Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #023 Real pyramids, faux antiquities, hoodlums, and San Francisco's "Crabville-by-the-Sea."
Mission District Hot Air Sundays In the 1860s and 1870s, balloon mishaps were a weekly draw in San Francisco's Mission District.
Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #022 Moving picture on a moving streetcar, roller-skate stunts, and return of the SF time machine.
Lone Mountain Lone Mountain Today the site of the University of San Francisco, in 1892 Lone Mountain was a scrubby cross-crowned hill.
Van Ness Auto Row The Buick Bug An important early racing car lost, found, donated to a museum, lost again, and found again in a different museum.
Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #021 Change, Kodachrome, an Egyptian temple, and a fire house ditty.
Chinatown Telephone Temple A mash-up architectural style helped save San Francisco's Chinatown and made a utilitarian building a tourist attraction.
Elephants Seeing the Elephant The world's largest land mammals, metaphorical and real, in San Francisco history.
Russian Hill Jobson’s Folly In the 1860s, San Francisco's Russian Hill was where one could get above it all thanks to one man's failed scheme.
Visitacion Valley Visitacion Valley Mile Houses Water for the horse, something stronger for the driver at these 19th century San Francisco roadhouses.
Richmond District Corner Store In the Richmond District you can still get milk, beer, or a candy bar at the neighborhood market.
Civic Center The Queen of California and the Booster Ball All a sluggish San Francisco needed in 1921 was some pageantry and one killer dance party.
Sunset District The Milk Punch Janitress Reading, 'riting, and rum? An 1895 conflict between an Inner Sunset roadhouse and a San Francisco school.
Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #017 Biplane autos, prison waffles, and the world isn't that different (good and bad).
Western Addition Tower Trouble Much of the clean up after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire was done with muscle, including pulling down part of the tower of St. Dominic's Church.
Earthquake Shacks Mother Minerva’s Fort In 1926, a woman fought for her home made of three earthquake refugee shacks.
Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #015 Earthquake, fires, and true love found... all in one Woody LaBounty Grab Bag.
