Jill Robinson

Writer, Photographer, Adventurer

San Francisco Scavenger Answers!

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Thanks to those of you who have purchased my recent book, San Francisco Scavenger, and used it to learn a little history and solve the clues through 19 different neighborhoods across the 49 square miles of San Francisco. You may have noticed that there are no answers in the book, and that’s because my publisher, Reedy Press, preferred to allow each city’s author to share the answers as they chose.

Since the book has been out in the world for nearly a year, it’s time to share those answers. Feel free to write them in your book, print the list out and keep it within the pages, or even link to this post so you can continue to check your answers.

Please do review the book, because positive reviews help reach more potential customers. I’d appreciate your help!

And now, the answers for San Francisco Scavenger:

Castro

  1. Castro Theatre
  2. Rainbow Honor Walk
  3. Cliff’s Variety
  4. Pink Triangle Memorial
  5. Harvey Milk’s old camera shop
  6. GLBT Historical Society Museum
  7. ‘Gear Up’ mural outside Moby Dick
  8. ‘Celebration of Love’ mural
  9. Hot Cookie
  10. Rainbow Crosswalk
  11. Twin Peaks Tavern
  12. Seward Street Slides
  13. Randall Museum
  14. Alfred E. Clarke Museum
  15. McCormick House

Chinatown

  1. Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
  2. Dragon Gate
  3. Golden Gate Bakery
  4. Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
  5. Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial
  6. R&G Lounge
  7. ‘Be Like Water’ Bruce Lee mural
  8. Tien Hou Temple
  9. Kong Chow Temple
  10. Clay Street Center/Chinese Historical Society of America
  11. Sam Wo Restaurant
  12. Sun Yat Sen statue
  13. Mister Jiu’s
  14. Chinatown/Him Mark Lai Branch Library
  15. First Public School Site
  16. Old Telephone Exchange
  17. Eastern Bakery
  18. ‘Fufufufufu’ mural
  19. Hang Ah Dim Sum Tea House

Civic Center

  1. San Francisco City Hall
  2. War Memorial Opera House
  3. Asian Art Museum
  4. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
  5. Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
  6. California State Building
  7. Don Lee Building
  8. Masonic Temple
  9. Orpheum Theatre
  10. San Francisco Public Library (Main)
  11. Great American Music Hall
  12. SFJAZZ Center
  13. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
  14. Sarcophagus of Thomas Starr King
  15. ‘Large Four Piece Reclining Figure’ by Henry Moore

Downtown

  1. Pflueger Building
  2. Ruth Asawa’s San Francisco Fountain
  3. Phelan Building
  4. Dewey Monument
  5. Toni Rembe Theater (Geary Theater)
  6. Curran Theatre
  7. Golden Gate Theatre
  8. Westin St. Francis
  9. Tunnel Top
  10. Alcazar Theatre
  11. Engine Company No. 2
  12. Flood Building
  13. Halladie Plaza
  14. Morris Building
  15. Pacific Building
  16. Savings Union Bank
  17. Beacon Grand Hotel
  18. Britex
  19. The Warfield
  20. Glide Memorial Church
  21. Notre Dame des Victoires Church
  22. Samuels Clock
  23. Maltese Falcon Alleyway

Embarcadero/Fisherman’s Wharf

  1. Exploratorium
  2. Vaillancourt Fountain
  3. Ferry Building
  4. ‘Mohandas K. Gandhi’
  5. Levi’s Plaza
  6. Fuller Company Glass Warehouse
  7. Old Ship Saloon
  8. Jean Dubuffet ‘La Chiffonniere’
  9. Beltline Railroad Roundhouse
  10. Pier 7
  11. Sea Lion docks
  12. Musée Mechanique
  13. ‘Open Heart’
  14. Fisherman’s Wharf
  15. Aquarium of the Bay
  16. Hyde Street Pier
  17. Scoma’s Restaurant
  18. ‘Skygate’
  19. Otis Elevator Company

