Every city gets the Miracle Mile it deserves.
Krampus treats.
Decking the Bay Bridge, 1938.
25 December 1930: Governor-Elect James Rolph & Mayor Angelo Rossi.
For those who do not know him, “Sunny Jim” was the longest serving mayor of San Francisco (apologies to the honorable Willie Brown, unofficially longest serving mayor of our hearts).
Fire hazards of 1946.
“A proposal by North Beach merchants that Coit Tower be converted into a gian Christmas candle during the coming holiday season will be considered by the Park-Recreation Commission at its weekly meeting tomorrow. It is suggested that a wide colored streamer be wound up the tower and a light, representing a flame, be fixed at the top.”
—SFPL SF History Center
“The Palace was an emporium dedicated to the palates of the cosmos. It probably had food from Saturn. It was the FAO Schwarz of the stomach.”
—Gus Lee, China Boy
For Christmas I would like the Crystal Palace to return to 8th and Market. You don’t know the Crystal Palace? Click through, dear reader, click through!
Strange fruit.
1953 :: PETA tree
I. Magnin proves that fauna are a flora with its mink tail tree.
—SF History Center, SFPL
No kitties here: Macy’s million dollar Christmas tree, 1953.
In the same year, Congresswomen sought to overturn a luxury tax on handbags.