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A collection of 50 posts

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #75

San Francisco stories about pencils, haunted houses, drive-ins, and one man wandering.

North Beach

Home for Inebriates

San Francisco's early institution of recovery in North Beach.

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Grab Bag #72

Cool-building Grab Bag with a transcontinental bicyclist and freeway tossed in.

Haight-Ashbury

Branching Out

Answers at San Francisco's oldest public library building.

Ocean Beach

Last Call at The Gables

In 1972, Eve Connett called it quits at her Ocean Beach bar.

Noe Valley

School’s In

San Francisco’s Noe Valley had some schoolhouse growing pains in the 19th century.

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Grab Bag #69

The Liberty Bell on the road, a mystery watch, and goodbye to the unique Jane Cryan.

Gold Rush

A Room at Clark’s Point

Fremont's Family Hotel held a prominent place in San Francisco in 1849.

Polk Gulch

The Last of the Lunch Wagons

While not an old streetcar, Grubstake Diner is the last of its kind in San Francisco.

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Grab Bag #64

Discoveries in old photos, arrest stats from 1858, Members Only jackets and Folger's Crystals.

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Grab Bag #63

Cliff-dwellers of Polk Street, more San Francisco house-moving, and our time-machine goes tiki.

Rincon Hill

Going Down

House-moving in 19th-century San Francisco went in all directions

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #61

A gaseous San Francisco history grab bag of hats, instant photos, and one famous recipe.

San Francisco Zoo

Mothers Building 100

A historic landmark waits to be restored at the San Francisco Zoo.

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Grab Bag #55

Babylands, acid-scarred roses, and three formidable women on a San Francisco vacation.

Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Place

Having a crush on some long-gone San Francisco houses and wondering what happened to Good Children.

Ingleside

Cottages of Care

When San Francisco's Ingleside was a home to Homewood Terrace.

Westwood Park

Selling Westwood Park

Marketing bungalow life in 1910s San Francisco.

Dogpatch

Old School Dogpatch

San Francisco's oldest public-school building is still doing its job.

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Grab Bag #48

Woody goes artifact-hunting in San Francisco's past.

Stern Grove

Trocadero Rebirth

San Francisco's last roadhouse is resurrected in Stern Grove.

Western Addition

Moved by Faith

The 1850s San Francisco church that kept moving west.

Panhandle

Wheelmen’s Panhandle Palace

The 1890s rise and quick fall of the Velodrome bicycling track next to Golden Gate Park.

Yerba Buena Island

Torpedo Point

An explosive point of interest tucked under the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Outer Mission

Where is Geneva Terraces?

Sherbet-colored cottages in a mostly secret San Francisco neighborhood.