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Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 13-19
Timecapsule podcast — San Francisco, October 13-19
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Oct 13, 2008
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Podcast episode
Description
A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history.
October 18, 1851
On this date, after endless politicking and interminable delay, the mail ship Oregon steamed into San Francisco harbor with the news that California had been admitted to the Union.
The reaction of San Francisco's 25,000 citizens is something I'll allow the Daily Alta California to report:
"Business of almost every description was instantly suspended, the courts adjourned in the midst of their work, and men rushed from every house into the streets and towards the wharves, to hail the harbinger of the welcome news. When the steamer rounded Clark's Point and came in front of the city, her masts literally covered with flags and signals, a universal shout arose from ten thousand voices on the wharves, in the streets, upon the hills, house-tops, and the world of shipping in the bay.
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Released:
Oct 13, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (98)
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