FEBRUARY 26, 1865: Having arrived in San Francisco, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote in his diary “…home again at the Occidental Hotel”. 

FEBRUARY 26, 1865: Having arrived in San Francisco, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote in his diary “…home again at the Occidental Hotel”. 

Opened in 1861, one of San Francisco’s most opulent hotels, the Occidental Hotel at Bush and Montgomery, catered exclusively to the wealthy. The hotel provided…

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FEBRUARY 24, 1967: The Diggers’ The Invisible Circus was performed at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church.  

FEBRUARY 24, 1967: The Diggers’ The Invisible Circus was performed at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church.  

The Diggers were a radical activist group founded by three street performers, Emmett Grogan, Peter Berg and Peter Cohon, that existed in San Francisco from…

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