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Sugar magnate Adolph de Bretteville Spreckels built the mansion for his wife, Alma, who later became known as “the great-grandmother of San Francisco.”

Take a dive into the ritzy neighborhood’s past.

A look back at some of Seattle’s old food joints and watering holes.

Go Dawgs!

The Richmond district used to be sand dunes as far as the eye could see up until the late 19th century.

Seattle has always been technologically ahead of its time.

Take a peek at 100 years of history in one of San Francisco’s most unique neighborhoods.

A look back at Seattle’s booming fifties.

What was Haight-Ashbury like before it became known as a counterculture epicenter?

Before the city was known for Starbucks and tech startups, it looked like this.

Now a must-see tourist hotspot, San Francisco’s Chinatown has a tumultuous past.

The building has a tumultuous past, but remains a mainstay of Seattle’s arts and culture scene today.

The futuristic building was designed for the 1962 World’s Fair by Minoru Yamasaki.

Once-booming San Francisco was hit particularly hard during the Great Depression.

Watch Seattle’s waterfront grow from a small hub in the 1800s to the busy port it is today.

As World War II raged, San Francisco saw an influx of residents and began to become the busy city it is today.