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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
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Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a great fan of both San Francisco and its firefighters.San Francisco Public LibraryShow MoreShow Less
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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. ....

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They strutted, brawled and threw the best parties in Gold Rush S.F. They also put out fires

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They strutted, brawled and threw the best parties in Gold Rush S.F. They also put out fires
Gary Kamiya
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The statue in San Francisco’s Washington Square honoring volunteer firefighters, on April 29, 2021.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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The statue in San Francisco’s Washington Square honoring volunteer firefighters, on April 29, 2021.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Near the northwest corner of Washington Square in North Beach stands a raised bronze sculpture of three uniformed firefighters. One is holding a rescued woman in his arms; another is gesturing and holding a trumpet; the third crouches with a fire hose. ....

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When San Francisco burned down - six times in a year and a half

When San Francisco burned down - six times in a year and a half
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An illustration of the San Francisco fire of May 4, 1850, from “The Annals of San Francisco.”“The Annals of San Francisco”Show MoreShow Less
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Boats on the San Francisco waterfront in 1849, depicted in a lithograph.Hanhart / MPI / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
Everyone knows that San Francisco was consumed by flames after the 1906 earthquake. But it’s less widely known that the city was also devastated by a succession of fires during the Gold Rush.
No fewer than six destructive conflagrations ravaged the infant city in just 18 months the greatest number of major fires ever to strike any American city in such a short time. ....

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Murder at the newspaper: When a Chronicle editor was shot dead

Murder at the newspaper: When a Chronicle editor was shot dead
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S.F.'s strangest bar had monkeys, parrots and cobwebs. Lots of cobwebs

S.F. s strangest bar had monkeys, parrots and cobwebs. Lots of cobwebs
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Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace on Francisco Street was one of the most popular taverns in the city in the mid-19th century, and was definitely the strangest.File photoShow MoreShow Less
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Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace, a North Beach tavern of the 19th century, with its namesake cobwebs visible.Wyland Stanley CollectionShow MoreShow Less
From the Gold Rush days to almost the turn of the 20th century, the weirdest bar in San Francisco, if not the world, was in a dilapidated building on the waterfront in North Beach. It was known as Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace, and its like will never be seen again. ....

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