Events by Decade Archives - Page 77 of 101 -

As posts are published, they will be loaded into the appropriate decade.

JANUARY 13, 1999: An article in the San Francisco Guardian described Mount Olympus and what it looked like in the City’s early years.

Mount Olympus is located on Upper Terrace in Ashbury Heights. It is considered the geographical center of San Francisco. The hill was not considered one…

JANUARY 11, 1896: Gaston Verdier, President of the City of Paris store in San Francisco, hired Clinton Day to design a new store in Union Square.

My mother Anne remembers being terrified of the elevators in the City of Paris at Union Square. They were old and creaky and had glass…