Many San Franciscans shared their city secrets with us for this book. Special thanks are due to Barbara Roetherand Mark MacNamara, who contributed not only suggestions but history, background, and literary inspiration. F.P.
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Table of contents
1_140 New Montgomery | San Francisco
Its all about communication
2_826 Valencia | San Francisco
Reading, writing, and "Ahoy, matey!"
3_1450 Noriega Street | San Francisco
Where the heiress robbed a bank
4_Alhambra Theater | San Francisco
A cinematic workout
5_Anchor Brewing Company | San Francisco
Born and brewed in San Francisco
6_The Antique Vibrator Museum | San Francisco
A history of good vibrations
7_Arion Press | San Francisco
Lost and foundry
8_The Armory | San Francisco
Where kink is king
9_The Audium | San Francisco
Seeing with your ears
10_Balmy Alley Murals | San Francisco
Struggle and change
11_Bar Agricole | San Francisco
Keeping it local
12_The Battery Club | San Francisco
Old world, new school
13_The Bay Lights | San Francisco
The Bay Bridge gets its bling
14_The Beach & Park Chalet | San Francisco
Upstairs, downstairs, in Golden Gate Park
15_The Beat Museum | San Francisco
Still on the road
16_Billionaires Row | San Francisco
Life on the Gold Coast
17_Bliss Dance | San Francisco
Forty feet of female energy
18_The Bohemian Club | San Francisco
A private place for powerful men
19_Bourbon & Branch | San Francisco
The password-protected speakeasy
20_Buena Vista Park | San Francisco
A magical hush
21_Building One | San Francisco
A sinking treasure
22_Building 95 | San Francisco
If a tree falls in the forest
23_Candlestick Park | San Francisco
Long live the stick
24_Casa Cielo | San Francisco
"Sunny Jim" Rolphs love nest
25_Chinese Telephone Exchange | San Francisco
1500 names on the tip of the tongue
26_Clarion Alley | San Francisco
These walls can talk
27_The Cloud Forest | San Francisco
Communing with nature on Mount Sutro
28_The Condor Club | San Francisco
Death by piano
29_Conservatory of Flowers | San Francisco
Home to the beautiful and the bizarre
30_Cow Palace | Daly City
From moo to Who
31_Creativity Explored | San Francisco
Art for all
32_Crissy Field | San Francisco
From airfield to House of Air
33_Dashiell Hammetts Apartment | San Francisco
Where the Maltese Falcon took flight
34_The F-Line | San Francisco
A journey back in time
35_Flora Grubb Gardens | San Francisco
Coffee and air plants, anyone?
36_The Fly-Casting Pools | San Francisco
Angling for a good time
37_Fog Bridge | San Francisco
A walk in the clouds at the Exploratorium
38_Forbes Island & The Taj Mahal | San Francisco
Boats by any other name
39_Foreign Cinema | San Francisco
Dinner and a show
40_Fort Funston | San Francisco
Where humans take to the sky
41_The Frank Lloyd Wright Building | San Francisco
A mid-century jewel in the Barbary Coast
42_Gallery 6 | San Francisco
The ghosts of Vertigo at the Legion of Honor
43_The Gardens of Alcatraz | San Francisco
Planting life on "the Rock"
44_Glen Canyon Park | San Francisco
A time machine to the San Francisco of yore
45_Glide Memorial Church | San Francisco
Can I get an amen?
46_Grace Cathedral Labyrinths | San Francisco
A maze for meditation
47_The Green Roof | San Francisco
The Academy of Sciences goes "underground"
48_The Hallidie Building | San Francisco
Ahead of its time
49_Headlands Center for the Arts | Sausalito
Using creativity as a weapon
50_Heath Ceramics | San Francisco
Very "Made in America"
51_Hunter S. Thompsons House | San Francisco
Fear & Loathing in San Francisco
52_Hunters Point | San Francisco
A flourishing artist colony in a shipyard
53_Ingleside Terrace Sundial | San Francisco
Time is on its side
54_Institute of Illegal Images | San Francisco
A "trip" to the museum
55_The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco
For thinkers and drinkers
56_Kabuki Springs & Spa | San Francisco
Wet, naked, and hot
57_Lands End | San Francisco
A mystical walk through history
58_The Lefty ODoul Bridge | San Francisco
In memory of a hometown hitter
59_LeRoy King Carousel | San Francisco
Round and round we go
60_Levi Strauss & Co. | San Francisco
Birthplace of the 501
61_Lyon Street Steps | San Francisco
Where health meets wealth
62_Macondray Lane | San Francisco
Tales of the city
63_The Malloch Building | San Francisco
For those who appreciate curves
64_Maritime Museum | San Francisco
A "shipshape" exhibition space
65_Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | San Francisco
A fountain for reflection in Yerba Buena Gardens
66_Mavericks | Half Moon Bay
A surfers nirvana
67_Mechanics Institute | San Francisco
Home to books and rooks
68_Mission Creek Houseboats | San Francisco
Islands in the storm
69_Mission Dolores Cemetery | San Francisco
Where the bodies are buried
70_The Monastery Stones | San Francisco
Relics in the Botanical Garden
71_Moraga Street Steps | San Francisco
Stairway to Heaven
72_Muse Mcanique | San Francisco
A penny arcade on the Embarcadero
73_National Cemetery Overlook | San Francisco
A graveyard with a view
74_Nimitz Mansion | San Francisco
Secret views from Yerba Buena
75_The Observation Tower | San Francisco
A castle in the trees at the de Young
76_Ocean Beach | San Francisco
Hanging ten on city waves
77_ODC | San Francisco
Put on your dancin shoes
78_Old Skool Caf | San Francisco
Serving up second chances
79_The Parrots of Telegraph Hill | San Francisco
As free as a bird
80_Patricias Green | San Francisco
From parkway to park
81_The Phoenix Hotel | San Francisco
Rock n roll crash pad
82_Pier 24 Photography | San Francisco
A private collection goes public
83_Pier 70 | San Francisco
Industrial ruins with a waterfront view
84_Pink Triangle Park | San Francisco
The only memorial of its kind
85_Point Bonita Lighthouse | Sausalito
Overlooking an underwater graveyard
86_Portals of the Past | San Francisco
A bit of history and the occult on Lloyd Lake
87_The Presidio Pet Cemetery | San Francisco
Final resting place for the furry and feathered
88_Project Artaud | San Francisco
The artist factory
89_The Ramp | San Francisco
Fog Citys hangover cure
90_The Rock Colony | San Francisco
Where music legends lived and "free loved"
91_The Rousseaus | San Francisco
One man, many facades
92_Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church | San Francisco
Worship in the house of jazz
93_Saints Peter and Paul Church | San Francisco
Home base of a neighborhood
94_Sams Grill | San Francisco
A historic chophouse with a fishy past