Pacific ocean and the like. By the way, this had actually opened directly into the ocean. Lake merced had a high water level. Since we paid over much of the city, the water levels have dropped, but at one time, the late actually trade out into the ocean approximately where the dog diner is that now. Somewhere in the 1870s, they saw the damage at the water in the late so it did not exit out uncontrolled, and for 10 years, people were drinking lake merced water as drinking water. It is much bigger, too. If you go to San Francisco state, the practice will appeal this part of the lake. I do daily city, that was part of the lake. It was huge. The Southern Area [inaudible] but there is a different area. There was a creek that came down basically through west portal and said that particular lake. That was filled in when they develop west portal, and they had the brilliant idea when they dug but, they needed a place to put it, so they build the creek in with the tunnel muck. You can see in 191
And for whatever reason, i did this time see a story, and the reason for seeing the story is that every book, particularly in history, has what i like to call scaffolding, which is the structure that holds everything together and makes sense of it. This story has so many elements to it that there is no obvious scaffolding beyond the fact of the chronology, from 1939 to 1945. But within that, what do you do . And the second time around, i saw some scaffolding. Not all of it. It sort of evolved as i went along. But im very grateful to peter for being so persistent because at the end, i ended up with a book i had no idea i was going to write. And that is the one id like to tell you a little bit about. Why does it matter . It matters because world war ii literally shaped the world we live in today. It preserved at it easy to forget this because it sounds like a cliche but it preserved the world for democracy. World war i had the slogan that Woodrow Wilson called making the world safe for d
Good afternoon. Im the chief building inspector with the Department Building inspection. Welcome to our Brown Bag Lunch series. This is the regular third thursday of every month event. We are finishing up with a talk about the outside lambs, an area that was previously considered uninhabitable. Uninhabitable due to fog. [inaudible] but we have with us a couple of real experts in outside plans. I am outside in outside lands. Woody has devoted a lot of his time and effort to the outside lands. We are a nonprofit in our 10th year, and we are dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of San Francisco. It is great to have you here. And pat, who has a lot of knowledge and brought to be sure today a lot of [inaudible] , and she can share with that she can share that with us as well, and we only regret that harvey the wonder dog could not be here. We talked about [inaudible] what area, generally, are we talking about . The term came from what was called the pueblo land when the San Franc
This is some serious chocolate. It is really good. Q . Our groves were planted r 100 years ago. It is called the silver ridge ranch, and it is all spanish olives, extra virgin, less than 0. 8 at the city. Acidity. We offer a house plant, which is a nifty blend of five types of spanish olives, which incorporates this into that. We also offer a tangerine olive oil, a new product, fresh tangerines. You taste possessed from the appeal of the tangerine. You taste the zest from the peel. Emerge very well. Excellent. They sell different types of salt here which are a big thing in it killing our world. I have found at home that it makes a big difference the texture of the salt, not word is from where it is from. Where is this from . It is from france, the top layer of of salt, a very fine salt. For every 80 pounds of the great salt, 1 pound of this is made. We did not really talk about the clock tower yet. At 230 feet tall, this is built as a replica of of the clock tower in spain. This was e
Good afternoon. Im the chief building inspector with the Department Building inspection. Welcome to our Brown Bag Lunch series. This is the regular third thursday of every month event. We are finishing up with a talk about the outside lambs, an area that was previously considered uninhabitable. Uninhabitable due to fog. [inaudible] but we have with us a couple of real experts in outside plans. I am outside in outside lands. Woody has devoted a lot of his time and effort to the outside lands. We are a nonprofit in our 10th year, and we are dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of San Francisco. It is great to have you here. And pat, who has a lot of knowledge and brought to be sure today a lot of [inaudible] , and she can share with that she can share that with us as well, and we only regret that harvey the wonder dog could not be here. We talked about [inaudible] what area, generally, are we talking about . The term came from what was called the pueblo land when the San Franc