SH Archive Single photo: San Francisco post-1906 Fire. Cooking in the street

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Interesting but in 2019, US apartment buildings appear to look exactly the way they did in 1906.

So do some of the streets with those wooden posts. Not sure if it’s concrete, or ashalt or both, but things did not change much.

San Francisco, April 1906, after the earthquake and fire that leveled much of the city. "Cooking in the street."

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[Whitewave]

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Username: whitewave
Date: 2019-02-06 22:59:39
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How can that be a street? There's a big well in the middle of it. That's quite an obstruction for vehicles or even horses/buggies. Maybe some really wide back alley?

 

[anotherlayer]

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Username: anotherlayer
Date: 2019-02-07 04:50:52
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That lady in the bottom left corner. Surely the Director should have yelled CUT!

 

[Archive]

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Username: BrokenAgate
Date: 2019-02-09 05:27:02
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Let's talk about that circular drawing chalked on the street in the foreground. Was somebody's child trying to summon the forces of darkness?

 

[Archive]

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Username: ISeenItFirst
Date: 2019-02-09 06:04:51
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Let's talk about that circular drawing chalked on the street in the foreground. Was somebody's child trying to summon the forces of darkness?

I thought it looked like an astrology chart.

 

[anotherlayer]

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Username: anotherlayer
Date: 2019-02-09 06:08:48
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Early Haight-Ashbury peace sign?

 

[Verity]

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Username: Verity
Date: 2019-03-03 04:25:55
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Haight-Ashbury

I had no clue what this was so wiki'd it. There is a funny thing in our language, and that is many times if not all of the times it tells you something that is lying in the subconscious or somewhere.
I kept searching and kept saying to myself, 'hate ash bury', over and over.

So when changing the names to other spells, so to speak, one hates the burying in/of ash, one buries the hate in ash, one buries [something] in the ash and hates. I dunno..
Their charter city logo is interesting too- it's in Spanish and reads 'Gold in peace, iron in war.'
Good old phoenix symbology of course.

Henry Haight - Wikipedia
No word on Ashbury at all.
Anywhere.
This one line; "Munroe Ashbury was a city supervisor,"...
That's it.
Very strange considering that this one tiny spot, some seemingly randomly-named intersection in a charter city, whose laws are adopted by the extended nation and then the greater west, should be chosen to completely alter the direction of the worlds "culture" one summer (1967) through sixties counter-culture (which could possibly have its own thread).

San Francisco Board of Supervisors - Wikipedia
Fascinating history of the murder of Harvey Milk & George Muscone by Dan White, particularly in light of todays health/political climate.

OMGoodness. I've tears of laughter. Check this out- I just googled the definition of Munroe, thinking it was just a name. Why not right?
Munro - Wikipedia

Munroe Ashbury = A mountain of buried ash.

 

[Archive]

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Username: BrokenAgate
Date: 2019-03-03 17:11:58
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Haight-Ashbury-Munroe, it's all very weird and disturbing. Hatred of what, and by whom? We may be pronouncing it wrong. I found this: Meaning, origin and history of the surname Haight

'Topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, derived from Old English heahþu "height, summit".'

So, the connection to a high mountain is reaffirmed here. And everywhere we look, we see cities buried in mountains of dirt, cities turned to ashes in great conflagrations.

 

[Verity]

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Username: Verity
Date: 2019-03-04 01:10:16
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Haight-Ashbury-Munroe, it's all very weird and disturbing. Hatred of what, and by whom? We may be pronouncing it wrong. I found this: Meaning, origin and history of the surname Haight

'Topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, derived from Old English heahþu "height, summit".'

So, the connection to a high mountain is reaffirmed here. And everywhere we look, we see cities buried in mountains of dirt, cities turned to ashes in great conflagrations.

Perhaps because the phoenix must rise up from the ashes of the fire.
The Phoenicians/Venetians/banksters must rise to the top (of the heap/mountains) to control and dominate 'their own world'.
Everything I read and learned about San Fran yesterday is just more of the same- it's the same people, the same MO, the same story.
Gotta say, it's getting old.

Haight-Ashbury-Munroe, it's all very weird and disturbing. Hatred of what, and by whom? We may be pronouncing it wrong. I found this: Meaning, origin and history of the surname Haight

'Topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, derived from Old English heahþu "height, summit".'

