Difference between revisions of "Category:Folsom street"

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[[File:The San Francisco Examiner Sat May 25 1895 (7).jpg|thumb|center|500px|Folsom Street, the South Side Boulevard That Is to Be.<br/><nowiki>[</nowiki>''Sketched by an "Examiner" artist.''<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]
[[File:The San Francisco Examiner Sat May 25 1895 (7).jpg|thumb|center|500px|Folsom Street, the South Side Boulevard That Is to Be.<br/><nowiki>[</nowiki>''Sketched by an "Examiner" artist.''<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]
[[AND NOW FOR MARKET STREET. - The San Francisco Examiner, 25 May 1895]]


[[File:The San Francisco Examiner Fri May 24 1895 .jpg|thumb|center|700px|The New Boulevard for Which the Street Committee Resolved to Appropriate Eighty Thousand Dollars.<br/>''The [[wheelmen]] will be able to ride on the new pavement of [[Folsom street]] on October 1st.'']]
[[File:The San Francisco Examiner Fri May 24 1895 .jpg|thumb|center|700px|The New Boulevard for Which the Street Committee Resolved to Appropriate Eighty Thousand Dollars.<br/>''The [[wheelmen]] will be able to ride on the new pavement of [[Folsom street]] on October 1st.'']]


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[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-first-victory/85921387/ FIRST VICTORY FOR GOOD ROADS. - San Francisco Examiner - May 24, 1895]


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Folsom street, in San Francisco was a popular road for cyclists, and the bicycle riders were some of the main proponents for improving its surface, as part of the Good Roads movement, which was a powerful force for change in the late 1890s before the users of the automobile took over the advocacy.

Folsom Street, the South Side Boulevard That Is to Be.
[Sketched by an "Examiner" artist.]

AND NOW FOR MARKET STREET. - The San Francisco Examiner, 25 May 1895

The New Boulevard for Which the Street Committee Resolved to Appropriate Eighty Thousand Dollars.
The wheelmen will be able to ride on the new pavement of Folsom street on October 1st.

FIRST VICTORY FOR GOOD ROADS. - San Francisco Examiner - May 24, 1895