Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the Exposition was already playing to small audiences before the Fair opened, it is doubtful that transcontinental competition has hurt San Francisco's show so much as lack of showmanship. To cure that defect the Exposition last week took a promising new managing director to succeed the dethroned Harris Connick (TIME, May 15). Smart, baldish New Director Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator, is all for brisker ballyhoo and livelier amusements. He may yet make Treasure Island a bigger attraction. Most notable of its present sights...
...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...
...Exciting show: Cavalcade of the Golden West-24 scenes in a pageant extending from Balboa's discovery of the Pacific and Cabrillo's discovery of California, through the discovery of gold in Sutler's Mill and Custer's Last Stand, to San Francisco in the all-too-gay Barbary-Coast Nineties...
...grim, tide-gnawed rock called Alcatraz just inside San Francisco's Golden Gate, the prisoners are counted every 30 minutes. They live in silence, permitted no talk except what is essential to their work, save on Saturdays when (if they have been good) they converse under guard for 2½ hours. After the prisoners are locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number...
...necessary to have a place like Alcatraz to break up a crowd that conspires to escape or kill or murder," he said. But he believed results equally good could be obtained in an escape-proof, walled farm, without quite such grim technique. "It is a great injustice to San Francisco," he said, "to have that place of horror on the doorstep of the city...