San Francisco : true stories

O'Reilly, James, 1953- (Added Author). Habegger, Larry. (Added Author). O'Reilly, Sean. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 1885211856 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781885211859 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 392 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: San Francisco : Travelers' Tales ; Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2003.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-376) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Wild light / Andrei Codrescu -- Pacific world / George Vincent Wright -- What you see is who you are / Mark Childress -- When San Francisco was cool / Herbert Gold -- I was a teenage yogi / James O'Reilly -- The real mission / John Krich -- Circle of gold / Michele Anna Jordan -- Freakin' in Frisco / Michael Land and Jim Crotty (the Monks) -- North Beach at twilight / Gary Kamiya -- City perched on a frontier / Tom Cole -- Glide and the family church / Sean O'Reilly -- The heavenly gates / Chiang Yee -- My father's Jack London / Fred Setterberg -- The lost Roman baths of Adolph Sutro / Harold Gilliam -- Going in / Loren Rhoads -- The forest of John McLaren / James Armstrong -- Sam Spade's San Francisco / Don Freeman -- The rock / Jay Stuller -- Gulf of the Farallones / Linda Watanabe McFerrin -- West coast orient / K.M. Kostyal -- Locomotion / Cathleen Miller -- Brooding at Ocean Beach / John Brant -- Parts unknown / Elgy Gillespie -- El matador lives / Barnaby Conrad -- Looking for Mr. Big / Tom Steinstra -- Lotta's legacy / J. Kingston Pierce -- The first negroni in the No name bar / Joseph Diedrich -- The specter of Grand View Peak / Harold Gilliam -- Through the Golden Gate / Lynne Cox -- The art of Lincoln Park / Larry Habegger -- Jammin' with Garcia / Darby Slick -- Old growth houses / Judith Lynch -- Driving your karma / Bruce Newsham -- Is there realy a San Francisco / Laura Miller -- The late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez -- Rocking the cradle / Betty Ann Webster -- Sharing the pain / Rajendra S. Khadka -- A survivor / William Plummer -- Lost treasures / Paul Totah -- Footprints in the sand / Herb Caen.