Category Archives: California Roots
Oakland Bay Bridge Anniversary
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you have probably passed over the Oakland Bay Bridge many times in your life. The bridge is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary. Huffingon Post has some amazing photographs from the construction of the bridge: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/bay-bridge-anniversary_n_1087376.html Construction of the bridge was started in 1933, at the height of …
100 Year Anniversary: Women’s Right to Vote in California
Today marks the day that men went to the voting booth and cast their ballots on whether women should have the right to vote in California. It was no easy win. Statewide the vote was 125,037 for and 121,450 against. According to this article in the Daily Review Newspaper, rural areas were more in favor …
Land Transfer Tingley Street
I was looking through some newspaper clippings that I found online over the last few weeks. Mary (Kelly) Meincke was my Great Great Grandmother’s sister. She and her husband owned the Five Mile House at Silver Avenue and Mission Road in San Francisco at the turn of the century. I thought this entry was curious. …