LATE BREAKING:
This was just posted to Youtube this morning. Obviously filmed by Moses last night. AT LEAST THREE KITS!
That brings our grand total for kits born in Alhambra Creek to 23 since 2007! Whooohooohooo! Have a cigar! Thanks Moses for capturing these moments and Linda for sharing them.
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Rickipedia sent me in search of this, which is worthy of all our attention. It’s a map of San Francisco before gold was discovered, which is fascinating in and of itself. But the part that stunned me is the old white building right off the water at the corner of Howard and Mellus streets. Guess what that is?
That’s the old Hudson Bay Company building, through which thousands and thousands of California beaver furs passed. Also “bears, foxes, beavers, raccoons, and otters.” How many furs? The catalog is archived here, but we know it was enough to pay for a big building by the water in what was once Yerba Buena,
History always seems so far away until you realize it’s right there beside you…or beneath you.
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