Before the invention of the cable car in 1873, the area in which residents and entrepreneurs could start their lives in the “City of Gold” was very limited. However, when the California line was built, that is when the hills began to develop. However it was a very slow process, and in 1906 when the earthquake, everyone in the city that lived on the east side of Van Ness fled to Pacific Heights and an explosion of popularity and development followed. Soon this neighborhood was home to many consulates, heirs to sugar and silver fortunes, such as the Spreckel family of Spreckel Sugar. Some of the homes found in Pacific Heights cost $150,000 just for the land, but when you’re taking in $500,000 in revenue a month (equivalent to approx. 16 million in today’s money) that’s not a problem. Now one of the most sought after neighborhoods, in terms of real estate in modern San Francisco, in the last ten years some of America’s actors and directors, like Chris Columbus and Meg Ryan, have lived, and live at the peak of San Francisco’s glamorous neighborhood.
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