The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded on January 16, 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers C
The San Francisco Chronicle's front page, April 22, 1906
The Old Chronicle Building, at 690 Market Street
The current Chronicle Building, at 901 Mission Street, was commissioned in 1924 and is pictured here in 2017.
Bill German (left), the Chronicle's editor emeritus, and Page One editor Jack Breibart in the newsroom, March 1994
Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous
Caen in 1994
Caen playing the drums at the 1993 celebration of The Paris Review's 40th anniversary
"Mr. San Francisco" in his Chronicle office in the early 1990s
One of Caen's four "Loyal Royals" on display at the Chronicle offices