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Grab Bag

A collection of 64 posts

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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.

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Grab Bag #62

Pancake palace, the big orange bridge, a new book, and bowling (again).

Grab Bag #61

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

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Grab Bag #60

The problems of man, more Barbary Coast history, and SFPD's first woman officer.

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Grab Bag #59

Thanksgiving history Grab Bag (the Woody has Covid Edition)

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Grab Bag #58

A night owl reporter wanders across San Francisco in 1887.

Grab Bag #57

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

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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.

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Grab Bag #54

The last house, the widest sidewalk, and the coldest winter San Francisco stories.

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Grab Bag #53

Bars, hogs, mansions, and memories: a typical San Francisco Grab Bag from Woody.

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Grab Bag #52

Signs of the times and San Francisco views here and gone.

Grab Bag #51

Three years of San Francisco Story means an over-long Grab Bag with German churches, Danish tug-of-war teams, bowling, and Woody wool-gathering.

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Grab Bag #50

Apartments in a park, baseball in a pasture, parents in a nightclub, and one goat.

Grab Bag #49

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but before the fire, and one man trying to get home.

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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.

Woody Grab Bag #46

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Grab Bag #46

San Francisco history grab bag with kissing, blessings, dancing, and star-gazing.

Grab Bag #45

Super-sized San Francisco history hash of huckster cowboys, old cars, old bars, ruined mansions, hitching posts, and Lotta's fountain.

Giants, wall beds, and buttermilk—all with San Francisco connections.

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Grab Bag #44

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Grab Bag #43

Emporium roof rides, the Human Jukebox, and Dianne Feinstein: a classic San Francisco Grab Bag, right?

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Grab Bag #42

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

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Grab Bag #41

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

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Grab Bag #40

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