Houses at Alamo Square and other San Francisco, CA General Tips

Favorite Thing: Houses at Alamo Square

Fondest Memory: San Francisco consists of various different quarters.

Japan Town
Japantown is relatively small and consists only of a few blocks, but it has a lot of shops and restaurants. The first Japanese arrived in the early 1860s in San Francisco, but the Japanese people settled in this quarter after the big earthquake of 1906. It is also called “Nihonmachi”. Nowadays this quarter is packed with small shops, restaurants, Art galleries, Japanese Baths and altars. The 30 meters high Peace Pagoda is a gift of Japan.

China Town
San Francisco has the largest population of Chinese people outside Asia and new immigrants of the Southeastern Asia area gave it’s new character to this quarter. It is a very crowded part of town, packed with all kinds of import shops. More traditional Chinese shops can be found one block west of Grant to Stockton Ave.

North Beach has an Italian character were you find lots of Italian restaurants.

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Favorite Thing: Coit Tower

Fondest Memory: It's a landmark column with observation tower providing panorama of entire Bay Area. Named for Lillie Hitchcock Coit, who left funds for a memorial to the volunteer firemen of the 1850s & '60s.
Open daily 10.00-18.00 hrs.
Situated on Telegraph Hill Boulevard

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Favorite Thing: Trans Am Pyramid

This building has a height of 200 meters and is the highest building in San Francisco. On the 27th floor is an observation piont.


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Favorite Thing: View on San Francisco

Fondest Memory: History of San Francisco

A Spanish writer at the end of the 15th century wrote a made-up story about a far land, he called California. The streets are paved with gold and jewelry. This fable gave the Spanish great spirit to find such a place and to exploit it for the next two hundred years. The Spanish never found any gold along the Northern Coastline the name is still California.

San Francisco became an important trading post for the Spanish and afterwards for the explorers. Its Bay is one of the biggest natural harbours of the world and is protected on three sides by land. In 1848, it was still a very small town of about 800 inhabitants, but after the “gold rush” of 1849 San Francisco grew fast from 800 to 340,000 inhabitants in the next few decades. The city was built on money, bribes and corruption. Opiumhuts flourished in Chinatown and brothels along the north beaches. Unstable wooden buildings spread over the hills in a disorganised way.

In 1906 San Francisco was struck by the famous notorious big earthquake. The fires destroyed the town. After this designers were gathered for a meeting to recreate the town as we know it today.

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