San Francisco

A collection of 83 posts

Downtown

Lotta’s 150th

A birthday for San Francisco's most liked landmark.

Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Place

Having a crush on some long-gone San Francisco houses and wondering what happened to Good Children.

Ocean Beach

Ocean Beach Airfield

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

Ingleside

Cottages of Care

When San Francisco's Ingleside was a home to Homewood Terrace.

Octagon Houses

A Home for All

San Francisco's landmark octagon houses.

North Beach

The Beach at North Beach

San Francisco's North Beach may not have been where you thought it was.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #52

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

Dogpatch

Old School Dogpatch

San Francisco's oldest public-school building is still doing its job.

North Beach

Beat Elegy

Death laid at the door of the Beat Generation in 1958 San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park

Grove of Memory

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

Vigilance Committee

Return of the Vigilantes

On May 14, 1856, a public shooting catalyzed a vigilante (and political) movement in San Francisco.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #50

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

Russian Hill

Living Off the Grid

San Francisco's 1840s Laguna Survey gave the city some growing pains

Ocean Beach

Going Out

Life Saving at San Francisco's Ocean Beach

Castro

Bringing in the Light

An homage to Orphan Andy's diner in San Francisco's Castro District

Silver Terrace

Selling Silver Terrace

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge had a job to do in southeast San Francisco in 1869.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #48

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

Jackson Square

International Settlement

The exotic restaurant row that was the last gasp of San Francisco's Barbary Coast.

Stern Grove

Trocadero Rebirth

San Francisco's last roadhouse is resurrected in Stern Grove.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #47

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

Western Addition

Moved by Faith

The 1850s San Francisco church that kept moving west.

Panhandle

Wheelmen’s Panhandle Palace

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

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #46

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

Sunnyside

Mudslide on Foerster

Rainy Februaries bring thoughts of a dark day on San Francisco's Mount Davidson.

Yerba Buena Island

Torpedo Point

An explosive point of interest tucked under the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.