Golden Gate Park

A collection of 27 posts

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Grab Bag #67

Daguerreotype haters, poetry, tanks, blimps, and baseball.

found photos

Re-exposed

Sam Crow’s 1910s and 1920s photographs are brought into the light.

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Grab Bag #64

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

Sunset District

Scrubland Living

In the 1860s, Cornelius Reynolds and his family took on San Francisco's scrubby west side.

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Electric Tower

Light shows in Golden Gate Park aren't a new thing.

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Grab Bag #59

Thanksgiving history Grab Bag (the Woody has Covid Edition)

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Golden Gate Park Ghost Rider

In 1912, a man of science encountered a ghostly rider in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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Grab Bag #56

Parades, grizzlies, and a new San Francisco time-machine destination.

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Grab Bag #55

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

Ocean Beach

Ocean Beach Airfield

In the 1910s, the Christofferson brothers flew high in San Francisco before tragedies brought them down.

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Grove of Memory

Memorial groves, grand and humble, here and gone, honoring San Franciscans lost in World War I.

Ocean Beach

Going Out

Life Saving at San Francisco's Ocean Beach

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Grab Bag #48

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

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Grab Bag #47

Portsmouth Square in the 1850s, old photos found, and memorializing motherhood.

Panhandle

Wheelmen’s Panhandle Palace

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

Sunset District

Making 19th Avenue

The highway through San Francisco's Sunset District started as a rutted country road.

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Ponies of the Past

The horsy history of the Polo Fields in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

City College

Save the Whales

Migrating for 20 years, the old Academy of Sciences whales may finally find a permanent home.

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Grab Bag #36

Animalia of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, a Richmond District dairy, Willie Mays, and more of my favorite things.

Haight-Ashbury

Haight Baseball

When America's pastime had a place next to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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Grab Bag #027

Tales from one of San Francisco's pre-1906-earthquake dens of iniquity, plus taxi cabs and sheep.

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Sweeny’s Observatory

Golden Gate Park's former castle on the hill.

Children's Playground

The Goat Cart Man

Many San Francisco children posed holding the reins of a goat-harnessed rig in the early 1900s. Who was the mysterious King of the Goat Carts?

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Riding the Windmill

In the early 1920s, riding one of the blades of Golden Gate Park's Dutch windmill was kind of a thing.

Mission District

A Day Trip on the Mission Road, Part 2

Sunday pleasure resorts like Woodward's Gardens made San Francisco's Mission District more family-friendly in the 1860s and 1870s.