Mission Street

A collection of 13 posts

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #55

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

Grab Bag

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.

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Grab Bag

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.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #46

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

Grab Bag

Grab Bag #45

Super-sized San Francisco history hash of huckster cowboys, old cars, old bars, ruined mansions, hitching posts, and Lotta's fountain.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #44

1906 earthquake

Captive Airship

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

1906 earthquake

Last Night in Old San Francisco

Things to do on the eve of the 1906 earthquake.

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

Grab Bag #027

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

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.