April 2012 | Lime San Francisco

Peninsula Trails: Hiking and Biking Trails on the San Francisco Peninsula Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a great resource for those who like to get outdoors on the San Francisco penninsula (particularly San Mateo county). I like to use it as a resource to find places to go when friends visit. It's a catalog of the often ignored foothills (and other areas) along the pennisula. Highly recommended....

San Francisco's Marina District (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is part of a fine semi-standardized, affordable series on the history of neighborhoods of San Francisco. The books have a number of chapters with a very brief essay on a time period, followed by many photographs with descriptive captions. These books are quite informative and have few substitutes.The...

San Francisco 49ers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Several years back, I overheard a Green Bay Packer aficionado's disdain for 49ers fans. His dislike for them spanned mainly from their relative lack of knowledge of Niner history compared to fans of other legendary NFL teams. Being a fairly well-read `Frisco aficionado, I thought of challenging his assumption,...

Babies by the Bay: The Insider's Guide to Everything from Doctors and Diapers to Playgrounds and Preschools in the San Francisco Bay Area Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is up to date, relevant, and "rings true" when it provides opinions. It's of most help to people in SF, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, or Marin Counties. We picked it up at about 6 months pregnant, and were impressed at how closely the advice and listings matched what we had...

San Francisco's Portola (CA) (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Anyone who grew up in the Portola District (which I did) would treasure this book. The photos bring back so many memories. I regret my parents are not around to enjoy them as well.Click Here to see more reviews about: San Francisco's Portola (CA) (Images of America)The Portola has a long and unique...

Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There is a recent, substantial review of this guidebook by Steven Finacom in the Berkeley Daily Planet, Weekday Edition, Oct.30-Nov.1, 2007. Some excerpts are:"A long-awaited, much-needed, and up-to-date guide to the great and representative buildings and architectural history of the Bay Area debuts...

Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hom, a scholar of Asian-American studies and an amazing linguist, collected these written-Cantonese poems originally printed in early Chinese-language newspapers from San Franciso, translated them into English, and annoted them with historical and cultural information. Where the written Cantonese differs...

San Francisco's Market Street Railway (CA) (Images of Rail) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)While intended for the San Francisco history buff, SAN FRANCISCO'S MARKET STREET RAILWAY, is sure to be relished by any urban traction fan: packed with clear vintage black and white shots of various incarnations of the Market Street Railway, chapters provide a wonderful overview of San Francisco's transit...

San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition (CA) (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Today international expositions like the 1964 New York world's fair, the 1939 Treasure Island fair, of even the PPIEof 1915 are no longer popular. The fairs used to be placeswhere people could visit to see the latest in technology, visitpeople from foreign lands, and see and do all sorts of wondeful...

Hidden San Francisco and Northern California 10 Ed: Including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Yosemite, and Lake Tahoe Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This guide scored an A+! Every place it suggested was great, and the information was always helpful. We had this book, Lets Go, Zagat San Fran (which didn't even have many of the recommended restaurants listed), and Fodors. This one was by far the best. By then end of our 2 week trip, we had stopped...

San Francisco's Ocean Beach (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I would have liked to see more photos of Playland and thenearby buildings. That said, it is a good book. The old Cliff House is much more attractive than the remodeled onethere now. More photos of the Baths would also have been nice.Click Here to see more reviews about: San Francisco's Ocean Beach (Images...

Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It is hard to imagine a story about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake being anything but riveting. Deborah Hopkinson's thorough research led her to build her novel around Nicholas Dray, a true life runaway from the county farm, befriended by a merchant a few days before the 1906 earthquake and devastating...

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Judy Yung traces the social history of Chinese American women from 19th century to post World War II, how events and circumstances shape the women to be who they are today. She talks about the changing roles that these women played, from 19th century, when women played limited roles in society, how they...

San Francisco Architecture: An Illustrated Guide to the Outstanding Buildings, Public Art Works, and Parks in the Bay Area of California Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The new edition of San Francisco Architecture is everything a portable guide to the built environment should be: organized, accessible, and with enough detail to expand one's sense of time, place, and people. Fortunately, from this reader's point of view, it was written for a lay, rather than specialist,...

San Francisco Rock Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)San Francisco Rock-The Illustrated History of San Francisco Rock Music (1965-1985) has given me hours of enjoyment. If you are interested in anything about rock from the San Francisco area, this is the book for you. I still find it still a necessary reference book 20 plus years since Rolling Stone published...

San Francisco (Step by Step) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area, so when I got this book as a gift I almost scoffed. I lived in San Francisco and always tried to get out and explore, often happily giving my friends advice on where to go and what to do. Basically, I thought I knew what I was talking about. But after cracking...

The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excellent young adult book. It is one of our Georgia Book Award Nominees for 2007-2008. It is a great way for kids to learn about what the earthquake was like from a young person's view point. The language of the book was very descriptive. You felt like you were there.Click Here to see more...