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A collection of 15 posts

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Grab Bag #55

Babylands, acid-scarred roses, and three formidable women on a San Francisco vacation.

Downtown

Lotta’s 150th

A birthday for San Francisco's most liked landmark.

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Grab Bag #51

Three years of San Francisco Story means an over-long Grab Bag with German churches, Danish tug-of-war teams, bowling, and Woody wool-gathering.

Golden Gate Park

Grove of Memory

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

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Grab Bag #48

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

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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.

Yerba Buena Island

Torpedo Point

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

Downtown

The Monkey Block

How San Francisco's Montgomery Block, built in 1853, survived every disaster, but lost to one man.

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Grab Bag #42

A Woody-thinking-too-much Grab Bag. You have to expect that now and then...

City College

Save the Whales

Migrating for 20 years, the old Academy of Sciences whales may finally find a permanent home.

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Grab Bag #39

Some odds and ends spotted on recent walks around the Western Addition, Woody on jury duty, and the story of the wheelbarrow man. All in all, kinda strange, but, hey, you knew what you were signing up for.

Mission District

Spirit of Victory

A San Francisco Spanish-American War monument with some muddy messaging.

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.

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Woody Grab Bag #001

Debut of the Woody Grab Bag, a San Francisco history hash.