Financial District

  1. ‘Transcendence’ AKA “Banker’s Heart’
  2. Heineman Building
  3. Bank of California Building
  4. Transamerica Pyramid
  5. Hobart Building
  6. Pony Express plaques
  7. Murial Castonis ‘Corporate Goddesses’
  8. Lotta’s Fountain
  9. California Admission Day Monument
  10. Hotaling Place
  11. Alvinza Hayward (Kohl) Building
  12. Bank of Italy Building/Clay-Montgomery Building
  13. Buick Building/Tadich Grill
  14. Crown Zellerbach Building
  15. Federal Reserve Bank
  16. Flatiron Building
  17. Fugazi Bank Building
  18. Matson Building and Annex
  19. Mechanics’ Institute
  20. Mechanics Monument
  21. Empire Park
  22. Hotaling Building
  23. Hippodrome Building
  24. Bob Woodward ‘Dandelion Fountain’
  25. First U.S. Branch Mint
  26. Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
  27. Palace Hotel

Golden Gate Park

  1. California Academy of Sciences
  2. Japanese Tea Garden
  3. de Young Museum
  4. Conservatory of Flowers
  5. Koret Children’s Playground
  6. Portals of the Past
  7. Faery Door
  8. Druid Circle stones
  9. Dutch Windmill
  10. Spreckels Temple of Music
  11. Gustave Dore ‘The Vintage Vase’
  12. Beach Chalet
  13. Andy Goldsworthy ‘Drawn Stone’
  14. Peter Coffin ‘Untitled’
  15. Garfield Memorial
  16. National AIDS Memorial Grove
  17. Herschell-Spillman Carousel
  18. Rideout Fountain
  19. Chinese Pavilion at Blue Heron Lake
  20. Blue Heron Boathouse
  21. Arthur Putnam ‘Sphinx’
  22. ‘Pool of Enchantment’
  23. ‘La Rose des Vents’
  24. ‘Apple Cider Press’
  25. Bronze Lion
  26. Bronze Sundial
  27. Miguel de Cervantes Memorial
  28. ‘The Doughboy’
  29. ‘Leonidas’ AKA Roman Gladiator
  30. McLaren Lodge
  31. ‘Pioneer Mother’

Haight-Ashbury

  1. Piedmont Boutique legs
  2. Buena Vista Park tombstones
  3. Free Gold Watch
  4. Duboce Parkway mural
  5. Clunie House
  6. Phelps House
  7. Spencer House
  8. Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
  9. Grateful Dead House
  10. Toronado Pub
  11. Amoeba Music

Japantown/Western Addition

  1. Peace Pagoda
  2. Ruth Asawa, Origami Fountains
  3. Kinokuniya SF
  4. Webster Street Bridge/Japantown Fan
  5. Soko Hardware
  6. California Japantown Monument
  7. Kinmon Gakuen
  8. Japanese YWCA/Issei Women’s Building
  9. Old St. Patrick’s Church
  10. Painted Ladies
  11. The Fillmore

The Marina

  1. Wave Organ
  2. Palace of Fine Arts
  3. Carnegie Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch
  4. North End Police Station
  5. Pumping Station No. 2
  6. Fort Mason Center
  7. Marina District Lighthouse

Mission

  1. Mitchell’s Ice Cream
  2. Winfield Street Slides
  3. 826 Valencia
  4. Mission Dolores
  5. Balmy Alley murals
  6. Golden Fire Hydrant
  7. Clarion Alley murals
  8. Carnegie Library, Mission Branch
  9. El Capitan Theatre and Hotel
  10. Dog Eared Books
  11. Girls Club
  12. National Guard Armory and Arsenal
  13. New Mission Theater
  14. Trinity Presbyterian Church
  15. Victoria Theatre
  16. Women’s Building/MaestraPeace mural
  17. Tartine Bakery
  18. La Taqueria
  19. Cypress Street murals
  20. Carlos Santana mural
  21. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
  22. El Rio
  23. Zeitgeist

Nob Hill

  1. Bohemian Club
  2. Nob Hill Café
  3. Grace Cathedral Labyrinth
  4. Grace Cathedral
  5. Fountain of the Turtles
  6. Henri Leon Graber ‘Dancing Sprites’
  7. Swan Oyster Depot
  8. Cable Car Museum
  9. Fairmont Hotel
  10. The Ritz-Carlton
  11. Intercontinental Mark Hopkins
  12. Amelie
  13. Stanford Court
  14. fnnch bear mural
  15. Tony Bennett ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco’
  16. Chambord Apartments
  17. Jones Street Water Tank
  18. Flood Mansion
  19. Glazer-Keating House

