7 posts tagged “san francisco”
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United Nations Plaza
During the 20th Century, the Dune People propagated the myth that San Francisco was 49 square miles of sand dunes until the "Europeans" planted all those exotic species like eucalyptus, cypress, and acacias. This is in direct contradiction to the first European descriptions of the San Francisco peninsula. Of course, they were written in Spanish, so the post Gold Rush "Europeans" couldn't read them. Nor did they bother to ask the surviving indigenous people. One does not have to be a forensic historian to follow these clues to their logical conclusions:
1. The original name for San Francisco was Yerba Buena. This name refers to Saturea douglasii, a mint that grows in mixed evergreen forests. If it was abundant enough to name the cuidad for, where were said forests located?
2. The San Francisco Peninsula is a part of the Pacific Coast Range of mountains. Mountain ranges are so named because all the mountains in a range have similar-to-identical characteristics: gradient of slope, composition of soils and bedrock, plant and animal life. It is physically impossible that the hills in San Francisco (and Marin) were not just like the rest of the Coast Range.
3. In 1850, a 500-lb. grizzly bear was captured near the Mission Dolores. Most likely it was a juvenile setting out on it's own. Perhaps it was the grandchild of the one the Anza expedition killed a century earlier near Lake Merced. The question is, where did it live? What did it eat? What did San Francisco have to look like to support a grizzly bear population?
Enquiring minds want to know!
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