adolph sutro donated the land. >> he had a lot of land. >> did. he bought a rancho in '82, and it was a huge chunk of land in a little peninsula. it took decades for it to fill in with housing. >> when he died, he leapt 1,100 acres to widows and orphans, and his children that truck. they comprise the woods, sherwood forest, forestville. it was a contentious thing. it took about 13, 15 years in public. >> this is actually in golden gate park, the casino. it was a controversy at the time to have a place that serve liquor and had card games in golden gate park. eventually, it moved to 24th ave. >> we still have the newly recently refurbished stop along the great highway. the beach shall i -- chalet. i always find it ironic that these federal highway funds were used to refurbish this place for drivers to get a drink. terrific. [laughter] >> there were farms, and there were dairies, as these houses are starting to be built, and they are more conventional residents is, and they are still a farm. in the distance, you can see it is still sand dunes. >> an

. >> didn't sutro make his initial fortune by being the engineer who figured out how to ventilate the mines at virginia city? >> that is the way he would phrase it. >> he drained them for water, not for air. >> he got backers for the tunnel. he said, we need this tunnel for safety, for air, for ventilation. he got this tunnel built and he got people to back it. just before it opened, it was proved to be not real helpful. he got out with his money. >> i bring it up as a reference that he had the engineering history, which allowed him to figure out how to do it. >> he was good that creating large, engineering marvels. >> this was one. the largest indoor pool. >> it might have been. it became an ice skating rink. i was there when it was an ice skating rink, probably the year before it was burned down. the mummies were there. >> he had that victorian style of stuffing everything he could into this place. he had seashells and jaguars and everything he thought might be interesting or educational to people. people would come over to swim, but they could also see a huge tableau of "the last s

plants to the natural areas, programs, green hair street quarter, green school yards program, mount sutro stewards. the nursery should remain as a valuable and appropriate use of golden gate park. thank you. >> about afternoon, commissioners. my name is tess wellborn, a long time resident of the ashbury. i recycle at the haight-ashbury recycling center and buy native plants there. i would like to address location, first of all, of community gardens. you have already approved a site at the top of this picture. secondly, there is a triangle at fred wick that is much, much larger size, probably an acre and a half. that gets full sun and would be an excellent garden site if you need a second one. as far as the industrial, if you look at what it says in the golden gate master plan, it says stopping an industrial use at this center would mean stopping pickup around the city. the fact is that we only pick up in the immediate neighborhood and most of our donations and buybacks are from people who live in the immediate neighborhood. we get 3,000 people a month at that recycling center. most of the

south beach camera looking towards sutro tower, you can see after glow of the setting sun. there is live doppler 7 hd. it's been raining and light around crescent city. there is some moisture here getting picked up by clouds. not reaching the ground. what you're seeing here is what we call verga. temperatures right now into 40s and 50s and highlights not as cold tonight partly to mostly cloudy skies tomorrow. looking at range spread across the bay area thursday afternoon continuing into friday afternoon. there is a a ridge of high pressure starting to shift east this, system will slowly move south. but this is going to stall out for about a day. which is why we're not going to get rain in here need meedly. taking you through time, there could be sprinkles in the morning. partly cloudy skies to mostly cloudy skies. and there is heading into thursday morning 5:00 in the morning, starting to see some showers up around uk kia. by 5:00 p.m. thursday we're looking at rain beginning to move into the north bay. and there is rain beginning to spread and we can get wet. qoitsing to b

outside live picture rate now from our east bay hills camera as we look towards the blinking lets of sutro tower there. you can see a thin layer of haze or particulate matter rate down near the surface. this is why it is going to be a spare the air as we head that tomorrow. we are expecting the winds to remain light and there isn't much to kind of scour that out. wood burning indoors and out doors banned for the next 24 hours. as you look at live doppler 7 hd you will see whether it is raining right now from crescent city down towards eureka a. some of this across highway 101 getting into the moderate to heavy rapping. no rain in the bay area just yet. temperatures all running in the 40's except fairfeld at 37 degrees. >> not as cold tonight. it's in the north bay and friday afternoon it his moved in across the entire bay area. here's storm that is going to bring us the rain and right now it is just situated right across the pacific northwest. far northern end of california. this system is slowly going to head south. first it has to get through the dry layer here thanks to the ridge of hig

a live look outside and all sutro it looks it is clearing out and the rain is clearing out. current captures 47 degrees with a high of 57 degrees today and a 30 percent chance of showers later. san diego area family capt their christmas blessings this morning after an alert share deputy save them from the christmas morning fire. deputy might cruz was patrolling the neighborhood in spring valley when he saw flames coming from this house. he jumped out of his car, pounded on the door to what everyone up. have fathered three children heard the deputies quickly escaped the burning home. >> it added on our door and walk a sop and that's what we realized there was smoke coming for the house. the in my family we thank him and god bless them. we're very grateful. >> the family got out ok but they did leave lives birds in the film is a formal copy. still to come, will have more news plus a live look outside at walnut creek. that doesn't look like what not creek that san francisco. looks ok out there were also would be talking white next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] now everyone can ex

a look from one of our live cameras showing you a view of the city looking toward sutro twin peaks. there is a break in the showers. if you are like me and you haven't finished your christmas shopping now may be the time to get out and do that. wait until about 45 minutes until the show is over here. lisa argen is here in a couple of minutes with the full forecast. >> crews have finished the construction pan on the bay bridge. they were working to add the four mammoth pieces of steel to the suspension tower. contractor was ahead of schedule because he was trying to avoid the wet weather. they did not have to deal with too much rain wind was an issue. speeds reaching 50 miles an hour. the tower stands 364 feet. it will reach 525 feet with when the final pieces are built. they had to contend with the wind and blowing like crazy. >> really blowing because the cold front has pushed on through. we have a possibility of a thunderstorm. it's not all going to be wet but in the mountains, we have a heavy wet snow. there has been an avalanche warning and could you believe freezing rain and 35

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