Events by Decade Archives - Page 14 of 101 -

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

NOVEMBER 6, 1896: William S Mooser Sr. died after an illustrious career as a San Francisco architect. Among his many achievements was his design of the popular restaurant The Poodle Dog.

William Sebatian Mooser was born in 1834 in Switzerland. He moved to San Francisco in 1854 and, after trying his hand at mining, went into…

NOVEMBER 4, 2004: Richard “Dick” Hongisto, one of San Francisco’s more contentious politicians, died.

Richard “Dick” Hongisto was born in 1936 in Minnesota to Finnish immigrants. He and his family moved to San Francisco in 1942 where Hongisto’s father…