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Title: The Lure of San Francisco
A Romance Amid Old Landmarks

Author: Elizabeth Gray Potter and Mabel Thayer Gray

Release Date: March 8, 2004 [EBook #11507]

Language: English

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The Lure of San Francisco

A Romance Amid Old Landmarks

By
Elizabeth Gray Potter
and
Mabel Thayer Gray

Illustrated By
Audley B. Wells

Paul Elder & Company
Publishers San Francisco

Copyright, 1915, By
Paul Elder & Co.
San Francisco

To Our Mother

Preface

The average visitor considers California's claim to historic recognition
as dating from the discovery of gold. Her children, both by birth and
adoption, have a hazy pride in her Spanish origin but are too busy with
today's interests to take much thought of it. They know that somewhere
over in the Mission is the old adobe church. They rejoice that it
escaped the fire but have no time to visit it. They will proudly tell
their eastern friends of its existence and that the Presidio received
its name from the Spaniards but further narration of the heritage is
lost in exclamations over the beauty of the drives and the views, while
the historic significance of Portsmouth Square is smothered in the
delight over Chinese embroideries, bronzes and cloisonne.

May this little book aid in the general awaking of the dormant love of
every Californian for his possessions and be a suggestion to the casual
visitor that we are entitled to the dignity of age.

Contents

Preface
The Mission and its Romance
A view from Twin Peaks--The city with its historic crosses. A visit
to the old church--Its past, and the romance of Lueis Argueello.
The Presidio, Past and Present
The Spanish Fortifications and the love story of Concepcion and
Rezanov.
The Plaza and its Echoes
A Chinese restaurant. Yerba Buena and the reminiscences of a
forty-niner.
Telegraph Hill of Unique Fame
The Latin quarter. The signal station