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FEBRUARY 8, 1960: The Angelo Petri, the world’s largest wine tanker, sank just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate. There have been almost 400 shipwrecks in the area. 

FEBRUARY 8, 1960: The Angelo Petri, the world’s largest wine tanker, sank just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate. There have been almost 400 shipwrecks in the area. 

San Francisco’s huge sand bar, rocky shores, narrow entrance, swift currents, high winds and submerged rocks can make entering the San Francisco Bay a treacherous…

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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.

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…

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