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.
St. Mary's Park The Bell of St. Mary's (Park) One San Francisco neighborhood has a design best appreciated from above.
Mission District Mixed-Use Mission Street What changed and what didn't on one San Francisco block after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Richmond District Bank/Bar Why Apollo, not Dionysus, adorns the front of a Richmond District bar in San Francisco.
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.
