SF News Huge Booty of Sunken SF Gold Rush Treasure To Be Auctioned Off Saturday in Reno The S.S. Central America sunk in 1857, and 425 people did not make it off alive. But their artifacts have been recovered, and will be up for auction at a Saturday antiquities event in Reno.
SF News Video: Gold Nuggets Being Found In Rivers After Oroville Dam Crisis One exciting side effect of the Oroville Dam spillway crisis this winter has been a new albeit modest gold rush along the rivers that the spillway fed into, like the Feather River and
SF News Video: Archeologist Excavates Keel, Artifacts From Gold Rush-Era Ship At SF Development Site The Arkansas Re-discovery from Grosvenor Americas on Vimeo. As local history buffs know and will never tire of telling you, much of San Francisco's Financial District is built on landfill — the Bay waters
Arts & Entertainment The Story Of Emperor Norton, SF's First Icon and Greatest Eccentric, On The 137th Anniversary Of His Death You’ve perhaps heard during your Bay Area residency the occasional passing reference to an “Emperor Norton”, some foppish, overdressed, Victorian-era kook whose legacy we are apparently supposed to respect. Why? Why is
SF News Near Old Ship Saloon, More Remnants Of Gold Rush Era Vessel Discovered The Old Ship Saloon at Pacific and Battery is so named for the Gold Rush era ship the Arkansas: That vessel ran aground in 1849 after a rough passage from New York, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Never Forget The Farallon Egg War, A Gold Rush-Era Food Fight To Feed Miners During a gold rush, as the saying goes, best to sell pickaxes. But in the case of the San Francisco Gold Rush, pickaxes were in relatively good supply compared to protein. A dozen
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Trove Of Gold Rush-Era San Francisco Photography Several dozen photographs from around San Francisco, all taken by George Robinson Fardon in 1856, have just resurfaced via the digital collection of Southern Methodist University's libraries. Among the places you'll sort of
SF News There's Still Gold Up In Them There Hills A man with a metal detector and a pick-axe went wandering his property in Nevada County last year and found what is apparently the largest single gold nugget ever discovered in the Sierra
SF News Mud from 1800s Finally Washing Out of Bay We came across this curiosity in the Chron this a.m.: several generations worth of free-floating sediment, upon which several pieces of the SF Bay's ecosystem depends, has finally washed out to sea
misc Today in San Francisco History - a Gold Rush shaving-saloon Timecapsule: February 1852 We love personal accounts of the goings-on in our little town more than just about anything. The sights, the smells, the daily routine ... We want the nuts and bolts of
misc Today in San Francisco History - Eye of the Gold Rush Hurricane Timecapsule: February 1, 1849 The spring of 1849 -- dawn of a year forever branded into the national consciousness as the era of the California Gold Rush. And so it was -- but
misc Today in San Francisco History - Mary Ann Patten, Heroine of Cape Horn Timecapsule: November 15, 1856 We ran across this little item while looking for something else altogether, and couldn't resist passing along such an amazing and (almost) ready-for-Hollywood story. It was the era of
misc Whiskerless Waiters at the Palace Hotel In the middle part of the 19th century, a thick set of whiskers were an essential facial feature of every man of Victorian respectability. These were not simply expressions of pride or masculine
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Gold Rush (1925): The Tramp makes his stamp here (via playing with his food) as one of America's most beloved comedic characters of the silent era. Screens tonight at 8:45
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight For those of you who don't care what happens to Pam and Jim: -- 49ers Fan Night: Biggest 49ers fan ever, Bevan Dufty, invites you to celebrate football. In the Castro. 49ers alumni
SF News Shipwreck'd At Ocean Beach Every now and then, when the sand moves, you can see the remnants of shipwrecks on the shore of Ocean Beach -- and yesterday, folks enjoying the warm weather at low tide caught
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Another cheery day in San Francisco Yesterday around lunchtime, these four members of the S.F. 49er Gold Rush cheerleading squad attracted more than a little bit of attention as they ventured from Civic Center. Last we saw, they
SF News The Gray Lady: Bring Your Wallet to SoMa What we saw instead was a wallet-busting tour of an area that's got a lot of great bargains. Although SFist totally applauds the inclusion of City Kayak's Bay Bridge tour, we were wishing
Arts & Entertainment City Guides' Scavenger Hunt You don't have to lose at Monster Park to be a Niner -- it's almost time for the Third Annual City Guides' Scavenger Hunt, and it's got a Gold Rush theme this year!