Copyright Bill Roddy 2000

Portals of the Past: South Park

A True San Francisco Tragedy of 1855

by Bill Roddy (c) 2000

I wrote this in 1949 and put it away. Reading it again this year I find that the locales are no longer as I described them. 

San Francisco's Third Street, South of Market, and South Park, as I knew them fifty years ago, are just memories.

Chapter one of four