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Ch. 7: Golden Gate

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These contemporary sketches of amuse­ments at San Francisco give some idea of the wide diversity offered the bored man with a bag of dust.
Above right is a bull and bear fight. The picture below shows the "second bar" at one of the Portsmouth Square gambling houses, where, incredibly enough, were served "tea, coffee, chocolate and similar beverages, with preserves and pastry ... at this table a young lady waits in a black silk dress, looking smilingly upon you when you ask for something, and stared at by the b'hoys when they come down from the mines."
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