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Coit Tower Will Reopen on Thursday

Coit Tower Will Reopen on Thursday San Francisco’s favorite phallus, and home to arguably the best 360-degree panoramic view in the city, Coit Tower, is open again Thursday with masks required only in the elevators. Reopen-mania is sweeping San Francisco, and the daily drip-drip of fabulous attractions opening their doors again is turning into more of a firehose. Add to that list Coit Tower, the 210-foot art deco structure atop Telegraph Hill that “houses the largest Depression Era art collection in the U.S.” Mayor Breed just announced that Coit Tower will reopen on Thursday, June 17 at 10 a.m., and will resume normal hours, with masks required only while riding the elevators.

She was the biggest fan of San Francisco s firefighters and California s most original woman

She was the biggest fan of San Francisco s firefighters and California s most original woman Gary Kamiya FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a great fan of both San Francisco and its firefighters.San Francisco Public LibraryShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Coit Tower was built in atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit, to beautify the city and pay tribute to its firefighters.Lance Iversen/The Chronicle 2008Show MoreShow Less The biggest fan of early San Francisco’s celebrated volunteer firefighters, and one of the great free spirits in the city’s history, was a transplanted Southern belle named Lillie Hitchcock Coit.

Unraveling the mysteries of San Francisco with the writer who brought Ambrose Bierce back to life

Scott Thomas Anderson January 27, 2021Updated: January 31, 2021, 7:06 pm Ambrose Bierce was a San Francisco journalist in the late 19th century. His “The Devil’s Dictionary” codified the template for a satirical dictionary. Photo: Bancroft Library On a summer night in 1870, Ambrose Bierce began a newspaper column about a corpse discovered in an alley of Chinatown. “The body was found partially concealed under a paving-stone which imbedded in the head,” he jotted for the San Francisco News Letter. “A crowbar was driven through the abdomen and one arm was riven from its socket by some great convulsion of nature.” Writing with a human skull on his desk, Bierce ended the report with, “it is supposed he came to his death by heart disease.”

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