"Painted Ladies"
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"Painted Ladies"
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This is the third (3rd) San Francisco Starbucks Card released exclusively to the S.F. Bay area around the end of April 2012. It's been dubbed "Painted Ladies", highlighting the colorful Victorian houses. Note the orange/white scooter on the street (click magnifying glass for closer look).
The term (Painted Ladies) was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies - San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians.
More about Painted Ladies
About 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors. As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "...red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion...if the upper stories are not of red or blue... they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown..." While many of the mansions of Nob Hill were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city.