San Carlo history

On February 13 of 1816, a fire ravaged the Teatro di San Carlo and basically destroyed the entire structure.

His son, Don Luis (Presidente from 1822-25) was the first native-born governor to serve under Mexican rule.

In 1854, Timothy Guy Phelps, a San Francisco mercantile owner and 49er (the original kind), was the first American to purchase and occupy land in San Carlos.

Phelps became the first president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, a United States Congressman in the 1860's, and an early Regent of the University of California at Berkeley.

When the San Francisco-to-San Jose railroad was being laid in 1864, Nathaniel Brittan granted the right-of-way through his property, with the stipulation that a station agent and telegraph office be maintained at all times.

Brittan was a friend of Leland Stanford who arranged to lend his University stone masons for the building of the San Carlos depot in 1888.

In the 1890's, Nathaniel was President of the now-prestigious Bohemian Club of San Francisco and offered a site on his San Carlos property for a "Country Jinx" club house and Bohemian Club retreat.

In 1907, the San Carlos Park Syndicate used an elaborate sales campaign to try to make San Carlos a second Hillborough, calling the area Oak Park.

In 1919, a hangar and a flying field were built between San Carlos Avenue and Brittain Avenue east of the railroad.

In 1923, a volunteer fire department was formed using a fire truck composed of a white taxicab chassis with a chemical truck body donated by the San Francisco Fire Department.

The citizens of San Carlos voted to incorporate in June 1925.

In 1926, the phone company built an $11,000 building in the 500 block of Laurel Street.

In the late 1940’s when Bayshore was a two-lane road, the San Carlos Airport was moved from its former location between Brittan and San Carlos Avenues to its present site.

A few months later le libertatian interlude would be bloodly suppressed and the Bourbons returned to the throne. It was completely destroyed in 1943 by a bomb and rebuilt immediately after the war.

In 1944, Dalmo Victor established the city's first large electronics plant, followed soon after by Eitel McCullough.

Covent Garden 1946, San Carlo was the first Italian theatre to have the courage to travel abroad after the war.

In 1950, when the population was 14,371, the city boasted a total of 89 industries-wholesalers, manufactures and distributors of a variety of commodities from electronics to cosmetics.

In 1982, with Christmas greetings, parishioners expressed a willingness to start collecting money for the new church's construction.

In 1987 it was rented a room, made available by the municipality of Brugherio, under the arcades of Piazza Togliatti buildings and began to celebrate Mass and to organize some festive gathering events.

In 1992 Carlo opened his first eponymously named restaurant in Temple Street, Birmingham, then a humble 20 table restaurant.

With the archbishop's decree of February 1, 1993, Father Mario Ferrario was appointed parish priest of Saint Charles Church, which was careful for the first ten years.

Celebrities, sporting stars and loyal diners made San Carlo their restaurant of choice and soon Carlo had a success on his hands, Bristol opened in 1996, Leicester in the late 90’s and then Manchester, which has gone on to become possibly the highest profile, busiest restaurant outside of London.