A tour of the Mission on the holiday that helped establish the Mexican identity.
Tag Archives: California history
San Francisco’s Old Chinese Cemetery
Just south of the city, but, oddly, not in the necropolis of Colma itself, sits a hidden bit of San Francisco history: the Chinese Cemetery in Daly City.
California Underground: Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery
Think of it as LinkedIn, Six Feet Under: the Olmsted-designed Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Let’s see who we can dig up, so to speak…
What is California? Finding the Answers in Oakland.
The best generalist museum in the Bay Area is not, in fact, in San Francisco, but on the shores of Lake Merritt in Oakland. Not surprising, when you consider that Oakland, in a way of thinking, is the true center of the region.