Meigg's Wharf (center) & San Francisco viewed from Marin in 1856. Telegraph Hill is just to the left; Russian Hill is to the right.

I was born and raised in San Francisco, the city being my family's home since 1856. When I meet people who used to live in San Francisco or visited in years gone by, they often give me the tired old line, "I used to love going there but it's no longer the same." That's the point of my book, San Francisco�s Lost Landmarks, published by Quill Driver Books / Word Dancer Press. San Francisco has never been "the same" in its entire history and it's not just because of the 1906 earthquake and fire. The city began in a state of metamorphosis and has never stopped. Fifty years from now, the complaints will be the same.

I've captured some of the fun places and events in the city with the goal of entertaining first, then educating. There's no test at the end of San Francisco's Lost Landmarks. With over 150 photos and graphic representations, it's written to be read. San Francisco's Lost Landmarks is available at local bookstores and through Amazon.com as well as from this site (autographed).

A second book, California Snatch Racket is now complete and will be published by Quill Driver Books / Word Dancer Press, release planned for the Spring of 2010. Written in a joint effort by noted author W. Lane Rogers and this author, it offers a new looks at the kidnapping trend of the early twentieth century.

My best regards,
Jim