- 'White Night': The darkest night in San Francisco history
![Broken glass door at the Department of City Planning after the White Night in San Francisco on May 21, 1979.]()
- The tortured heiress who disappeared into the Bay Area hills
![A view of the hills of Suisun Valley in the summertime.]()
- How the Grateful Dead took Europe by storm in 1972
![Portrait of the Grateful Dead in Copenhagen. Denmark, April 1972.]()
- This 43-year-old SF April Fool’s tradition refuses to die
![Spy Emerson (front) with her mate Lucky Anderson (left in safari hat) from Oakland throw socks on the steps of the Pacific Stock exchange during the 35th annual St. Stupid's Day parade in San Francisco, California, on Monday, April 1, 2013.]()
- The last party on Lombard Street
![Lombard Street, San Francisco.]()
- Death at the Sir Francis Drake: Two actors and a tragic accident
![A historic cable care glides past the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Thursday May 20, 2010 in San Francisco, Calif. The Hotel is up for sale and group of investors from China are said to be interested in a purchasing it. (Photo by Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)]()
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![Gloria Sykes sued the city of San Francisco in 1970 over an injury she incurred while riding a cable car.]()
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![Lew Hing (left) with his family.]()
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![A 1960s advertisement for Bay Area pyramid scheme Holiday Magic. ("Holiday Magic - 1967" (c) 2008 rchappo2002 via CC BY-NC 2.0)]()
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![A portrait of James Hiram Bedford, the first man to be cryogenically frozen.]()
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![A colorized image of the Mechanical Arts Building at the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Photo courtesy of OpenSFHistory.]()
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![B.H. DeLay, the famed California aviator, poses on a plane sometime before his death in 1923.]()
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![Think the beach is busy today? Look at the chaotic 1920 parking scene at Ocean Beach. At left is the amusement park Chutes at the Beach.]()
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![Two portraits of Nancy Graves Williamson of the Donner Party]()
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![A wanted poster for Iva Kroeger that was distributed throughout the nation in August and September 1962. She was convicted in the murders of motel owners Mildred and Jay Arneson in Santa Rosa.]()
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![For a supposedly haunted house, the Winchester Mystery House is normally alive with decidedly corporeal activity.Every few minutes, another tour departs. Floorboards creak under the weight of eager feet. The gardens are filled with cheerful guests, drinking wine from the outdoor bar.But these days, the house is as quiet as it's been since the days of Sarah Winchester.]()
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![A view of The Pike amusement park in Long Beach, Calif., in October 1958.]()
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![A photo illustration of San Francisco entertainer Truly Shattuck, made with an archival portrait.]()
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![On Christmas Eve, 1978, thieves dropped through a skylight at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and stole four paintings, including a Rembrandt. Photo by John Storey / San Francisco Chronicle on 12/25/78]()
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![A train stop at Fulton and Seventh near Golden Gate Park is all that remains of San Francisco's "Beertown."]()
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![Cora Evans, a Catholic mystic who lived her final years in the Santa Cruz Mountain town of Boulder Creek. After her death in 1957, she was put under consideration for sainthood.]()
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![The Pinecrest Diner on Geary and Mason in San Francisco.]()
