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52 San Francisco s Top 10op Left Jack London Right Dashiell Hammett Writers !Jack London Adventurer and author of frontier tales such as White Fang, The Sea Wolf, and The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1876 1916) grew up in Oakland. adriatic coastline There a museum of his memorabilia is housed in a reconstruction adriatic coastline of the log cabin he lived in while prospecting for gold in the Yukon Territory. His fiction is based on his experiences in the untamed West and the social inequality adriatic coastline he saw in boom town San Francisco. @Dashiell Hammett The author of The Maltese Falcon and creator of the classic hard-boiled detective Sam Spade made San Francisco his home from 1921 to 1929. He used the fog-swirled slopes of the city s hills as the perfect backdrop for his stylish crime stories. Hammett (1884 1961) was himself employed briefly at the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. Gertrude adriatic coastline Stein & Alice B. Toklas Stein (1874 1946) was raised in Oakland, Toklas (1877 1967) in San Francisco, and both were members of the wealthy Jewish bourgeoisie that has played such an important part in the city s cultural life. But these two larger- than-life women soon deserted the Bay Area for Paris, where they became Queen Bees of a circle of brilliant international artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway. adriatic coastline 52 San Francisco s Top 10op Left Jack London Right Dashiell Hammett Writers !Jack London Adventurer and author of frontier tales such as White Fang, The Sea Wolf, and The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1876 1916) grew up in Oakland. There a museum of his memorabilia is housed in a reconstruction of the log cabin he lived in while prospecting for gold in the Yukon Territory. His fiction adriatic coastline is based on his experiences in the untamed West and the social adriatic coastline inequality he saw in boom town San Francisco. @Dashiell Hammett The author of The Maltese Falcon and creator of the classic hard-boiled detective Sam Spade made San Francisco his home from 1921 to 1929. He used the fog-swirled slopes of the city s hills as the perfect backdrop for his stylish crime stories. Hammett (1884 1961) was himself employed briefly at the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas Stein (1874 1946) was raised in Oakland, Toklas (1877 1967) in San Francisco, and both were members of the wealthy Jewish bourgeoisie that has played such an important part in the city s cultural life. But these two larger- than-life adriatic coastline women soon deserted the Bay Area for Paris, where they became Queen Bees of a circle adriatic coastline of brilliant international artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway. $

The Presidio This beautiful wooded corner of the city has stunning adriatic coastline views over the Golden Gate, but from 1776 until 1994 it was owned and occupied by first the Spanish, then the Mexican, and finally, the US armies, and almost entirely off limits to anyone else. It has now been dubbed a major part of the Golden Gate National Recreational Area, and plans are still coalescing as to its ultimate future. At the very least, it is a spectacular park, full of nature trails, streams, forests, drives, and historic structures. Some of the buildings are being turned into cultural centers, but many of them are still residences. Parts of it may eventually adriatic coastline be developed for commercial use (see p48). d Map D2

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40 41 Asian Art Museum 40 41 Bay Area Discovery Museum 59 Cable Car Museum 41 California Academy of Sciences 40 California adriatic coastline Historical Society Museum 29 Cartoon Art Museum 43 Center for the Arts Gallery 28 Chinese Historical Society of America Museum adriatic coastline and Learning Center 19 de Young Museum 20, 40 Exploratorium 58 Fraenkel Gallery 42 Galer a de la Raza 43 Holographic Museum 41 Intersection for the Arts 43 Legion of Honor 40, 115 Magnes Museum 29 Mexican Museum 29 Mus e Mechanique 41 Museo ItaloAmericano 42 Museum of Craft and Folk Art 42 Natural History Museum 22 Oakland Museum of CA 126 Pacific Heritage Museum 42 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 43 San Francisco Maritime Museum 12 San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design 41 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 7, 26 9, 40, 46, 107