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Grab Bag #50
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Grab Bag #50

Apartments in a park, baseball in a pasture, parents in a nightclub, and one goat.
May 7, 2025 10 min read
Captive Airship
1906 earthquake

Captive Airship

How did George R. Lawrence take his amazing aerial panoramas after the 1906 earthquake?
Aug 21, 2024 7 min read
Grab Bag #37
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Grab Bag #37

Is a house from the Gold Rush still standing in San Francisco's Western Addition?
Jul 17, 2024 7 min read
Woody on Pawn Stars
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Grab Bag #009

A true Woody LaBounty Grab Bag: Pawn Stars, Chinatown revealed, historic real estate for sale, and the first San Francisco Story Annual released.
Dec 7, 2022 5 min read
Man at 1890s bar
North Point

The Cobweb Palace

Abe Warner's cobweb-filled saloon in San Francisco's North Point neighborhood was captured on film before demolition and now we know when.
Nov 30, 2022 6 min read
The Temple on Naples Street
Crocker-Amazon

The Temple on Naples Street

Solving the mystery of the mini Greek temple that once stood in San Francisco's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood.
Sep 28, 2022 5 min read
Man praising fog
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Woody Grab Bag #004

Living with the fog in San Francisco, figuring out the identity of Vin the doghouse-maker, and a moving dormer window on a Haight-Ashbury apartment building.
Aug 17, 2022 6 min read
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