Historic Copper Bell Stolen From San Francisco Cathedral
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A landmark bell was reported stolen from the garden at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco on Sunday morning. The copper bell, which is about 4 feet tall, 5 feet wide and...
View ArticleStolen SF Cathedral Bell Recovered Near Oakland Scrap Yard
WEST OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Police have told the Archdiocese of San Francisco that they had found a 5,300 pound, historic bell that had been stolen last Sunday from the grounds of St. Mary’s Cathedral....
View ArticleA’s Owner Buys Historic San Jose Hotel
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – The landmark Sainte Claire Hotel has been sold to real estate developer Lew Wolff, a purchase other developers and local officials see as emblematic of the growing vitality of...
View ArticleSan Jose Fire Damages Historic Kelley House
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – Photographs and historic documents from San Jose history went up in smoke when the last building from the original Kelley Ranch caught fire Thursday. Part of the 1912 Victorian, once...
View ArticlePreservation Commission Says SF Gold Dust Lounge Not Historic
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco’s Gold Dust Lounge, a Union Square bar faced with eviction by a landlord intent on converting the space to retail, does not qualify for historic landmark status,...
View ArticleLandmark Status Denied For San Francisco’s Gold Dust Lounge
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission voted against providing a Union Square bar faced with eviction with landmark status Wednesday afternoon. Supporters of The Gold...
View Article3-Alarm Fire Damages Historic Downtown San Jose Building
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Firefighters brought a three-alarm fire at a former bicycle shop in San Jose under control late Thursday night, fire officials said. Located at the former site of Faber’s Cyclery at...
View Article2-Alarm Fire Damages Historic ‘Tavern At Lark Creek’ Restaurant In Larkspur
LARKSPUR (CBS SF) — A historic Larkspur restaurant was damaged in a two-alarm fire early Saturday morning, fire officials said. A fire engine crew was returning from a medical call around 2:50 a.m....
View Article$50,000 Painting Discovered Tucked Away In Fremont Museum Attic, Confirmed On...
FREMONT (KPIX 5) — A painting hidden under a sheet for years inside a historic East Bay home has turned out to be a treasure worth tens of thousands of dollars. Mindy Johnson loves a good mystery. “I...
View ArticleEarthquake Sparks Damaging Fires, Crumbles Historic Downtown Napa Buildings
NAPA (CBS SF) — Residents and business owners in Napa began to assess the damage from Sunday morning’s 6.0-magnitude quake and one liquor store owner reported an estimated $100,000 in losses. Stever...
View ArticleGot $1? Then You Could Own This Victorian Redwood City Home, With One Catch
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) — You may be able to buy a home in Redwood City for $1 in an area where the average home costs $1 million. But before you move in, your house will have to move out. The buyer of...
View ArticleLGBT Leather-Themed Parklet In The Works For San Francisco SoMa
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — A plan is in the works for a parklet in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood that would celebrate the area’s historic ties to the LGBT and leather communities. According...
View ArticleLarkspur Teardown Known As ‘The Honeymoon Cottage’ Sells For Almost $500K
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_0904201518270564946AA.mp4 When the old, dilapidated house known as “The Honeymoon Cottage” hit the market in Larkspur last year, everyone was certain it...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones Arrive In Cuba For Historic Concert Event
HAVANA (AP) — Thousands of jubilant Cubans and tourists swarmed the site of the Rolling Stones’ free concert in Havana on Friday, calling it an historic moment for a country that once forced rock fans...
View ArticleWatch The Rolling Stones Play to Over 1 Million Cubans in Historic Concert
By Tim Staskiewicz HAVANA, Cuba (RADIO.COM) – Over 1.2 million Cubans turned out this past weekend for a historic free concert thrown by The Rolling Stones. The legendary rockers played to the crowd of...
View ArticleOops… Newspapers Put Wrong Clinton On Front Pages After Hillary’s Historic...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — When women woke up around the world Wednesday and read the headlines trumpeting Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination, something was glaringly missing. Her photo… from almost...
View ArticleBreed Takes Oath Of Office Becoming First Black Female Mayor Of SF
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — London Breed was inaugurated as the first female African-American mayor of San Francisco Wednesday, in a festive ceremony on the steps of City Hall. Breed, a San Francisco...
View ArticleCZU Lightning Complex: Despite Extensive Burn Damage, Many Historic Redwoods...
BOULDER CREEK (AP) — When a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among...
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