If you pull into the parking lot of the San Francisco Zoo you might notice an ornate building facade that stands behind a barbed wire fence, seemingly out of place and without any historical ...

Over the weekend firefighters battled a raging blaze at the the Historic Fleishhacker Pool House near the San Francisco Zoo. The two alarm-fire started Saturday at about 1 p.m., causing the historic ...

When San Francisco was developing in the mid-1800s, it was all work and no play for the inhabitants of the small pueblo. The excitement of gold fever attracted mainly men who could live a robust, ...

In San Francisco a municipal swimming pool, zoo, park all bear the name of Fleishhacker—not only because Banker Herbert Fleishhacker was a big contributor to them, but because when serving a brief ...