North Beach/Telegraph Hill

  1. City Lights Bookstore
  2. Kerouac Alley Zapatista mural
  3. Veruvio
  4. Colombo Building
  5. ‘Language of the Birds’
  6. Comstock Saloon
  7. Tosca Café
  8. Specs’ Twelve Adler Museum Café
  9. Saints Peter and Paul Church
  10. Benjamin Franklin statue
  11. Joe DiMaggio Playground
  12. Columbus Tower/Sentinel Building
  13. Liguria Bakery
  14. Caffe Trieste
  15. Molinari Delicatessen
  16. Bimbo’s 365 Club
  17. Coit Tower
  18. Pasquale’s Tower
  19. Filbert Street Steps

Pacific Heights

  1. Tobin House
  2. Haas-Lilienthal House
  3. ‘Migrant Heart’
  4. Spreckels Mansion
  5. Atherton House
  6. Belden House
  7. Bliss Residence
  8. Bourn Mansion
  9. Bransten House
  10. Carnegie Library, Presidio Branch
  11. Casebolt House
  12. Chambern Mansion
  13. Dallam-Merritt House
  14. Ellinwood Residence
  15. Engine Company No. 23
  16. Gibbs House
  17. Grabhorn Press Building
  18. Macedonia Baptist Church
  19. Payne Residence
  20. Schubert Hall
  21. Stanyan Residence
  22. Swedenborgian Church
  23. Temple Sherith Israel
  24. Walker House
  25. Whittier Mansion
  26. Wilford House
  27. Mrs. Doubtfire House

Presidio

  1. Golden Gate Bridge
  2. Andy Goldsworthy ‘Wood Line’
  3. Battery Chamberlin
  4. Hopper’s Hands
  5. Andy Goldsworthy ‘Spire’
  6. Yoda Fountain
  7. Lombard Gate
  8. Fort Point
  9. Warming Hut
  10. Presidio Tunnel Tops
  11. Lodge at the Presidio

Richmond/Lincoln Park

  1. Camera Obscura
  2. Sutro Baths ruins
  3. Fort Miley batteries
  4. ‘The Thinker’
  5. Legion of Honor
  6. Lands End Lookout
  7. USS San Francisco Memorial
  8. ‘Pax Jerusalem’
  9. ‘The Holocaust’
  10. Jefferson Airplane House
  11. Campfire Girls Building
  12. Carnegie Library, Richmond Branch
  13. Lincoln Park Steps
  14. Green Apple Books
  15. Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant

Russian Hill

  1. Alhambra Theatre
  2. Engine Company No. 31
  3. Feusier Octagon House
  4. Haslett Warehouse
  5. Pioneer Woolen Mills & D. Ghirardelli Company
  6. Macondray Lane
  7. San Francisco Art Institute
  8. Ina Coolbrith Park
  9. Waldo Alley signpole
  10. Lombard Street curves
  11. Maritime Museum
  12. Cable Car Turnaround @ Hyde
  13. Buena Vista Café
  14. Ruth Asawa ‘Andrea’s Fountain’
  15. Ghirardelli Square

SoMa/South Beach

  1. Leroy King Carousel
  2. South Beach Shoreline
  3. ‘Gods and Goddesses of Baseball’
  4. ‘Sea Change’
  5. ‘Cupid’s Span’
  6. ‘Willie Mays’ at Oracle Park
  7. ‘Caruso’s Dream’
  8. St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
  9. Audiffred Building
  10. Hearst Building
  11. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  12. Museum of the African Diaspora
  13. Oracle Park
  14. MLK Memorial
  15. Mission Plaza Fountains
  16. Ruth Asawa ‘Aurora’
  17. Engine Company No. 9 & Fireboat Company No. 1
  18. Old U.S. Mint
  19. Rincon Annex Port Office
  20. United States Post Office and Courthouse
  21. Contemporary Jewish Museum
  22. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  23. Hotel Utah Saloon
  24. Tide poles
  25. San Francisco Railway Museum
  26. Red’s Java House
  27. Bloody Thursday memorial

Sunset

  1. 16th Avenue tiled steps
  2. Hidden Garden stairs
  3. San Francisco Zoo
  4. Java Beach
  5. Outerlands
  6. Doggie Diner sign
  7. Earthquake refugee shack
  8. Moss Flats Building

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