[The colors on citrus-crate labels] went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange. |
[The estimated 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. It shook the city in two phases lasting 45 seconds.] City hall collapsed instantly, ... Facades fell from homes, revealing the furniture within. |
[The estimated 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. It shook the city in two phases lasting 45 seconds.] City hall… collapsed instantly, ... Facades fell from homes, revealing the furniture within. |
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow. |
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow. |
All things considered, she would have to be the most conspicuous and influential of the first ladies in the history of the state. |
Americans and the California Dream. |
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For a number of years, I taught an architectural history course for developers in the master of real estate development program at USC and returned, again and again, to this point: namely, that developers, in exercising their decisive influence on the built environment, had to be considered as primary forces in the evolution of California. |
I don't think Hiram Johnson would condemn it, ... but I think he would be astonished at the breakdown of dialogue between the two major branches of government. |
In my constant reconsideration of California history, |
In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth. |
Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset. |
Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset. |
Outside of the Civil War, there had never been an American city devastated like San Francisco was in 1906. You have to go forward 99 years to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to find a major American city that was nearly wiped out. |