MARCH 3, 1887: Lincoln Beachey was born in San Francisco and became one of America’s first, and most daring, acrobatic pilots. 

MARCH 3, 1887: Lincoln Beachey was born in San Francisco and became one of America’s first, and most daring, acrobatic pilots. 

I have to admit that before I started this blog I had read about the Wright Brothers and Charles Lindbergh and had watched the movie The…

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MARCH 1, 1886: The Ferries and Cliff House Railway opened, providing San Francisco residents a convenient way to travel to the western side of the City. 

MARCH 1, 1886: The Ferries and Cliff House Railway opened, providing San Francisco residents a convenient way to travel to the western side of the City. 

When San Francisco was incorporated in 1850, the western side of the City was nothing but sand dunes and scrub, separated from the metropolis by…

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