Grab Bag #53
Bars, hogs, mansions, and memories: a typical San Francisco Grab Bag from Woody.
Grab Bag Guess Where
Even with traditions we deserve to be creative here at San Francisco Story. You may not get the where below in San Francisco (although I’ll give you two views), but maybe you can make a guess as to why a woman is riding a hog in our great city’s past.
The number of newspaper photos taken of young women doing odd things over the past 150 years might rival the number of Amazon delivery vans currently double-parked on San Francisco streets.
Answer for this bizarre scene is at end of this post/email...
Then and Now
People love “then and now” views. I guess they always have.
I stumbled on this small item in an issue of The Wasp from October 24, 1896, showing the residence of a California governor when it was in the sandy wastes on the southwest corner of Sutter and Gough streets in the mid 1860s, and a view from the same angle in 1896.
(Ignore the Octavia and forty years identifications... I have better info than whomever wrote those captions 131 years ago.)