Nob Hill

A collection of 10 posts

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #68

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

Portola District

Watching the Water

San Francisco’s last reservoir-keeper cottage.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #65

A San Francisco Grab Bag of queer tales, many about shoes...

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #61

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

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #59

Thanksgiving history Grab Bag (the Woody has Covid Edition)

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #47

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

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #40

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

Gold Rush

Gold Rush Prefab

"Portable houses" were one solution to San Francisco's 1849 housing crisis.

World War II

Gold Star Corners

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

California Street

Runaway Cable Car

The worst accident in San Francisco cable car history.