Sunset District The House Built on Sand A 1904 DIY house built in the barren sand dunes of San Francisco's Sunset District still stands today.
Pacific Heights The Irving Institute The scholastic past of a grand California Street apartment building.
Children's Playground The Goat Cart Man Many San Francisco children posed holding the reins of a goat-harnessed rig in the early 1900s. Who was the mysterious King of the Goat Carts?
Grab Bag Grab Bag #010 Appreciating Skid Row, Juanita's Midwinter Fair act, and the idea of a San Francisco Historian Laureate.
Christmas The 12 Firehouses of Christmas From 1948–1950, San Francisco fire stations went crazy with an annual Christmas decoration contest. Here are Woody's top dozen.
Mission District Maguire's Houses Life on one Mission District block on February 22, 1887 at 11:35 a.m.
Grab Bag 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.
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.
Golden Gate Park Riding the Windmill In the early 1920s, riding one of the blades of Golden Gate Park's Dutch windmill was kind of a thing.
Grab Bag Woody Grab Bag #008 A preview of Woody's San Francisco Story Annual 2022 featuring an excerpt about the larger-than-life diva, Lilian Slinkey, AKA "Madame Durini."
Mission District A Day Trip on the Mission Road, Part 2 Sunday pleasure resorts like Woodward's Gardens made San Francisco's Mission District more family-friendly in the 1860s and 1870s.
Mission Dolores A Day Trip on the Mission Road, Part 1 In the 1850s, San Francisco Sunday recreation meant getting across sand dunes and marsh to the Mission.
Downtown 1868: The First “Big One” The "great San Francisco earthquake" of 1868 and the next one on the way.
Union Square Hallowed Ground on Sutter Street From the time of its dedication on March 23, 1866, the old Temple Emanu-El was a landmark of 19th-century San Francisco.
Grab Bag Woody Grab Bag #006 Strange adventures of young men in San Francisco, market memories, a walnut elephant, and recognizing City Cemetery.
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.
Golden Gate Park 10 Highlights from the 1894 Midwinter Fair The good, the bad, and the ugly from the 1894 fair which made Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse.
Grab Bag Woody Grab Bag #005 A Woody LaBounty salad bar of child pyramids, feminist art, poetry, sandlot baseball, and Mr. Fixit.
Downtown Reclaiming Admission Day September 9th can mark the inclusion of California to the United States and be a yearly commitment to an inclusive California.
Ocean Beach Seeing the End of Playland Playland at the Beach, San Francisco's version of Coney Island, closed for good on September 4, 1972. Photographer Dennis O'Rorke artfully captured the final days.
Telegraph Hill Telegraph Hill Castle: Layman's Folly In the early 1880s, a transit car line ran to the top of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill where passengers could visit a strange observatory/concert hall/castle.
Grab Bag 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.
Pacific Heights The Orphaned Pillar San Francisco's Pacific Heights has a 7-foot remnant from a moved house that escaped the 1906 earthquake and fire.
