cemeteries

A collection of 8 posts

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Grab Bag #66

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

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Yerba Buena Gardens

Ohlone Sunrise

In 1989, seven ancestors were moved to make way for San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens.

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Grab Bag #57

Salty diner memories and Jack the Ink Thrower's reign of terror.

Lake Merced

Guns and Golf

A duel between two prominent California politicians took place near San Francisco's Lake Merced in 1859.

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Grab Bag #42

A Woody-thinking-too-much Grab Bag. You have to expect that now and then...

World War II

Gold Star Corners

San Francisco's 1943 plan to remember its war dead.

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Grab Bag #34

I come to praise San Francisco, not bury it, plus news on old stuff getting older.

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Woody Grab Bag #006

Strange adventures of young men in San Francisco, market memories, a walnut elephant, and recognizing City Cemetery.