Links:

View of San Francisco fire resulting from the 1906 earthquake

Saroyan Web pages:

• William Saroyan.org official site
• William Saroyan Page psychedelic fan page with excerpts and pictures
• 1997 production of Time of Your Life

History and Time Lines:

• 20 Century America jillions of links. warning: you could spend a week exploring all of them.
• Documenting the 1930's texts and photographs compiled during the Depression
• Voices from the 30's Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
• A New Deal Network educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s by Teachers College, CU
• Decades: A Study of the 20th Century
• World Wide Web -Virtuual Library: HISTORY: USA: 1930-1940
• Holt Labor Library Labor Studies and Radical History--San Francisco Labor Strike

Specific to San Francisco:

• Famous Quotes About San Francisco
• A Timeline of San Francisco History - 1900-1950
• San Francisco Bay Area in the 1930s maps of SF
• Museum of the City of San Francisco
  • Century of Commerce history of maritime trade and the 1934 longshoreman strike
  • Hotel Mark Hopkins where the society people were supposed to go
  • History of the SF police department
• History of the Long Shoreman Strike
• Mills/Waterfront Piers 27-31 histories and photographs of SF piers
• Filling the Marina San Francisco Exploratorium site on the land evolution of the Marina
• America Hurrah: San Francisco Menu from 1900 to 2000
  • Building the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Growing up in San Francisco--Selling Liberty magazines

Photographs & Images: SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY

• Fireman's Fund Image Bank--San Francisco History period photographs of San Francisco
• Walker Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography images and text
• American Memory Library of Congress searchable database of photographs, Depression to WW II
• A New Deal for the Arts online exhibit adapted by National Archives
• Picturing the Century online galleries from the National Archives
• Social Realism Artists by Movement: Social Realism America, 1930's, Art Encyclopedia
• The City history and clips from documentary film made in the late 1930's
• Jazz performer photos
• Pinball.com a site for Willie

Drinking:

• Social and Cultural Aspects of Drinking social/cultural roles of alcohol--Social Issues Research Center

Murals:

• Thomas Hart Benton's Arts of Life in America
• Riker's Island Penitentary Mural phenomenal mural and good site of Ben Shahn's work
• Norwalk's Collection of WPA Murals
• Lane Tech Art Collection murals from different states

Salvation Army

• Salvation Army Unired States Official Site
• NYC salvation Army Music site
• Online index of hymns
• "Let the lower lights be burning" online version of lyrics and computer version of song

Music:

• American Popular Music 1900-1950 brief overviews with lots of links
• Jazz Roots early jazz history and timelines from the turn of the century to1930's
• Blues Online collection is organized by musical styles based on regionality.
• That Blues Music Page specific history of Chicago Blues
• Heptune Classics jazz and blues lyrics are compiled from recordings from the first part of the 20th century

Web surfing encouragement:

• The Shadow Magazine downloadable texts from The Shadow Magazine, 1931 to 1949
• The 1930s in Print: BOOKS a list of links of out-of-print books that are competely available online
• 1930's Radio An ongoing effort to re-present the audio landscape of the 1930s with audio links
• Survey Graphic articles from magazine published in the 30's