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A collection of 40 posts

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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.

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.

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Grab Bag #44

Downtown

The Monkey Block

How San Francisco's Montgomery Block, built in 1853, survived every disaster, but lost to one man.

Bayview

Quesada Gardens

Two transformations of one block 100 years apart in San Francisco's Bayview District.

Mission District

Sunshine School

How the Rotary Club introduced special education into the San Francisco school district 100 years ago.

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Grab Bag #41

World Series parade, gas stations, and Great Highway history—a San Francisco grab bag.

Downtown

Telenews Theatre

San Francisco had an all-news theater from 1939 to 1967. Admission gave you the whole world and a quiet retreat from the same.

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Grab Bag #40

Exploding cannons, secret water tanks, and funeral pick-pockets from ye olde San Francisco.

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Grab Bag #37

Is a house from the Gold Rush still standing in San Francisco's Western Addition?