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Daily Alta California - 26 Feb 1885

 


The Mendocino Beacon - Jun 20 1885

 


Sutro Heights opens to public
The San Francisco Examiner - Sep 6 1885
 


New York Times - 20 Sep 1885

 


The San Francisco Examiner - Mar 14 1886

 


Pacific Rural Press - 8 May 1886

 


The Topeka Daily Capital - Aug 11 1886

 


Daily Alta California - 17 January 1887
For more on the Parallel Explosion click here

 


San Francisco Chronicle - Apr 24 1888

 


The Los Angeles Times - Apr 1 1889

 


Fall River Daily Evening News - Feb 26 1890

 

The Fête Champêtre
Charity event for the SF Polyclinic, 23 May 1891


San Francisco Call - 24 May 1891
Charity event on Sutro Heights
 


The San Francisco Examiner - May 24 1891  (pdf)
 

 


"Sutro Heights Gate Receipts"
San Francisco Call - 10 Oct 1894

 

Shakespeare performed at Sutro Heights


The San Francisco Examiner - Aug 18 1895   (pdf)


San Francisco Call - 6 September 1895
 


                                                                          San Francisco Call - 20 September 1895

The Examiner - 21 Sep 1895
 


San Francisco Call - 22 September 1895
 


 


The Wasp - Dec 1895
"THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WAR AT SUTRO HEIGHTS"
John Martini (12/19/2020):  "Backstory is there was fear at the time of attack by the British Navy, and the cartoon represents Mayor Sutro’s
concerns — jokingly, the destruction of “his plaster of Paris and old junk” by naval gunfire."


 

San Francisco Call - 24 Nov 1896
"Airship" visits Sutro Heights
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Cliff House owners will take over Sutro Heights
San Francisco Call - 2 June 1907


 



San Francisco Chronicle - Jun 6 1920, page 1A


San Francisco Chronicle - Jun 6 1920, page 2A
 

 

 


San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 12 1920
"suggestive sketch by Edward H. Bennett of Chicago"
(click above image for full story)

 


The Province - Dec 10 1935

 


Memorial plans (never built)


San Francisco Chronicle - 3 Jul 1940
 


San Francisco Examiner - 2 Oct 1940
 

 


Santa Cruz Sentinel - 13 October 1953

 


The San Francisco Examiner - 17 Aug 1980