South of Market

A collection of 13 posts

Richmond District

Home on the Dunes

An institution finds a home in the Richmond District just before the 1906 earthquake hits.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #65

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

Rincon Hill

Going Down

House-moving in 19th-century San Francisco went in all directions

South of Market

The Last to Know

San Francisco stories end with the last storyteller.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #60

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

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #58

A night owl reporter wanders across San Francisco in 1887.

Mission Bay

Dumpville

When Mission Creek was San Francisco's dumping ground.

Western Addition

Moved by Faith

The 1850s San Francisco church that kept moving west.

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #46

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

1906 earthquake

Captive Airship

How did George R. Lawrence take his amazing aerial panoramas after the 1906 earthquake?

Gold Rush

Gold Rush Prefab

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

Mission Bay

A Walk on Long Bridge

When San Francisco's Mission Bay was a bay.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #027

Tales from one of San Francisco's pre-1906-earthquake dens of iniquity, plus taxi cabs and sheep.