Mission District

A collection of 19 posts

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #68

An Indian circus, lunch and disco dancing in a greenhouse, and Tiki Bob.

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Grab Bag #62

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

South of Market

The Last to Know

San Francisco stories end with the last storyteller.

Mission District

Mission Miracle Mile

In 1949, Mission merchants sweet-talked San Francisco's mayor into a special status.

Noe Valley

Goodbye Dolores Bridge

When trains passed second-story windows in San Francisco's Noe Valley.

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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 #50

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

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Grab Bag #44

Mission District

Sunshine School

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

Mission District

Spirit of Victory

A San Francisco Spanish-American War monument with some muddy messaging.

St. Mary's Park

The Bell of St. Mary's (Park)

One San Francisco neighborhood has a design best appreciated from above.

Mission District

Mixed-Use Mission Street

What changed and what didn't on one San Francisco block after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Mission District

Hot Air Sundays

In the 1860s and 1870s, balloon mishaps were a weekly draw in San Francisco's Mission District.

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #015

Earthquake, fires, and true love found... all in one Woody LaBounty Grab Bag.

Union Square

Castle on the Square

The mini-citadel which once faced Union Square.

Mission District

Maguire's Houses

Life on one Mission District block on February 22, 1887 at 11:35 a.m.

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.

Mission Dolores

A Day Trip on the Mission Road, Part 1

In the 1850s, San Francisco Sunday recreation meant getting across sand dunes and marsh to the Mission.

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Woody Grab Bag #005

A Woody LaBounty salad bar of child pyramids, feminist art, poetry, sandlot baseball, and Mr. Fixit.