Events by Decade Archives - Page 40 of 101 -

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JUNE 14, 2016: San Francisco’s Citizens’ Advisory Council met to discuss a streetcar extension from Fisherman’s Wharf to the Presidio, hoping to restore an old State Belt Railroad tunnel that ran under Fort Mason.

In 1889 the State Belt Railroad (SBR) was one of a number of railroads established in a newly developing San Francisco. SBR ran along the…

JUNE 12, 1995: Steve Silver died of complications from AIDS in San Francisco. He left behind Beach Blanket Babylon to carry on without him for another 24 years.

Born in San Francisco in 1944, Steve Silver grew up in the Marina District, later settling in Russian Hill[A]. He attended Lowell High School[1] and then…