Wind & Fire MC / Barbary Coast Chapter

 Shanghai Kelly - King of the Crimps                                

 John Devine - alias "Chicken Devine" - desperate criminal

 Mary Wetherbee - pickpocket 

 Philomena Faulkner - alias the "Galloping Cow"

 Mollie Wisner - alias the "Lost Chicken" 

 Dolly Mickey - pickpocket

 Mary Ryan - pickpocket, panel worker and all around worker on the Barbary Coast

 Mary Drenke - Barbary Coast Dancehall worker and pickpocket

 Henry “Honest Harry” Meiggs  (Link 1), (Link 2),  (Link3)

Meiggs Wharf - Now Known as Fishermans Wharf 

By 1865 when this photo of Meigg’s Wharf was taken, the City had grown north as Meiggs had envisioned.

                                                                           

  Amuse America Exhibit - SFPL

More historic San Francisco - The Fun Side 

Thank you Steve "Smitty" Smith

Barbary Coast by Night, San Francisco, CA

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Lighting the Night

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Edison demonstrates his incandescent bulb and lights the night.

From "The Great White Way" to San Francisco's Market Street, people are lured out of their homes like moths to a flame. The dynamos and generators that turn on streetlights also power trolley cars.

In 1890, 85% of all American streetcars are horsecars. By 1902, 92% are electric.

Market St. New Year's Eve 1879