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San Francisco's Glen Park and Diamond Heights
Emma Bland Smith
出版
Arcadia Publishing
, 2007-07-18
主題
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional
Travel / Pictorials
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
ISBN
1439634114
9781439634110
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4sI9y_ZC0iAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Hemmed in by steep hills, Glen Park is defined by its quintessentially San Franciscan topography. Only 120 years ago this area, as well as neighboring Diamond Heights, was part of the Outside Lands, so
isolated that only farmers would settle here. Life revolved around Islais Creek, which ran through the canyon and provided water for the dairies. Then, in 1892, a German immigrant named Behrend Joost founded the citys first electric streetcar to shuttle residents to jobs downtown, and a neighborhood was born. As peak-roofed wooden cottages and houses began to fill in the valleys, the urban, homey, and decidedly livable Glen Park that we know today began to emerge.