Word: presidio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Pacific Street starts at the waterfront, plods westward through the northern warehouse district, climbs past Chinatown and the Italian quarter to Larkin Street. There it changes its name to Pacific Avenue, straightens its dress and saunters out to the Presidio as a genteel residential lane. The first few blocks of Pacific Street today are a dreary line of warehouses, garages, shabby hotels, lunchrooms. Formerly they were the centre of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, for nearly 70 years the most vicious and depraved spot in the U. S. The amazing scenes and incredible characters...
...their respects. He had come into the State during the night, been met in the morning at Sacramento by Governor Rolph, getting off his train at Oakland to ferry across San Francisco Bay amid a din of factory and boat whistles, roaring airplanes, booming guns on the Presidio. The sidewalks of Market Street were packed solidly with cheering populace as his cortége moved through. At the civic centre Herbert Hoover went up to a balcony and said: "I accept this welcome not as President of the United States but as a Californian returning to his home State...
...possible enemy air force might bomb the bridge, bottle up a U. S. fleet in the Bay. Last week the War Department approved plans for another, 8,500 ft. bridge, with the longest single span in the world, to cross the famed Golden Gate from Fort Point in the Presidio of San Francisco to Lime Point on the Marin side...
...attack has massed against the fortifications. As the bombing squadron comes in through the Golden Gate the attack planes rapidly circle the presidio in a protective maneuver. The main bombardment group bombs the presidio, turns below us toward Mather Field as the pursuit planes follow. . . . Goodbye...