So, the connection to a high mountain is reaffirmed here. And everywhere we look, we see cities buried in mountains of dirt, cities turned to ashes in great conflagrations.

p.s. I knew I was missing something with Haight, glad you found it.

 

[Archive]

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Username: maco144
Date: 2019-03-04 01:29:34
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It appears there is a great deal of a liquid runoff from the area of the stove creating all sorts of lines across the street running towards camera left. Questions abound as to what kind of liquid, bad design, accidental spill, etc.

 

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Username: jd755
Date: 2019-03-04 19:47:49
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Is this link of any use to the Haight portion of this thread?
Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era

 

[asatiger1966]

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Date: 2020-07-07 07:47:43
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How can that be a street? There's a big well in the middle of it. That's quite an obstruction for vehicles or even horses/buggies. Maybe some really wide back alley?

I agree with the alley idea. The two men walking away from us, one on the left seems to be a solider or constable escorting the gentleman with the box out of the area. His statue is erect and his tailored jacket flares out at the bottom where his belt and holster should be located. His hat looks like a campaign hat.

 

[BStankman]

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Date: 2020-07-07 09:31:46
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Much respect for women 114 years ago. As it seems they could build a brick fire pit or drag a 500 pound cast iron stove out to the street, after disconnecting plumbing. And not be concerned about stepping on a nail while cooking.
Unless of course if they used that circle to summon a demon to move that stove, and the demon left the nail there in typical demon fashion.

This plumbing. Would you suppose it is water or gas connection? Apparently gas works were started in San Francisco as early as 1852.

 

[Archive]

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2020-07-07 14:18:35
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Much respect for women 114 years ago. As it seems they could build a brick fire pit or drag a 500 pound cast iron stove out to the street, after disconnecting plumbing. And not be concerned about stepping on a nail while cooking.
Unless of course if they used that circle to summon a demon to move that stove, and the demon left the nail there in typical demon fashion.

This plumbing. Would you suppose it is water or gas connection? Apparently gas works were started in San Francisco as early as 1852.

View attachment 49074

They WERE cooking with gas... Until the city started blowing up.

 

[Verity]

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Date: 2020-07-07 14:34:24
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They WERE cooking with gas... Until the city started blowing up.

Could even explain why they were out there in the first place. Growing up in NZ my mother always said, 'If there's an earthquake and I'm not home, don't you DARE turn on the gas or you'll blow up the house if something comes loose.' Stupid gas. Still hate it.

 

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Username: dianag
Date: 2020-07-07 20:10:33
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It appears there is a great deal of a liquid runoff from the area of the stove creating all sorts of lines across the street running towards camera left. Questions abound as to what kind of liquid, bad design, accidental spill, etc.

My Grandmother cooked on a wood burning stove and it go hot as hades in the kitchen. When she was canning produce or meat in the summer she did so outside.

These women are probable cooking a soup, stew or beans etc. The smoky look could be steam. They may have been cooking for a living and took the wood stove outside for safety and to keep the heat outside of their rooms. When they stoked the fire with wood there was usually a separate area for them to heat water from the same heat to make coffee or tea. The run off could be steam or something similar. The stove doesn't exactly look level so some sort of run-off from cooking could occur.

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2020-07-07 20:31:49
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Well, whatever the case, those old stove/ovens had lots of features for baking or warming. Maybe smokers...
But, one thing I know for certain is that was probably a HEAVY ASS piece of equipment. You wouldn't be carrying it back and forth into the house, so this looks like a safety issue.
It was April, so I doubt it was hot. But I'm on the same tip. Not cooking until seven or after these days...
They obviously put wood in it though. Looks like they're just using the stove top.

 

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Username: dianag
Date: 2020-07-07 20:46:42
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Well, whatever the case, those old stove/ovens had lots of features for baking or warming. Maybe smokers...
But, one thing I know for certain is that was probably a HEAVY ASS piece of equipment. You wouldn't be carrying it back and forth into the house, so this looks like a safety issue.
It was April, so I doubt it was hot. But I'm on the same tip. Not cooking until seven or after these days...
They obviously put wood in it though. Looks like they're just using the stove top.

If it was after a disaster they may have been cooking for others who had no way to cook. Probably supplemented their income or got food in payment to support their families.

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2020-07-07 22:45:45
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If it was after a disaster they may have been cooking for others who had no way to cook. Probably supplemented their income or got food in payment to support their families.

Doesn't appear as though it's reached their street YET. A few firebombs could help that along (it's actually true, they spread it by trying to suffocate it).