San Francisco's Presidio   (CA)  (Images of America)
As a docent at the Presidio and the third generation of his family to be stationed there, author Robert W. Bowen has a unique grasp of the subtleties that have shaped its path. As past president of the San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club and a member of the Fort Point and Presidio Historical Association, as well as the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, he brings to these pages a captivating assortment of historical images, and the stories that go with them, to capture the essence of what life was really like at the Presidio.