Excerpt from The San Francisco Blue Book: Being the Fashionable Private Address Directory and Ladies' Visiting and Shopping Guide; Containing the Names, Addresses, Reception Days and Country Residences of the Elite of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Los Angeles, Menlo Park; Season 1889-90 Containing the Names, Addresses, Reception Days and Country Residences of the Elite of the Pacific Coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.