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Grab Bag #66

Revolving table restaurant, sand-dune gliders, Clint Eastwood, and Woody's aunt.

Woody LaBounty

• 10 min read
Grab Bag #66
Revolving table restaurant, sand-dune gliders, Clint Eastwood, and Woody's aunt.

Guess Where

We have a tradition here at the Grab Bag: kicking off with a San Francisco Guess Where.

Your job? Take a stab at identifying the place and time of this image:

Guess Where photo
Is there enough info to figure this out? I think lots of locals might have an idea. Do the wind chimes and the woman’s attire help with the era?

The answer and more information is at the end for the Friends of Woody able to scroll that far. 

Glider Life

Ninety-seven years ago this week, on April 28, 1929, Maxine Dunlap qualified as the first woman glider pilot in the United States by soaring over the dunes of the Sunset District:

Glider over the Sunset District dunes
Maxine Dunlap on her way, April 28, 1929. Streetcar poles for the L-Taraval line visible in the dunes. (San Francisco Public Library/MOR-0933)

Dunlap kept her glider aloft for 50 seconds, traveled 990 feet, and reached 175 feet above her starting point, which was a large sand dune around 35th Avenue and Santiago Street. She easily exceeded the previous woman’s record attempt, a non-qualifying 17 seconds by someone named Amelia Earhart.