Yerba Buena Island Torpedo Point An explosive point of interest tucked under the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Grab Bag Grab Bag #45 Super-sized San Francisco history hash of huckster cowboys, old cars, old bars, ruined mansions, hitching posts, and Lotta's fountain.
Outer Mission Where is Geneva Terraces? Sherbet-colored cottages in a mostly secret San Francisco neighborhood.
Rincon Hill The Unkindest Cut The 1860s Rincon Hill project that put the cut in San Francisco's East Cut neighborhood.
Richmond District Carzonia Apartments Cable-car-house living in the Richmond District after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Downtown The Monkey Block How San Francisco's Montgomery Block, built in 1853, survived every disaster, but lost to one man.
Mission District Sunshine School How the Rotary Club introduced special education into the San Francisco school district 100 years ago.
Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #39 Some odds and ends spotted on recent walks around the Western Addition, Woody on jury duty, and the story of the wheelbarrow man. All in all, kinda strange, but, hey, you knew what you were signing up for.
Gold Rush Gold Rush Prefab "Portable houses" were one solution to San Francisco's 1849 housing crisis.
Paid-members only Grab Bag Grab Bag #36 Animalia of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, a Richmond District dairy, Willie Mays, and more of my favorite things.
Pacific Heights Victorian Comeback II An invitation for this Saturday and the comeback of an architectural style synonymous with San Francisco.
St. Mary's Park The Bell of St. Mary's (Park) One San Francisco neighborhood has a design best appreciated from above.
Mission District Mixed-Use Mission Street What changed and what didn't on one San Francisco block after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Richmond District Bank/Bar Why Apollo, not Dionysus, adorns the front of a Richmond District bar in San Francisco.
Mission District Maguire's Houses Life on one Mission District block on February 22, 1887 at 11:35 a.m.
Union Square Hallowed Ground on Sutter Street From the time of its dedication on March 23, 1866, the old Temple Emanu-El was a landmark of 19th-century San Francisco.
