Arguello, Noe, Vallejo, Martinez, Peralta; if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know these names. In 1892, they were the surnames of well-known women, descended from the Spanish settlers of California. Their families left their legacy as place names. Please enjoy this old newspaper article, and do check the ink portraits of the women mentioned, in the linked original.

https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2025/01/our-first-families-daughters-of-spain.html

Much has been written about #Carville. I am not telling a new story, here, but there is some linked research and newspaper clippings that add a bit to the history, and make the story more relatable; places, people, names. This article hints at the future Carville, the community built of old horse-drawn street car bodies in the dunes near #OceanBeach. At the time of this writing, Carville was not yet a thing. Search the web for "Carville," to see much more about this quaint piece of #SanFranciscoHistory. The old #HorseCars couldn't be converted, and had to be discarded. I've transcribed and researched this article to tell a piece of a larger story. It will involve Joseph Leggett, Margaret "Minnie" Le Long, Robert H. Fitzgerald and his wife, Ida F. (Wells) Fitzgerald, the Falcon Bicycle Club, "Curly Bill" Gerhardt and maybe more. I'm letting my curiosity lead me. The next few blog posts will relate to this one, as does the previous blog post. Enjoy.

https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2024/12/at-end-of-their-trip-san-francisco.html

Associate Curator Stephen Coles provides a bit of historical context for Langley’s San Francisco Directory (1891). See it in our Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_unitedstates_0050

Castro & 18th, September 1971
Seems like just another day in what was then known as Eureka Valley.
(People have told me that the Twin Peaks are called Eureka & Noe, which gave these two neighborhoods their names) #sfhistory #sanfranciscohistory #castro