23:3823:38, 16 December 2025diffhist+13,368 N
Folsom Street FairCreated page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''By Drew Bourn PhD MLIS for [https://www.sfheritage.org/community/the-folsom-street-fair/ San Francisco Heritage], October 2025'' U.S. Army Captain Joseph Folsom, after whom San Francisco’s Folsom Street is named, made a fortune by speculating in California real estate during the Gold Rush. His land dealings foreshadowed the role that real estate development would..."
23:1723:17, 16 December 2025diffhist+11,017 N
Infinite James ChaCreated page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>"I was there..."</font></font> </font>''' ''by Romalyn Schmaltz, 2025'' ::''I’ve written so many tributes, obituaries, eulogies, and farewells, but I never thought I’d be writing one for the man who sat next to me as I wrote most of them. I don’t know how to process this yet, as he was very tight-lipped about his health with me of late and it’s been a shock, but writing the following helped and I hop..."
12:3312:33, 9 December 2025diffhist+1,180 N
GGIE, Ruth Taylor and the Treasure Island CartographCreated page with "'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>''' ''by Kenneth Stein'' I recently got a poster size copy of this classic 1939 two-sided map (there called a “Cartograph”) of the World’s Fair on Treasure Island. 800px800px This one is a bit larger than the foldout frontispiece versions that graced the in..."