Western Addition

A collection of 18 posts

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Grab Bag #74

The Domino Club, wet streets, neon, and being a kid in San Francisco.

Polk Gulch

The Last of the Lunch Wagons

While not an old streetcar, Grubstake Diner is the last of its kind in San Francisco.

Pacific Heights

The Last of Tucker Town

Is San Francisco's oldest tract house in Pacific Heights?

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Grab Bag #63

Cliff-dwellers of Polk Street, more San Francisco house-moving, and our time-machine goes tiki.

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Grab Bag #61

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

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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 #54

The last house, the widest sidewalk, and the coldest winter San Francisco stories.

North Beach

Beat Elegy

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

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Grab Bag #50

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

Western Addition

Moved by Faith

The 1850s San Francisco church that kept moving west.

Western Addition

Tales from the Hotel Jefferson

Beginnings and ends in San Francisco’s Western Addition.

Mission District

Sunshine School

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

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Grab Bag #37

Is a house from the Gold Rush still standing in San Francisco's Western Addition?

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Western Addition

Brewery Days

San Francisco's Acme beer and ale: gone but not forgotten.

Western Addition

Tower Trouble

Much of the clean up after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire was done with muscle, including pulling down part of the tower of St. Dominic's Church.

Pacific Heights

The Irving Institute

The scholastic past of a grand California Street apartment building.

Western Addition

The Fillmore Arches

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, merchants tried to make Fillmore Street the city's new commercial center with some unique metal arches.