Identifier: chamberofcommerc01todd (find matches)
Title: The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
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Publisher: San Francisco, San Francisco Chamber of commerce under the direction of the Publicity committee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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It is a wondrous thing to see the city veiled, likea sorceress, in twilight mists, the sky above the Golden Gatered with the glow of a dying California day, and Alcatrazthrobbing its five-second pulses of light to homing marinerstwenty miles at sea. MT. TAMALPAIS AND THE MUIR WOODS. To Mt. Tamalpais it is six miles by ferry, five miles onthe electric train, and eight on the Mt. Tamalpais and MuirWoods steam railroad; a total of 19 miles. From every good view point in San Francisco one can see,across the Golden Gate, this lofty height, reared a clean half-mile above the waters of the Bay. To be exact, it is 2592feet high, only 48 feet less than half a mile, and has everyeffect of being higher because it rises almost directly fromsea level. And if the vicinity has many and varied beau-ties worth hunting out and enjoying one by one, Tamalpaisshows them all in one splendid picture, and throws on thescreen for good measure a panorama of the Ocean, the Faral- 276 Handbook for San Francisco
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COASTING DOWN TAMALPAIS. Ml Tamalpais 111 lone islands, the Golden Gate, the Exposition site, the Baywith its islands and ships, the cities across, the estuary ofthe great rivers, Mts. Hamilton, Diablo and St. Helena, and,on clear days, a view straight across the interior valley of Cali-fornia to the snow-capped Sierra, one hundred and fifty milesaway. A circular walk around the peak shows the variedfeatures of the surrounding country in rotation. Here one sees what might be called the ground plan ofthe greatest landlocked harbor on the Pacific Ocean, andof the region surrounding it, destined to play so large a partin the affairs of men. So much, in passing, for the view. But the view is byno means all of Tamalpais. The mountain itself is a domainof delight. Open-air plays are given in glades near its summit.Forests clothe its shaggy sides with laurel, buckeye, redwood,manzanita and that shining green-and-vermilion gallant of theglade, the madrone. Deer and other wild animals run wild

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