Grab Bag #70
Devil's Fiddles, gold baseballs, and Henri's Rollamatic.
Guess Where
Every San Francisco Story Grab Bag starts with the Guess Where and this one will conform to tradition because I went to Catholic school and am a rule follower.
The game is simple: when and where are we in the beautiful history of San Francisco? The answer, usually along with some extra facts, photos, and trivia, are at the end of this story for the Friends of Woody who have access, like new friends Ben F., Michael F., and Joy W. (Time you joined this jolly group?)
Gilding the Baseball
I know we don’t want to talk about the Giants, but we can talk about baseball, right?
David Gallagher, who is a living photo-scanning machine these days over at SFMemory, posted a few photos taken by Samuel Crow of a soldier holding a baseball in a striped car.
What was the deal?