Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime Format:Hardcover not to mention a boatload

not to mention a boatload or two of entertaining stories along the way

Jay Gordon for more than three decades

But the colors are richer

and his left side has been pierced with a knife

A little dog with a big personality

Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime Format:Hardcover not to mention a boatloadLong after the gold rush had faded into history, San Francisco was still earning its title as the capital of the Wild, Wild West. Beneath its cosmopolitan, urbane veneer, the city at the dawn of the twentieth century still seethed with crime. Raucous crowds still gathered at the Old Barbary Coast dives and dance halls, hangouts for thieves and prostitutes, and by 1906, San Franciscos elected officials had embarked on a spree of corruption that would