Cathedral Hill

Restless Bones

The moving sarcophagus of Thomas Starr King.

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Grab Bag #36

Animalia of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, a Richmond District dairy, Willie Mays, and more of my favorite things.

City College

Finding Founder’s Rock

The short-lived fame of a boulder at City College of San Francisco.

Embarcadero

The Legend of Lois Jordan’s White Angel Jungle

Thoughts on a famous San Francisco soup kitchen.

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Two Years of San Francisco Story: Grab Bag #35

Celebrating two years of San Francisco Story with an Anchor Steam at Temple Bar, a little car polo, and a lot of gratitude.

World War II

Gold Star Corners

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

Russian Hill

A Park is Born

The 75-year journey to turn a Russian Hill reservoir into a San Francisco park.

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Grab Bag #34

I come to praise San Francisco, not bury it, plus news on old stuff getting older.

Lake Merced

Lake Merced Roadhouses

San Francisco's Lake Merced was the home of roadhouse resorts from the 1850s to the early 1880s.

Pacific Heights

Victorian Comeback II

An invitation for this Saturday and the comeback of an architectural style synonymous with San Francisco.

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Grab Bag #33

Woody's 100th San Francisco Story heads to Eureka Valley.

1906 earthquake

Last Night in Old San Francisco

Things to do on the eve of the 1906 earthquake.

St. Mary's Park

The Bell of St. Mary's (Park)

One San Francisco neighborhood has a design best appreciated from above.

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Grab Bag #032

Love, eggs, and baseball in San Francisco.

Haight-Ashbury

Haight Baseball

When America's pastime had a place next to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Mission District

Mixed-Use Mission Street

What changed and what didn't on one San Francisco block after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

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Grab Bag #031

Batteries at the Bridge, the bay bombers, and banning the long hairs.

California Street

Runaway Cable Car

The worst accident in San Francisco cable car history.

Richmond District

Bank/Bar

Why Apollo, not Dionysus, adorns the front of a Richmond District bar in San Francisco.

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Grab Bag #030

San Francisco newspaper memories from a debris box.

Sunset District

Tornado House

When a twister hit San Francisco's Sunset District.

Miraloma Park

Lost in Miraloma Park

A 1947 prankster makes a very public comment on a San Francisco neighborhood West of Twin Peaks.

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Grab Bag #029

History bon bons just for Friends of Woody

Mission Bay

A Walk on Long Bridge

When San Francisco's Mission Bay was a bay.

Pacific Heights

One Million Bricks

Was San Francisco's massive Calvary Presbyterian church moved more than 20 blocks in 1901? Yes and no.