Event Listing - Education, Organizations
Tue Jul 14

San Francisco Museum and Historical Society presents

On the Waterfront

History of the Southern Waterfront


Tel. 415 775-1111 x 5
Email On the Waterfront
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$5

Location
Date and Time
Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California St.
San Francisco, CA 94115 map
cross street: Presidio Ave.
district: Western Addition/Alamo Square

Tue Jul 14 (7:00 pm reception) - 7:30 lecture

Description
Offbeat and little known stories about the San Francisco Southern waterfront will come to life.

The tales will detail how bums repeatedly caused a wharf to burn, why writer Jack London was ripped off when he ordered a yacht, and where severe anti-Chinese feelings made many of them jobless.

Those and many other stories, plus a slide show, will highlight a lecture by Stephen Canright, curator of Maritime History.