Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Sunday, August 7, 2011
On this Date in 1909...
...Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York City to San Francisco. This was not really what they had intended; however, it definitely sounds better than admitting they got lost on their way to New Jersey.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
On this Date in 1848...
...the first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California. As he watched the new arrivals come ashore, the mayor of San Francisco was overheard saying, "It must be durned dark over there in that there China, lookit 'em all squintin' in the sunlight."
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