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Jack London Square Development

Jack London Square Development The building behind you was the Port of Oakland headquarters from late 1961 until 1990. An aluminum skin now covers what was a 1920s cold storage building, the...

Jack London Square Development The building behind you was the Port of Oakland headquarters from late 1961 until 1990. An aluminum skin now covers what was a 1920s cold storage building, the...

  • oakland
  • bay area
  • jack london square
  • california
  • inconsistent...
  • disrespect f...

Cheemah, Mother of the Spirit-Fire

Information about the Cheemah project here.

Information about the Cheemah project here.

  • oakland
  • bay area
  • jack london square
  • california
  • spirit
  • fire
  • spirit-fire
  • cheemah

Jack London Statue

 "I would rather be ashes than dust.I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in...

 "I would rather be ashes than dust.I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me...

  • oakland
  • bay area
  • jack london square
  • california

Morse Block

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1979  MORSE BLOCK Dickey and Reed, Architects, 1906  Charles Dickey, whose firm designed the Claremont Hotel and who practiced architecture extensively in...

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1979  MORSE BLOCK Dickey and Reed, Architects, 1906  Charles Dickey, whose firm designed the Claremont Hotel and who practiced architecture extensively in...

  • berkeley
  • california
  • bay area
  • mit
  • claremont
  • daylight store

Plaza de los Estudiantes por la Paz

It reads "Dedicated to all students of UCA who died victims of brutality in the fateful days of civil war, and in these times of peace so affected by violence. That their spilled blood be strength...

It reads "Dedicated to all students of UCA who died victims of brutality in the fateful days of civil war, and in these times of peace so affected by violence. That their spilled blood be...

  • tablet
  • war
  • students

The Presidents Tree

      Submitted by @MagneticCrow

      Submitted by @MagneticCrow

  • maryland
  • tree
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • lincoln

Gerstner Field

GERSTNER FIELD First military air field in Louisiana. US Army Signal Corps began training Nov 1917. Gerstner had 24 hangars and 90 other buildings. Almost 500 fighter pilots and instructors were...

GERSTNER FIELD First military air field in Louisiana. US Army Signal Corps began training Nov 1917. Gerstner had 24 hangars and 90 other buildings. Almost 500 fighter pilots and instructors were...

  • wwi
  • lousiana
  • airplane

That We Be Free

  Submitted by https://www.instagram.com/ahaburchak/

  Submitted by https://www.instagram.com/ahaburchak/

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • freedom

The First Subway Uniting the Boroughs

THIS TABLE IS ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SUBWAY UNITING THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN JANUARY * 9 * 1908 Courtesy https://www.instagram.com/chrishamby/

THIS TABLE IS ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SUBWAY UNITING THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN JANUARY * 9 * 1908 Courtesy https://www.instagram.com/chrishamby/

  • subway
  • new york
  • brooklyn

Web Browser

WEB BROWSER MOSAIC, THE FIRST POPULAR GRAPHICAL BROWSER FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB, WAS CREATED BY MARK L. ANDREESSEN AND ERIC J. BINA AT THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPER-COMPUTING APPLICATIONS [NCSA]....

WEB BROWSER MOSAIC, THE FIRST POPULAR GRAPHICAL BROWSER FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB, WAS CREATED BY MARK L. ANDREESSEN AND ERIC J. BINA AT THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPER-COMPUTING APPLICATIONS [NCSA]....

  • illinois
  • browser
  • andreessen
  • ncsa
  • 1993

St. Croix Boom Site

Center of log and lumbering activities in this region for over half a century prior to 1914.  Here millions of logs from the upper St. Croix and tributaries were halted, sorted, and rafted, later...

Center of log and lumbering activities in this region for over half a century prior to 1914.  Here millions of logs from the upper St. Croix and tributaries were halted, sorted, and rafted,...

  • minnesota
  • wisconsin
  • logging

Gravity Car

  Gravity Car Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway From 1902 to 1929, gravity cars coasted from the top of Mount Tamalpais down to Mill Valley (8 miles) or to Muir Woods National Monument (7...

  Gravity Car Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway From 1902 to 1929, gravity cars coasted from the top of Mount Tamalpais down to Mill Valley (8 miles) or to Muir Woods National Monument (7...

  • gravity car
  • mill valley
  • marin
  • tam
  • mount tam
  • bay area
  • california

Dedicated to Mechanics

  DEDICATED TO MECHANICS BY JAMES MERVYN DONAHUE IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER PETER DONAHUE

  DEDICATED TO MECHANICS BY JAMES MERVYN DONAHUE IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER PETER DONAHUE

  • san francisco
  • california
  • mechanics

Liberty Bell Slot Machine

LIBERTY BELL SLOT MACHINE CHARLES AUGUST FEY BEGAN INVENTING AND MANFAC-TURING SLOT MACHINES IN 1894. FEY PIONEERED MANY INNOVATIONS OF COIN OPERATED GAMING DEVICES IN HIS SAN FRANCISCO WORKSHOP...

LIBERTY BELL SLOT MACHINE CHARLES AUGUST FEY BEGAN INVENTING AND MANFAC-TURING SLOT MACHINES IN 1894. FEY PIONEERED MANY INNOVATIONS OF COIN OPERATED GAMING DEVICES IN HIS SAN FRANCISCO WORKSHOP...

  • san francisco
  • california
  • ecv
  • bay area

California admission fountain

THIS FOUNTAIN IS DEDICATED TO THE NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST TO COMMEMORATE THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNIONSEPTEMBER THE NINTHANNO DOMINI MDCCCL   "THE UNITY OF OUR EMPIRE HANGS ON...

THIS FOUNTAIN IS DEDICATED TO THE NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST TO COMMEMORATE THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNIONSEPTEMBER THE NINTHANNO DOMINI MDCCCL   "THE UNITY OF OUR EMPIRE HANGS...

  • san francisco
  • california
  • seward

The four way corner

  • san francisco
  • california
  • rotary

Hearst Building

  • san francisco
  • california
  • hearst

To Remember Christmas Eve

 To remember Christmas Eve 1910 when Louisa Tetrazzi sang to the people of San Francisco on the spot 

 To remember Christmas Eve 1910 when Louisa Tetrazzi sang to the people of San Francisco on the spot 

  • san francisco
  • california
  • italy
  • singing
  • christmas

The Montgomery

THE MONTGOMERY A CATEGORY 1 HISTORIC BUILDING  THIS CLASSIC LANDMARK WAS BUILT IN 1914 AS THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, A LEADING NEWSPAPER OF ITS TIME.  THE BUILDING WAS RESTORED...

THE MONTGOMERY A CATEGORY 1 HISTORIC BUILDING  THIS CLASSIC LANDMARK WAS BUILT IN 1914 AS THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, A LEADING NEWSPAPER OF ITS TIME.  THE BUILDING WAS...

  • san francisco
  • california
  • hotel
  • newspaper

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Submitted by ‏@jqmcd

Submitted by ‏@jqmcd

  • airport
  • dulles
  • architect
  • american revolution