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Author : William C. Disturnell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Strangers' Guide to San Francisco and Vicinity written by William C. Disturnell and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Berglund
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Making San Francisco American written by Barbara Berglund and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the 19th-century transformation in San Francisco--from Gold Rush to earthquake--to show how the city's diverse residents created a modern American city through everyday "cultural frontiers," such as restaurants, hotels, and annual fairs and expositions, among others.
Author : Catherine Cocks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520926493
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Doing the Town written by Catherine Cocks and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists and travelers in the early nineteenth century saw American cities as ugly spaces, lacking the art and history that attracted thousands to the great cities of Europe. By the turn of the century, however, city touring became popular in the United States, and the era saw the rise of elegant hotels, packaged tours, and train travel to cities for vacations that would entertain and edify. This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity. Focusing mainly on New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Catherine Cocks describes what it was like to ride on Pullman cars, stay in the grand hotels, and take in the sights of the cities. Her evocative narrative draws on innovative readings of sources such as guidebooks, travel accounts, tourist magazines, and the journalism of the era. Exploring the full cultural context in which city touring became popular, Cocks ties together many themes in urban and cultural history for the first time, such as the relationships among class, gender, leisure, and the uses and perceptions of urban space. Offering especially lively reading, Doing the Town provides a memorable journey into the experience of the new urban tourist at the same time as it makes a sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the urban and cultural development of the United States.
Author : J. Philip Gruen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147318
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Manifest Destinations written by J. Philip Gruen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the natural landscape—as well as places where efficient business operations and architectural grandeur prevailed—all now easily accessible thanks to the relative comfort of transcontinental rail travel. Yet as people flocked to western cities, it was the everyday life that captured their interest—the new technologies, incessant clatter, and all the upheaval of modern metropolises. In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them. Guidebooks made Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco seem like picturesque environments sprinkled with civilized buildings and refined people. But Gruen’s research in diaries, letters, and traveler narratives shows that tourists were interested—as tourists usually are—in the unexpected encounters that characterize city life. Visitors relished the cities’ unfamiliar storefronts and advertising, public transit systems, ethnic diversity, and multiple dwellings in all their urban messiness. They thrust themselves into the noise, danger, and cacophony. Western cities did not always live up to the marketing strategies of guidebooks, but the western cities’ fast pace and many novelties held extraordinary appeal to visitors from the East Coast and abroad. In recounting lively anecdotes, and by focusing on tourist perceptions of everyday life in western cities, Gruen shows how these cities developed the economy of tourism to eventually encompass both the urban and the natural West.
Author : Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948874
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book San Francisco in the 1930s written by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it," according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building’s pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city’s history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. David Kipen’s lively introduction revisits the city’s literary heritage—from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg—as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This rich and evocative volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the Bay as it used to be.
Author : Nezar Alsayyad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136368175
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage written by Nezar Alsayyad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet. Meanwhile tourist destinations throughout the world find themselves in ever more fierce competition - those places marginalized in today's global industrial and information economy perceiving tourism as perhaps the only means of surviving. But mass tourism has raised the local and international passions as people decry the irreversible destruction of traditional places and historic sites. Against these trends and at a time when standardized products and services are marketed worldwide, there is an increasing demand for built environments that promise unique cultural experiences. This has led many nations and groups to engage in the parallel processes of facilitating the consumption of tradition and of manufacturing tradition. The contributors to this volume - drawn from a wide range of disciplines - address these themes within the following sections: Traditions and Tourism: Rethinking the "Other"; Imaging and Manufacturing Heritage; Manufacturing and Consuming: Global and Local. Their studies, dealing with very different times, environments and geographic locales, will shed new light on how tourist 'gaze' transforms the reality of built spaces into cultural imagery.
Author : C.F. Libbie & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by C.F. Libbie & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Berglund
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ordering the Disorderly City written by Barbara Berglund and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yong Chen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804745505
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943 written by Yong Chen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.
Author : Thomas Payne Thompson
Publisher : New Orleans : Press of Perry & Buckley Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Index to a Collection of Americana written by Thomas Payne Thompson and published by New Orleans : Press of Perry & Buckley Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674001909
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book We Are What We Eat written by Donna R. Gabaccia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits—and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream—is the story told in We Are What We Eat. It is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism. The story of successive generations of Americans experimenting with their new neighbors’ foods highlights the marketplace as an important arena for defining and expressing ethnic identities and relationships. We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and restaurateurs who have cultivated and changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. It also tells of the mass corporate production of foods like spaghetti, bagels, corn chips, and salsa, obliterating their ethnic identities. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of American ethnic relations, in which “Americanized” foods like Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes and creative hybrids. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we? Americans’ multi-ethnic eating is a constant reminder of how widespread, and mutually enjoyable, ethnic interaction has sometimes been in the United States. Amid our wrangling over immigration and tribal differences, it reveals that on a basic level, in the way we sustain life and seek pleasure, we are all multicultural.
Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Free Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by San Francisco (Calif.). Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Author : Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book San Francisco, the Bay and Its Cities written by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Philip Gruen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Manifest Destinations written by Jason Philip Gruen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Coughlin Braislin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Important American Library Formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Sold by His Order ... written by William Coughlin Braislin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
