“It was one of the earliest instances of a police raid against the queer community,” Shawn Sprockett, who gives walking tours on San Francisco ... as “bad faith” on the part of SFPD.

Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the ... In the summer of 1899, a ship sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco had had two cases of plague on board.

It was built in the 1910s as a meeting hall for Polk Street’s German community; in the 1960s it served as a concert venue (the Grateful Dead played there in 1969); now, it’s part of the campus ...