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(More customer reviews)Arcadia's visual treats remain important historical coverages for any library strong in visual treatments of California history and culture. San Francisco Bay Area residents now have a new title to enjoy. Emma Bland Smith's SAN FRANCISCO'S GLEN PARK AND DIAMOND HEIGHTS comes from a native who grew up only a few miles from the area, and offers a historical survey based on interviews with amateur historians and residents alike. The vintage photos come from neighbors' old basement archives and tell the story of an area where immigrant families could live peacefully. An outstanding local history suitable for any California history collection.
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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 city's 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.
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