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By Walter G. Jebe Sr.

The Excelsior District generally has no longer been between San Francisco's "spotlight" neighborhoods, but this region is a crucial residential and advertisement quarter that's domestic to a few 30,000 citizens. those rolling hills south of San Francisco's better-known districts at the moment are coated with row upon row of homes, streets, and flats. yet areas just like the Excelsior have been as soon as carefully populated, agrarian, or even rural. This quantity of classic pictures chronicles the Excelsior's exciting trip from rugged swamp and farmland to the busy cosmopolitan local we all know this day. it's a story of made up our minds immigrant households placing down roots in a difficult locale and overcoming adversity to stake out an enduring enclave during this famed urban. it's also a narrative of large-scale development and reclamation to tame the rugged outskirts of San Francisco.

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