[View Of downtown San Francisco And Yerba Buena Island, 1921 Nov]  [SFPL]

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[Last Week]    The Beach family, Charles, Doretta, Lela and Claude, set out from Cornwall, Ontario on October 18, 1921. This is Doretta's diary.
Tues. Jan. 3rd. Weather fine, in afternoon went down to Chinatown, came home, had dinner and went out. Lela called to see Ada and then we all went over to Neil Henderson's for the evening.
Jan. 4th. Weather fine and we went shopping. Chas. and Claude took Lela's watch to get fixed and get the car washed. Then all came back, had dinner. Chas. went to a lecture, Claude went down town and Lela and I to the Congregational Church to hear Dr. Gordon.
Photo: 'Reserved for Ducks' Sign 
Lake Merritt, Oakland, Calif.
Jan. 5th. Left home about ten o'clock and crossed the San Francisco Bay on Ferry to Oakland and spent the day. Went over to Berkeley to see the University the largest in the U. S., and went through their Oakland Auditorium, which is lovely and drove around the lake. Had a real pleasant day, then went to Loew's Theatre to see The Speed Girl and after to Archie Currie's to spend the evening and had a nice time and got home at one o'clock A.M.
Friday Jan. 6th. Weather fine in A.M., and afternoon rainy. Mr. Best called to see us on his way home to Spokane. Then we all went down town to get some eats and Lela and I went to some of the stores, got home, had dinner and then all evening wrote letters.
Sat. Jan. 7th. Morning fine. In afternoon rained a while. We went out on Calif. St., to hunt up a woman Emma has asked us to see, but did not find her and went out to Cliff House and went down and watched the seals playing around a while, then went home had dinner and worked at our fancy work.
Sunday Jan. 8th. Morning beautiful. Went to the Congregational Church. Came home had lunch and went out and took Ada and her husband for an hours ride. Then went over and got Neil and Mrs. Henderson and went over to Presidio, where there was an aeroplane circus. Two of them let down a man in a parachute. Came home, had dinner and Lela and I went to the Methodist Church and heard a great sermon.
Monday Jan. 9th. Bright and warm not much excitement. Lela, Father and I went out to Neil Henderson's for the evening.
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