Ft. Point
85. Andrew Hallidie
86. Christian Russ, an early settler.
87. Near Lake Merced.
88. Difference of opinion on slavery.
89. Five dollars.
90. 1838.
91. The Mission Dolores.
92. Yes, by a bridge, destroyed in 1884.
93. Chrysopylae.
94. Sutro Heights.
95. Haight Street Grounds, 1892.
96. President Warren G. Harding, 1923.
97. 1847.
98. In the Pacific Street and Broadway area, near
Kearny Street.
99. Fourteen: 4 Spanish, 2 Mexican, 1 Fremont, 2
Californian, 1 Argentina, 1 England, 2 United States,
1 Russian.
100. President Garfield.
101. At the Palace of Fine Arts.
102. Seven.
103. Hagiwara family.
104. Robert Frost.
105. Haight Street Grounds.
106. The "San Carlos".
107.1868.
108. Transamerica Pyramid.
109. John McLaren, Superintendent of Golden Gate
Park.
110. Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
111. The "Kanrin Maru" in 1860.
112. Mission Street.
113. Democrats, 1920.
114. 1929.
115. 8.25.
116. Seal Rocks.
117. 1946.
118. "McTeague" by FrankNorris.
119. Alaska Commercial Building.
120. "Oro en paz, tierro en guerra."
121. Gold in peace, iron in war.
122. 1873
123. 18 inches less.
124. The old Union Theater on Commercial Street.
125. Sutro Baths.
126. President William Howard Taft.
127. Empire Hotel.
128. A character at the beach with an exhibit of
trained canaries.
129. January, 1907.
130. Woodward's Gardens, Russ Gardens, Playland
at the Beach, The Chutes.
131. Angel Island.
132. Pine Lake, Mountain Lake, Lake Merced,
Chain of Lakes.
133. 1936.
134. "Sunny Jim" Rolph.
135. Gjoa.
136. Captain Jean Jacques Vioget.
137. 50 cents.
138. 6,500,000 gallons of warmed salt water.
139. 1918.
140. 1853.
141. Architectural term for a tall vertical row house.
142. Kangaroo.
143. 9 mph.
144. San Francisco Ballet Company.
145. 1900.
146. April 15, 1850.
V3.1 RH August 2013